skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, it locked up the PS/2 hardware with patents, so nobody could clone it.

The "IBM Compatible" was already well-established though. PS2 architecture plays were an attempt for them to get relevant again, and it didn't work. The main technology that they had was EISA, and there wasn't much edge from having that.

> cheaper hardware didn't run OS/2

I don't think that's quite right. A mate had a PS2 that was bundled with OS/2 4 in 1996. We found that the OS/2 install disks that were bundled with his PS2 wouldn't install to other systems. But I never had trouble getting shrinkwrapped os/2 running on commodity ISA or VESA bus hardware - 2.0, 2.1, 3, 4. I ran it as my main desktop for five years. You did have a poor experience if you didn't have a well-supported video card, and almost nothing was well-supported.
Pathetic liberal morons.

This is an intentional leak/hack by the new world order to demonise males and suffuse the media with leftist, feminist nonsense. The usual libtard useless eaters will lap it up and of course ignore the government destroying all our rights, murdering hundreds of thousands in the middle east, funding ISIS and Al Qaeda, persecuting whistleblowers and passing the TPPA which give immense powers to bankers and corporations over western countries.

Women are so entitled, when they cheat suddenly it's the man's fault.

Let me educate you liberal idiots about feminism, you've all been duped, it's a political social engineering psy-op.

Real women realise that feminism these days is nonsense. It's actually social engineering by the central banking/corporate oligarchy that control the western governments and the media to make society weaker, and more easy to control and manipulate.

Classic 'divide and conquer'. Masculinise women and feminise men, empower women, subjugate men, and confuse the gender roles to make male/female relationships hard to form as men have evolved to compliment and protect women, not compete with them, marriage is at an all-time low as a result. This male feminisation and subjugation weakens men who are more likely to challenge authority and are physically much more of a threat to authority and also destroys the family, the primary goal.
Family provides social cohesion and resistance to tyranny, thus they must destroy the family and divide society. They cannot tolerate devotion to family before the state.

The same principle applies to why they've orchestrated such a massive anti-religion campaign in the media and popular culture, the power elite cannot tolerate devotion to a God before the state, especially a God that promotes individual rights, family values and absolute morality. I'm not religious but I recognise social engineering propaganda when I see it.

So recognise the people behind all of this, the militant deluded, poisonous feminists are puppet dupes, as are the media and even the politicians. The real villains are the central banking power elite, Rothschild, Rockefella, Kissinger, Morgan, brzezinski and such people. The owners of the Federal reserve and the people behind the IMF World Bank and the BIS (Bank of International Settlements) are the ones behind the majority of the world's problems, war, financial collapse toxins, viruses etc as they enter the endgame of their plan for world government in which they create chaos and division to offer up their world government as the solution.

Another key aspect stemming from the destruction of the family and the forcing of women into the workplace via social feminist propaganda and economic manipulation is that children become raised by the State. They can get force fed constant establishment propaganda throughout their lives with a heavily reduced parental influence.

Bottom line, there's a sinister political agenda at work designed to subvert gender roles, subjugate and disempower men and erode the family.
Thanks for sharing that letter. Feynman was an honourable man and academic.
But...watergun?
> a black woman who was 15 in 2007 would be expected to live to 63

People with lead poisoning probably live substantially shorter on average.
That's why I have tremendous respect for the schools (like MIT) who do not engage in this ridiculous charade.
No. The Model S will break the car for regen purposes if you are in gear. So you will lose speed but get a tiny bit more energy added to the battery. It's better to just go into neutral because that whole process is inefficient.
The "insufficient community input" criticism is a difficult one because it's one that people often use when really they just mean "I don't like it".
For the OP - i've recently been programming in Scala, mostly spark jobs, nothing too complex, but damn its beautiful. I love how expressive the language is (certainly it can also be very complicated in large codebases, as you use more features, but I haven't encountered that yet). Heck just the simple 'scala' repl + JVM interop makes developing Java code so much easier. You seem to have tried Scala too - i'm wondering what you think of Clojure vs. Scala and what made you switch?
"Present value" is definitionally what you can trade the income stream for in the present, which amongst other things depends on your discount rate or time preference. It begs the question to say that they sold it for "less than the present value (to them)".
>The mistakes are often more illuminating than the discoveries

