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Man, Voyager -- forgot that one!

And "debacle" is really the only word for Viking. A major rite of passage in kernel development in the 1990s was finding your first Viking bug; I found mine within a month of joining in 1996 (a logic bug whereby psr.pil was not honored for the three "settling" nops following wrpsr, allowing a low priority interrupt to tunnel in -- affecting all sun4m/sun4d CPUs). Bonwick's was still the king of the hill, though: he was the one who discovered that the i-cache wasn't grounded out properly, causing instructions with enough zeros in them to flip a bit (!!). The story of tracking that one down (branches would go to the wrong place) was our equivalent of the Norse sagas, an oral tradition handed down from engineer to engineer over the generations. Good times!
Nobody buys HN, either.
Eigentesting
Yes, there is a one to one correspondence in displacement but because the sensor elements view parts of the Earth that are farther apart the delay between lines is larger on the Earth than for the sensor elements in orbit. Just as the size of the pixels on the camera are larger than the size of the pixels on the sensor. That's because the view line of each sensor element is at an angle relative to the others. And that's what allows the sensor to see a multiple kilometer wide swathe of the Earth in each pass instead of just a few centimeters.

Imagine a different satellite that instead of looking down looked out toward the Earth's horizon, as seen from orbit. And imagine it has two sensors, one which looks forward and one that looks backward, very nearly a 180 deg. difference. At the height of a satellite in low Earth orbit that could be a 1,000 km difference in what each sensor sees. Now, every millimeter the satellite moves the view moves as well, but because the views are separated by 180 deg. or 1,000 km of ground that means it takes much longer for one view to catch up to where the other was, even though the track of the sensor elements themselves in space do the same thing much quicker.

Or, just imagine if the satellite rotated so the sensor was sideways, parallel to the direction of motion. It still views the same multiple kilometer wide slice of the Earth, but now it reimages the same thing line as it moves, shifting just one pixel forward each image. The sensor is only a few cm wide so it takes a tiny fraction of a second for the satellite to translate the position of the rearward most sensor pixel to where the forwardmost sensor pixel was, but it does not take the same amount of time for the viewed slice of the Earth to translate by an entire frame, because the frame is many kilometers wide.
> reduction in the required number of parking spaces per residence unit

Can you elaborate on how this helps people? It was my thinking that requiring a minimum of 1 space per bedroom would help things. Parking is already burdensome and very costly.
Wow, I was not close with the spelling. It looks like Debian/main except it comes with a libre-linux kernel?
Isn't this the wrong approach, though? I mean, sure you can try to block people form finding the truth, but at least be covert about it; this is plain naïve.

Their methodology is just putting them (the government) into the spotlight. Shouldn't they try and divert the attention?

This ensures people find the truth sooner rather than later. I feel like they've been played by some high-up in the government techs person who just got sick of the corruption and decided to add a catalyst.
Office 365 may be a bargain for some people, but that is much more than I have been sending to MS over the last few years. As a student this will make me start paying more and its looking a lot more like a cell phone bill than a one time purchase.
I did expect that. But given the old FPGA: Would you have gotten significantly better results if you would have had a i7 back in 1995? I'm not talking about getting it done faster, but getting it better.
The trouble with DRM helmets is that they fail to prevent the #1 source of unauthorized media consumption - individual recollection of previously-consumed content (the "memory hole" that has been as of yet unclosed).

To achieve the full protection of creators' rights, it is imperative that the content industry develop no less than a neurological solution, to implement a paywall between the piracy-laden hippocampus and the rest of the digital-media-consumer brain.
I think you misunderstand me. I didn't ask if it were my right. I asked if it were OK. If you think the backlash is justified in this case, then it's not OK.
"Don't most?"

It doesn't seem like it, and I would bet it has something to do with local population size and budget.
Storage Wars: What the AWS price drops means for startups
I believe the problem here are the Xilinx tools. They basically suck. Latest Quartus from Altera can build a decent sized (about 10000 LUTs) design in about 10 minutes in my I5 M2520 notebook.

