PhilWright

So they are basically paying people, in potentially worthless shares, in order to stop being sued. I guess that makes sense because if they are sued then the shares will definitely become worthless. This is a cunning move but I would never accept it as an investor. Why accumulate even more shares in a dodgy company when suing might actually result in real cash you can actually spend.

Find a partner that can do the front end work. That way you can work together to get to a minimal first version quickly. The longer it takes to get from starting to an actual first version you can sell, the more likely you will run out of steam and give up. Then work together to come up with a simple idea that can be coded within just a few months of spare time.

No one can tell you what to build because if we knew of a simple but great idea then we would do it ourselves!

Very true. People forget that the MBA was invented back in the early post war era when large corporations identified a need to train new managers. It would allow a broad range of skills to be quickly picked up by a specialist moving to a general management role. You can learn the same information nowadays using books and online resources in a way that was harder to do back in the day. Doing an MBA before you have worked in actual junior management for a few years has always struck me as kind of odd. Doing an MBA straight after your first degree is strange because how can you actually relate the issues of people management when you have never managed a single person? Bizarre.

Correct, but in practice memory has permissions on a page level and most pages today are 4K. So a page containing a buffer is also likely to contain other data as well. Unless you are going to isolate each buffer by placing it in its own page.

What is the advantage of using a block chain for storing the information rather than just having a database? Is there some intrinsic benefit or is it just marketing hype?

They may have all sorts of suspicions at the high failure rate. Having it confirmed gives them information it would be better they didn't have.

I love the way all reporting of stocks has to show the stock either 'surging', 'soaring' or 'tumbling', 'crashing'. An IPO priced at $24.00 that sells three days later at $23.77 has not tumbled. Sure, it was relatively volatile in the first few days but that is common on high profile IPO's until the price settles to a market determined level.

EDIT: No doubt if it rises to $25.00 tomorrow it will have 'rebounded' and be worth another hyped headline.

Is it wise for reporters that discover a covert program to disrupt North Korean missile launches to disclose the information? Seems like they want the credit for breaking a significant story more than they care about the delicate and dangerous situation with a rogue country that has nuclear weapons. I suggest they STFU.

Did I miss something or is this a content free article?

Mike fly's from Australia to America. Has chat over meal saying they want to work together. Fly's back to Australia. Agree on a price. Deal done.

What am I supposed to learn from this?

If you only need them to perform online UI/UX and they are great at that then you should ignore it. If you need them to be a bit more versatile and help out in other areas then it might be a concern. Your best bet is to just get them to critique their own resume in the interview. You want an answer that indicates they could make it awesome if they needed to do so. If they cannot come up with anything then that is a bad sign.

You can shortcut that process, waiting 20 years to get your agent promoted to a senior position is slow and relies on a lot of luck.

Much easier to get your person into an IT position. Edward Snowden gained access to more secret documents than almost any individual person in the NSA. Get your infiltrator into the IT department and then help them with hacker tools and zero day exploits needed to extract data. Who knows how often this technique has already been used already.

No, I am Sparticus!

This is a content free article, there is nothing specific to Trump in here. Any President could attempt to grab more power after a terrorist attack. Remember George W Brush after 9/11?

Trump is doing plenty of stuff that gives people reason to criticize his decisions. We don't need a hypothetical accusation of something he might or might not do in the future after an event that might or might not occur.

And this is why Bitcoin is doomed to fail as a genuine currency. Imagine if your bank said they had lost your money and tough luck on you. Or you bank emails you to say they have been hacked and all your money is gone. Or the bank just disappears offline and your money is gone. Or you forget a password and so your bank says sorry, but that means all your money is gone forever.

Great system.

I think you are underestimating the difficulty of actually making it work in practice. Printing notes that are good enough to pass as the real thing is going to be the easiest part of the problem. Say you have printed $10 billion worth of notes. How the hell do you spend that as cash?

Send it to your embassy at the target country but then what? How many staff would you need spending cash like crazy to get rid of it? You cannot spend it on anything expensive because paying cash for a house or Ferrari will raise flags. Especially if done often by a small number of the same people. You could need to get the money into the banking system so you can aggregate it together into a useful pile. But with banks on the look out for money laundering that might be tricky.

Given the embarrassment to a country if caught it just does not seem worth the effort and political risk. North Korea can try it because they can hardly be punished more than the sanctions already do.

Not sure the numbers make much sense...

    Main memory reference - 100ns
    Compress 1K bytes with Zippy - 3,000ns

So it takes 30 main memory accesses to zip up 1K? Not likely.

Thanks, I have not heard of those services.

Unfortunately your talking about something like $100,000 to get custom silicon made, even on an older node size. And you cannot get just 1, your minimum is about 100. If you insist on just 1 then they will still make a 100 and just throw the other 99 away, so you might as well get a 100 of them.

You cannot just throw some Verilog at the fab and get silicon back. You need to use some very expensive software that generates and validates the actual format they need. Hence you would go through a third-party company that specialises in taking your Verilog and does the work needed to get it to the point that the fab can make it.