God yes. Sadly, they don't tend to help you get more funding.
(reduce + (map (comp inc inc) (range 10)))

is not analogous to (_ + 2). The more similar and idiomatic code is:

(reduce + (map #(+ % 2) (range 10)))
http://harry.me/blog/2014/12/27/neat-algorithms-paxos/ is quite a good article for an introduction to PAXOS.

Last time on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8806835
Great! Now go for Haskell :)
The epidemiology is solid. Some cohort studies ran for decades. They followed lead levels in blood and bone. They tested intelligence and documented behavior. They tracked educational and criminal history. The neonatal brain is exquisitely sensitive to lead.
Call yourself a Software Developer, regardless of your title. All my development roles on my resume say exactly that, regardless of what my employers called it. When "civilians" ask what you do, say you write software.

It's your resume, put what you want on it.

I agree, this isn't engineering. Where's my supervising Principal Engineer, and where's my path to that?

But if someone wants to call themselves a Software Engineer, or a Custodial Engineer, of a Software Custodian, I don't really care.
The first example could also be written as:

(reduce + (map #(+ % 2) (range 10)))

which looks more like the Scala example, or, perhaps more readable, in the long form:

(reduce + (map (fn [x] (+ x 2)) (range 10)))
https://www.mailvelope.com/ still exist if you want production ready stuff.
This is a substantive claim in spite of the accuser. The independent advisor should not be helping their client solicit other bids...not very impartial.
Your monthly interest rate isn't quite right, it's 7% / 12, rather than 1.07^(1/12).

i.e., if the annual interest rate is 100% (doubles every year), then it'd be incorrect to say the 6-month interest is half that (50%). As two terms of 50% would be a 125% increase, not 100%. To get to 100% you'd need two terms of 41%.

If you apply this to the monthly rate it drops by a little. Compounded over all those years, the total amount drops to by about 6%. As the one value drops by a larger amount in absolute terms, the earnings difference actually drops by about $50k.

Either way, it's still a ridiculous difference and your point fully stands.
The page I get is "about.blank"
Bernie Sanders’ Success Attracting Small Donors Tests Importance of ‘Super PACs’
This article simply makes all the assumptions that will lead you to be unprofitable. Yes if you have a boring product and you spend too much developing it and don't have a high enough profit margin you wont make any money.
I wonder why the author left the thread-first and thread-last macros as a footnote.

This:

(reduce + (map (comp inc inc) (range 10)))

And this:

(->>
(range 10)
(map (comp inc inc))
(reduce +))

Are totally different from a readability standpoint. Yeah, there's some initial syntax to get used to, but in the long run I've noticed it to be the difference between immediately understanding what some code is doing and having my eyes glaze over.
It required approximately 5.5 horsepower to propel the vehicle.
Exactly. Another form of brand marketing. I do wonder how/when these started.
Currently developing a Chrome extension I was dreading porting to Firefox. I am glad this is coming. Microsoft is also promising a mostly-Chrome-compatible API for Edge browser extensions.

This will mean my extensions for all three browsers can mostly share the same code. Since they use pretty standard HTML/CSS/JavaScript much of the code will also be shared with my app's traditional web services. This sounds like a huge win for bringing rich, native-like experiences to all browsers.

Would be great to see all browsers support a common extensions API. I hope WebExtensions is that API.
We've spent many millions broadcasting radio and TV to Cuba (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_y_Televisi%C3%B3n_Mart%C...). I wonder what the obstacles are to providing internet access via something like Project Loon. Free, uncensored internet access would be a far greater catalyst for regime change in Cuba than those shortwave broadcasts ever were.
>The Indian pharmaceutical industry is vibrant and thriving, that is why it has the capacity to reproduce generic versions of patented drugs at will.

