skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks again for the thoughtful and kind reply. Your dignified response is again a reminder of the crassness of my initial comment and the embarrassment I feel towards having made it.

I completely understand your unease with sharing such personal detail, I myself tried to make my post intentionally vague which results in much less valuable substance than what you have shared. Your experience is powerful and well told and although different in terms of the source of our childhood misery, I drew parallels with my own. I understand if you decide to delete it however.

I'm rather new to HN and wasn't aware of a comment length limit either, thanks for pointing it out.

I'm glad to hear that you and your father have made peace.

I look forward to reading your subsequent comments, and in particular I look forward to the next time we might disagree. I assure you I will put more care into crafting my response as I greatly value having someone who can challenge my views, even if that only serves in them being strengthened.

Enjoy the rest of your night.
IE4 brought a shell upgrade to Win95 (new desktop, taskbar and explorer) for free, then it is looks and behaves like Win98 (except for the default USB support, only Win98 SE was better than Win95 of all Win9x releases).
tbh I don't like the choice but I consider Gordon-Levitt a good actor. I don't have high hopes but I have to say that is unfair to judge an actor by a trailer.
Do the prices include tax?
This reminds me a lot of BLDGBLG's post about Die Hard's architecture[1], especially this line:

his dream house included a maze of trap-doors and what
Sergeant Scheimreif called “escape holes.” It was everything
he seemed to want a building to be—with near-infinite ways
of getting from one room to another and no upper limit on
the places he could hide.

This stuff is a weird obsession of mine, probably stemming from being a skateboarder for my whole life. Eventually, you realize that all space is something you can rearrange.

[1] http://www.bldgblog.com/2010/01/nakatomi-space/
But you'd have to know what it does for all possible states.

Not impossible but non-trivial.

They are the kind of people that could have an ASIC ground down and reverse engineered. Non-trivial.

They have extremely skilled engineers and lots of money.
Oliver Stone also like to make every movie about Vietnam, and how the government lies and manipulates. Even his movies that apparently aren't about Vietnam reflect his Vietnam experience.
Ask HN: How much discretion do Amazon managers have in focal salary reviews?
I'm transferring to another team at AWS, and I think my manager artificially depressed my salary adjustment. I received what I thought was a high rating (exceeds/solid strengths) but got no stock and less than a 1% raise. I thought salary adjustments were determined as a function of your ranking, but maybe this isn't true in all cases?

My manager refused to hold a one-on-one or compensation review meeting with me after I told him about the transfer, so I'm reduced to asking strangers on the internet if this is normal. Any input would be appreciated!
+1 for Elixir, it was very easy to dive in the codebase and to start contributing even for somebody with limited Elixir/Erlang exp
Type inference is inferring a type where none has been specified explicitly.

There are certainly more or less advanced forms of it, but solving systems of type equations is not the definition of type inference.
The conclusion seems to undermine the whole piece. If the changes were made to help mobile uses then great, I almost always use it on mobile, and apparently so do the majority of users.

He poses the question of which map you'd want when lost. A mobile phone with Google Maps is clearly the right answer.
The vast majority of lawyers don't make such salaries. People actually have desires to be public defenders, for example, and they definitely aren't paid well. I'm not sure prosecuting attourneys are either. I'm going to assume divorce lawyers get a bit more. Some of the better civil attorneys won't take a case that doesn't have a good enough payout, but the ones helping the cases just above the line probably aren't doing well either and are completely dependant on whether enough people that can afford their services would sue. I doubt bankruptcy attourneys get paid nearly so much either.

The entire system is unfair. Amount of education or amount of work means nothing. It is basically tied not only to the field of study (teachers and engineers can have the same education, yet get wildy different monetary opportunities), but whether or not you get lucky and live in the right area.
It is by the same author, Geoff Manaugh.

I find his writings work best in collection, e.g. if you read a lot of BLDGBLOG. In the individual pieces the meta-level ideas are kind of strange, if you read more and find the same aspects over and over again it makes more sense.
In these days, a proper API would have been a .sys driver loaded in config.sys, or a TSR (terminate but stay resident) program leaving some routines in memory, hooking a software interrupt as the entry point.

The (even then) ancient laboratory equipment I used in the 2000s, and often moved to more modern machines, never did this. It was all monolithic applications directly talking to parallel ports (port read/write to 0x378) or to memory mapped on the ISA bus. On the other hand, most stuff came with schematics, and from this most of the logic (short of a few PALs with blindingly obvious functionality) could be deduced. It all was quite simple stuff.

But as long as hardware is still available (as are the Compaq computers in the article) investing the time isn't worth it. Would I have to do this today, I'd probably run the applications in DOSbox, add a emulation of the old hardware to the emulator, and pass the commands via USB or Network to a FTDI USB to something chip. Or to a BeagleBone/Raspberry/... with its GPIOs connected to the real hardware (mind the 5V levels).

