skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Novix FORTH chip was a pretty cool implementation of FORTH in hardware -- it had separate data and return stacks, which it could push or pop at the same time, so the compiler could combine several FORTH words into one opcode.

http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/sec4_4.htm...

The Novix NC4016, formerly called the NC4000, is a 16-bit stack based microprocessor designed to execute primitives of the Forth programming language. It was the first single-chip Forth computer to be built, and originated many of the features found on subsequent designs. Intended applications are real time control and high speed execution of the Forth language for general purpose programming.

The NC4016 uses dedicated off-chip stack memories for the Data Stack and the Return Stack. Since three separate groups of pins connect the two stacks and the RAM data bus to the NC4016, it can execute most instructions in a single clock cycle.

http://www.forth.com/archive/jfar/vol3/no2/article38.pdf

The NC4000P is a single chip FORTH Engine based upon minimum
hardware concepts developed by Mr. Charles H. Moore. This
highly parallel machine architecture directly executes FORTH
primitives in a single clock cycle. The initial implementation
of this device is based upon a 4000 gate CMOS semicustom
integrated circuit operating at an 8 MHz clock rate.
How do you guys feel about the backtracking in games like Super Metroid? I find that going through an area with all this stuff you can see but not reach leaves wonderful mental hooks so when you pass through again with grapple or space jump you get all this additional exploration and get to feel good because you've remembered stuff.
Surely you can get an extension HDMI cable if that bothers you.
It obviously depends a lot on tone of voice, context of the relationship between the two people, etc. I just know that I’ve occasionally showed something new to someone, or announced I was working on something, and their immediate response was along the lines of “oh, I saw that years ago when X did the same thing” or “Y tried that and it didn’t work out” or “doesn’t everyone already use Z’s version of that?” with a dismissive or aggressive sort of tone.

It’s the same kind of framing of a conversation you get as when an idea is met with “oh, that’s physically/technically impossible” or “that’s way too expensive to possibly work” or “what kind of crazy customer do you think would ever want that?”

Trying to understand how a new idea or product relates to existing stuff is obviously a useful topic of discussion, but depending whether it’s phrased/expressed inquisitively or aggressively could make a big difference. Something like the title of the post under discussion – “someone else had your idea first” – is one of the less productive ways to phrase things, IMO.

Personally, I love answering these kinds of questions and can easily be sent either into passionate “prove why I’m right” mode or passionate “let’s look at this logically/scientifically” mode. But I also know plenty of folks who I think would be great startup founders who respond very defensively or get shut down when they feel attacked.

The problem here is that while the VC might be thinking “The question begs for a deeper answer, [...] an opportunity to demonstrate depth of thought and originality.” what is also happening is that someone who doesn’t thrive on aggressive adversarial conversations will be weeded out, even though they might be great at all kinds of other things, and might be able to express their ideas very well in a less adversarial context. I dunno, I’m not an expert on startup psychology. Maybe the only people who make good startup founders love this style of conversation.
#2 and #3 are explicitly points being addressed by jet.com.

Re #2: The entire Jet model is the more you buy the more you save. Taking the baseball example, it's pretty easy to infer when they see you are buying cleats and a glove that they will up-sell you with a bat as well and call out the bundle discount you will receive.

Re #3: The article explicitly discusses that the founder is trying to create an "anti-Amazon" culture that values people and relationships. You can agree or disagree with this approach, but you can;t deny they are actively trying to promote a great culture to work in (no performance reviews, for example).

This is not to say that Jet.com is going to nail it, but you can't dismiss Jet.com's efforts here out of hand either.
Cannibal!
Solved here just means there is no profitable strategy that can be played against it, like playing rock, paper, scissors by choosing randomly. It doesn't mean it maximally exploits other strategies, like always playing paper against someone who always plays rock.
I specifically meant the prohibited criteria, though I suppose as not drinking could be due to health or religion, it's also in a grey area... Could you sue someone for not hiring you because you don't fit in at the frat house?
Are there ways to help those talents get together and start their own companies? Otherwise, they may go to interviews and keep getting rejected.
France is not a free society in the same way America is. French people are happy to live under many more restrictive laws but we don't often see it. For instance, Charlie Hebdo's staff could have gone to prison if they had published a cartoon mocking the holocaust. Some people's offense is treated as more valuable than others in France.
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Free online GPU-accelerated password cracker for pentesters and network auditors
Atari 2600 "Adventure" in GDC 2015 Classic Game Postmortem
With all due respect, that is quite rude and unnecessary. Almost anything is more effective than sneering at someone.
What are the options to get fantasy sports data for legal commercial use?
Any options other than scraping or using expensive stats providers? They would need to be API accessible and legal for commercial use.
One Cent Movement is now open sourced
His thing a week experiment led to (I believe) a fairly stable touring career, a yearly cruise with a great lineup of musicians and entertainers, and some serious connections in the music industry. The geek press from the thing a week experiment obviously helped, but you don't get that far in pop rock music without some great pop songs, and Coulton's got those in spades.
https://pdf.yt/d/qv-O9AwQuV1Kjb04
Voxel8 is a spin-off from Harvard's Lewis Lab. More info on their work:

