skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The line on "embedded" has blurred. I'll wax on for a moment for folks who aren't clear on the distinction that's grown up. In the most long-lived sense, "embedded" meant a processor that provided functionality in a non-general purpose device. In this usage, a robot or refrigerator CPU would be embedded while the same hardware running a WIMP desktop system would not. I still consider this usage current.

In the shorter-lived sense, "embedded" referred to low-power, limited functionality processors such as the ARM7/ARM9 CPUs in TFA. These setups often didn't have MMUs, would typically run a very bare-bones RTOS with soft- or hard- realtime support. Remember no MMU means no process isolation. If a task has a stack overrun, it just keeps going into an adjacent task's stack. If a pointer gets corrupted and the software starts writing who-knows-where in RAM, pray it dies early, hard, and reproducibly. The code size, ability to use third-party libraries, etc. were all greatly limited. Very much more the aesthetic of engineering a one-off custom mechanism, albeit in software vs. in the machine shop.

These days, the envelope of "embedded" CPUs has embraced vastly more powerful hardware, while still remaining low power. They have MMUs, they run real Linux (vs. ucLinux or a traditional RTOS) and are much easier to develop for. Think Arduino, Rasberry Pi, and on and on. This has been a huge access revolution for hackers, makers, and anyone who wants to just get down and prototype some ideas.
Facebook and twitter do their own image hosting. I think the slippery slope people are wrong about the slippery slope. Maybe I'll eat crow someday but until then if you want to share images on facebook upload them to facebook like facebook wants you to do anyway.
His arguments can be validated only based on its internal logical structure. One should not try to invalidate it based on his claimed credibility. That's ad hominem.

See here: http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html

Example:

A: "All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn't a rodent, so it can't be a mammal."
B: "I'm sorry, but I'd prefer to trust the opinion of a trained zoologist on this one."
B's argument is ad hominem: he is attempting to counter A not by addressing his argument, but by casting doubt on A's credentials. Note that B is polite and not at all insulting.
Planck Stars: new type of star emerges from black holes
Wouldn't this kind of development target be better served by optimizing small C/++ programs instead of trying to optimize to some abstract virtual machine implemented on top of the hardware? I mean if speed really is your goal, why not do it correctly instead of hitting yourself in the face with an extra tree before starting?
Not really. You don't need to know about iterators, closures, generators, concurrency, exceptions, etc etc to be able to make useful software. Sure, learn about those things if it looks like you might need them for something, but all of those things are completely optional.

Learning programming at its rawest form, is giving someone a list of assembly code instructions, explaining what they all do, and saying "go build stuff". And it's fairly simple to learn. It can certainly be explained in a day.

Just like painting - give someone a pencil and paper and say "go make something".
Containers are great for isolating trusted applications from one another to ease deployment, but using them for multi-tenant security is ill advised.

Since all containers share the same kernel, any local privilege escalation vulnerability in Linux can be used to escape the container. Such vulnerabilities are much more common than vulnerabilities in mature hypervisors, so virtualization is the safer choice.
I have a prototype I wrote sitting on my phone right now that has very similar mechanics. But I don't believe for half a second that, had I finished it, it would have achieved one ten-thousandth of the success. In the age where anyone who wants to can create games, music, art, whatever on their computers, there's a ton of great work languishing in obscurity for every single work that finds the straight-and-narrow to the big time.
Good engineers are still a gigantic bargain at $150k.

In reality, those good engineers want $150k and extremely high levels of autonomy OR $500k without caring so much about autonomy (hedge funds). A startup obviously can't afford the latter of those two options. You just need to found a company where the great engineer's desire for accomplishment and autonomy will be an asset rather than a liability. Unfortunately, VCs seem pretty invested in the idea that engineers are second-class citizens, so that's not likely to happen in their world.

Silicon Valley's rent problem is atrocious, but the big companies offering $150k are actually making it better. Why? Because when the big-company or government deal is fairly good, only startups with genuinely good ideas can attract engineers.

