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Yes, its interesting to compare the de-facto standards around input and output parsing of CLI tools in Unix land. Input has been a solved problem since the 70s for simple use cases…

Some general background on STDP for the thread: Biological neurons don't just emit constant 0...1 float values, they communicate using time sensitive bursts of voltage known as "sp…

Like Itanium! We already have x86-64 (guarded licenses), ARM (less guarded but still uncertain) and SPARC, Power, RISC-V (open source). Should a new ISA be the focus of major econo…

Simple fix: Seperate links into 2 color coded sections, TEST and ACTIVE Put each set of links into seperate divs, with different background colors or striped backgrounds. As is, th…

Fix proposal subthread. Can we harness HN collective intelligence to vote up some good suggestions? Instructions: * Reply with your suggested fix to this comment. (That way we can …

Flatpak is pretty damn awesome - a layered container-like attempt at tackling application distribution and Dependency Hell.

I agree. Copy+pasting an old comment of mine from this old thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12683924 > A general solution to IoT security would be for all IoT devices to…

Yeah, I still find GUI applications crashing on modern distro's all the time :( ... but this works amazingly well :) $ flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam

The movable-type printing press was invented 400 years earlier in China than Europe, but failed to take off due to the high number of characters (amoung other complexities). https:…

Thread is just an IPv6 wireless mesh routing protocol right [1][2]?. On its own it doesn't solve 2 key security problems: * Any device can send arbitrary data to somewhere on the i…

A general solution to IoT security would be for all IoT devices to only communicate to your personally owned home gateway, which would run open-source drivers for each device to pr…

God I am loving the justified hatred in this thread :D I agree that in many respects the current corporate push for the Internet-Of-Things is mainly a wild-west style landgrab for …

To back up your point, this was a great blog post on the fatal consequences of failure in mission-critical car software: http://embeddedgurus.com/state-space/2014/02/are-we-shootin…

They should have pasted this diagram all over the document: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata_theory I'm disappointed that the "Formal Methods" section makes only a passing re…