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What this guy is doing is amazing, and shows the very sad state of the FPGA scene today.

To give a picture on how important is this, imagine if Intel CPUs were delivered with only the most sparce documentation: it told you how many registers it had and what the instructions could do, but wouldn't tell you anything about register addresses, switches, meaning of each bit or even the individual OPCODES. You would know that there's a floating point unit with divider, but didn't know how to access it, or how to set the register for the division, or even which OPCODE you should use to set it up.

Moreover, the only compiler would be the one send to you by Intel, and the whole compilation process is also pretty much undocumented. Compiler errors would be cryptic and support wouldn't do more than point you in general what kind of problem your code may have triggered - they simply would refuse to tell you specifically what has gone wrong to avoid telling you the details from the compiler processor.

And the compiled code would always have an enormous size and change almost randomly from one compilation to another, making reverse engineering a very difficult and frustrating task.

This is not a perfect analogy (it would still be easier to reverse engineer software in the analogy), but I hope this give an idea of the size of the task this guy has performed. Even if the FPGA is a quite simple and small one, from a second-tier vendor, and only one part number, all my praise to Mathias Lasser and Clifford Wolf.

This is the sad state of FPGA tools nowadays. This has recently been debated in HN (more than once)[1][2], but to contextualize how difficult and important it is. Imagine how GCC, or CLang, or even Microsoft and other compilers would be if this was the case. I highly doubt there would be any Linux or BSD to tell the story if this was the case.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5895672
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9408881
Here's a plan I often thought about for living in the big city while skipping out on paying rent for an apartment:

Spend about 10k for a used casita travel trailer. The trailer fits in an area the size of a compact car. Rent/buy a parking spot and setup the trailer. In the big city you can get gym membership to cover sewage and showers. For internet you can easily purchase some sort of cellular or wifi service. Almost everything I need would be covered.

It's not for everyone but for myself, I have no qualms about small spaces, so I'd totally execute this plan if it wasn't for the complication of accessing the power grid. There's really no easy way to get a power line up into the trailer if it's in some parking garage. Perhaps solar? but that leads to other complications.
Most people middle-class or above in LA have cars - so they don't bother with the hassle and extra time of taking the bus. When there's no traffic, taking a car is usually a lot faster than buses + the metro.

And many people see it as a necessity for weekend beach trips, or getting groceries 5 minutes away.
"When artists can’t afford to live in a city you can’t call that place a “city.” What you have is a Workplace Housing/Dining Zone."

https://twitter.com/johnroderick/status/590738232851181568
I created a bookmarkable link on the book pages - and you can title them yourself, so they will remain private if you like.

Thank you for the excellent suggestion.
"Don’t bother with jewelry (too hard to dispose of) and computers (“everybody’s got one already”), the experts counseled. Do go after flat screen TVs, cash and cars. Especially nice cars."

Ugh. This language sounds similar to the language thieves use in hitting homes.
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Judging from your suite of comments here, and your downvoting those who engage with you (misuse of down vote), seems you are confused about how both communities and voting are generally agreed to work.

You're also either confused or disingenuous about the motives and beliefs of those trying to talk with you here, mine included. Good way to stay cocooned in a closed-minded point of view.
Oddly enough, there's a way of providing this in a discrete fashion: "next page".
I agree with you there ... Bernie Madoff is thug numero uno! As well as all those mafiaso ... either the rioters to Madoff to Al Capone all are thugs! THe definition of thug per Merriam is "A violent criminal."

There is right and wrong. It's your choice how you want to behave .... lawfully or unlawfully. Unlawfully you need to face the consequences and oh no you get label as a thug. What should they be called.. they chose wrong over right. They can choose to change and turn their lives around! Contribute to society positively.

There's good and evil and always will be. I don't understand why people want to spin those doing bad as it's not there fault and not label them the bad guy. Seems like those downvoting me want to coddle those who choose wrong over right. Love to understand why I am being downvoted.. for not wanting to take the side of the criminals???

Crazy world we live in ... where we are taking the sides of those who act unlawfully and criminally?
Yes, but natural gas is not a magical solution for CO2 reduction. It's substantially better given the reduced particulates emissions, but you're still spewing tremendous amounts of GHG into the atmosphere.
I do think it's fair. Is it fair that I'm not going to return any of my pay if things go poorly? The investors took the risk of paying me a market salary (no discounts, sorry) to make something there was no assurance anyone would want. They deserve the rewards or the losses as the case may be. That their profits in bubbles like this will be silly relative to the value they've created does not justify greed on my part.