I'm currently synthesizing a 45nm ARM cortex-M0 design using Cadence Encounter flow. The complete process (RTL compiler+place+route) takes only 5 minutes!
It would be beyond priceless if they named it Qwikster.
Chapter a day challenge
Can't locate it right now... I actually used redis sets (list of numbers) and key/values (number->name) instead of a traditional db (just because I wanted to familiarize myself more with redis at the time).

I consider myself a 'prototyping engineer' and when I want to learn a new technology, I try to learn it while solving a problem in my personal life :).
Parking wastes valuable land and creates undesirable and dangerous pedestrian spaces. There should be no parking space requirement. Let the market figure out the right number.
Percona is no more a fork than Webscale is, it's supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Oracle MySQL and it tracks releases pretty closely.

MariaDB was supposed to be a drop-in replacement, but they always had much grander designs than Percona or Webscale do, so they found it was no longer in their interests to track upstream so closely. So after 5.5, MariaDB was going to jump straight to version 10.0. 5.5 is still the last stable release of MariaDB, though, even though Oracle MySQL hit 5.6 over a year ago.

I think "terrible steward" is way off base. 5.5 and 5.6 have both been good releases with some pretty significant improvements for real users, and there's even more stuff coming in 5.7. My general impression is that MariaDB doesn't have the resources to keep up with what Oracle is doing technically, and I'm betting that technical merits will win out.
I wonder why Andorid won't take a piece of this.
What practical applications does this have? Could we see something like Python's Theano? The latter is a library which is capable of turning symbolic representations of linear algebra into parallelized and optimized code for the CPU or GPU.

I think that these FPGAs, when put into consumer computers, will be more like "data centers on a chip" rather than processing cores. In a simple example they could run map/reduce type operations, colocating storage and computing silicon.
It would not be a stretch to call percona server a branch as well. It has rebased twice already (5.5 and 5.6) and tries to focus on high impact small changes.

Not to make excuses, but oracles position of supporting releases for 8 years on many platforms is not an easy one. Being able to see what works out in branches that don't have this constraint is actually great for the whole ecosystem.

(Disclaimer: former percona employee. Current oracle employee)
Univalent foundations of Mathematics
FB could probably do an open graph search to figure out who gave him that information

"Friends of Drew Curtis who work at Facebook"
You should introduce that fellow to real estate investment trusts, where he'd be almost guaranteed to make more money than his strategy.
Yes moore's law is in deep troubles, but there are few paths for innovation in that area: bus speeds, imprecise but faster and lower power computation(which works for some things), much more efficient ways to build on chip memory(which takes 50% of chip area), 3d manufacturing techniques to decrease cost, ,affordable ways to make customizable microprocessors and moving from silicon to other materials to achieve much lower power consumption.

So on average we might be able to see 50x improvement in the next 30 years (according to a darpa manager).
O que aprenderei em um treinamento em telefonia IP baseada em SIP?
Sure, but they still aren't abnormally outsized, probably even before adjusting for risk. If they were they would do like the very top hedge funds and charge more than 2/20.

If you know specific rates of return please share.
Xilinx didn't choose anything, rather they simply linked to a blog (mine). These cores are more austere, smaller, simpler than MicroBlaze.

http://www.fpgacpu.org/log/sep00.html#000919
Would you like me to show you some terrible programs written in JavaScript? Any platform that has programs written for it has bad programs written for it.

It is true that League of Legends players generally think Adobe AIR sucks. It's also true that League of Legends players generally think they deserve to be at least Gold I. In neither case are these beliefs rational.
The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game
I am a little more inclined to believe MtGox being hammered had something to do with this fiasco.
It wasn't just the style. It would separate content into easy to digest categories. You could pull up a picture feed (from that top-right section) and just see new pictures. It would filter stuff like music/pictures/game shit/etc into categories, and deliver more focused content in each category. The primary News Feed wasn't as cluttered with bullshit. It made it easier to ignore things like game notifications.