Unrelated to software running on old PCs, here's a guy who replaces the old CPU in the lab equipment with an embedded board running an emulated version of the original software:

http://www.jks.com/5370/5370.html
On CoreOS the integration is buggy. One cannot start a long running process from sshd as when one logs out, all processes started from sshd are killed.

One can workaround that using systemd-run utility to start long-running operation, but that is a privileged operation. Besides, it violates one of the premises of socket activation that it should be completely transparent.
Sounds like http://nim-lang.org/ . Just simplifying syntax is not a great idea for a system programming language though.
Given they are widely considered to never have really worked, and they almost bankrupted AM, I suspect he may have just re-engineered them somewhat.
> I don't think DNS is P2P in the sense that all actors in the system are homogenous and equipotent. ... DNS is a more of a hierarchical system, where the roots are at the center, and they delegate trust and responsibility as necessary.

So, on the one hand I see where you're coming from and your comments are totally valid.

On the other hand, there is no actual centralized authority to which one must appeal to to get data into DNS. Want to have porn site blocking? OpenDNS has you covered! [0] Want to attach Namecoin's .bit TLD into your DNS tree? That's available on my LAN and -when last I checked- through a few Internet-accessible DNS servers. Ad/malvertizing blocking for every client attached to your network? Again, just point to (or stand up) a DNS server that's appropriately configured.

In DNS, the "edges" have just as much power as the nodes in the "center", but their sphere of influence is often much smaller.

[0] https://support.opendns.com/entries/46060260-FamilyShield-Ro...
Decentralized naming is an interesting problem.

There are several problems with this design though:

1) Cheap, permanent domain squatting is possible

2) Legitimate domain owners can't recover from key loss

3) Onerous storage requirements for every node
>What sort of work can I do from home?

I'm not a doctor, but I know that actually getting out of the house on a regular basis is helpful when tackling depression. Any excuse that lets you stay inside all day is likely going to hurt your recovery.
The bash scripts invoke programs and wrapper programs. It's a bit ridiculous to say that she'll scripting is the only thing that operates startup of services in a system.

It's not like new services and startup programs aren't constantly being introduced - so whilst the old scripts were pretty steady, new ones weren't always foolproof.

I'm not adverse to SysV and rc scripts, but they were never the panacea that some grey-beards make out. Dependency orders and parallelisation are particularly difficult, but it could be argued the scripts give control during the boot process.

I think in practice, it's fairly rate that the scripts were really needed - certainly systemd's more declarative nature for a problem that naturally lends itself to a dependency structure that has a directed acyclic graph seems like it's quite an effective an elegant approach!

Aside from the reasonable daemon-arguments issue you raise in the other comment (I just read this, interesting observation!) I really feel that systemd largely eliminates huge quantities of shell scripting in the startup process!

I've been wondering what scenarios there are that would require scripting. I thought that perhaps a more complex setup might be that a service needs to wait on two or three processes before starting, in which case a child can have multiple parents? Can systemd handle that?
Can you explain your use case here? Normal Google search is great for finding the name of films you can't remember by typing vague descriptions of the plot. Maps has similar functionality, like "local coffeeshops" or "<business> in <city>".
ReactOS is pretty tiny, and consumes just little more memory than Win95. It's one of the less bloated NT series OS, only comparable with NT 3.x series in the memory foot print.
The World's Most Ingenious Thief
Imagine their service fees for a car with a present day market value of $13 million
Holocaust project focuses on what Americans knew and when
Yeah, but that's one hundred installations worth $10M+ each. It's worth being in the business of supporting them when repair bills can top one million dollars.

http://jalopnik.com/5982805/rowan-mr-bean-atkinsons-insuranc...
Google Map's directions doesn't work between postal codes in the UK, unless you specify the space. And it hasn't worked for about a year. I must say, I find Google Maps quite difficult to use.
I have no doubt other universities offer this, but see if you can join a Universities library, for access to the papers?
There's no contact information in your profile, so can't pm you. What kind of programming work are you looking for ?
The trickery with docker is that it does not support passing sockets over its HTTP based client-server protocol. But one can still receive a socket from a named pipe.
Reminded me more of H. H. Holmes' Murder Castle

Some victims were taken to one of the rooms on the second floor, called the "secret hanging chamber", where Holmes hanged them. Other victims were locked in a huge soundproof bank vault near his office, where they were left to suffocate. There was also a secret room that was completely sealed by solid brick that could only be entered through a trapdoor in the ceiling; Holmes would lock his victims in this room for days to die of hunger and thirst.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes
Made in America isn't really an important scaleable value. For American customers it plays on their patriotism. For overseas customers it plays on the perceived quality of American products. In both cases, it's just marketing trickery to make people like them.
> If links to documentation are not in the code, they might as well be nonexistent.