If you still think there's a problem here, pay market wages and let anyone who chooses come along on their own dime on any subsequent funding round at fair value. No vesting/expiring options, no stock grants, no look-back, no discount, no limits, just the opportunity to be an investor -- in the moment -- on the same terms as everyone else. Just make sure (non-)participation is 100% confidential. I think very few of your employees genuinely want to be capitalists, but those who do should have to put cash on the barrelhead like everyone else.
At least some of the info there is stale or incorrect (just judging by metrics for only one country I'm familiar with).
Most families of 5 have a number of years where they are not seating "five adults". I drive a sedan and have two kids under 5 years old, a 5th passenger is basically out of the question. If you had 3 kids in car seats, a vehicle with a third row is seating is your only option.
> you're not going to run an aluminum smelting plant off of a local, plant-owned installation of solar panels

You are probably going to move where the power is cheap though:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/silicon-me...

In this case, Alcoa is performing aluminum smelting in Iceland precisely because of cheaper geothermal power generation available there.
I use this frequently and it's pretty awesome. The killer combination for me is usually to set a hardware watchpoint, then reverse-continue. This is super useful when you've got a bit of memory corruption (e.g. buffer overflow) but don't know what's causing it.
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Interesting. I have a penchant for dipping my fries into mayo, too. I'm from South Africa. Perhaps my Dutch genes contributed to that...

The inevitable mixture of monkey-gland sauce with mayo when eating steak, is well, nothing short of glorious.
By God, one of you finally admitted it.
monkey-gland sauce?
No.

Left/right navigate _within_ a page or position a page. I'll immediately close the tab where I go to a different page.

Imgur is an extreme exception.

NY Times is the worst case of abuse which comes to mind. Fuck them.
The economics of disputing it don't work for the person who's assets were seized most of the time. Either the amount that was seized is relatively small and it would take several times that amount to battle the government over years. On the other hand say that clean out your whole bank account then you have no assets to fight them even if they took your life savings and it would make sense to fight them.
Does anyone know if they emptied limbo completely before they buried it - or do we have to worry about being attacked by undead philosophers now as well?
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No, but if you post a dictionary definition of a word and someone's next reply contains an aside that they learned the definition of a new word today, from context it usually means they learned it there and then.

As for the article, without knowing the definition of 'benighted', there are several different meanings available.

For example, say it meant 'dedicated'. That would fit perfectly, but the phrase would then have a different meaning of one who believes completely, rather than someone who is a fool for believing.
Did you filter for geographic location?
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> It's a case against the money

Not only are corporations people, money is people, my friend. This means that money has free speech, which probably has recursive implications for campaign fundraising.

Seriously - has the idea of an object without will being named a defendant ever been challenged in the courts? Don't tell me that the person who owned the money has no standing - they certainly had property taken from them.
Yep - sure.

Though as it turns out, I _am_ part of the market that can be served by an EV - I ride a battery assist bicycle to word a couple of days a week, and I'm collecting parts to build my own homebrew electric motorcycle, I've got a running bike in the garage which I'm planning to gut of it's IC parts, and a line on a possible 2kWhr worth of Tesla battery pack cells.

I love my 16 year old dinosaur burning Ducati, and intend to keep polluting the environment with it for decades more, but much more selectively than wasting it on commuting.
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There is ample genetic evidence of the Eastern European origin of the Indo-European peoples (as well as archeological, historical and linguistic evidence).

This is why it is still by far the most accepted theory in academia and it makes the most sense (wishes of Indian nationalists not-withstanding).

Also, just curiously... how do you get an Indian origin of the Indo-European people out of the link you posted? From the summary, it states nothing of the sort and merely confirms that there are genes in common between Europeans and some populations of India... a fact most everyone agrees on. More endogamy doesn't imply origin by any stretch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Aryans

"Politicized theory". Not accepted by mainstream academics. Most likely not how it happened. Please don't confuse nationalistic pride with reality.
It doesn't include monkey parts, I promise!

It's just a name for a mixture of a whole bunch of ingredients, notably onions and chutney.

Here's a recipe: http://www.food.com/recipe/monkey-gland-sauce-266015
I once tried to read some long essay where the author had replaced all instances of "he"/"she" with some weird made up gender neutral pronoun "xe" or something like it. It wasn't explained anywhere and I was very confused for a few minutes.

It felt really weird and unnatural and detracted from the main point. Testified to the fact that years later I have no memory of what the essay was about but still remember this.
Do heavy industrial concerns with high power usage not already usually have an on-site gas or oil turbine to generate their own power and, often equally important, steam?