Accordingly, we could see the content we wanted to, faster. Which is bad, because we don't forcefully digest as much undesired content as before. Meaning we leave the site faster and don't look at as many ads. And thus, it's more profitable to stick with the shitty News Feed that is essentially your only source of compiled information from your network, outside of group/list feeds that filter content by user, but not type of content.

I was really looking forward to the filter-by-type-of-content direction, but I'm sure it's now something they'll leave in their back pocket, should they start losing numbers directly due to user experience.
The argument is that a better user experience was abandoned in favor of a worse user experience that generated more impressions per user.

The argument is that an experience that Dustin Curtis liked better was a better experience. Maybe the victorious layout really was liked by more people, just as more people clearly like a 4" (or greater) smartphone screen than 3.5".
Facebook looking at new methods of Internet connectivity
> make more of each book available to browse online.

I totally agree with you. For my books, I give up to 25% of the book's content as preview because I want to show the book's value. By giving one or two chapters for free, the reader gets a much better idea of the writing style, which is good for both of us (I hope).

This makes me thing... maybe there should be an aggregator for book previews?
On the contrary, QWERTY is a great example to contradict the above comment. If things worked as we want them to, we should have moved to more efficient layouts a long time ago, right? Net productivity would be dramatically higher even if there was an initial lull, and the earlier we had done that the better off we'd be in aggregate.

In other words, the ubiquity of QWERTY represents a failure of the current mode, where "the market" is behaving with an irrational obsession with the short term. Likewise, preserving a worse facebook design indefinitely because it might require effort to adapt to seems obviously misguided.

I suspect that the issue here is what is and isn't better. I don't know if I buy that previous changes that sparked outrage were improvements, and I think it's possible that people really were reacting to liking the new system less, not just that it was unfamiliar.
rprospero addressed your first topic. I interpret the second along the lines of Shoup's "The High Cost of Free Parking". Someone pays for the free parking, even if it's hidden in higher property rates because the land for parking can't be used for other reasons. If the demand for street parking is so high, then its cost is too low.

Of course it's not as simple as putting in 24 hour parking meters. Residents should be able to buy a parking pass, but with caution - surely the 3rd parking pass for a one person household should be much closer to market rate than the first parking pass.

It may also mean adjustments in how the city works, which might include more bike lanes and mass transit.

There isn't a simple answer, but zoning law prohibit some alternatives.

Here's an example of how zoning parking requirements can be a problem: http://chi.streetsblog.org/2013/08/06/how-parking-requiremen... .
It's not cheap. If you want to compete wit cpu/fpga/gpu ,you'll need to use the latest manufacturing processes and do complex designs,and now we're talking about more than 100 million USD investment.
There doesn't really seem to be any need to have it hooked up to the web. Not sure why not BTLE or just local WiFi.
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I'm sure there exists a political cause that if your CEO was funding it, would cause you to demand their resignation or make you leave the company.

Say they are funding a campaign calling for speech restrictions of a group of which you are a member, for instance. You presumably have a line somewhere.
The Future of Payments: No Room for the Middleman
What are its advantages over Redis, besides a slight increase in speed?
Next challenge for the Yale team: a way to reconstruct the actual research from science news.
Indeed, I remember similar threads. But the 200,000 BTC that Mt. Gox found has remained inactive and unmoved since 2011. I can't find any Reddit thread that discovered those inactive coins before Mt. Gox did.
$69,000/year is not "below poverty level" in the Bay Area. I mean, maybe some random charity has a very idiosyncratic view of what they personally view as "poverty," but it's not below the poverty line in any official sense, and, practically speaking, a $69,000/year wage makes you much richer in terms of purchasing power in the Bay Area than $11,000/year (ie, below the actual poverty line) in rural Alabama.
Have a look Adminer[0]. It is a database tool, much like PhpMyAdmin but in a single file. It's user interface is a bit more bare but it is really handy when you just need a quick way to interact with a database.