What's going on right now is that 99% of these startups aren't true tech companies, but bullshit marketing gambits that happen to involve technology. Those are the ones designed to mine the mediocrity of commodity JavaDrones. But if you go into the startup scene not knowing the warning signs, you'll probably end up working for one of those.
At this stage I'd be surprised if graphene didn't conduct electricity ten times better than expected.
That would be because GNU decided that man pages weren't good enough for them and decided to use info pages.
It's all politics. It's phrased as a "mistake" because anything more would admit to being aware of the fraud, regardless of whether or not that's the case.
Documentation definitely exists, just not publicly.
Maybe if you're trying to turn it into a semiconductor or something?
My N7 is used for exactly these things, alarm clock, iTunes remote, Telldus remote (this controls lights and power outlets around the apartment) and browser for when my computer is being used by someone else or when I'm playing a game on it.

So it's not worthless, but I can easily imagine how I lived before it. :)
HourlyNerd: connecting businesses to MBA students and alumni to solve problems
I really don't care. If you want to believe that you're not hurting yourself by smoking a cigarette a day, that's your prerogative. Ask any doctor and they'll tell you different though.
If you are looking for best designers or agencies. I would suggest dribbble is the best place to source designers. You can find elite designers and high end designers. I am proud to be part of spiceblue.com
Is there a comparable service that is EU/UK based?
Disallowing BART on the peninsula and requiring a transfer to the overpriced Caltrain has been extremely effective at gentrifying and providing de facto segregation on the peninsula. The people in San Mateo and Santa Clara county don't want the east-bay-peasants to be able to walk off of BART into their fine suburban cities.

Public transit in the Bay Area is working exactly how it's powerful and connected residents intend.
As developers, have you ever think about your personal brand?
It makes it easier to pierce the veil of deception ('accounting laws are difficult and may land you in jail', 'the employees benefit', 'she had good intentions') that is offered as fragile support for the big picture conclusion when you are given names to research. Using a false name gives the story this warm fuzzy feeling of a "lecture from the trenches".
You can see this happen in the movie, "The Right Stuff", wherein John Glenn and the other astronauts insist the spacecraft must have windows so that they can pilot it. The conversation demonstrates how the engineers and the astronauts had totally different ideas of how it was supposed to work.
>Under real privatization, private parties are free to waste the resources they own.

Exactly!

And without privatization, private parties are free to waste the resources everyone else owns.
Thank you for that.

That surprised me. I thought( and read somewhere ) that the flexible array member comes right after the entire struct, which includes possible padding.

OP got away with it since he always allocates the size of the entire struct, which is 8, plus the string size. And since char doesn't have any alignment requirements it doesn't matter, because he always gets back to correct offset. So data member is basically not used, and if you check the code you will see that it actually in never used!
While doing everything alone, developers tend to create really alien-looking things, just like your game. It is awesome.
Show HN: TrippyTap game for Android
Police will have 'backdoor' access to health records despite opt-out, says MP
This is pretty sad to me. Sony has a lot of great ideas and their style for VAIO products I can't think of any other manufacturer than Apple with anything approaching it.

Their tablet->laptop convertible machines especially are really good pieces of tech. I know the one complaint about the flip13 is that the battery life isn't super great, but the concept and design are truly cool. I've also worked with/used the Duo13 and while the flip function is a bit weird, the whole kit is really great.

Oh well, hopefully the new owners do something great (I know Sony is not without issue).
Static Web Apps – A Field Guide
Very cool. Thank you for the explanation :) Good luck with everything
Are you married to a toddler? Do adults ride tricycles?
Even though I don't know people in real life, I couldn't miss it. The only sites I visit are HN and Kotaku, and it's front page on both. And now it's on HN twice.

