skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TOPS-20 on a DEC-2060 was an amazing adventure. These were the origin days of the ARPANET and machines had hostnames like SUMEX, SCORE, MITXX, STORK, LOTS-A, LOTS-B, and SANDIA. I'll let you guess where that last hostname was located.

Many many hours were spent in Margaret Jacks Hall and CERAS at Stanford writing code and playing with the "net." Perhaps one of the best articles of the time was in Rolling Stone Magazine, February 1982 entitled "Hackers in Paradise"

http://www.designersnotebook.com/Scrapbook/Hackers_in_Paradi...

It was indeed a rich and yeasty environment in which I learned many things about computers, programming, networks, and friendship. Alas, VMS ruled the roost at DEC and I never really enjoyed that OS, switching to Unix in the mid-1980's and never looking back. That Unix adopted the COMND JSYS style of command completion made one feel right at home.

Oh, and if you have a mind to, you can fire up an emulator with code from http://klh10.trailing-edge.com/

Remember, FisK.
>There's an argument to be made that trying to tax undesirable behaviors is a form of corruption.

I've always wondered if you could avoid the perverse incentive created by such fines by having the levied amount removed from the economy (i.e. literally destroy the money). There's the fine would still discourage the undesirable behavior, but not incentivize the corruptive behavior.
And also the USADA is much stricter in testing for PEDs than the WADA. The countries which dominate weightlifting are pretty heavy into PEDs and american olympic lifters (and from other countries, like Germany) will always be at a disadvantage in international competitions. I'm not saying this is the only reason, and your points are also valid, but this is a pretty big deal too.
The author confuses programming languages and programming in general with particular frameworks, and from that confusion he arrives at the wrong conclusions.
The education system tried to keep itself above petty implementation details. Sure you needed to worry about it to get your assignments done, but that's not what the classes were all about.
Sure, you're not going to be a professional software engineer working on complex problems and scaling servers at Google, but you can learn a little something from their service. For beginners who have never programmed I think its great because you can program right in the browser; no need to install compilers/interpreters, text editors/IDEs, DBMSs or servers. These things can take well over an hour to install, configure, and learn how to navigate through. All of this getting thrown at a beginners face would do nothing but discourage them.

And even if you're a well experienced programmer, you can use Codecademy to get your feet wet in a new language. I don't see the harm in this.
Other way around really. AMD licensed a front side bus from DEC/Compaq. The chip designers all ended up at Intel. The closest living descendent of the Alpha 21264 is Skylake.
What's the area of the office and what barriers exist between employees? Concrete or internal metal/plaster walls? Other offices / businesses near by where the employees pick up the SSID's with full or near full strength?

I've found older Apple Airport Extreme's work really well and are easy to setup and manage. I can't personally comment on the current version.
Really? I didn't know there were many lifters on here. Weightlifting or powerlifting?

I've been powerlifting for the last 2 years with the goal to be stronger at 40 years than I was at 30.
That's quite unwarranted. Despite all the brain washing, historians all know that you Russians are the ones who defeated Hitler. That was very far from granted. Weren't you there to stop the nazis, we Europeans would all be slaves right now.
It is a rolling 90 days. It resets if you manually clear your browsing history though. Also if you use incognito mode it will not save your history.

There is also this extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-history/obc...
Yes, I think you are right. Out of curiosity, when I browsed over Coursera's course catalog, most data science related material seems to be taught in Matlab or R (however, there are also others, e.g., Klein's Linear Algebra class in Python). Personally, I think that instructors shouldn't enforce a language requirement. I believe for big platforms such as coursera it shouldn't be to hard to run an respective interpreter to check the code/answer uploaded by a student.
For those of us who've spent our entire careers in the networked, computerized office, it's interesting to realize that at the time Microsoft was setting the goal of having a computer on every desk, there wasn't even a computer on every desk at Microsoft.
Programming has always been accessible to new people. The only way it couldn't be is if programmers had organized themselves into some sort of union and then sought and received for it a legal monopoly on their profession as enjoyed by the American Dental Association.

And yes, I am afraid of CodeCademy, bootcamps, H-1Bs visas, and any other scheme blessed by industry, the media, and government that seems tailor-made for reducing my wages and my prestige. Remember that it wasn't long ago that a massive wage suppression cartel in SV was exposed, and its architects were punished with mere wrist-slaps. Quite frankly, you're foolish if you're not afraid.

Further, who are these "new people" you speak of anyway? Most of the "old people" I've met in this industry are there because they love programming, with the high salary being something of a perk. That's why so many of them contribute to open source projects on the side. This new breed of bootcamp and CodeCademy graduates are thoroughly mercenary in character. One of CodeCademy's own success stories is from a lawyer who got into "coding" because the job market for lawyers was so poor - why should I contribute to my own marginalization by supporting people like him?
I will change that! :)
Moral arguments aside, what makes you think this will work?

