skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used OS/2 for some years in the 1980s and 1990s. I really liked KEdit, Rexx, and PL/I, although PL/I did need collection classes as a data structure supported by the language.

I was always frustrated at IBM's lack of vision for, and work on, OS/2. When finally I couldn't get an OS/2 device driver for an Ethernet card, I changed over to Windows 2000, Windows ..., etc. and have never looked back at OS/2.

I still use KEdit and Rexx, love both, except now use them on Windows.

I still remember the remark by an IBM CEO, likely Gerstner, that "I'm not going to drop $1 billion in another desktop operating system for an Intel processor.". Okay, Lou. You just gave away all the billions of dollars Microsoft has made with Windows since your remark.

When you said that, Lou, OS/2 and nearly all of the rest of IBM were ahead. On OS/2, you had the Mach kernel, SMP, DB/2, SNA, token ring, TCP/IP, TCP/IP on a chip, were making the chips for both Cisco and Juniper, were able to make X86 chips, had the lead in fabs, etc. You had it all. You had V/Net, an early example of what networking could do in a company, indeed, the world, but were too dumb to sell it. You stayed with SNA long after it was clear that end to end TCP/IP was much better.

Then you threw it away. Threw it all away. Turned your back on the future of computing and walked away. Gee, you had Prodigy -- it could have been Facebook. You had a Web browser -- it could have been the dominant Web browser and had special integration with IBM Web servers, which you didn't really do. You could have had Windows Server and all of the Linux server business. You could have had all the relational database business.

At one point, you actually ran ALL of the Internet, the whole thing. You gave it up. How big of a mistake was that? You could have had all of SAP -- you were way ahead in some of the crucial work.

I know; I know: You were eager to respond to your major customers, give them what they insisted they wanted. They were all welcome to call except just don't call on a Wednesday because it ruined two weekends.

IBM after WinTel: Biggest determined extraction of miserable defeat from the jaws of magnificent victory in the history of, what, the universe?

Don't worry, Lou: Your record is safe. No one will ever make such a big mistake again!

From at least the Intel 386 chip, there has been a big need for a really good operating system for X86. From all I can see from Microsoft, there is still a big need/opportunity.
This is called "writing tests".
No, petroleum fuels still have a vastly higher energy density than batteries.
I just switched to Strava after using MyTracks for years. It's fine. Android.

I don't use an HRM yet, but I'm about to get one, and that'll be it unless I decide to get a cadence sensor.
I believe you're agreeing with me, but there seems to be some confusion.
Did you consider the Polar H7? Seems to get a lot of love and it's about the same price.
Jane Fawcett, British Decoder Who Helped Doom the Bismarck, Dies at 95
Marcus Comstedt?
Man you were one of the VMU dev/Dreamcast hacking guys from the Dreamcast scene. Use to follow your work.
Fuel for a typical 4-cyl trainer will be around 8 gph at < $5/gal. 40 * 8 * 5 is $1600. 5 extra hours of dual in a rented piston plane is going to run you more than half of that possible savings. The net savings will be several hundred dollars, pretty much a drop in the bucket for flying expenses.
Very interesting. But sadly the article mentions the same old line: not enough airline pilots. The truth is that the airlines are not willing to pay for airline pilots. That's how capitalism works. You want workers? You pay workers. Simple as that.
EDIT: Am I wrong? I took a taxation class, that's what I learned.

Nope, you're not wrong, I am. Sorry! It's definitely the case that in marginal cases it does go negative (it's hard to actually tell but it looks like the correct narrow income bracket AND a spouse and some kids, e.g. "normal" families++). Eyeballing it, it doesn't look like it could go more than a couple thousand $ negative in the most optimal circumstances, but not exactly sure.

I was familiar with the fact that EITC doesn't provide a credit if you don't have an income and narrows to zero with less income (and I've checked it out at both ends of the spectrum in a couple weird years), but not so much with its politics, which are surpluses for low-income-but-not-no-income families.

