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Verilog and VHDL are equivalent in the power of expressiveness, one is more or less interchangeable with the other. Both are supported by both major chip vendors (Xilinx and Altera). Although neither vendor supports anywhere near the latest versions of either of these languages which is frustrating.

It may sound crazy, but I prefer VHDL because it is more verbose. The benefit of the verbosity is precision. with VHDL, you must specify exactly what you want, the syntax doesn't allow for ambiguity. With Verilog, you can let the "compiler" infer some things for you, but you need to think really hard if it will infer the right thing for you. The benefit is that you get to type fewer characters. Since I do not pay (or get paid) per character typed, it is far more important to me to type a little bit more, and get exactly the design I want. When designing circuits, one thing you cannot afford to be is lazy. It is all about precision, because if you get it wrong, there is no step through debugger to help you, and often, it will still work in simulation, but fail to work in real hardware, which means you're stuck.

I can't say for certain with the latest version of the textbook, but IIRC, the version I had many years ago was specifically tied to the DE2. There were a range of exercises to go through with specific problem statements etc. IMHO, the DE1 is equivalent enough that you can change a few pin mappings and get the same result. I cannot say anything about the DE0.
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I'm not complaining about the location but your statement about "how serious" I am is over the top.

I am willing to create a startup on which I'm working in my free time (I need a day job to pay the bills) and personal elements made my life a bit more complicated than necessary financially-wise and I couldn't afford a trip abroad right now.
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When the CERN scientists presented their Higgs boson findings in Comic Sans did you dismiss them because, Comic Sans\?

The gifs aren't necessary, but I found them refreshingly amusing. This article isn't for a professional press release for a scientific journal, it's aphyr's blog.

Why so serious?

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/04/higgs-bo...
Apart from the various (IMHO horrible) php bb forum workalikes, I'm only aware of Discourse:

http://www.discourse.org/

[edit: Personally I'd love to see this end up being a real effort to make a decent web front-end to/for (and an interface for integrating into web sites) mailman3. I'm sick of half-assed email integration for discussion sites (with poor support for non-html mail).

Still, as most news sites have a vested interest in forcing (web) views (for ad imprints) when none are really needed for viewing the content or participating in the discussion -- I doubt we'll get that.]
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The references to Spaceballs left a nostalgic tear in my eye.
By the same logic they should be hosted it in Reykjavik.
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You need to list it for a while for discoverability. Having a low price makes it seem more attractive while you browse.
Military camouflage is more obvious application. As others pointed out we don't really want things in public space to be invisible.
I used to think this too, I was quite open about how well I was doing and how much I made.

Now not so much. I've seen what it does to people. They turn against you.

Some of my friends make half of what I do but they hang out with me and think of me as their equal. So why is it that I make so much more??? This is the question that they cannot answer for themselves and it makes them bitter. Shit, I've even had it from my own parents.

The human mind has a hard time putting itself in the position of others. Do yourself a favour, tell people but observe how their attitudes change. You aren't going follow my advice until you've seen it for yourself anyway.
Tremendously insightful post. Sometimes the writing is a little rough ... don't let that fool you.

Ultimately, I think he's right: what we need is to be able to invent and use high-level languages and DSL's that are wonderfully expressive for our domain (with fast iteration and all that), but also to be able to control the low-level run-time code that gets executed as a result, so it can be fast and efficient.

That's the holy grail as I see it. And LLVM is a key contender to provide the backend of that vision. (TFA talks about a lot of other things, but this is pretty much how I interpreted its conclusion, and I agree).
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They're not sure if it's due to RF or heat from the device.
Not really. The term "complete replacement" does not refer to the implementation details, but to the features the language provides.

It's quite possible not only to offer a complete C++ replacement but to also substantially improve on C++ on all aspects.
If you have a pedantic HTTP proxy, you can use ssh over HTTP(S) with corkscrew.

You might have to set up SSH on port 443, but this is guaranteed to bypass most filters.