Tomorrow, some town judge in Zazhopinsk, Udmurtia (population 5000) will open this single page in some sort of anonymizer and will issue blocking orders on, in some order: Wikipedia, anonymizer, Internet Explorer.

And yes, she will specifically search for such thing because she is promoted by the bulk of cases.
Thanks for pointing that out, I will look in to it.
Join HackerRank as a Solution engineer
Our mission is to make the world flat - the only thing that matters is your skill and not which school you went to or the country you are in.

We have been growing incredibly fast, very soon entering into $10m+ ARR and signing up large Fortune 500 companies across different industries - internet, financial services, retail, oil & gas, entertainment/media. You can have a look at our customers here: hackerrank.com/work/customers

A classic case of software eating the world and we are helping solve their core problem - hiring great developers in shorter time.

Here are some of the things you will be working on:

Partner with the sales team to provide pre-sales support for sales activities including needs analysis, product demonstrations and challenge creation.

Reduce/eliminate technical obstacles in order to win the technical recommendation from the customer.

Be the bridge between customers & PM's in terms of feature requests

Work with customers during the evaluation period to successfully implement the solution.

The impact you will have in this role is huge - you will essentially be working very closely with the VP's of engg in large fortune 500 companies and designing a modern recruiting strategy for their company.

To be successful, you should have a good understanding of programming concepts and at least solved 5+ challenges on hackerrank.com; If you are interested and want to change the world, email me: vivek [at] hackerrank
I'm sure if you do it safely that's fine, but boy does that look dangerous to me. Awesome feat for anyone, really pretty unbelievable for a 14 year old.
You both exaggerate a bit. Sure you could knock out a proof of concept for DOS in a week, but it would takes months to get the nitty gritty details right. And assemblers were pretty spry back then, they had to be, and you didn't write an OS in anything higher level.
If you change your mind about having a card, ANA cards are relatively easy to get for foreigners.
I think they just took a concept figured out in 1994 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBgG_VSP7f8) and applied it to robots, in an attempt to get an easy publication written up.

Really, though, we know we can make robot parts. The hard part is the software. What these people did by making it robotic was completely pointless (because making the robots is a huge amount of unnecessary added work) that doesn't add to our knowledge until we can solve all the software problems in simulations first.
Also it's not clear to me that the environmental resources required to wash a reusable bag on a household scale (sink, water, soap) is lower than that required to produce a disposable bag on an industrial scale.
I don't think so. I was available all last year, endlessly interviewing. It was bizarre.

I deal great programming and with computers. People in general I don't, they are aggressive, naive, emotional, touchy Bulls in a china shop that know this, and say we all have skeletons in our closet (as if that is any excuse). Praise the Lord for his only son, your only hope.

So no, If you pay crappy salaries to steal the IP of your programmers, expect difficult hiring. Durr!
Yup, and while in the context of business value itself I more or less agree with you, I do observe generally a more balanced view on quality of life and avoiding burnout around here than a raw selfish drive. Which is exactly why I hold a disapproving opinion of your idea, it sends that balance out the window.
I'd even go one further and suggest people start dressing like adults at 30, but the geek crowd would revolt if they didn't get to wear t-shirts with gamer slogans and Vibram FiveFingers.
Most Chinese, I ever spoke to, talk about how corrupt their government is. Isn't that something that Xi was trying to make country less corrupt? From that perspective, I am not entirely sure if government has enough trust from people that is eroded by this fall in stock market. People may stop trusting government's recommendation for investing in stock market, if they ever did, but I am not sure if this is radical enough of a change to trigger any political changes in the government.
So you are saying he is qualified to comment on Fashion Failure Analysis (FFA for those in industry).
I sort-of miss nursing a flotilla of chain printers for IBMs now. Sort of.
Except, in your analogy, you are being force-fed alcohol by your landlord, car insurance laws, gas stations, any children you have, public dress laws, ISP, electric company, phone company, and the biological need for food.

This puts your default BAC at somewhere between .06 and 0.085 at any given moment. Now if you go over 0.09, do you think maybe that might happen on accident?
I believe S (ancestor of R) started as C glue at Bell Labs. I've heard it said a few times that R is slow, but that doesn't really make much sense if your bottleneck routines are R calls to C++.
I doubt very much that they care enough to tell themselves anything, and I'm sure they don't lose any sleep over it. You're making this way too personal; they just want money. They don't care if you learned a lesson, if you're rich or poor, if you're a taker or a maker, or if you feel grateful or hateful. They care about their $50, because those fees are profits and profits keep them in the corner office where they can bilk the shareholders for hundreds of millions while paying squat for dividends. Nothing else.
They are current limiting and can go down to 1/16 step I believe. However, even at the current settings the motors can't keep up if the artist whips their arm from one side to the other.
No, I think also Github projects or e.g. JSFiddle / Codepens could be featured on the site.
I'm a libertarian and support free markets; please stop making us look bad. Reordering transactions to maximize fees is flat-out fraud. It's not anything any reasonable person would expect, even if it is detailed in a 6-point font on page 63 of the "contract".
The Mill CPU is going on and on as going to be awesome some day. I spoke with one their guys at Greg Chesson's wake, it seemed open ended.

