skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1985.

The PC had just got EGA. VGA wouldn't arrive for a couple more years. Everyone was speechless seeing the A1000 after loading a demo, game, or even the desktop. Then make it talk - software speech synth better than hardware solutions of the time. Pre-emptive multi tasking. Windows could background print.

It was so far ahead, how could it possibly fail? C= marketing.

They got so much right. There's still things I miss - Amiga Screens for one. Open IFF file formats and datatypes.library. Arexx. CygnusEd. Intuition was lovely to program. Card autoconfig that worked - none of this plug and pray bull.

I hated every PC I used until probably XP. I bought several fully loaded PCs, but kept going back to the a3000 and a4000 for ages and loaded FreeBSD or Linux on the PCs.

I remember getting some program for both platforms - Superbase maybe, I forget. Something big and businessy. On the Ami it was 2 floppies. On the Win version it was around 20 floppies. The Ami version had a couple more features and lacked none.

Yet the PC and windows won. Funny old world.
Just thinking out loud here, but I'm wondering if using integer linear programming (e.g. branch and bound) to introduce constraints to the decision-making part of the engine might reduce the amount of fees the author incurred.
>I've been fortunate, I suppose, to work for generally decent employers

Perhaps you've worked for employers when they could afford to be decent - which is not quite the same thing.

Being fired for being too expensive is a very real thing. Ask anyone laid off by IBM recently, or who was put on a PIP and fired for non-performance a few months before qualifying for retirement and a company pension payout.

Tangentially, talk of non-productive employees always reminds me of this:

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/DEC/dec.be...
About - part of the text is not easy to read since it is over your face and your blue sweater.

My skills - what is "88% programming" ? Why 88% and not 92% or 84%?

General - takes forever to load.
I can relate.

I went on a fitness binge a bit back. These days I can run a 10k in 45 minutes pretty easily, hit very good lifts for my weight class, and eat salads basically every single meal.

After work and after the gym, all I want to do is drink or anything similar to get rid of all the thoughts in my head about how pointless it all is. Why the hell do I care if I can do all that crap.

I feel like how others do. I work 60-70 hours a week because work is the only thing that keeps me away from more depressive thoughts. I don't enjoy doing anything. I've tried going on vacations, hiking, all the things people say young people should do.

All it ever does is make me more depressed that I don't enjoy these things at all, especially since I'm in my early 20s. I've tried doing hacking with Arduino and Raspberry Pi's because I'm supopsed to enjoy that, but no matter what, I don't care because it all seems like junk. I don't care about that shit at all.

I sold a majority of my stuff, and the majority of my possessions fits into a single SUV. No permanent furniture, nothing that costs more than a grand.

Owning stuff brings me no joy, so why even bother having it around.
This often happens accidentally.
That is pretty funny. Clearly you could search for every profile that had a picture from a stock photo on it and turn up a bunch of fakes.
That's quite a feat, releasing something based on FreeBSD 10.3 before the release of FreeBSD 10.3. :)
Great idea, would be nice to explain how pricing and teleportation between servers works on the landing page.
So let's ignore the troubling implications of your use of 'riff-raff' for the moment and assume that your basic premise is true: restricting development keeps out certain people.

The more more development restrictions there are, the more people will be kept out. At a certain point, the people who are kept out are will include people who you wouldn't otherwise want to keep out, however, you define that. And this doesn't have to be a result of increasing the restrictions on development. For example if there are more 'desirable' people who want to move to the area than there are available houses/new developments, then some of the desirable people will be forced out.

Of course, there's also the major untrue assumption that you make that the only way to maintain open space and desirability is to restrict development. Higher density infill housing doesn't intrude on the existing open space, sicne by definition it's slotting in between buildings in already developed areas. And of course, places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Paris, and New York City are proofs by existence that desirability and less restrictive development are not mutually exclusive.

But let's get back to 'riff-raff' and keeping that out. That's just racist and classist.
Blogspam of:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory...

(2014)
This is a pretty neat paper. It really highlights how much bullshit flows through the scientific paper industry.

"Publish or perish" is a bad metric, and it doesn't allow people to ask themselves if their results actually make sense in any realistic sense, but that they will be rewarded if they find some statistical correlation, no matter how inappropriately stupid.

Those four guys must have giant balls for publishing this.
I refuse to have a resume that is more than the front of one piece of paper. I generally get complimented on it. When I add something new, it means something else comes off. I can update it in about 5 minutes if I need to, which is rare, because who uses resumes anymore? They are ridiculous.