++ or at least how politicians like to pretend normal families look.
RSS is odd. Unloved by many, killed by Google, but there's still no better way of getting notified that a rarely (or perhaps not so rarely if you have endless time to read "internet stuff") updated site has something new to read. So I have an Android app which checks once per day and if there's anything new that day (I can go days or weeks without an update) I then pass it on to my Pocket account. Sometimes it goes another step further and I send it on to my Kindle.

Perhaps there's a better way of handling this. I can't read it directly on my Kindle because the browser there - optimistically described "experimental" - is shocking. Pocket is great because it does a good job of producing a page which consists of just the typing without the usual horrific web fluff (although sometimes it gets it wrong and the graphics go missing).

It seems a shame that, when most of what I'm interested in started life as someone else essentially entering text into a document, there's no way of obtaining it in that form but instead it has to be manipulated into something sensible. I don't want an "experience"; I just want to read what you've typed.

Would it help if I gave you my email address?
I believe php uses imagick under the hood, and even if it does not, I'd rather rely on imagick than on PHP code when accepting exotic formats.
You can only sign up with a Google G+ account? What a huge fail. That's unfortunate.
How do you integrate this with your existing API? Do you need to proxy requests through Hydra or do you just need to read and trust Hydra-signed tokens on every request? Is there any overlap with https://getkong.org/?
Should be no issue. Most people get transition training when starting to fly a new type. Carb vs fuel injection, normally aspirated vs turbo-normalized vs turbo-charged, use of flaps for max performance takeoffs, etc are all minor (but important) differences.

Minor nit: high performance is an endorsement, not a rating. (It's a CFI sign-off, not a checkride.)
Implementing complete secure communication solution is an hard topic. For now, signal and its axolotl protocol is considered by the community as the top secure communication project. Challenging signal and strong experienced developpers like Moxie will be very complicated (but not impossible ! ...working on defiance;-). It is impossible to claim that your app is the "the most secure" without providing source or documentation (or I did not find them). How community could review your project ... This is not credible, or maybe it is a joke ?
I have learned not to put much weight in Amazon reviews for technical literature. Borrow a copy of the books from a library (my city library actually had access to a digital version of Backhouse's latest book, and you could always Yarr! yourself a copy) and check them out, before shelling out the cash :)
Doorkeeper is closer to a full-package with customizable features, including a basic frontend. I'm not too familiar with hydra, but it seems Doorkeeper is best when you want to get the full OAuth app & user interface running (and customize later), whereas Hydra is best when you want to get a quick OAuth API app and build your own frontend. Would you say this is accurate?
Digestion is a red herring here. It's how the nutrients are turned to energy in the cells. And that's an oxidization, just like burning but more controlled.
Well put! - in my line of work it's a conflict between producing something impresses the majority, while at the same time prevents the minority from vomiting on the gear (touch-wood, hasn't happened yet).
Contrary to what the article says I think kids/people did read the instruction manuals back then. Some old games didn't have certain super moves mentioned in the game at all. That probably allowed UX design to be terrible in places.
New World Order (conspiracy theory)
No, he's agreeing with you.
It's very very very rarely the same IP.
So OS/2 had some advantages:

1. Desktop was far advanced to what Windows 3.1 had; full drag and drop that worked, apps/services could extend the desktop, etc.

2. Ability to run crashy Win16 and later Win32s programs separately from each other, each in their own protected memory space.

3. All this ran in 16-32 RAM. That is MB of RAM. 128MB for OS/2, which gives you a command line Linux environment or possibly a very constrained GUI, would be huge for an OS/2 install (at that time).

2 things IBM did not fix:

1. Cursor could be locked up for a while in certain cases (like the spinning rainbow on earlier OSX) - NT never had it because mouse ran in a seperate thread.