Success flows to success, but good luck creating either a chicken or an egg from nothing.
There is already a different (more useful) algorithm called ternary search (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_search).
Nice google+ group Chuck, I joined.
Sure, but making a fun game can be luck. There will be developers that don't need luck (or are lucky to not need it?!). Rovio made _A LOT_ of games other than Angry Birds; is making a lot of "bad" games and then one "good" not luck? I'm sure they set out and had equal confidence in each of their games being gold mines, before they were not or, in the case of Angry Birds, were.
In the case described in the story, I don't see any signs of the former. The CFO proposes certain practice, it is not obviously illegal (like not paying taxes or stealing office supplies from competitors at night), hundreds of companies do it, hundreds of lawyers approve it. If the CEO asks the council if it's OK and the council says yes, like hundreds others did, he goes to jail. If he's lucky and the council says no, he gets to write a book "how I almost went to jail but my super-smarts saved me". In both cases I don't see how this situation is good.
Replacing metal could be a very big deal too. Chips are mostly power-limited these days; slashing the resistance of the metal layers would be a big active power win. In fact, while it would not help leakage (which constrains how many transistors you can pack in), improving active power consumption could correlate directly to improvements in operating frequency...
Sure, but Chromebox requires $20.83/month for its service, and with Skype, you have the option of buying a day-pass for $4.99 if you only use the service occasionally.
Luck is also a huge factor. Sometimes it's just one of those 'right place, right time' moments that can't really be replicated again.
I might be wrong on this one, but as far as I remember, the originator of this type of game is "The Infamous Worm Game": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OjeFYNq05k

Sadly, the original site that hosted it just has a "Java Applet" placeholder there now: http://www.liquidcode.org/worm.html

It had a very good balance between difficulty and frustration. Or in other words, I wasted a lot of time on it.
Way better! Graphene acts almost like a superconductor at room temperatures though.
Tell you what google, why don't you the service for few years before I sign up to make sure you want to keep the offering.
The CEO in the linked piece didn't need to get down into the weeds of the accounting laws, he just needs to know to get a second (outside/unbiased) opinion on anything that smells even faintly and remotely fishy that he's signing off on, and he needs to keep a general eye on principal/agent problems or conflicts of interest in the people he manages.
I will just say that Mark Zuckerberg spoke numerous times at YCombinator. I doubt very much that he hasn't read this site.
You don't have big data
Only if the saved time is used for something other than parental interaction. It is unlikely that spelling lessons are optimal bonding.
OK, I was being sloppy in my phrasing (and probably thinking also)!

Trying again: Taking your example benchmark, you aren't really calling any special methods that provide any hints for cooperative threading (to my untrained eye). That's great - you've got a great abstraction. But then, what opportunities for optimization does Quasar have, that are not also available to a JVM using the magic syscall?

I'm sure there's something here, but I'd appreciate a hint!
A Solution for Bad Teaching
Pretty old article, I saved a copy from a while ago. It needs to be updated for the Cortex M series, which is a more appropriate line for bare metal development.
A lesson in well created content
Jupiter's Frozen Ocean Moon Could Hide Life
have you ever tried using a laptop in bed , in a similar position to if you were reading a book? It kinda sucks (yes, even the 11'' air). Tablets replace magazines, not computers (at least in the "position in which you're using it" category).

Why would you want a stand if you're going to hold it anyways?
Anyone who fears the Atlas Shrugged scenario isn't living in reality anyway.
Reporter App from Feltron now available
I think we will manufacture graphene in larger scales before we hit larger scale quantum computing. They are both awesome technologies that are very promising.
They announced that this is planned the last time they did a big hangouts update.

http://gigaom.com/2013/08/28/hangouts-hd-vp8-webrtc/

How does Hangouts work today on ChromeOS?
Spotify royalties
Sony signs eBook Agreement with Kobo
I think it's pretty much impossible to predict what little games like this will go viral. Flappy Bird definitely has all the ingredients, but so do so many other games that never exploded this big. I wonder if anybody has made a business out of "investing" in the development of a large number of such games (a single developer could probably make a game a week), in the hope that just one of them goes viral.