I thought any lab could do that. Isn't the research part the most difficult and expensive part?

>if a pharma company takes an old drug and a new chemical to it to change its effects slightly, the patent is renewed, and that way it it never actually becomes 'old' enough

I've heard about this happening with 'me-too' drugs and bullshit antidepressants. Does it happen as well with essential life saving medicine?
I haven't had the privilege of driving a Tesla, but I have driven a Volvo prototype electric car[0] and it had two modes. One "emulate a petrol car" mode where letting off the accelerator would simulate engine braking (via regen). Then it had a "highway mode" where letting off the accelerator would just coast as if it was in neutral. The highway mode meant you could avoid wasting your momentum on a highway due to slight foot movements in speed regulation.

Do Tesla cars have something like this?

[0] http://www.plugincars.com/volvo-c30-electric
I think that jury nullification is one of the "hacks" that makes the USA amazing.

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty, to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the directions of the court.-- John Adams

Hell our founding fathers thought this was a good thing. Its the people expressing their will inspire of the behavior of the republic. The first amendment pretty much trumps everything, and it is a justices obligation to uphold that, inspite of the diminishment of their power that results.
>As "la puta" means "the whore" (see Spanish profanity), some Spanish editions of "Gulliver's Travels" use "Lapuntu", "Laput", "Lapuda" and "Lupata" as bowdlerisations. It is likely, given Swift's brand of satire, that he was aware of the Spanish meaning. (Gulliver, himself, claimed Spanish among the many languages in which he was fluent.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa
CERN preps LHC for higher intensity collisions
For this code,

(reduce + (map (comp inc inc) (range 10)))

Clojure people would normally use thread macro, like so:

(->> (range 10) (map #(+ % 2)) (reduce +))

This would be similar to the Scala version in term of order.
Their power cost is actually a pretty recent development. It used to be that it didn't matter because the display refreshed every frame no matter what, but in the last few years laptop displays added panel self-refresh. If the screen becomes static for a little while, the host side can stop driving it entirely and it'll keep the same picture up.

I'd guess it wouldn't be hard to keep two frames in memory, so you could get one blink at a time.
OP is getting hate, but I write a lot of Clojure code in Emacs, and I find the following commands cover 97%+ of my usage, maybe more. For config I use Emacs Live out-of-the-box, and remap Command on OSX to be my Ctrl. That's it.

C-a, C-e, C-b, C-f, C-p, C-n, C-v, M-v for line/screen maneuvering.

C-o for Ace-jump to go to the start of any words I see on the page.

C-d to delete.
C-s to search for words not on the page.

C-k, C-y, and also how to use them with paredit to yank whole s-expression chunks.

Buffer switching and killing.

File saving and opening.

I teach the above to any friends who want to learn Emacs/Clojure/LISP, leaving out a few other features like whole word deletion and more advanced paredit. With halfway decent aptitude and a little practice, they become productive very quickly (within a few hours, which is a pretty good investment relative to "normal" text editors in my book).

Also, you can use a lot of the commands for normal OSX text editing, which further improves the investment.
The MUD Connector
Emacs or GCC alone are more impressive chunks of work than many Ph.D theses I've seen, if they were given a prettier write-up.

But besides that, it's like giving a Th.D to St. Paul - GNU & free software in general is the reason a huge chunk of software and resulting work exists at all. An honorary degree doesn't really convey the scale of the accomplishment.
This is very similar to my experience. There's definitely some friction getting started; the odd using/require macros for importing (which switched sometime in the last 2 years, which means a lot of out-of-date SO answers); the fact that most docs recommend using emacs which, if you aren't already a user, is not going to be easy to deal with; the parens.

But it's amazing. I do really miss types, but found that unit tests + Schema[0] serves my needs; they provide some type-ish enforcement, and do a terrific job documenting my code so that when I return to it months later, I have some idea of what's in all these map structures.