Yup, you have good ideas. How about you ship? Then we can see if the ideas meet reality and work.

I'm friends with one the guys who did the P6. Which became the basis for pretty much any x86 chip. He shipped stuff.

Ideas are easy, execution is hard, I have yet to see the Mill people execute.

I'd be crazy happy if they stepped up and made me look stupid because they shipped a kick ass chip.
Every time an article that has something to do with diet, exercise, or lifting gets posted we come out of the woodwork. Awesome goal by the way, I wish best of luck with it.
Did failing to pay up not put you in the bad graces of ChexSystems? Did it affect your ability to open other accounts later on?
I think I mostly agree with your sentiments about armchair experts, but I think you're giving the professional sports industry way too much credit. There are things reasonable people disagree about when it comes to training (you did a good job listing them), but there are also a lot of things that are pretty uncontroversially stupid happening (texans banning all squats from the weight room, for instance).

> It's almost like there might be multiple ways of doing this stuff and that a lot of it doesn't matter nearly as much as people think, especially in a population that has to play a ton of their actual sport.

This is certainly true especially in skill sports like basketball and even to an extent like football. In strength sports like weightlifting and powerlifting you don't actually see a ton of variation in program design.

> A lot of this IMO stems from confusing two populations, to wit: "elite athletes who are already beastly strong and conditioned, and training skills on a near full-time basis" and "the pool of perennial beginners/intermediates who make up the vast majority of sport science study populations, internet fora and personal training $$$".

I think there's a lot of truth in that, but I still hold to my point that a lot of pro athletes are doing demonstrably suboptimal programming and winning in spite of not because of their programming.
Congrats on shipping! I would be very interested to know more details about what you learned from your experience with selecting a manufacturing partner. A former client of mine had his business destroyed when his manufacturing partner in China basically stole his prototype and cut him out of the picture. What steps did you take to vet the company you partnered with?
I was discussing this with my partner last night trying to understand the pattern/logic behind it. Would you see this similar pattern when counting oranges or coffee cups?
That makes it even worse: we've lost 25 million lives defeating Hitler and now we live worse (and shorter, and with less impact) than any of Hitler allies or conquered countries. In the process the USSR controlled Eastern Europe, and now they are furious for that and blame - surprise - not the communist parties, not the communism, not the USSR but specifically ethnic Russians.

I mean, if the superhero who sucks at having a life is your role model, then yes, this will inspire you.
Otherwise you feel even worse because that's a loser's position.
> America is the greatest economic engine the world has ever known. It's not because we're situated on a mountain of rubies, or that we are intellectually superior to other countries.

> It's because of our system of government.

No, it's because of the relative freedom you enjoyed in the past. Strangely enough, the less of the fruits of people's labour you forcefully take away from them, the more motivated they are to produce.

The easier it is to do business, the more business will be done. Go figure.

There's a reason people were flocking to America from all over the world, and it wasn't to get horribly oppressed by filthy capitalist "Robber Barons".
Hmm, I learned a bit about something I didn't know I didn't know much about. And then through the comments I learned a bit more. I'd say that's exactly why I come here :)
American values? While I would agree in many cases of disputes about wikipedia content, this is not one of them. How is free and unrestricted access to information an American value?
Well, not like I can deny this (that would be denying a matter of fact), but yes - my personal opinion is that I strongly disagree they should have such right. Not like my opinion matters, though.

Another issue is, this is not even a limitation of someone's free speech, but limitation of my rights to read. I believe it's an important distinction.
This is just an MVP, later there could be more functionality for recruiters who are looking for remote workers?
I'd wager that many Americans would also talk about how corrupt our government is. Maybe it's corrupt in a different way or to a lesser extent, but any government of any size will have some level of corruption, and most will have a higher perceived amount of corruption than the reality suggests (because discovered exhibits of corruption will be interesting news and thereby over-observed).
This post doesn't go into his lock free work stealing queue implementation at all, he says that will be covered in a later post. I don't see how the ABA problem relates to any of the implementation details covered in this post?
I believe in good repetition. But what is good repetition? Nano on a dot file 5 times? For the command line it should involve commands that will save people time. Teach them:
1. how to use find and grep, and other commonly used commands.
2. introducing them to vi and explaining why people use it (instead of nano)
3. user configuration with a brief on the FS structure (what is in etc, usr, opt, etc...)
4. lastly, but most importantly, how powerful and dangerous the unix command line is. Why you should learn shell scripting. And getting started with shell scripting.

