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The numbers here are are a real wake up call. We need 10,000 to 15,000 bed right now and we have only 1100. The 1700 beds the US is contributing might arrive in mid-November (assuming the clowns in congress stop playing politics) by which time we will need 100,000 beds to get on top of the outbreak.
Ooh, I like http://www.teslamotors.com/en_AU/:

“Wir präsentieren Autopilot und Dual Motor Allradantrieb”

Did they confuse Austria (de_AT) with Australia (en_AU)?
I've got a reply from YC.

Yep, there are no API methods specifically for getting the Show, Ask, New, Comments etc. lists, yet.

They will probably add such, though.
ECC? Yes, but that's not all; safety-critical applications like automotive often use two cores running the same code in lockstep, each with their own memory. If the behavior of the two CPUs goes out of sync, the processor can be configured to take corrective actions, such as resetting, halting, and/or going into a failsafe mode.

TI has an overview of the safety features in their Hercules microcontrollers here:

http://www.ti.com/lit/wp/spry178/spry178.pdf
No one's claiming to have discovered secret sexism hidden deep in the OP's soul. Whatever the intent, the effect of these words is to assume a male audience and make women feel unwelcome. Maybe this effect seems like a secret because most guys are used to being the default audience. As a non-straight male, I can promise you it's jarring to read a comment and realize "this wasn't written for me". (it's not threatening or offensive, at least to me; I'm used to being in the minority and pretty secure about belonging in the tech world. But it's still very noticeable in a way that I think a lot of guys don't realize.)

Anyway, we certainly have no right to expect total tense consistency in forum posts, though HN has historically had a higher writing-quality standard than most. But the second person in particular has the effect of assuming that the reader can empathize with a particular experience, and it's worth realizing that this can be off-putting when that experience excludes a sizeable fraction of your audience. It's not a criminal mistake. But it's worth avoiding, and easy to avoid as long as your mental picture of HN readership includes a few women.
This is great news and it should (finally!) work on JDK8 although it won't have JDK8-specific optimizations, which is a pity - as far as I remember, it's planned for v1.2, which probably be out when JDK9 is out, too. I personally would like faster catchup time with the latest JDK, especially when previews are available in advance. Kudos to Groovy that release JDK8-optimized version pretty quickly!
Meh, there's no way their hardware is equivalent to what Google or the like put on their self driving cars. So I don't think any algorithm can realistically learn everything based on highly limited information. I feel like it's much more likely to enable some safety functionality than anything approaching real autonomy.
Who downvoted you? This is a very serious issue. A partial autopilot for cars is worse than useless: it will create distracted drivers who can't react when the car encounters something it can't handle. Self-driving cars need to be either 100% or 0%.
You are wrong. Ever played 60 fps games on smaller devices? They would not be possible without floats.
> The rust compiler is amazing. The error messages it provides are clear and helpful

I'm sure that Clang inspired the great error messages - it sets a very high bar for new compilers (and old - GCC is still catching up).

> Being a Windows dev by day I do bemoan the fact that this platform is a bit .. behind

I'm sure that once 1.0 is released there will be a greater effort to make the Windows experience more seamless. This will be extremely important if we want to convince more game developers to give Rust a go. Have you seen https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/VisualRust/?
I'd love to learn more about how they met, they seem like an amazing couple!
Wow, another NYU grad! Rock on. Too bad they didn't keep an archive of my first website way back in 1995.
I think it shows their restraint and focus as a company. They only want to do things extremely well and in a way that gives them total control over that market segment. If you haven't found your next target, and the stuff you do have is selling like crazy, might as well pile up the money while you search for the next thing. Spending money stabbing in the dark at every market doesn't fit their model and tarnishes the brand.
"presented without relevant warnings..."

It's a completely un-annotated schematic. To build the prototype, someone has to select suitable electronics, put it together on perfboard, and last but not least strip a power-cable to have bare-ends to solder to the input of the bridge rectifier.

You really think that this person needs an additional warning about the dangers of 120V mains?
This is maybe beside the point of this video, but the editing of this interview is truly annoying. I guess it fits a lots of information in twenty minutes, but cutting pretty much after their first sentences right into a next question... I feel breathless.
Perhaps nato governments, once they realize that massively destabilizing africa is one of the ways wars start?

Also, is there any serious way to build 100k+ beds worth of ebola isolation wards in 2 months, baring sending essentially the entire army corps of engineers to these countries?
For native English speakers 'stalker' means roughly the same thing as 'sexual predator.' I love Tarkovsky too but I suggest you pick a different name unless you are prepared for a lot of negative reaction from non-programmers who think you're making software for rapists or something. Sorry :-/
From the FAQ: "we spent three months to look for an alternative of the use of lubrificant for the semi-automatic piston as such substances appear to not be tasteless."