You are likely falling foul of three possibilities...

1 - Making your questions far to specific, so nobody else could ever benefit from seeing the answer to that question in the future. These tend to be down voted very aggressively. So you need to try and find a more generic way of asking the question so that others might be helped by the answer as well.

2 - Just plain dumb questions. Such as 'I needz site like Facebook. Hope to make? Helpz'. If you are doing that and do not understand why it is a bad question then I probably cannot explain it to you.

3 - Making you question so that it looks like you are lazy and getting others to do the work for you. For example, questions that look like someone's homework. No one wants to spend time answering if the questioner has obviously made no effort to solve it themselves. Stackoverflow should be the last resort after several hours of trying.

The site is basically made up of professionals and that often determines if the question is considered too simple or not.

Tell us your idea and we can comment on if it is worth copying?

I have to say it feels like the founders want to have their cake and eat it. They want the money that comes from an IPO but they don't want to give up any control. Facebook is the same, Zuckerberg has the majority of the voting shares but a lot less than 50% of actual shareholding. This seems to be becoming increasing common with tech start ups.

If you want others to invest and take on a financial risk then they should get an equal and fair voting share. If I was the stock exchange I would ban this kind of crap.

RISC-V is an instruction set architecture (ISA) specification. So the standard is really just a definition of some instructions and what they should do. The unique part is the fact it is an open standard and so does not require any licensing or royalties.

This means that anyone can then go away and build their own processor implementation to that standard. Intel could create their own chip for that instruction set and get it running at 4Ghz with your latest fab facility. At the other extreme I could sit at home and use Verilog to create a soft core that is downloaded to an FPGA and be up and running with a much slower implementation). Neither of us has to pay anyone for the right to do so and the code we write should work on both because it adheres to the same standard.

In contrast, if you want to create an ARM or x86 processor then you have to pay a license fee. Even if you implement the entire processor from scratch and use nothing from ARM or Intel except the instruction set specification, you still need to pay and it is not cheap. There are many situations where you want to avoid that cost. A researcher wants to experiment with a new idea, you want an internet of things processor but cannot afford the license cost of an existing processor. Or your Samsung and produce zillions of phones a year and saving that dollar per phone is worth having.

As the RISC-V standard is relatively new it means that the first designs to market are the targets that are easiest to create, so microcontrollers. SiFive are now moving up the scale and are working on a full processor with MMU that could be used to run something like Linux. I would expect to see something like that appear within a year or so.

The best use of pardons would be to release thousands of people that have been convicted under the three strikes and your out schemes. Not all will deserve to be released, but someone that used up there last strike with shop lifting or stealing a car does not deserve to be put away for the rest of their life.

I have to say I have been baffled why Sam Altman is held in such high regard by YC and its community. He co-founded Loopt in the first batch of YC. It was sold years later for less than the money the investors had put into it. So it basically failed and lost money. Except for the co-founders, they walk away with a few million each. Nice pay for at best an average performance.

He then becomes CEO of YC. But YC is already a well established and successful outfit at that point so there is hardly any risk involved. The chief requirement is just to not screw up a good thing. So far he has managed to do that.

Along the way he makes many more millions because as a YC insider he gets to invest at the earliest stage for the best looking start-ups.

I have nothing against the man and I do not begrudge him his millions but lets stop thinking he is a genius. He is an average entrepreneur that has had an amazing slice of luck by being in on YC at its start and making the most of it. I'm sure he is a smart, hard working and a nice bloke. But he is not a genius.

Do not run the side project in your own name but instead create a limited liability company and use that for your projects. Then your liability is limited to the money you put into the company. Otherwise you are operating under your own name and so all your own assets are at risk if you are sued.

Eagle is free as long as your boards are limited to a maximum of 100m x 80m.

I have ordered from them 3 times and each time they arrived in ~1 week to Australia. Takes 2 or 3 days for them to be made and then another 3 or 4 days to be delivered by DHL. I have not had problems with any boards so far. I have never ordered from anyone else so I have no idea how they compare to others but for a home project with simple designs they are just fine. You can combine orders for several different boards into a single postage so it becomes even better value.

Have to admit I never heard of those two tools! Given I use PCBWay for cheap production of boards I can only create boards that are 100m x 100m at a max anyway. So the Eagle restriction of free use up to 100m x 80m is not bad.

TTL = transistor transistor logic

This is the technology in the common 74' series integrated circuits that became popular in the late 1960's and 1970's. You can get basic IC's that perform AND, NOT, XOR operations but also more complex IC's that perform as multiplexors, buffers, registers and so forth. You can find these in computers like the PDP or VAX series machines.

They are not used as much today and so less of them are still manufactured.

Hackaday project owner here...

The idea of the project is the fun of playing around with electronics, something I have not done before, and trying to understand everything about a real computer. Starting with the CPU and then building it out with a simple graphics card. After that create an assembler/compiler for RISC-V and write a small OS. Yes, all of these will be relatively simple and not of a commercial standard, but building a machine and watching it run with all the hardware and software written from scratch is the longer term goal.