That's the situation I'm familiar with, but that may be a peculiarity of the under-developed grid in my area.
The war on drugs didn't work, so now they're trying the war on citizens.
Keep in mind that phone batteries, and laptop batteries, are generally charged to the top and then often completely exhausted. This is a worst case state-of-charge scenario for battery life, and doesn't happen in car batteries etc. For example, the Chevy Volt doesn't permit its battery to be charged over 80% or discharged less than 30%. GM expects its battery to drop only 10% after 5000 cycles.
Looking at some of the details in https://github.com/NervanaSystems/maxas/wiki/Control-Codes reminds me somewhat of the Itanium: a very wide architecture that is capable of high throughput for specialised applications, but requires a lot of software-level support to even work correctly (e.g. consider dependencies.) The fact that it's not well-documented is another similarity.

It would be great if nVidia released more documentation, because chances are developers could squeeze even more performance out of their hardware that way.
this is asked pretty regularly in reddit, the answer is to have them emphasize machine learning applicable stuff: linear algebra, prob/stats and measure theory, learn software engineering skills (a couple languages, git, unit testing, benchmarking/profiling/debuggers)

http://www.reddit.com/r/math/search?q=industry+job&restrict_...

http://www.reddit.com/r/physics/search?q=industry+job&restri...

also networking skills, go to lots of campus presentations and interviews
I'm not sure that people actually want to do any of that. At least not the average person.
I was specifically referring to stuff that's covered, and where the provider bills the patient for it's cash-price fee, less what the insurer paid. Network providers generally can't do that. But out-of-network providers certainly can, and those fees can be huge.

In your case, I'm guessing that your insurance doesn't cover outpatient services (or perhaps just imaging) at hospitals. Even if the hospital is in network. If that's the case, make sure to have that stuff done at stand-alone clinics, where it should be covered.
“Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet.”

-Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy.
That's the point. The guy _didn't_ make more than $10k in cash /day. His deposits each day were for less than $10k they said that because of that he was trying to evade the 10k reporting limit since he made regular deposits under the limit. ie: they are claiming if you made a daily deposit of say $3,000 that is suspicious and are seizing your money for structuring.
Why post a stock chart for a coal company, when we have actual usage data for coal:

1949-2011:
http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pdf/sec7_9.pdf

2008-2014Q2:
http://www.eia.gov/coal/production/quarterly/pdf/t32p01p1.pd...

Unfortunately, it doesn't back up your claim at all that it's "almost dead"... It looks like we're about 18% off from the peak in 2007.
/me pulls a technicality and claims "minus 4 years" is "less than 5 years" - thus being proved correct.
Have you contributed to an Apache project?
When Swift is done... there will be nothing it can't do that Objective-C can.

Swift is not going to be just the beginner language for Mac and iOS programming.... it is going to be THE language for them in a few years
The whole site takes up a few MB! It doesn't store any books at all.

As to your other question, I'd say 1)The library undermines the integrity of rational thought or endeavor, and thus teaches us to reconfigure our thought to do without purpose. 2)On the other hand, when decontextualized pieces of language can take on new, unforeseen meanings - they can become more meaningful, not less.

The library is a paradoxical place. It's up to us to do what we will with it.
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You certainly get my vote for "most interesting who's hiring of the month"!

For what it's worth, I'd advise listing that you're also hiring a fairly technically minded BD person too. There are plenty of technologists on Hacker News who have reached their peak for software contributions and are looking to switch into more business minded areas. In my humble opinion, with the right mentoring, people with the technical background are better suited to learning sales and BD than MBAs are at learning to talk the technical talk.
If only Enron was still a company as they were really good at seeking fair compensation for utility providers. I believe they would have found a way to do that again on this new landscape. </sarcasm>
"You are probably going to move where the power is cheap though"

Yes, as my pre-comment scan of the Wikipedia article on aluminum smelting (to double-check I had the right electricity-intensive industrial process) said in the second paragraph [1]. I didn't think it worth adding to the comment.

Of course aluminum plants move to where electricity is cheap, all else being equal... exactly what alternative do you think I was proposing?

Further, geothermal is significantly different for this use case, as geothermal can be used for base load applications where solar can not. Since such plants tend to run without regard for where the sun is in the sky, this sort of industry would be very difficult to run off of solar power without absurdly overprovisioning for power storage, which remains a significant problem at this scale. You are also not going to run your aluminum smelting plant for 18 hours out of the day on battery power!