Glad to hear we'll only be drinking tasteless lubricant with our coffees!
Samsung already has a 64-bit ARM chip in Note 4. But because Google seems to be dragging its feet on adding 64-bit ARM support, it only works in 32-bit mode for now.

HTC has also just launched not one, but two, 64-bit devices: Desire 510 and Desire 820, with Snapdragon 410 and 615 - both based on Cortex A53 (ARMv8).

So the question is, why is Google so slow with 64-bit ARM support, when 64-bit ARM Android devices are already shipping?
@ruben_varnish - this is great ! thanks.

I think it would be great if varnish had an official repo with different configuration templates for different stacks that could be used as "drop-in".

For example, my question about a fairly basic Rails config (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8431927) had a couple of different answers disagreeing about stuff.

Also, things like SSL termination are something that the documentation skips over entirely - I understand completely that Varnish does not implement it, but Varnish necessitates the introduction of certain other players in the stack, which it should document.

For example, a canonical example of varnish setup as Nginx (SSL termination) -> Varnish -> Nginx (reverse proxy) -> App would be very useful.
Really curious what Boosted Boards' 'bigger ambitions than making skateboards' are! A friend has one of their Kickstarter boards and it's unreal.
So why are they making a big deal about Intel's chips then. Where is the ARMv8 ISA support?
They are solving the last mile problem in public transportation. That's a very large market.
Agreed. I really like listening to Paul Graham's longer responses. I'm left wondering how he and Jessica elaborated on most of these questions (if they did).
That reads like they were looking for an alternative to using lubricant at all i.e. in their design choices.
Oh god. The way he delivered it was even worse than reading it on all the news articles. He just said it with this tone of utter wisdom.

When she's giving her answer you can tell by his body language that he very quickly realized how the rest of his day would pan out.
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It sure looks like it.
Floats (and shorts) have a significant performance advantage, when they're appropriate. For example, you can fit 2x as many floats into cache compare to a double and good cache behaviour is really important these days, it's one of the reasons languages like C/C++/Rust with good control over memory layout can be very fast. Also, you can operate on 2x as many floats with vectorised instructions; again, SIMD is important these days, especially for things like games (where the precision of a float is fine).
Marketing fail. They should announce it as a 700 HP car with better acceleration than the fastest Audi R8, while being big enough to take the kids to the soccer club and go shopping.
Are you talking about micro-consoles? Why would they be better with Atom over something like Tegra K1? (which the first Android TV box is said to have anyway).

Intel has given up on TV's a long time ago - around the time it forced Logitech to launch the first Google TV for $300 because Atom was like $90 a piece, as a component (probably making for about 50 percent of its BOM).
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The first sentence on the page:

>Syncthing is becoming Ind.ie Pulse

would indicate it's a rebranding, but I see no evidence on the Syncthing side of things that this is the case
In the case of Hacker News, not everyone agrees on what's productive or not. Saying "the community" without some way to decide between split opinions isn't a real answer to how we're going to pick.

One could argue that we're already doing some form of community driven decision about what's productive on Hacker News (what, with the voting and what not), but you're clearly not happy with what people settled on through that method.
Well, that's fine, but then Google failed. Delivering some dated and possibly insecure copy is not how everybody else does it in 2014. There are high standards for prelease software today - other Google projects follow them, so, Android shouldn't be an exception.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3WtvzmKCQQ
Hoverboards or some sort of motorized shoes
I've got (an earlier model of) http://espressounplugged.com/rok Less portable, but much less fiddly than this minipresso seems to be.
64-bit address space significantly improves ASLR protection.
Please tell me someone has setup c-hey?
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~c-hey/
I don't believe there is any way to build 100K beds worth of ebola isolation wards in two months, no matter what your resources are.
'Clown' is too kind a term for Senator James Inhofe, who is essentially blocking the funding: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/220288-house-approves-750m...
No. If this is what we need then the only way to get there is going to be full mobilisation of the military and conscription of the required health care personnel.

I wish we had more good data of what was happening on the ground. The statistics we have are very poor as nobody seems to be gathering data on what is happening in the community. We need to know the R0 number - if it is 1.1 then all is fine - if it is 2.5 then it is a disaster.
You do, as overlord (or if you share, your cabal). Hopefully, since it is your site, you will be sensible. If you aren't, then you're left with a cesspool. Even today, dang and gang actively shut down comments that are very bad. This is, imho, A Good Thing™.
I read about #jadapose -- people tweeting pictures of themselves in the same pose as a 16 year old drugged and raped at a party -- and decided I need to use the internet less. For fucks sake.

edit: s/them/themselves/
> At the time, TCL was being pushed heavily for this purpose. I had a very low opinion of TCL, basically because it wasn't Lisp.