The jobs that ask for a resume are the same ones I don't ever want to have again.
Opera was my favorite web browser back when they used Presto and they had a social network (My Opera). Now Opera is more or less just a Chromium skin.

R.I.P. Opera
And that may be one of the big cultural difference between the US and my country.
Here the generally shared idea is that people are citizens of the republic first, before anything else. Such a comment from a politician would elicit a terrible uproar.

That being said, anything can be part of your identity, you can define yourself as punk rock if you want. What I mean and thought you understood is the difference between what is intrinsically you and not. Yes of course, to many, religion is important like veganism can be. But it remain a mere choice to keep it that way.

Apostasy is always a possibility and that makes it different in a way that equating both kinds of identities is lessening the damages one sustains when attacked on a fundamental part of its person-hood. If your race is criticized, that's an attack on your humanity. If someone criticize your belief system : meh none is challenged otherwise than on a thought level.
Rap Genius was originally called RapExegesis.com. Then they made a public post asking for better company name ideas-
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19/high-stakes-pl-nl/ot-he...

I always thought this was fascinating and makes me think of the implications of happenstance. A company called Genius whose first domain had the word rape in it, which was promoted by a poker player who once created his own personal TV commercial and ran it via Google TV ads-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocekqhrmPNo

But give them $20 million and say they are pioneers in a general space that's decades old, and suddenly Genius is pioneering annotations and redefining fair use.
100K a year I could certainly find a place to live in Santa Clara County if I'm single. Many, many people make do with less, and being single and making high five figures should not be a problem to finding housing (and it doesn't have to be out in fucking Gilroy either). Its not as if San Jose to Menlo Park is the worst commute in the world either.
And if you're below 150k? Well, obviously paupers need not apply.
> If you get rid of advertising, you slow down the economy.

I can agree with that, but I wonder how much it matters, in different scenarios. For example, if instead of hiring someone to cut my lawn (increasing GDP), I cut my lawn myself. Since GDP is lower, is the world therefore a worse place than it might have been?
Ideology is the lenses through which we decide what the problems are and how we can evaluate the solutions. It's meaningless to say that a solution is better than another; it just has different tradeoffs. Ideology is what gives weights to those tradeoffs and makes the choice meaningful.

People who say we should just ignore ideology and "choose what works" are just passing off - consciously or not - their own ideology as the 'natural' state, which doesn't really exist.
Despite the fact that people like baristas make much, much less money than a lot of public servants.
Free people control the influence of money on their world.

Those free people will last all of about five minutes against an organized armed force raised up by someone who doesn't care about idealism but does come in at the beginning of your system with plenty of resources.

Sitting around the campfire singing songs about the dignity of trading labor for money is incompatible with reality.
http://vncroulette.com/index.php?picture=87

"Please secure your VNC!"

EDIT: Also:
http://vncroulette.com/index.php?picture=270

"Upgrade your VNC Server license in order to benefit from premium security features ..."
"An anonymous user has connected. Number of connected users: 1"
Why the Apple IIgs was better than the first Macintosh
Agree that it's simultaneously fascinating and alarming.

Does anyone know what exactly this is?: http://vncroulette.com/images/176.64.166.110.jpg
As a hard of hearing aspiring software developer, this would be a godsend for me if someone came up with a reliable automated transcription service. I'm often dismayed by the amount of valuable information locked in podcasts and non-transcribed videos and have to rely on goodwill of volunteers to give me transcripts.

Pycon did a admirable effort to live caption their talks last year but some of those transcripts never got uploaded along with the talks which is puzzling, but I suppose it could be due to lack of timecodes.

I've subbed to your blog and hopefully I can contribute whatever I can to make this work out.
> I may see what you're saying now.

To make sure that you do: It's obvious that you recognise the difficulty of creating a trustworthy compiler. Given that you have that information, it's rather disappointing that you chose to assert that this problem was being "ignor[ed] because it's not a fad yet".

> The problem is that this problem isnt solved in a vacuum...

That's one problem. Another problem is that the skills, competencies, and interests of one programmer differ (sometimes wildly) from that of another programmer.

Asserting that a randomly selected programmer isn't tackling the Verified Compiler problem just because it's not currently in vogue will likely be wrong as often as asserting that a randomly selected native Korean speaker doesn't also speak Greek because speaking Greek isn't currently in vogue.
Got two kids and their mum been playing MCPE all day on mobile devices. I can hear her yelling instructions to her army of builders/warriors as I write. I put together a VPS instance with PocketMine (followed by ImagicalMine, a fork) for them but with no mob ai and lots of other problems it didn't hold their interest compared with playing on the local network.