Another good option is tethering :P
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Mute city, classic.
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I think the point isn't to try to hide the objects, but make it blend in. I agree with your points about lighting and video edits BUT., I believe even if they can maintain a modest fraction of this effect in real life, the impact and application of this will be huge. You don't need to not be able to tell it's there at all for it to improve the aesthetic dramatically.
Rather than give you design and development work, I'd rather give you emailing, phone calling, bill paying, and server fixing work. I'm happy enough to not take on new projects for vacation, but it's letting the ball drop on anything in motion I worry about.
I'm sceptical that patents are an essential part of the ASIC business either. Hardware designs would still be covered by copyright law, so a competitor would still have to reimplement it from scratch. Which is actually more work than doing so for software because hardware languages use a lower level of abstraction, and the design needs to be tested much more thoroughly because you can't fix bugs post-hoc. Also, giant SoCs present a natural barrier to entry to new companies because a new company needs to have all the blocks, not just one or two. There may be a dozen companies trying to make LTE basebands today, but that situation is unsustainable and we are already seeing exits. In short: ASIC innovation would be profitable even without patents.
Also, we seem the same kind of behavior in the hw sector: Qualcomm was found to be abusing its patents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Inc._v._Broadcom_Corp.
Yep, that's me, too. Always coming up with new ideas for great projects, moved by a great spark of curiosity, but usually those projects just tend to die because after some time I've learned most of what I wanted to (I start getting into the boring details, like polishing, bug fixing, etc) and also because new ideas and new stuff to learn just appear and take all my attention.
Even though I know that for every new project the chances of completion are close to 0, I still start them every time because it's still fun to experiment and useful to learn. And, who knows, maybe one of them might spark my curiosity long enough to make it a more serious project that might actually get to somewhere.
Conceptually, how do you guys triage the fakes? The spectrum of quality seems so broad, in that they are convincing enough to be worn on the red carpet (and presumably picked by stylists) etc. Or are all those shots authentic pieces that were then used in fake listings?
Man there are some serious politics in coding lately
Does anyone have the md5sum for the apk?
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I would add that the court's opinions are typically prefaced with an excellent summary, which can be a solid alternative or supplement to an article.
and no more than 4.77mhz.
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I imagine the factors that came into play:

1) It's an major English speaking city with a culture many of the YC partners are comfortable with. Running an event in a country with a foreign language and culture is hard.

2) It's well connected with flights from pretty much every major city in Europe and has direct flights from SF & NY. Not only for attendees but also for convincing speakers to attend.

3) It's by far the biggest startup/tech hub in Europe (excluding Israel) and YC is very pro-hub (one of the reasons YC moved from Boston to SF).

Obviously there's downsides to London, mainly being that it's an expensive city but given that it's a one-day event that gets mitigated to some extent.
Neither debug logging nor any other unique system resource has to be passed as a singleton. All that is needed is the appropriate ApplicationContext structure to be passed to each object that needs these facilities, and the ApplicationContext will contain all the singleton instances that are required.
Neat site, but most of these games were 16-bit... all these songs are still under copyright though so I worry for the site's longevity...
This sounds like news from an alien planet.
I tried it. It's nice in some ways, but horribly limited.

It defaults to 4 icons at the bottom for the dialer, two of which weren't my defaults (for browser and SMS app). By default I run with 6 icons at the bottom, and another six or so that I go to all the time.

It doesn't allow widgets (I have one set up to allow me to toggle wifi and one for a torch).

I can see some people loving the simplicity, but for me it's just not going to work.
Nothing worse than systems which force you to use a Google account to log in.
Fun to see, familiar and new at the same time as intended.

For the Amsterdam map there appears to be a large part of what I know is water that is rendered green? Why is that?
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That's absolutely insane at that clockrate. The way I would get 'animations' (for want of a better term) done is by rendering them frame-by-frame, compressing that and then playing it back at high speed. And even that was next to impossible. Decompressing video @60fps, and doing real-time dithering to increase the effective number of colours and still have time enough for 45KHz audio is totally nuts. This qualifies as art, not just software.
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She was a physics major.

There seems to be a strong correlation between physicists and good computer scientists:- Knuth, Dijkstra for example.
> So I guess Mr. Gates was right, you only need 64k...

That was 640K.
....literally, what? It's like complaining that the contacts app has permissions to read your contacts. It's a launcher man, of course it needs to read your call logs and messages, what's so upsetting about this?
Ok, but what's actually protected is the idea behind the machine, right? A different machine that employed the patented idea would infringe the patent.

Maybe what is meant by "abstract idea" is really "an idea in the abstract," i.e. an idea that is not used to make a machine can't be patented; it's the employment of the idea that is patentable.
Aren't algorithms like Shor's essentially faster than others in their respected categories due to parallelization?