Regardless, I think there's an untapped market of people who want decent mobile games that don't have predatory schemes for monetization.
Why do you assume that the JVM adds overhead? While in some cases a program is better served by C/C++ manual memory management and fine-tuned memory alignment, this is not usually the case.

You can think of the JVM as a very good optimizing compiler that compiles your program when you load it in a way that's tailored to your environment.

Also, when it comes to concurrency support, the JVM is usually years ahead of C++ (lock-free data structures, etc.). If you're doing concurrency, the JVM is usually a better target than C++.
My kids had this game on their ipad. They asked me to have a go at it, I had a look, started playing... 30 minutes later "Dad can I have my my ipad back". Seriously I was hating that game, but the desire to beat my kids score outweighed my frustration at some of those issues (hitbox of the pipes etc). I HAD to beat my previous score, I HAD to master the delicate touch required to precisely navigate those pipes. It's not even a new mechanic. It's the same as Jet Pack Joyride, so it's a copy of existing games, and it completely flogged Mario world graphics, possibly stole them as is and the guy might even have to answer to Nintendo.

It isn't on my list of games I've loved, but it was fun, in a completely infuriating way.

It's better than other games my kids typically play, ice-cream manufacturing/construction type games
Oops. Looks like a little hiccup but we're back.
Genuinely curious, what's so ghastly about an interstitial upon becoming active, and a retry button?

It's a free game, I think people expect ads by now. Maybe not every time the game starts up (or having a daily limit) but that's not the worst thing in the world.
This is an interesting lifestyle business, where you're essentially curating a selection of Japanese candies. However it could be hard to scale if you're just working by yourself. Great success could be your downfall if you suddenly got 1000 new subscribers at once. I would recommend thinking about what you would do if this happened, how to expand your business quickly, hiring part time workers and such. Since you're operating in Japan this could complicate things tremendously. It would be good to have a business lawyer that you could consult with.

Since you're doing the two week shipments as "random" selections, perhaps you can lock your subscription list a week or two out from the next shipment date to give yourself a set number of subscribers for that shipment. This will make it easier to acquire all of the products since your subscriber number will not fluctuate.

Then have a standard stock of easily acquired products pre-packaged and ready send to new subscribers who miss the lock date for the next shipment.

After all, I would assume that one of the big drivers of this business is novelty. For the first few shipments, it doesn't matter too much what is sent, as long as it's new and unique. This is why you will see people subscribe for a short time and then cancel (novelty wears off).
Serious question, given that this solution appears to be: 1) based around Google Hangouts, and 2) targeted at enterprise customers:

Does using it require Google Plus?
I wonder how much of a factor the decline of middle class spending is affecting the tablet consumer space. A phone is a more necessary gadget. A tablet could be considered a luxury item. Maybe people just can't fit them in their budget?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/business/the-middle-class-...
Imgur Gold wouldn't hurt them either.
No, there's thousand games on the App Store with the helicopter mechanic, look for Jetpack Joyride for a popular one. Flappy Bird mechanic has also been used, Badland is a popular example. Flappy Bird is unique because it's so simple but difficult.
Anyone else notice that the remote for this thing is almost identical to the boxee box remote?
Excellent news. Your trailer track is excellent.

Have you had prior experience to making music? What tools did you use?
Agreed. Any device that limits my ability to communicate effectively is not for me.

Also, as an avid CLI user, a tablet is next to useless for me. I don't really feel like buying a bluetooth keyboard for a tablet just to optimize text input.
I think the "supporting content" is pretty key. As a prospective consultant, few things are as powerful as 1) "Here is an example of me doing some awesome XYZ for other people, proving I can deliver a mutually-beneficial artifact," and 2) "Here is an awesome proposal for XYZ, which I will deliver for you if it seems acceptable."