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting
If you have a good location for a hydroelectric reservoir, apart from it being remote from population areas and existing generation capacity, you might well stick a smelter and some solar next to it.
Which is a polite way of saying they're the equivalent of crystal balls and tarot.
The separation between science and religion is a relatively recent phenomenon. At one time people actually believed religion. http://lesswrong.com/lw/i8/religions_claim_to_be_nondisprova...

>The Old Testament is a stream-of-consciousness culture dump: history, law, moral parables, and yes, models of how the universe works. In not one single passage of the Old Testament will you find anyone talking about a transcendent wonder at the complexity of the universe. But you will find plenty of scientific claims, like the universe being created in six days (which is a metaphor for the Big Bang), or rabbits chewing their cud. (Which is a metaphor for...)

>Back in the old days, saying the local religion "could not be proven" would have gotten you burned at the stake. One of the core beliefs of Orthodox Judaism is that God appeared at Mount Sinai and said in a thundering voice, "Yeah, it's all true." From a Bayesian perspective that's some darned unambiguous evidence of a superhumanly powerful entity... The vast majority of religions in human history - excepting only those invented extremely recently - tell stories of events that would constitute completely unmistakable evidence if they'd actually happened. The orthogonality of religion and factual questions is a recent and strictly Western concept. The people who wrote the original scriptures didn't even know the difference.
Turning bauxite into aluminum is an electrical process (they don't run on direct heat, steam, or mechanical power) and they use a lot of electricity (one reason aluminum-can recycling is such a big deal). Aluminum plants tend to end up in places with cheap electricity (especially hydroelectric) where they can absorb a lot of off-peak capacity as the power customer of last resort.
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A good product should support small and large groups and being a part of a small group can be valuable but I disagree that you can coin the adoption numbers of diaspora in any sense as a success.

Diaspora might be a success on the software side and might maybe even be successful with users in the future, but for now it has not 1% of the value of facebook or even G+ to society in large.
Is that just US usage? World consumption appears to have risen until 2012. That's the truly meaningful stat. So I agree with you, and it looks like the world situation is worse.

http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=1&pi...
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I believe it was, despite not calling the name out explicitly. Are you suggesting that simulated annealing does not belong in the categories of "repetition strategy," "alteration strategy", nor "ensemble strategy"?

Simulated annealing is essentially hill-climbing with random restarts with the tweak of a changing climb-distance. Depending on how you feel like categorizing that, it's either repetition, alteration, or both (and therefore ensemble).
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My point was that they were already stuggling to retain mindshare when Coda was released. They went from being a well-known fish in a small pond to being an average fish in a great lake, so their relative importance has certainly been declining from ten years ago.
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Even if you can't personally offer any assistance, being willing to discuss a non-academic future lets your advisees know that it's OK to seek alternatives. That was definitely not the case when I was working on my doctorate, and I stuck around for a couple years longer than I would have if the alt-ac track hadn't been considered a failure.
For non-Indians, a lac (Lakh) is 100,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh
The one in this post does, it seems.
This really puts into focus the meaning of "strategic thinking": abandoning current customers in favor of potential future customers.
That former student would be an excellent resource with which to put your current students in contact.
Surely this can just be achieved by simply increasing the length of congested roads to normalize travel times.
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A note to self on the importance of specifying the version of each dependency
I think the other thing you didn't mention is that all of those terrible things (like the Kardashians) weren't created by LA, they were created by America. The rest of America encourages such terrible behavior that the Kardashians actually make money when they act poorly. Just because the entertainment industry (which is filled with crap as well as art) is based in LA, is not LA's fault.

I also think Wall Street is filled with soul-less monsters, but it's not on TV as much so I just don't think about it.
This seems like a rather important issue that few people know about. The fact that the majority of the crops being planted today are the intellectual property of and controlled by some monster GMO food companies really means we could end up in a bind in the future.

"Food Inc." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food,_Inc.) is an excellent documentary that explains some of the major problems with this system.
I don't see how it doesn't engage, inasmuch as it does beg a question about the changing makeup of who is polevaulting into the valley. I say that as someone who is a native and has indeed watched some striking changes in the last 5 years (compared to the quarter century preceding it). While I don't have the same ire that the previous commenter does, I don't think his rhetoric lacks merit in terms of questioning what has been happening (either as a progression of or a departure from, the roots of SV)
Thanks for the reply. I have been keeping a close eye on Lightsail and am hugely looking forward to the day when I can install one of your systems. My power bill this winter has been atrocious.
Per unit of heat generated, natural gas produces about half the CO2 of coal.

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=73&t=11

That is already a big win.