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/526521/microsc...
They addressed that in the article:

"We could have played a duo show instead of hiring six people to tour with us. That would have saved us over $50,000, but it was important at this stage in Pomplamoose’s career to put on a wild and crazy rock show. We wanted to be invited back to every venue, and we wanted our fans to bring their friends next time. The loss was an investment in future tours."

So it seems they suspected that investing less in production would have meant lower ticket sales for that tour and in the future, which is a rational suspicion regardless of how accurate it would have ended up being. Plus, if they had stripped it down, they still couldn't tour twelve months out of the year so it still wouldn't have amounted to a decent yearly income.

At any rate, the point is that Pomplamoose is very well-known and even if they overshot by a few tens of thousands of dollars, it still shows that touring isn't exactly big bucks for even well-known indie bands.

More commentary:

http://www.artistempathy.com/blog/the-pomplamoose-problem-ar...
UK Government department seeks new CTO to support VME platform from 1974
>Religious fundamentalists should be mocked and ridiculed.

You are saying that a group of people with different beliefs than yours should be (_SHOULD_, as in, "we as a society have to") mocked and ridiculed?

You are a sick person, dude; not much different than the guys that made the news.
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Aside from the other points made here, many bugs are ecologically cheaper to produce per unit of nutrition. A quick google brings up a (probably biased) article:

http://www.rainbowmealworms.net/blog/why-we-need-to-eat-bugs...

I used to have some other references that were a bit more scientific, but I can't seem to track those down.
There's a lot more to making Lisp run fast than implementing parenthesis in hardware. ;)
I agree to some extent that we all have biases and that the reason given for a turn down might be individual and idiosyncratic; however, if you're getting similar feedback from different interviews, then one might want to reassess things.

So, yes, individually maybe they're not valuable, but in multiplicity they can become meaningful.
OpenNTPD 5.7p1 has just been released
"Processed protein meal"
"Amino acid complex (source: ${latin name here})"
"Debuggified bugs"

Lots of potential naming zaniness here. Pretty sure food scientists and marketers have this down to a...science?
CS PhD here: In our field, yes.
When the other party controls Congress, presidential proposals without the active involvement of that other party aren't real and aren't intended to or expected to pass. This is just politics.
I find it alarming, this thread already mimicking a USSR disinformation campaign. See below "Israeli shills".

As usual, the HN crowd (or state propagandists) turn to whataboutism and pointing fingers than discussing the topic on hand. This really isn't the place for any political discussion, it is so biased and factually divergent, half the time the threads here do not even match the articles.
It's probably not a coincidence that Obama is going to announce this plan in Tennessee. The Republican governor of Tennessee, Bill Haslam, has made affordable college a key part of his platform.

One comment I've read today sums it up: "Watching [Obama] co-opt the crown jewel of Haslam's 2020 or 2024 presidential run is so, so beautiful"
Server seems a bit slow. Here's a Coral cache link:

http://dspace.mit.edu.nyud.net/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5731/...

(Pretend you're on slashdot 10 years ago.)
> America has been forsaking our commitment to public higher education for decades now.

Direct aid to students was flat when adjusted for inflation in the 80s and 90s, but doubled under the second President Bush. The recession & financial crisis curbed our enthusiasm for Pell grants & whatnot, but funding has climbed in the last couple years & will again.

In addition the federal government funds university faculty, administrators, and researchers through the DOD, DOE, NSF, NIH, etc. This funding has fallen over time as a percentage of GDP, but has increased relative to inflation.

I don't think the US has forsaken its commitment to public education from a spending standpoint. We have lost track of the purpose and value of education. Schools today spend a lot of their money on administration and facilities that do not directly advance research or teaching.
It is proven that for heads-up poker there is a Nash equilibrium, so it is indeed possible.
Back in 2000, Courtney Love did the math too... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2742303) I'd like to hear what she thinks now.
Kuhn Poker [1] is a game of imperfect information, which was solved by its creator in 1950. The only fundamental difference between Kuhn Poker and LHE, the game discussed in the article, is that regular LHE has much more cards involved, making the game more complex.