Yeesh. I must either be getting old, or everyone is significantly more busy than I am. I find that I always have time to at least locate any official documentation for the thing that I'm working with.
Also payload to Pluto: 2,900kg

http://www.spacex.com/falcon-heavy
I'm still genuinely confused as to why Apple hasn't been slammed with antitrust on multiple fronts. You can ignore the whole App Store fiasco and still come up with several other anti-competitive and anti-consumer practices: as a paying Winamp customer, I can't access the iPhone. This isn't a silly little issue like a browser and they get away with it consistently.
Yes, apart from the coincidental sharing a name with Elon Musk's car company, a moderate amount of magnetic field strength is an odd thing to care about putting into orbit.

I think it's just some poor, ad-hoc made-up notation. I have a little bit of sympathy with Te (occasionally pronounced 'tunny') to distinguish ton from tonne, but really if you want other people to understand your units you have to go with what the BIPM recommend.
He explains about EnvironmentFile in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1082#issuecomment-...

The Environment= thing I haven't seen any official comment about its recommended-ness but it has some quirks in syntax so it needs pretty rigorous testing before being used for anything that might have values that need to be quoted/escaped.
This is already possible for ECC RAM:

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

So even an application can recover from unrecoverable ECC errors.

But it's not feasible to solve this in applications, since there are many scenarios where such storage should simply be transparent.
Sorry for being picky, but is there any context where the word "bespoke" provides more information than "custom"?
I'm a bit surprise that no one actually mention rust programming language codebase.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust
Do you seriously think virtualisation was a thing in the 1980s when the B-2 was being designed and built? It wasn't even a thing when the F-35 was being designed and initially built.

It will be single-threaded apps running natively and talking directly to various bus adapters.

The most advanced processor available to them was a M68020, maybe. Multi-tasking was still hard, Linux and Windows 3.0 were still a decade away when the systems engineers were designing the B-2.

And that's assuming they were able to change the hardware platform in the 1980s - the designs would have been drawn up in the 1970s.

There is absolutely no way on Earth that anybody would have thought "what we need here is a VM". I'd be amazed if it even had a Hardware Abstraction Layer, and that had a bit of historical form, albeit not in real-time operating systems yet.
I don't really see how different it is from a normal retailer situation. If you have a small store, sell someone a fridge, then 6 months later go under, and the fridge breaks down and can't be repaired in 11 months, the customer is still within the rights to ask you for a full refund(at least in the EU). It doesn't matter if you are doing well or not - as a business, you should plan for these situations.

The problem here is, that I don't think Apple says anywhere that they can issue refunds for your products 18(!!!!) months after purchase! normal refund time is 90 days.
You're right, I'm a silly backwards hick from Lawrence that warrants only mockery and spite. That said, whatever you insist I'm not an absolutist. I don't think that all weapons-limiting laws should be repealed (e.g. explosive devices), but you continue to insist on your own absolutist approach, that we have zero gun ownership rights and insist we work from your side of the equation. Do you see the duality here?

I don't know why you keep insisting I propose some nebulous "reasonable compromise" so you can batter down that strawman, I'm hardly the average "NRA type". If, however, that's what it takes for you to engage in civil discourse I'll again point out hga's list above.

Take, for example, nationwide reciprocity - this could actually further your apparent goal of universal registration and background checks, but appears to acknowledge some right to gun ownership which you also appear to vehemently oppose. "Shall issue" also falls into this category.

Allowing new machine guns is also inherently palatable to universal registration and background checks. Those weapons already require stringent registration and checks, and allowing manufacture of new ones would not change that, it would just stop artificially limiting the pool and accordingly the price. Long guns are already a minuscule part of crime rates and increasing the market without changing the registration requirements would not likely change the crime rate.

Repealing silly state-level ankle-biting laws regarding mostly cosmetic features that make it more dangerous for the law-abiding to keep and bear arms would have a positive effect on national standardization, which could also lead to an improved case for universal registration.

Reforming the BATFE would go a long way toward not continuing to alienate the gun-owning public with arcane, cryptic rules that place one at the risk of felony for simple acts, and would again be easy to align to a case for registration and checks. Streamline, simplify, control.

What do _you_ view as a "reasonable compromise"? This entire conversation has been one-sided, I've formed and expressed opinions, attempted to discuss what you wish to discuss, and you keep moving the goalposts. Seriously, let's get on with discussion of successful gun control in other countries. I've actually been seriously considering moving to a Scandinavian country and have, of course, been carefully reviewing the relevant statistics and requirements. I'd actually be able to take most of my guns.