I.e. isn't quantum superposition just a form of parallelization? if the quantum step in Shor's algorithm is replaced with a classical step executed in parallel in many cpus, then the speed up would be of the same order of magnitude as when using a quantum step.
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The PC I ever used was an Amstrad 8086 CGA, seeing the 4 colour palette 1 again made me super nostalgic. Somehow back then playing games with only black, white, magenta and cyan didn't bother me.
It could have been me. We're a 10-person startup with initial traction, but our site makes it look like a 50-person startup with extended traction.

This cold recruiting shit is hard. There's a really amazing opportunity here that I can't seem to sell. Guess that's why I'm the CTO, not the CEO.
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You are possibly being overly cynical here.

It is completely plausible that the person both cares (genuinely) about how you have been the past few years, AND is hiring and thinks you'd be a great fit. These are not mutually exclusive. Not all founders are completely self-serving.
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My family had a CGA pc when I was young, and while it could do 16 colours, the horribly low resolution of the 16 colour mode meant very little ever made use of it.
Living in Taiwan this was also the first thought that came to my head: Isn't there already an efficient, sympathetic, and good solution to this problem?

Painted Box (Taiwan): http://bit.ly/1if5VOb

Painted Boxes (World): http://www.ettoday.net/news/20130828/262333.htm

Painted Boxes (London): http://www.fundesign.tv/view.php?aid=3893

I would much rather see a mural that offers a reprieve from its surroundings than to at some point realise the concrete ugliness I'm staring at is simply a facade created to ensure my vision of any concrete ugliness is not, in fact, obscured.
Almost certainly they own it. Mostly because they want to be able to control it. Remember if they buy it for you, then you will have to be taxed (benefit in kind). It's not a great deal as a perk for you, you're much better asking for a 5k raise. :P
If you want to read more about that particular gig:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/A+tale+of+two+programmers
The attack is started on 16 Jun, which pull down the political surveying site http://www.popvote.hk. It is a project initiated by The University of Hong Kong. http://hkupop.hku.hk/english/release/release1149.html
No, we don't have a perfect understanding of what's going on.

The qubit processor is like an intermediate step, instead of a traditional processor, the grunt of the work of special problems is handled by the qubit chip.

The data is put in and the results are as expected, but they are not as fast as modern computers, so now the challenge is figuring out if different types of calculations can increase that performance or what can be done to improve the chip or other methods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKUZ6IuJyHw

The machine itself seems so simple though from a visible hardware perspective, most of the D-Wave Two is just to keep the main chip cool and shielded.

It's just experimenting right now. The internet was probably dismissed by many because of it's enormous expense to implement, but the value could be envisioned by many and it paid off.

There is potential for future versions of these quantum computers to be able to solve problems that massive amounts of supercomputers would have trouble solving, and the energy usage is enormously less (same for a small calculation as a huge calculation).

Encryption is one thing that could be hurt by this technology. Instead of millions of years to crack encryption it might be solvable instantly. That's all just what I remember reading about the subject, there's plenty of information out there that's probably more reliable that my babble.
> Populous (perhaps the first game will small isometric animated battles) didn't come out until 1989.

I think Guantlet beat Populous by several years on that score.
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8088 Domination is one of the examples of truest hacking and deserves to be sticky on HN. I mean it!
As the study points out, there are many confounding variables here. Apart from the chosen population (people going to fertility clinics), sperm quality is heavily influenced by lifestyle (physical activity, diet, air pollution, etc).

Nevertheless, exposure to RF is for sure one additional factor to consider, much like eating crap or spending too much time lying in a couch.
You know you can google "mario roms" and find hundreds of sites hosting the actual games (not just the music) that have been up for years, right? I think this one will be fine.
The target customers probably don't carry cash to put in a change machine either.

Idea: arrange for each washing machine to have an email address that you can square cash the money to start it.
"This qualifies as art, not just software."

For me there was never any doubt.

A bit unrelated, but I've got an old 5150 at my parent's place, so when I'm visiting next Xmas I'll try to load this demo onto it. The only problem is that of transferring files to it. It only has a 5.25" floppy drive, and I don't have a means to copy files onto those floppies.

Any suggestions?
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"Quality software" can also contain fatal errors.