It is a pity that the mobile version isn't more open so third party servers can support it. The family might enjoy something like this but I would never get them lugging a laptop around and driving minecraft with a mouse and keyboard.
"When the economy requires more consumption than is needed for its members to sustain a healthy lifestyle"

I'm not just pretending, I genuinely don't understand what that means. It kind of sounds like you think consumption beyond bare sustenance is bad and needs to be checked somehow? If I'm understanding correctly, then I disagree with you.
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I agree with what you've said here: inventing things that are actually new is difficult and the people that don't invent things that are actually new shouldn't be rewarded. Patent trolls are a thing, and people patenting boring junk is also a thing. The things is, saying things like "only execution matters" goes too far in the other direction, and, like you said, cuts out research labs and similar endeavors.
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As spiritual being maybe but not as human being, that is technically wrong. Your race is intrinsically you and being derogatory to it is lessening you as a fellow human.

Since that even in the most fundamentalist country, the most devout person has technically the possibility to personally wake up and change his mind (apostasy), religion is fundamentally an other, lesser kind of identity. As being vegan.

Giving religions more respect than they deserve is wrong and extremely dangerous. See Salman Rushdy and Charly Hebdo to see what this kind of thinking leads to.
Public servants have a union to protect them.

Hold your pity until Facebook's own programmers can't afford to live in the area.

Meanwhile, Zuck buys up the surrounding houses for a "buffer zone." How tone-deaf can you get?
I think that's the path of many companies. They have something good going but they are so overvalued that they have to grow at a much faster rate than their current market allows and so have find other ways to make money. Which in turn then often destroys their once good first product. I bet that will happen to Facebook and Google too. They better come up with something new to keep their growth going but it's really hard to find a market of the necessary size.
"The Next Big Thing" is never the next big thing.

"The Next Big Thing" is always something obvious, like Smell-O-Vision, and people try it over and over, because obviously it would be a big thing if you got it to work, and then nobody cares or they actively dislike it.

Then something absolutely 'stupid' comes along and everybody uses it every day. Nobody gives a shit about the ability to do video chats on your phone (which nearly everyone-and-also-even-old-people have today, and people have been dreaming about for nearly 100 years), but they constantly use the ability to send tiny emails from your phone to other phones only (SMS), or the ability to post those tiny emails on a web page other people can subscribe to the updates of (Twitter).
I have to ask, how does one come across such open servers? Do you just try common ports on random IP addresses until you find one that works?
Interesting, the examples don't use JSX syntax. I wonder, does this make it easier to work with TypeScript, or do they have some other reasoning for not using JSX?
> If you get rid of advertising, you slow down the economy.

I still don't understand why a slower economy is a bad thing. Poverty and starvation is definitely a bad thing, climate change is definitely a bad thing, but a slow economy?
Woz nailed it.

Also, nevermind the bands for a moment. I had a digital Timex watch in the 1980s that was more responsive than the iWatch. Form eclipses function now. That wasn't a thing that happened in his day.

Back then, when you got an Apple ][+, you got schematics, port assignments, ROM and DOS listings. It was truly your computer, and no piece of it would ever need be a mystery. It was a computer that made love to developers.

Look at how OSX is developed now. It's getting iOSified. It's not open source. You can find random processes firing up on it like Wifi_Agent or kernel_task that take meaningful chunks of CPU time, but they don't really give you the tools to easily analyze what's going on anymore. The firmware, OS, and hardware have become opaque.

That was all Steve Jobs' influence. That and the iPhone.

I got rid of my phone years ago. It's annoying. I use my computer for communication. I am a developer, but Apple doesn't give much of a hoot about us. The Mac App Store is dead. XCode is really unpleasant. Whatever they're doing in VR now, they're not playing well with others.

I would like to think if Wozniak were running the show, that he just wouldn't have allowed things to head this developer- and computer-hostile direction.
What's the opportunity cost? If the contractors would have been sitting on their hands, then the 35% argument rings true.

If they would have had taxable earning anyway, it doesn't matter.

(Of course, that's from a purely economic point of view. We are talking about politics here.)
Being a barista tends to be much more transient of a job than being a teacher or other public servant - which have traditionally spanned one's entire working career. Seniority is rewarded, and career switching is often limited.
The original title is a lot more descriptive:

"Microsoft re-releases KB 3035583 Get Windows 10 installer -- again"

(MS has defeated existing user blocks against this update)
Someday soon the helicopter will be grounded and replaced by cheaper drones. Then the drones will be replaced by autonomous creeping and flying swarms of autonomous artificial insects. Then the police themselves are replaced by robot officers. Then people are replaced by robot people. Now crime is programmed out of the people. Easy.
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You are talking about a profession, at least in urban environments, there is serious personal safety risk. I have a close friend who is "retired due to injury" from one bay area municipal service. Not only did he work at Cal Fire and other dangerous places, but this particular bay area city as well.