To me, that list would go from beginner to intermediate++
Convert PDF to PDF/A-3 with Compliance-Level(3a, 3b) and Manipulate Tables in PDF
Does Austin allow give-aways of re-usable bags? I am not familiar, but I somewhat doubt it. Those bags typically sell for 99c in San Francisco. The 10c charge is for single-use bags (typically a paper sack, but plastic at some establishments).

If they're 99c, I would think that people are thinking of the value just fine. It's just that they're not thinking of using such a bag 130 times, and throw it away after, say, 25 uses.
Analyzing the Privacy of Android Apps
Or we've all just become hypersensitive to something that doesn't necessarily mean what you are implying.

...is what I was going to reply with, with examples of how replacing the component parts of the sentence may change how it's interpreted. Then I looked at the source article, and saw that it's a followup sentence after describing how she sued Microsoft for sexual discrimination. Regardless of how it was meant to be interpreted, that's some pretty poor awareness of context on the author's part.
Any "modern software engineer" that wouldn't have plenty of usable and employable skills back then should perhaps take a good long look in the mirror; do they really see a "software engineer" looking back?

Perhaps cheating, since I started programming in that era, but I'm sure I'm not the only one that still has remembers assembly language techniques (if not even the mnemonics for one or more 8 bit chips), as well as remembering at least a handful of BASIC dialects, the finer points of bumming cycles and bytes to fit in tight spaces, etc.

In fact, though I certainly don't want to give up my curent tech, my primary emotion looking at those pictures was wistful nostalgia.
A lot changed in 14 years, but this reminds me of the video of a visit to id Software in 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65xJfVkiaI
I think this person might be a bot, most of his comments are borderline non-sensical.
Is knowing SQL still important for web development? I haven't used it in 5 years and feel I can land jobs regardless.
Do you realize where this site is hosted, who owns it, and where the majority of its participants come from?

I can only assume the 'we' mentioned is the great many of the HNers who do not like censorship by any country, no matter how nationalistic some of its citizens are.
That's a really naive assessment of his comment. I share a similar sentiment as the OP here, programming (not coding) is hard. A lot of us get paid well to solve complex problems for clients who expect us to do the job right. Institutions like codecademy, and other "learn to code" incentives make it seem like you can just knock some achievements off a list and bang, you're on the way to being a programmer!

Having spent a lot of time around industry vets and people who started doing this stuff in the 80s, these "nice new services" aren't all they're cracked up to be. The freelance coder market is becoming an annoying thing for the reputation of programmers, consultants and companies who know their shit, and do a great job for their paying customers.
Maryland (at least around Baltimore and DC, in my experience) often feels like a no-region's-land: many Southerners will claim it's the North and Northerners will claim that it's the South. Maryland definitely feels like it's where the lines blur.
You can still find jobs today where you need to fit all code into 512 instructions and you only have 32 or 64 bytes of RAM (e.g. a low-end PIC12 IIRC).
As a hardware maker on Kickstarter who is about to ship [1], I can sort-of agree with what the article is saying. Yes, one of the most important things is to find THE right partner in China, as that can easily make or break your product.

However, if you're afraid to build your own hardware (or at least drastically modify something pre-existent), you're severely limiting your flexibility and the areas where you can innovate. Maybe it worked well for Koalasafe, which sounds like could have very well be built as just a modified version of OpenWRT with a simple installer. But it certainly wouldn't work for more than half of the other hardware projects out there.
Look at the most succesful projects - Pebble, Coolest Cooler, The Micro, Dash - none of these could have gotten where they are without custom firmware.

Going back to KoalaSafe - the $100k they raised may sound like a lot of money, but it's certainly not enough to develop the kind of hardware they are using. It's enough maybe for the software part and some prototypes. You have to set your expectations straight too, and I do believe they did the best anyone could do with that money. Congrats on delivering!

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1635386542/anymote-home...
128k?!

Heh. Heh heh.

As if.

Try less than 16k. Less than 8k in may cases. Certainly well less than 64k.

Oh, and it was an absolute blast fitting code into that space.

In fact, my first computer of my very own was a 1802 based single board I wire-wrapped my self. I had loads of fun coding up programs in the 1K of RAM I had at first.
I think the EULA comparison is valid because in my case, the rules that explain that behavior (perhaps a transfer from another bank may take "1-3 days to be accessible") are also probably written somewhere, but the overall amount of noise, added to the noise of my daily worries, means that I'm likely to miss it.

I'm not going insert into the conversation a guess of what percentage of overdrafts are fair/unfair. I agree that many overdrafts are the exclusively fault of the account holder, but I tend to grant leeway when the bank has a general history of "being a dick."