I don't know the title implies. Just because the production of something is expensive, doesn't mean that you have to charge money for its use (of course, it would be very legitimate to do so).
Yes, you can do that, it just gets tiring, because now you have a boilerplate parameter being passed everywhere. It really has to be passed everywhere, because you never want to get stuck without the ability to debug some function just because you didn't pass in the debug logger object.

The environment pattern effectively makes this context implicit.
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It's even worse than that. The cubes are generated and overlaid on the image based on textures from the images. In other words, the lighting from the scene on a real textured cube would look nowhere near as good as what it is shown.

Just consider that the cubes in these images leave no shadows or affect ambient occlusion, nor are they self-shadowed.

The article and problem is interesting in itself, but the portrayal of how effective this would be in real life is greatly exaggerated.
Unfortunately, in the process of sensationalizing the topic, the article strongly suggests that the discovery is breaking news. While a recent revision to the original research was posted on arXiv two weeks ago, the original was published in Nature in September 2013 and the corresponding movie was posted on YouTube 9 months ago as well.

tl;dr: This is old news; temper your expectations.
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In the same vein, here is a live speedrun of Mega Man X, accompanied by live music as the game is played. They look like they're having a blast playing this music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQ7bDGhOLI

I'd often try to get stuck somewhere just to groove to the music while cleaning my room as a kid.
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Two days later, 18 Jun, website of the most popular local press in Hong Kong, apple daily[1], was also under attack. Taiwan branch of AppleDaily also felt victim to the attack. And AppleDaily turned to post news on Facebook[2].

[1]: http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/
[2]: https://www.facebook.com/hk.nextmedia
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Squirt it in bit by bit down a serial port?
Nobody said they shouldn't have provided an APK.
No, that's like saying you need a completely different set of algorithms because you changed the overall speed of your computer components up or down.

Algorithms are not designed with absolute speeds in mind. It's relative. The seek to read ratio of RAM is very roughly comparable to that of SSD and to that of HDD. It's just that SSD is faster than HDD and RAM is way faster than SSD.

You may need to tweak a few numbers, such as how aggressive the read-ahead is, and how big the buffers are, but none of this necessitates a new file system or a brand new way of seeing things.

"They're different so they need different file systems" is honestly a bit of magical thinking, hoping for discovering untapped potential, just because of some fuzzy feeling of novelty SSD invokes.

What would you change specifically in a file system optimized for SSD? Be specific, and then we'll have something to talk about.
I was just going to recomment that!

I've been listening to those soundtracks lately, and It's awesome how different they are from each other.

SoR1 has a 80's vibe and is the most "normal".

SOR2 is arguably the best, where Koshiro started to explore new grounds. "Go Straight" is a classic, "Jungle base" shows some jungly house and, my favourite, "Alien Power" just evokes weirdness. Also, "Expander" sounds like a preview of the SOR3soundtrack.

In SOR3 Koshiro worked with a partner, and developed a system that uses procedurally generated samples. It sounds a bit more harsh, with some break beats and bit more noisy. While not so pleasing to the ear sometimes, it is features some really interesting composition. I recommend "Fuze", "Cycle I", "Inga Rasen" and the stressful "Bulldozer".

Also by Yuzo Koshiro, check out out Revenge of the Shinobi. For more FM synthesis goodness, try Thunderforce III in op's link.
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Thanks, I found one on a dodgy link which didn't have this md5 but have now persuaded it to download from zlauncher's site. It's freaking awesome. :D
Those are for people who are deaf.

Some places call this "closed captioning" (i.e. deaf target audience), versus "subtitles" (target audience is people who can hear, but not understand the language).
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Like MAAS from Ubuntu? But Closed Source and with vendor lock in?
Is it wise to advertise that you've hacked any app in this social climate?

Theoretically, could the founder of Yo have pressed charges against the student? (This would, of course, be complete suicide for any startup. But companies aren't always rational actors.)
Oscilloscopes, power supplies, function/signal generators, lab equipment (optical table parts, galvos).

Oh and "most current and in demand Disney film merchandise" (usually snagged from Disney stores and held onto for a bit) :)
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First thing that came to my mind: great! A new launcher from Nokia!

Downloaded, installed (these permissions are fine for a launcher app) and tried for 5 minutes.
Concept is cool but it's really hard to figure out what are the improvements.

I can do the same (searching apps) just typing in to the google search bar, which is more effective than gestures..