I think California f'd up by continually raising pension obligations in the good times (signing contracts to such) without thinking about the lean years -- this happened a lot pre-dotcom bubble in 2000.

I don't think first responders shouldn't get their earned pension.

I do, however, take issue with, say an administrator (say fire chief) retiring from one jurisdiction and then taking up a job in a second and getting a paycheck and a pension, or ultimately two pensions. This scenario is an issue.
Can you talk more about how your product works? For instance this reminds me of an Internap product:

http://www.internap.com/network-services/miro-controller/

Their strategy I believe was that if you were optimizing for latency(as opposed to price if you had multiple transit providers), was that it would do traceroutes out to your TOP 100 destination AS and find the AS path with the lowest latency and set the route preference within your AS to prefer a certain transit provider outbound.

How does your product work given that you don't have any control or interaction with the AWS AS?
It's very easy to criticize them, they should have done X, or why didn't they think of Y, but people are not seeing the big picture here.
You should go talk to someone professional about all this. It'll definitely be helpful
Why do we always have only extreme choices? All these approaches can work if you continue improving on things that don't work. It's like having only C++, PHP or JavaScript as choices for your system. They all can work but you have to do them right. They also can be a complete mess if you do them wrong.
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There is definitely some (currently poorly explored and undefined as far as my efforts to locate scholarly research went) Tsiolkovsky rocket equation-like [1] effect going on with land pricing on a PPP basis. I, too, have been stymied by the "just so" pat answers economics gives to the questions you raised, and the entire field ducks reflexivity and quantification issues, even when modern Internet-driven tools and data are available to start empirically addressing the questions with potentially trillions of data points each week to mine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
Wow, Ben Shneiderman looks so young in that photo. He's still hard at work making computers easier for people to use, and he just published a major update to his classic book, "Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction", which just went to the printers and will be available on April 26. [1]

I enjoyed working with him at the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab, and the experience deeply influenced everything I've done since.

Ben is the human who suggested the field be called "Human Computer Interaction" instead of "Computer Human Interaction", to put humans first.

He defined the term Direct Manipulation [2] as:

1) continuous representation of the objects and actions,

2) rapid, incremental, and reversible actions, and

3) physical actions and gestures to replace typed commands.

He also came up with the blue underlined hypertext link, as well as embedded graphical links [3] for the "HyperTIES" system [4].

Here's a paper I published when I was at HCIL, about a visual PostScript programming environment that featured "direct stack manipulation": "The Shape of PSIBER Space - October 1989". [5]

Ben's an avid photographer, and has published this photo history of SIGCHI conferences. [6]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Designing-User-Interface-Human-Compute...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_manipulation_interface

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZi4gUjaGAM

[4] http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/

[5] http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/97

[6] http://www.sigchi.org/photohistory/lib_viewer.jsp?lib=chi
For those who havn't seen Dan's talks before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cWck_xcH64
There may be no upper bound on the absolute amount of available resources, but there is still a limit on how fast you can expand.

Consider the following maximal example: If all of Earth's resources are exhausted (whatever that means, I don't rely on any exact definition), we need to head outwards into space. Because our expansion is limited by the speed of light, we can at most cover a distance

r(t) = c * t

and thus a volume of space

V(t) = (c * t)^3

where t is the time spent travelling through space. The amount of available resources (assuming an even distribution of resources on the scale of the universe) is proportional to V, and thus to t^3.

Cubic growth is much much much much less than exponential growth. In fact, the exponential function can be shown to grow faster than any power function.
Ah, the risk reduction strategy of never trying hard things. I had a roommate who had a 4.0 GPA doing the same thing; if a class looked like too much effort, he'd drop it. And then because he had a 4.0, the deans would give him permission to enroll in "overload" classes.

It's not a bad way to live, but a few career coaches I've heard talk on the matter suggest that managing a team through a corporate downturn is valuable experience for climbing up the ladders.
There are only 4 billion IPV4 addresses. Just iterate port 5900 until you get a response, bam, VNC server.
Yes, about 19% (dropping though)

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=total+chinese+populati...
Is that's the future of documentary and storytelling?
Shodan.io is pretty good index of open ports on the internet
Statistical quality control. Edward W. Deming or a name very like that. The US and Britain made vast strides in quality engineering during WW2 and then ignored it. The Japanese got religious about it.
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