Finally, ignore my assertions of what I think registration and checks are about. Tell me what they're about - how will they benefit us, what is the expected result, and so on? What's great about them? Why should we take another step toward the "you have zero rights" end of the spectrum?
In my opinion, only as a dad joke referring to some custom bike spokes.
If there is one guiding philosophy that C++ has it's abstraction without runtime cost.

The (implied) corollary is that compile time cost, mental cost and social cost of language features do not matter.

As long as there is at least one person on the planet who really understands the ins and outs of a language feature, that is sufficient proof of the language being simple enough. There is no need for anyone to understand the entire language.
The Quaint programming language:

https://github.com/bbu/quaint-lang

I think the strengths of the C code are: straightforward algorithms without many nonsensical abstraction layers, consistent and clean formatting, sane usage of the preprocessor.
Custom implies customised - a standard product which is modified.

Bespoke implies, especially around tailoring, something created from scratch.
Linux cgroups v2
I happen to be an HNer that has been on the Oracle developer list since the late 90's.

I am yet to see a FOSS SQL database to match Oracle's tooling for database programming. The only ones I had similar good experience are with Microsoft and Informix (before it was acquired by IBM) databases.
I'm sure that those opposed to gay marriage and abortion are hoping the court will change and support more limited historical views as well, but the court's recent substantive due process decisions have taken a flexible view of history and generally moved towards ensuring more freedom, not less. "Deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition" doesn't meen what it used to.
Well, those are kinda tied together in the fact that you need to "know what to Google".
I have cupcake #40 with the wooden pulleys for belts. It was an incredibly fun project, assembling, soldering, general fuzing around to keep the thing working. It requires probably 2 hours of fiddling for each hour of printing. It felt momentous because it kind of was, me and perhaps a hundred other people toiling away, bringing the future to reality.

i'm sad to see the state they're in. I hope, dearly hope, that that spirit of the year or so i spent caring for my cupcake is how humanity ends up, at least for some of humanity. building kits, patching code, struggling with the odd issue. It really felt like pushing the frontier of the human experience. we can't all expand the frontier of theoretical knowledge, but we can all push a frontier. It's a lovely place to be.

Sitting in my basement week after week, heck, month after month trying to get a good sequence of prints, that was a great time in my life. I don't think much will come of 3d printing of abs plastic. Super customized shapes are just not that interesting. Perhaps VR will simplify the design process, which i kind of hated.

At the start, right at the beginning of makerbot, they were wonderful.
The '020 was Popek-Goldberg compliant at least! Good chip.
This page has download 20MB of content in about 20 seconds. Despite having a top of the range iMac, I can barely scroll the page without lag.
That's very neat. Could you email me (eg press@conlang.org) so we can collaborate / keep updated?
This is crazy. I'm not in the App Store, how does this kind of refund even work? Surely the money had already been transferred to the developer's bank account.

Does Apple bill the developer for the value of the refund? Charge their credit card? Do they withhold future sales for that value?
Interesting stuff, especially the part about knives. I wouldn't have guessed that 12% of murders were caused by knives. But, probably that's because I can only think of one local knife murder but countless gun murders.

I had to go back through the thread to see who used the word 'design' first, and it was actually me. But, given that I don't have an argument against guns, I'm confused. Is the design perspective one that's frequently used by gun regulation advocates? I used it only because when I thought of the question, 'for what purpose are guns manufactured?', 'killing' was the first thing that came to mind. Actually, now that I think of it, I'm surprised that the gun industry doesn't seem do anything to change people's perceptions of guns. They'd probably have a huge impact with a moderate campaign to soften the image of guns.

Also, it may be interesting for you or other readers to know that as a 3rd-party observer, I didn't feel an emotional response to the parent's point. To me, it seemed like a rational argument. On the other hand, your comment actually gave me a very strong negative emotional response. So, if the goal is to convince people like me to side with guns, you may want to alter your approach. Again, it could be extremely effective to your cause to soften the image of guns and gun owners. Personally (as someone who even grew up with guns), guns scare me, and strong gun advocates scare me even more. Where I live, the gun advocates display a very aggressive and dangerous image - from their vehicles, to their clothing and appearance, to their mannerisms and rhetorical approach. Softening that up would probably have a huge impact.
Isn’t it more a problem of having algorithms do what used to be done by humans?

I.e. when you look at a Google map it is using the latest GIS data to construct a “good” representation for your screen resolution using your specified zoom factor and possibly even with dynamic overlays or highlights.

Likewise, when you read an e-book you can read it on many different display sizes, pick your own font, and font size. So where we used to have the book typeset once by a person, it is now done on-the-fly using user and device specific parameters.

The result won’t be as good as when you have a human do it, and even when a human does it, there might be limitations in the e-book markup language, just like with HTML.