Another unsung feature is that emacs + paredit + s-exprs + repl means the actual mechanics of writing Clojure is wildly better than any other dev environment. The ability to operate confidently and consistently on semantic units of code vs. text is really amazing and I immediately miss it when I switch back to JS or Python. I'm sure other Clojurists felt they had already experienced something like FB's Prune when it was discussed here a few days ago.

Not to mention learning a Lisp really does increase your understanding of what's possible. I've seen others recommend holding off on playing with macros until you've become quite familiar with the language, but I couldn't disagree more. Play with them right away! I have perhaps ~200 hours of Clojure under my belt -- barely anything -- but I've hacked together a few useful macros. Though I barely understand how they work when revisiting them, it definitely increased my understanding of what's possible, and what's missing, in other languages.

So yeah...learn some Clojure. Just do it.

[0] https://github.com/Prismatic/schema
1 I remember this story, but didn't know that he actually got punished.

2 Upon hearing that his lawyers said asked for leniency, saying he was "punished" enough... Fuck that. You are a judge. You abused your position of power to ruin 4000 lives. You're a terrible person who deserves to be in jail for the rest of your life.
How to reprogram cancer cells back to normal
Can I have a link to that please?
tried a few words from Indian languages and got matches for other languages..

Interesting to see how you have implemented this...
Demanding to be called Doctor is lame.
That's the question I always ask and never get an answer.
It's not the case that capitalist culture doesn't care about people. Some of the best charities and NGO's originated in the US and Europe, while in China these can only be sporadic (as in friends and family form) or government-directed. You just know not enough Chinese to meet one who treats family bad. I am lucky I have a good family, but of the families I have met, few are on par with mine.

Genuity? Are you talking about the largest counterfeit producer in the world? Once the largest intellectual property infringer in the world? Where news articles have no reference links at all?

People are similarly nice to whom they know and love. It is how they treat strangers that distinguishes.
I think we generally agree as to the strengths of plan 9.

> plan 9 to do unix things, and there is no benefit to that

No - there is. Lots of benefit. Often when I'm thinking about approaches to an IPC problem, I'll go to the plan9 manuals and find an approach that is much more evolved than what's in Stevens. It's not hard to sell people on 9p.

Unix people are attracted to plan9. But it'd be nice to be able to learn rc in isolation, without having to deal with the cog/overload of the window manager and the unfamiliar editors. And then gradually move your tool chain over to 9p.

Once they were established they'd branch out towards the other awesome stuff.

> Trying to gain any benefit of the plan 9 architecture
> by crippling it with an overengineered telex emulator
> is missing the point entirely.

Baby steps.

> Not to mention the fact that ssh has existed for
> plan 9 for as long as there has been ssh

Really? How do you set up a ssh server on plan9?
Since the formula is

Power = ((used_us + IDLEW * 500) * 100.0) / elapsed_us

If you believe that each idle wake costs you on average the same energy as 500us of computation, then the units are compatible right?
[Citation really badly needed]
for most developers Golang is not the first or primary language.

how to port a ruby, python or java code to golang would be useful.

there are libraries like gox, but I would like a good tutorial to cross platform applications.

personally I would like to learn to build gui apps, android apps in go.
It started as a way to recognized important contributions to a field outside of the academic process.
S-expressions have changed the way I think, and it's really great. With paredit (or some other structural editor) and hiccup[1] I can make html so quickly out of pure functions that it's truly a joy. Using Clojure's datastructures, along with all the functions made to alter those datastructures gives such an immense feeling of power.