[0]: http://www.adminer.org/
You can get $14K by working for a big company in Silicon Valley for a month or two.

I think the point Paul was making - which you haven't addressed at all - is that you get far more than money from going through YC, and most of the other things you get (eg. the network and brand name) can't be replicated anywhere, for any amount of money.
"Why do we convince our selves that these types of drastic measures are worth the capital we expend to make them happen."

My cynical guess? Wealthy people with liberal guilt. As for the companies, more eyeballs == more money.

I agree with you. It's hard to force this. If the underlying infrastructure is lacking (clean water, food, medicine, clothing, safety) then the internet isn't going to take hold.

If the core infra is already in place, they're likely already working on bringing the net in.
Perhaps, but if you're not familiar with SCSS and JS, it reads all like greek, takes a good deal of time, and is a bit annoying that you need to know 5 separate languages (JS, CoffeeScript, S/CSS, HTML, and Ruby) just to render some data on a page in a somewhat aesthetically pleasing way.

If you're a web developer, I bet this is really easy. If you come from a systems programming/admin background like me, this looks like a great deal of work for little payoff.

I'd like to think someone, somewhere has come up with a dashboard framework that's user friendly and doesn't require forwarding proprietary data outside the company.
I'm not sure what you're suggesting here. Adding the "specialization" hooks to the post-install script in every single package is genuinely hard --- Debian, for example, has literally thousands of packages, maintained by hundreds of packagers, some of which squirrel .so files and the like in all sorts of places you might not expect them without detailed knowledge of the package in question. And that's before you even consider software installed on Debian boxes by other systems entirely, like npm or Rubygems.

Running the specialization on build machines is easier, if you have compilers there that produce binaries directly, and not IR. But that's exactly what the Mill crew is trying to avoid by producing the IR! (Though it may actually be a better fit to an infrastructure which is already set up to produce distinct binaries for different processor architectures (x86, x86-64, ARM, and several others), and which is not set up to expect the "specialization" hook as a necessary post-install step which each package must separately provide for...)
probably get it faster too.
The original workshop for Makerland actually offered 2 options - RFID or SMS, it's totally up to you which you use
A contributing factor is that the Partition-Place-Route (PPR) software, that is necessary to map a design onto the FPGA die, is proprietary and controlled very tightly by the FPGA vendors, as are the specifications of the raw dies and the meaning of each bit in the corresponding bitstream.

Consequently, FPGAs don't lend themselves to an uncontrolled explosion of innovation. Compare with GPUs and CPUs where open source compilers are available and anyone can have a crack at innovating, at whatever level they choose.

As an example, if you want to dynamically generate programming for a Xilinx FPGA, you need to incorporate Xilinx's binary only PPR program somewhere into the flow. That acts as a ball and chain around the leg of reconfigurable computing, impeding its development and adoption.
On the contrary, I don't need the feed at all. I use just the messaging features. I never post on the feed and everything I share is in the private or group messages.
NDAs are fine, but non-competes? You have to be kidding. They're of questionable legality and amount to an agreement to not use your one of your more valuable assets - domain knowledge.

No thanks!
I have no way of knowing if the author is lying in his reporting on internal conversations that happened at Facebook, but his argument isn't merely that he liked it better. Rather it's that user testing revealed that it functioned better but resulted in less advertising impressions, and that facebook consciously decided to prioritize the latter.
I have to say this was my favorite talk this year at LibrePlanet, it was interesting to see Jacob's appropriate paranoia. His understanding of the security situation is amazing, and his advice is poignant.