Some links to e.g. case studies, articles, blog posts, etc could serve as both.

That said, I wouldn't expect a high conversion rate. I would think the people doing the recruiting would lack the authority to change the gig from a job to a consultation. And if the manager him/herself is soliciting, they may be looking for a permanent addition to their team, instead of a one-time deliverable.
Yes but IBM also makes very damn reliable mainframes, also z-series can emulate system360's, which NASA had quiet a few of (the last one wasn't decommissioned until 2010). So likely to maintain payroll or tax data they kept IBM.
PillPack raises $4 million to fund a redesigned pharmacy experience
Nonsense. Suits look good because they have hundreds of years - literally - of refinement into something that flatters the human shape. You might as well complain about the cultural narrative of subconscious, instinctive body language.
Renowned Japanese Composer Admits Fraud
Not according to the Collage Board Research Report done in 2011 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/zb6oconppspu388/svm4hp...
Dang it, me and buddy made a same very similar to this about 1-1,5 back for programming class and one of our peers told us multiple times to port it over to mobile, but we didn't believe that anyone wanted to play such a game.
Good for them, it is always nice to see indie developers succeed. I didn't mean to come across negatively, if that's what your disparaging quote was inferring.
Latency in Mobile Networks
It looks like you can access it via UberConference or Vidyo, but a Gmail account is strongly encouraged.
Political mindset: Funding a pure science project won't help me win my next election. Now where's my intern?

So long as space travel depends on politicians, this'll be the case, with some rare exceptions. Even Columbus had to justify the expense of sending his ships on an exploration cruise heading West across the Atlantic (trade with India).
I wonder how well this works over T1's. We have 5 offices that this would work great for, and would be far, far less than the $10k/site we paid for LifeSize video conference systems (excellent, by the way) at the last place I worked.
Exactly my question. I could do away with some awful solutions, but I don't want to merely switch to different awful problems.
Especially since they probably already have a hardware h264 decoder, which is part of the reason decoding is so much faster.
No, it's "I am a member of your tribe".

ALL clothes send this message to someone.
Agreed. For my case, the interaction time preparing for the spelling test were never good. My son's penmanship is not great, so trying to decipher his pencil & paper practice test were tough. He and I both were frustrated - creating this application was a huge win for both of us, and he now gets an "A" on every weekly spelling test. True.
Makes sense. Having "won" the high ground, but then abandoned it ... you can bet if a Chinese tykonaut set foot on the Moon, Congress would pay top dollar to establish a base ... and it would be before the next election cycle, none of this "in the next 15 to 20 years" crap.

By the way, which initiatives are you referring to?
I don't think HN is the target audience for this product. Many of us can roll out our own cheaper solution. This is targeted towards the non tech-savvy managers that want a cheaper video conference solution. The 250 dollar a year fee is tiny for a large company but large enough to prevent home users from adopting it.
I'm not sure why it matters that much which day options were granted on that it is worth putting people in jail for. The company has right to compensate their workers any way they like. Including giving options for free or for any price they see fit, and doing that any day at any time. Of course, our tax code being as weird and byzantine as it is, that may mean that some ways of giving options may end up in people paying less tax than other ways, and thus we have even more complex and byzantine system of laws that prevent people from taking advantage of it. But I see it as a deficiency of the tax code, which allows you to pay different depending on the various tricks and loopholes.

Now, the part where backdating is hidden from the people who have to have control over the matters - like shareholders - is another matter. That is violation of trust, embezzling and fraud. But I see no sign of it in the story we were told - I see no sign that the dating that was proposed were to be hidden from workers or shareholders.
I work in a shop that buys IBM. We love our support contracts.

Despite that, I'd be very leery about purchasing this, as Google doesn't have a reputation for stellar support, or even _reachable_ support.
In theory? Absolutely none. But Quasar is here today (and also has an excellent actor system, a nice Clojure API and more).