Your statement is technically correct because of the use of the word "completely", but wrong in a practical sense. The algorithm used to solve these games is iterative, so the solution only ever approaches a complete solution, but this is only meaningful if you want to argue that a 0.0000001BB difference in win-rate per hand is really meaningful.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhn_poker
See http://www.businessinsider.com/daniel-kahneman-on-hiring-dec... for a very different viewpoint. (The full details are in Kahneman's book "Thinking, Fast and Slow")
There is absolutely no convincing these people. None. You are as likely to convince a devote islamic extremist to convert to christianity. I'm not saying you should insult people - just saying it won't change their mind.
Yet another article[1] stated that if playing it's self the bot with the better hands/chance 'won' in the long run.

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/en_au/read/this-robot-is-the-bes...
Sounds like the immune system version of "turn it off and back on again."
I agree with all you say, I just want to add that parenting matters very much. Parents who care and are involved and demand. Yes, many parents go overboard and put their kids in a pressure cooker, but there is a middle ground between that and parents who say, 'that's what school is for' (to teach them). In other words the kids need to be accultured into wanting if not loving academics and learning.

For many of the kids I grew up with, school was an irritant --something they had to go to but didn't want to. Most of their parents were middle class but not the educated yuppie parents.

But to this program. While it may not guarantee better jobs for all graduates, I still think it's good idea to have young adults exposed to ideas and mentors. I'd rather have educated unemployed people than uneducated unemployed people if it ended in a wash... Still, I think this is a good way to address one thing which may keep some kids from going the next step in their way to higher learning and hopefully more fulfilling jobs.
"the majority" though?
USA Today: “It is time that the sanctity of a Prophet [...] was protected.”
Jonathan Rees's a la carte menu of the elements of "object oriented programming" is a great example of that.

http://www.paulgraham.com/reesoo.html

The Elements of Object Oriented Programming:

Encapsulation, Protection, Ad Hoc Polymorphism, Parametric Polymorphism, Everything Is An Object, All You Can Do Is Send A Message, Specification Inheritance, Implementation inheritance/Reuse, Sum-Of-Product-Of-Function Pattern.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard, and there may be many others, but they haven't been discarvered. ;)

[Apologies to Tom Lehrer.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM
> AFAIK there is no bot that could break even against a table of decent players playing NL.

While it's true that NL ring is far from being solved in the same mathematical sense the HULHE has been, there exist very good bots that can certainly beat a table of decent players, and perhaps even world-class players. There were a number of scandals with ring NL bots on UltimateBet and other online sites, with huge samples showing solid win rates at midstakes.

There is also pokersnowie:

http://www.pokersnowie.com/

and here is a huge thread about it from when it first arrived on the scene: http://www.deucescracked.com/forums/131-Poker-Theory/topics/...
We already have that in the UK now. An Computer Science degree is twice as expensive as an english degree and a medical degree is almost 130% more expensive than a Computer Science degree ( This is for international students ). I wonder what happens if this continues.
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What you are describing is the phenomenally successful 20th Century state and city college system, which was destroyed by the baby boomers
Sadly can't remember where, but I once read an argument that today's CPUs are 'C Machines'. i.e. C code branches a lot, so we have branch predictors. C code uses contiguous memory, so we have caches. I have no idea if it's a legit argument, but I thought it was interesting.
You got the names mixed. It was Crane that won the game with a 150 pt run.
> It can and does happen. People sue over hiring decisions all the time.

It happens often enough that the conventional wisdom (and "conventional" generally means "wrong", so excuse my skepticism) is that people sue all the time, and so liability-paranoid corporate entities concoct policies that institutionalize fear of the people who could go work for them. To go along with the fear of the people who do work for them.

But I have yet to see data that suggests that it's on the top thousand things any corporation big enough to hire people should worry about.

> It's those people whom lawyers are (reasonably) worried about.

Fight them. I have long ago decided that I will quit if my job interferes with doing right by people.

It hasn't happened yet, but I'm careful about my employer.
TFA says Fed currently pays 16%, students pay 30%, and presumably state pays the balance. Under the new program the Fed would pay 75% and states would pay 25%?

Then they have quotes from Tennessee Rep calling it “a top-down federal program that will ask already cash-strapped states to help pick up the tab.” Maybe I'm missing something...

In contrast to the Tennessee program, which is a “last dollar” scholarship, paying only for tuition costs not covered by other programs. A low-income student who is eligible for a maximum Pell Grant of $5,730 would not receive assistance under the Tennessee program, because that amount would already cover tuition."