From his suggestion I'll be honest his statements has certainly influenced my plans, and make me really consider writing more software in the security space.
They share many features with the original face. No they are not great, but it's pretty remarkable and far better than random.
Asking someone to step down is openly questioning their suitability for a leadership position. That is the general method.
Hmm... interesting the NSA wasn't there to help - by doing the same the Zetas did, kidnapping their radio relays so that the relays provide information to law enforcement.
Spike of interest? Zero upvotes, zero interest :) I made a C# clone of HN/Reddit (well, sort of, still working on it) and it's open source, but I have yet to see any interest whatsoever :) It has been a great learning experience so far since this is my first .net project ever, being a 2nd year CS student in Sweden. The url? Funny you should ask: http://forbidme.com (yes, domain name is weird).
I use both vendors' toolsets, have found occasional bugs in both, have my regrets, but all-in-all they are quite comparable, and quite remarkable for what they enable.

In both tools most of my design spins take <3 minutes.

If you were building an ASIC you'd pay $$$,$$$ for such tools. The economics of FPGAs are such that the tools are either free or $,$$$. Both are reasonable and accessible to an enthusiast/practicing EE, respectively.

I am so grateful to Ross Freeman, inventor of FPGAs, and all the engineers that followed in his footsteps, for democratizing access to state of the art high performance digital logic. For $100 or so you can get a 28 nm device filled with 10,000s of LUTs and hundreds of RAM blocks and build whatever you can imagine. Amazing.
Yes, and under Islam the punishment for simply being gay is DEATH - stoning, hanging and beheading - so why all the faux outrage at Brendan Eich instead of protesting outside mosques and embassies?!
Mauled.
This is the result of placing the burden of proof on vision and innovation. Companies optimize for local maxima at the expense of global maxima because proving that both the mountain exists in the distance and that you can reach it, turns out to be extremely difficult.

And so, in companies like Facebook and Google, it doesn't matter what you know, it only matters what you can prove. Meanwhile your competitors in the market are unburdened by the need for proof and shout down at you from the mountain in the distance when they arrive.
Did you read my suggestion as dictation? It was just a suggestion, nothing more, if you prefer PS, go for it, no worries.
Macbooks supposedly contain FPGA chips (Google around but it's mentioned for example here [1] go to "step 13"). I was trying to look into it a while back but I don't think I ever got some definite answers as to what they are used for.

[1] http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Unibody+M...
A set of example return information (albeit old and only from the first fund) is here:

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/23/nice-ira-andreesse...

I would anticipate there would be diminishing returns over time as the "bets are spread" if you will... that being said they're doing a damned amazing job so far.
Ah, my bad, the STUArray example is specialized and probably does not pass an Ord around (though there's implicitly one present because of the less-then). Certainly, the function does not meaningfully allow the user to pick it.
>text links replaced by only graphical icons

This is a terribly pernicious trend in all sorts of software, not just GMail. I really hope that the fad dies out soon, because it's preventing me form effectively using software that otherwise may have been great.
If you want to be really depressed about what the future holds for us, try setting your age to 90. I tried that for a while and ended up with ads for 'discreet catheters' and funeral finance.
There's "malleate", which really truly does go with "malleable". But it has only the original literal meaning of "beat into shape with a hammer" and not the generalized meaning implicit in "malleable".
IE11, Certificates and Privacy
Nope its actually a totally real and meaningful measure. it measures how much of the market

market -> all the people

encompasses your share

share -> using your stuff

Apple has shown time and again that it isn't a good measure of Profitability, but your statement seemed to imply a more general connotation that I can't help with disagree with.
What shocked me is that Steve was seen as such a sociopath that he didn't even dare go back and ask why out of fear of messing up whatever relationship he had with Steve and Apple.
Regarding (3) remote compilations, Altera is lifting off the hardware burdens for developers with remote compilations on cloud. see cloud.altera.com for Altera's tool extension
> That's sad, considering btrfs still suffers from internal fragmentation issue, as Edward Shishkin had shown in 2010.

True, but there's no shortage of pain points in ZFS. Mixing 512 byte and 4K drives or growing/shrinking pools are good starting points.