[1] http://hiccup.space
Are you saying that Linux folks should do a terrible job to trigger advances in systems research ?
No, it's not a good deal for anyone. If you run the calculations at a 0% interest rate, you lose money if you take the deal. If you do it at a 5% rate you lose money, at a 10% rate you lose money, at a 20% annual interest rate you lose money. You only win if you get 23% or higher annual returns averaged over 35 years (i.e. impossible even for Warren Buffet, let alone you or me, let alone someone with a GPA of 1.x) It's NOT a good deal, not for anyone.
What a thing. I don't recall ever having heard of a crime that seemed so vile to me.
Not after you read this:

>>Accessing the internet through one of the 35 government-owned hotspots on the island costs $2 CUC per hour (CUC is pegged 1:1 with the dollar), which is 10 percent of the average government-set salary. To waste time helping a stranger or chatting up a friend can end up being a not insubstantial waste of cash.
So, byzantine failure is neat, but I've never actually seen a system used that implements true byzantine Paxos, I'm really not sure what kind of production system would implement it.
>It is not simply said as a matter of truth or a statement of values. Instead, it's a rebuttal to the statement "Black Lives Matter."

>Instead of communicating a love for all beings, "All Lives Matter" are words of negation, repudiation, and refutation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bedrick/whats-the-matter...
>I could be wrong

first time you've been right.

> this is the way we learn by testing things out.

that's not at all what you're doing. you're pushing an anti-science, pro-creationist agenda.
The Debian ghetto
ECL Quarterly Volume II
Nice explanation.

I don't understand this part:
"Now the only question left is why we experimentally find ourselves to be in one version and not in another"

Surely there are different 'we' observing in both?
> Mozilla isn't going to drop the Firefox brand even if they do end up replacing Gecko with Servo

Microsoft rebranded IE as Edge to jettison both technical debt (like ActiveX) and IE's bad reputation. Conveniently, IE and Edge both have blue "e" icons so users are not confused. :) I wonder if Mozilla could successfully launch a Servo-based browser product with a new name to distance it from Firefox's historical reputation for memory leaks and broken extensions.
As far as I understand the victim of this story haven't had the right to make agreements taken away from her which means she is legally allowed to participate in the market and they are legally allowed to screw her.
Branch Metrics
Note: this is from 2011. I was wondering why news talking about events 5 months post-Fukushima was marked as a "Newer" story.
Can you point out a biased sentence?

I'm going to ignore your global warming comment. At some point you're going to have to accept that the vast majority of scientists accept that climate change is real and that the vast majority of people who deny the reality of climate change are not scientists and have misunderstood the science.
> I do wonder how/when these started.

This article should answer your question. It was recently posted (har har har) in HN:

http://priceonomics.com/why-do-colleges-give-out-honorary-de...
Making Ocean Water Drinkable
Well, again, if you read the article... a judge does approve these settlement changes, they're accompanied by signed statements from the victims stating what they need the upfront money for, and yes there is legal forum shopping to get judges and courts that don't require in-person appearances, and are more likely to approve.

Also in the article, the victims often have large debts, and one of the main reasons in their signed statement is to get out from under their burden of debt. In some cases they feel like they need $50k now no matter the long-term cost.

> That’s how 42-year-old Tarsha Simms recently reconciled her decision to sell a portion of her daughter’s settlement to Access Funding. “I do regret it,” Simms said. “But if it wasn’t for this deal, we would be on the street right now.”

So what's the fix? Take away all freedom regarding management and spending of their money?
Good point.

Sad part is she discussed it on the phone with her lawyer. Good grief... my brother is a lawyer, if he ever got a call from a client saying a man came over, bought her steak and would give her a lumpsum of money in return for her monthly payment contract, all alarm bells would go off. He wouldn't even need to see the specific contract or have to be aware his client is mentally challenged to say 'no', first and foremost, followed with 'send it over or come over so we can review the contract'.
Whats'up Adobe? Adobexchange.com CDN/DNS Messup?
Is there a problem with the Adobe Exchange cdn/dns deployment

See the difference in the two urls:
http://www.adobeexchange.com
vs
http://adobeexchange.com
[the content I see for this url is the same as http://www.backstageuniversity.com]

:)
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