I figured this was the case[1], but hadn't actually seen it stated explicitly. His dislike usually seemed broached in hated of a commercial shepherd (Sun), or going on about (perceived or real) technical shortcomings.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3408617
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And lane changing.
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The only complaint I have is that I got so used to using OneTab that it replaced my browser bookmark manager. That worked just fine until I had accumulated so many bookmarks that the javascript used slowed to a crawl. Then in an attempt to clear things out by exporting all my OneTab bookmarks to a txt file, I found out that the javascript running on the export page is far more compute intensive. In fact, it's do computing intensive that it repeatedly crashes the browser making it impossible to export all the bookmarks without first restoring enough tab sets and saving them elsewhere until you have few enough links in OneTab to export them.
What happens when these systems fail to detect or otherwise read an obstructed speed limit sign?
Their hardware is almost identical to Google's, except for the cloud point laser scanner on top of the vehicle.
Yes, that's right, to confirm, it does run on Java 8, but we don't yet take advantage of any Java 8 features of the VM. (We first need to rebase the compiler backend on the Java 8 compiler, which could take some work.) FTR, we hope to move to a faster release cycle, 10 months between releases is really far too long.
Your mistake is in assuming that the language C and its standard library are somehow defined in terms of some hardware, and that there somehow is a mapping between C functions and operators and CPU instructions - there isn't. The standard specifies for what input values an operation is defined and which conditions have to be met by the result, nowhere does it say how an implementation is supposed to compute the result, that's for the compiler to decide - as far as the standard is concerned, the compiler may compile all arithmetic to only ANDs and NOTs, though most practical compilers tend to try and choose instructions that give the best performance for a given computation, or just compute the result at compile time where possible.
I think that it is useful for nostalgia, yes, and also as a small community. But its structure makes it inherently fragile and dependent upon a strong culture. As a result, as long as it is successful, I could see members taking pride in being members of a special, unusually great community.
I will probably write a "More Rich Command Shells" to cover things I missed here that are important in some way (like Apple's MPW).

The next thing I want to write though is about building something that has a command shell UI today and thinking about how to do so in a flexible way that works with multiple output devices.
Try c-hey! It's skinnable write :)

http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~c-hey/
It looks like the interview parts were mixed up in the editing. To watch the interview in chronological order start at 13:44, watch till the end and then start from the beginning.
But isn't that their current ambition? Where's the bigger picture?
I believe their ambition is solving the problem presented in one of YC's requests for startups -- specifically short-distance personal transportation for everyone.
There has been a ton more downvoting on HN in the last month and it's getting kind of absurd. It's like a group of redditors hit the downvote threshold and just started going at it.

edit: case in point
It certain is. Maybe someone should send him on fact finding mission to Liberia. Tour a few hospitals and speak to the locals - no need for any infections control clothing since Ebola is just a beat-up.
Agreed, and similar accidents are helped by autopilot even on aeroplanes. See below as an example. While the main cause is not autopilot, it is heavily relied on, and certainly worsened the situation when it was suddenly cut off in the middle of the night.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#Final_rep...

"the crew lacked practical training in manually handling the aircraft both at high altitude and in the event of anomalies of speed indication;
the two co-pilots' task sharing was weakened both by incomprehension of the situation at the time of autopilot disconnection, and by poor management of the "startle effect", leaving them in an emotionally charged situation;"
Tesla just announced a supercar
There are no kangaroos in Austria , that's how I remember the difference ;)

That will confuse those Australians this morning.
I thought it won't be more than two times slower. The basic design was supposed to alow the speed of C with the added benefit of safety. But it's much worse:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...

I agree with you, unless the language creators address this the language has much more chance to remain unused.
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@toomuchtodo: For the Google vehicles, LIDAR is the primary sensor. They're not identical in the slightest.
Let's stop pretending that this is just caused by a small minority. I've more or less abandoned Reddit because misogynist crap is no longer limited to obscure subs but gets upvoted to the front page via mainstream subs.

I used to think the anonymity of the internet was an outlet for a small minority of psychopaths, but aggressive online behavior towards women seems to become increasingly normal.
Programs are so absurd to most people... they have to use rote learning to do anything with it (that's why changing the slightest bit will drive them mad). And most programs are full of hidden state. This is everything a programmer despise, we spend a huge amount of time ensuring our paradigms are principled and transparent, but these qualities rarely make it to the user level. So I cannot but sympathize with normal users about computer fear and wish them some better paradigm to reach acceptance (I believe ideas revived by Brett Victor are gold mines here)
Well, that last bit is not at all what he intended to say and that people may get your interpretation out of it is exactly why it is a wrong answer: it's an answer likely to be wrongly understood.