So in short, need more details but this just doesn't add up. If students already only pay 30% to the Feds 16%, why not just boost the Fed contribution to 25% and call it a day?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8858280
It's fair that I'm not providing enough evidence here. I think we'd both agree they good intentions when they outlawed unpasteurized milk or made a patent system. It's hard to get clear evidence on intentions, but recent laws about internet surveillance of Americans that are justified by saying the prevent terrorism are pretty clearly not about terrorism. Before terrorism, there was the cold war, before that there were countries that might invade us, etc. History is littered with lies from governments about why they spy on their own citizens and most of the time governments and government officials seem to do it for their own gain and protection. In this sense, it's fair to assume the people doing it now are also doing it for that reason.

Also, I'll admit I don't want them doing driverless cars either, but it would at least be clearly intended to reduce fatalities. Perhaps medical research is a better example? You tell me.
> Do you have a favorite 3D printer for small instrument/device cases? Or do you outsource that work to someone who does?

Outsource. I want a useful 3D printer with materials like nylon, not a MakerBot. There should be people around in any reasonably sized city. I believe that some of the Solidworks resellers now do 3D printing as a service.

One thing that people continue to underestimate are silicone molds. 3D print the positive--create a silicone negative mold from the 3D positive. Now you can make your own parts out of liquid silicone rubber--some durometers of which are almost as hard as some plastics.

Yes, this is incredibly messy, time consuming work, but if you have more time and/or hands than money, it's not a bad choice.

> Also, something I've never understood about injection molding is why the hobbyist-accessible CNC revolution of the past 10 years or so hasn't reduced the cost of creating molds.

Because no injection molder wants to deal with people producing <10,000 parts. The setup time on the injection machine exceeds the profit.

I don't even need a CNC machine to create a metal mold--people did do this by hand for a whole lot of years. However, even if I could produce the mold for free, the molder doesn't want to waste the time on me.

For that reason, practically every successful electronics component producing company has both a machine shop and an injection molding machine on site. Both of them tend to sit idle 90+% of the time, but every time they get used, they save $50,000.
Microusb was designed to be more durable than mini-USB, but failed horribly at it.
You know what medical professinals do? Get patients healthy so the patients can enjoy apps and sites.
Catching insects in the wild is very labor-intensive per kilogram of protein obtained, and so is trying to farm them in a pasture. Obviously this insect farm solves that problem.
This is correct. We've licensed much of the IP from the lab and plan on commercializing it through Voxel8.

We've designed the printer heads to be modular, and after the printer is released we plan on releasing new extruder heads designed to work with new materials. Some of the more interesting materials from the lab are the carbon fiber reinforced epoxy and the flexible electronics materials.

Let me know if anyone has any questions!
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Mea culpa; I actually restated the article. (FYI, the article explicitly states the title is a question coming in the form of a challenge that must be responded to.)

The DoD isn't too different from VCs here. Thesis-driven, big checks for big projects, insider community, etc. When not fast-tracking someone with a strong record, the same questions come up, or, as with many seed investors, due diligence is not worth the time.
You can always CLEP out, http://clep.collegeboard.org/exam/information-systems-comput...
See how we are having a conversation and you are trying to convince me of something?

I have to believe that is the best way to make the world work eventually, or at least get people to stop killing each other.

If I was to then start calling you names or mocking what you hold dear, the outcome is guaranteed to end badly.

Now if you are saying satire is the way give the non-deep thinking third-parties cartoons like people read the funny-pages, I still do not see how that solves anything. If the cartoon is what it takes to make them grasp something then you are not dealing with something rational.
I've had micro usb cables die, cables incompatible with devices, and even had a phones micro-usb die. Seems like I get about a year out of micro-usb cable/device/charger if I use it daily. Assuming no physical abuse I've never had a problem with mini-usb.
The Geometry of Linear Equations [Video – 2005]
It has shown some efficacy as well in severe forms of RA: http://www.jrheum.org/content/31/3/482.short while it may not be conclusive yet.
They also used to post on HN Who's Hiring. (They didn't response to my inquiry.)
Right. Plus when you power off RAM ... Oops!
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What language is it written in ?
If we are going to dismember religions, let's first start with the largest that has done the most damage across the entire world. Then we can work our way down the list.
Someday, mankind will give birth to an artificial intelligence far more sophisticated than anything we can comprehend, and our species will cease to be relevant. A very long time from then, the universe will become too cool to support life as we know it and our entire history will have been for naught. And long before any of that, you and I and everyone here will die and be completely, utterly forgotten, from the basement dwellers to the billionaires.

It's called an existential crisis. It's not a special Sillicon Valley angst thing, everyone gets them. Try not to let it get to you too much.
I'm on a Macbook Pro. Can't hear anything. Sad :(
The original post is over here:
http://iamjwal.com/the-tough-decision-to-leave-the-classroom...
90+% of industrialized-world animal-farming is for luxury consumption far in excess of biological need for a healthy life.
Everyone says they buy from the best farms. Then who is buying from the other farms?