You have to wonder why he mentions 'karma' in the first place. And the best explanation for mentioning it is that he truly believes that those who give trust will receive trust.

Note that this does not imply the converse: it doesn't mean people who do not give trust are not to be trusted. It's just his personal belief that it's good to trust 'the (people in the) system' and the problem is that his personal belief does entirely align with the message he wants to get across, at least not in the eyes of people who do not believe in karma.
Does it improve battery life too ?
It's also in his interest not to appear to be an aloof non-ally of women in tech.
This is the first time they're offering a peek into a pre-release of their OS, ever. Apple has done multiple times with a track record of auto-updates, so yes, that can be expected of Apple, and Apple only.

Google never promised updates, never promised stability, it's not a beta, it's not a GM, it's not even alpha. It's simply a preview. You get what they say you get. Don't set iOS's standards on Android, they're completely different products, with completely different cultures, release cycles, everything.

There are a lot of products, Google and otherwise, that go straight to release without any prereleases. If anything Android has has a very strict record of that, so I think your expectations of much more from them on such a large release like L is simply unfounded.
If you want to serious you don’t need to build a 100,000 beds in two months to get on top of the problem. What you do is ring fence the area with hospitals and troops to stop the spread into the surrounding areas and then move into the infect areas as you bring hospital capacity online. The key here is fight Ebola where you can win and prevent further spread (i.e. get to the 70% bed number) and don’t waste resource on areas you can’t.
Well, it makes sense that they'll keep focusing on the last mile - but I'm hoping the next product will appeal to more people. Boosted boards are amazing, but few are going to experience them because of the learning curve and style of longboarding.
Although I think women are far more likely to think of other women as bitches than males (at least among the gentlemen of European descent). I.e. males will slap this label around, but women actually mean it.
It's at minute 19. They met at a party at Paul's house. Jessica was doing a kegstand (just kidding)
The thing is: even If you accept all criticism of Sarkeesian as valid and correct, her storry is still aalso a valid example of the vitrolic misogyny the article describes.

In other words: even an attention-seeking hack who misuses feminist talking points for personal gain should not have to suffer rape threats.
Who decides who the "good guys" are?
No, he's assigning good karma to everyone that places trust in colleagues, managers and 'the system'. Which may seem naive and even incomprehensible, but that does not preclude that he actually believes it and that his belief system is something that is as worthy as any of ours.
As others are saying: almost unwatchable due to the bad editing. The site also has a ton of tracking going on. Seems to me this interview is all about (Bloomberg/YC) advertising.

But I got one interesting quote from PG. Funding multiple startups at once gives the startups the benefit of having colleagues. It's nice to have others around while working on your own idea.

Maybe this could be the standard in bigger companies too. Teams working on there own idea approved by management. This way big companies could be like founders.
> but you're clearly not happy with what people settled on through that method.

I am. And I'm also willing to risk having the post downvoted if it goes against what some "voters" would find offensive to their beliefs. For example, a lot of US people, including those on HN, believe it's not allowed to directly "talk negative" about any religion (when I just point to obvious aggresive teachings in them). And I beleive that that approach makes the world much worse.
I think you're underestimating the power that small, active minorities can have in large communities where a small percentage is still a large number and can reinforce and concentrate.
It's not about being best on class on video quality or features (which could be Vimeo for example).

It's about being best of class for being a video repository that actually has the huge majority of the videos people want.
Thanks for that article.

I'm often thinking about how to present/"unify" these:

- command (statements validated by some token),
- repl (expression, less side-effect driven than the previous one),
- unary/immediate mode (each input event is interpretable right away, direct mapping between input and action),
- n-ary/non-immediate mode (some parsing occurs, gathering a few tokens into a higher level construct)
- non keyboard based UI/UX (some sofware like Maya have proper separation, most mouse events have direct translation into object methods)
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Keek could not raise private equity and survived by going public on the Canadian Venture Exchange this spring. Six months later, they have little revenue, have nearly burned through their last 14M cash injection, and have 50M in debt.

I am very interested to hear opinions on their product, management team, and if they have what it takes to survive.
People have said in the past that HN is just as bad as Reddit in this regard, but I've found discussion here to be quite reasonable over the past year. (Caveat: I could be totally wrong about this as I don't follow all the discussion.) I wonder what changed? After all, HN uses a voting system just like Reddit. I don't think it's the audience: Slashdot covers a similar demographic and discussion there is horrible. The only other public site I know of that does it well is Metafilter, and that's on account of heavy moderation and community policing.
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