2. Microsoft ran rings around them PR-wise.
No problem. You'll notice as you go through the links that none are about verification of correctness. Rather, they are about "correct by construction".
Another issue is that fuel tanks get lighter as the conventional airplane flies. This increases cruise speed, shortens landing roll, decreases energy that needs to be dissipated in the event of a forced landing, allows trading off cabin payload vs fuel payload, and taking off at partial weight for better runway and initial climb performance. I can burn off over 1000# or 1/6 of the ramp weight and still be legal to land, and the airplane picks up 3-5 knots in cruise speed from max takeoff weight to landing with reserves weight.

Batteries are just as heavy at landing as they were at takeoff.

A reasonable rule of thumb is that fuel costs between 20 and 33% of the total cost of owning and operating the airplane. Battery tech won't materially change the total costs in my estimation/experience. It would be nice to get rid of TEL-doped fuel, but electric trainers are not going to make flying cheaper, especially when compared to a 60s/70s 150/152/172.
Ah, I did not know that; I assumed IllumOS had the same ZFS as Solaris since they share a common ancestor and ZFS was in Solaris when it became OpenSolaris.
I can't say anything to the power efficiency of solar cells, but I can see how they could be useful for when you're not flying. "Free" energy for when you're ready to fly if you don't fly the plan daily, but instead just fly on the weekends or such. In the middle of nowhere without fuel or electric hookup? Wait a few days and at leas the plane will have energy to fly out of there. I'm not saying that will be the case, but an interesting aspect of solar panels on wings.
It is of course different. Carbohydrates, protein and fat all undergo different metabolic pathways. Further down you are wondering why you might not have a high karma on this post. I think it's because what you have written conflates 2 issues (I suspect, though, that you aren't actually conflating them... just your writing is unclear).

500 calories from whatever source is 500 calories, when we are talking about energy. It is definitely possible for people to excrete excess calories, but if for example you are excreting a lot of fat, you will know about it. It is not pleasant. There are a fair number of people who are unfortunately misinformed and think that somehow they have super digestion for carbohydrates for example. They think they can extract 1000 calories from 500 calories of carbohydrates. This is impossible and it's why it's important to understand that from that standpoint a calorie is a calorie.

Of course nutritionally they are very different things. They are digested differently, at different speeds and metabolically burned in completely different ways. Different foods also have different nutrients and it is important to make sure that you get these nutrients. You can go an awfully long time without any symptoms being malnourished only to eventually come to a very serious problem.

So many people are (for lack of a better word) arrogant in their beliefs about nutrition. However, we still know very little about how our body works. Traditional diets have a long track history with many, many people. We have a good idea about potential nutritional problems and how to counteract them.

I was vegan for many years (although, strangely, not ethically vegan -- I just enjoy eating that kind of food). I have seen many invented diets cause serious problems and eventually I spent considerable effort to learn about traditional vegan diets. I'll caution you that the current attitude of "You can just cut out carbohydrates from your diet and be healthier" is unlikely to be true. Nutrition is complicated and can't be boiled down to something so simple. There are many shapes of diets that can be healthy but seemingly insignificant changes can take their toll on your long term health. Please exercise caution.
He was answering your "Is this a lesser concern..." question.
> no exposure to controls such as carb heat, fuel mixture, etc.

Right. None of which are relevant to turbine aircraft anyways, which is the majority of all planes in the sky.

It's relevant sure but the big things you learn in flight training are how to figure out where in the sky you are and should be, lift/drag stick and rudder stuff, and endless amounts of regulations.

The means of propulsion is important sure but it's a small minority of the info you absorb.
I thought Persona had kind of withered on the vine no?
Great point, I have definitely noticed this in my own family. The elders are not only against "wasting" money above the minimum required for sustenance, but they get openly and visibly angry about it when someone else does. For some reason, this particular issue crosses over from "well I wouldn't do it, but to each his own", to seeing it as a fundamentally immoral act. It surprised me in the beginning.

Personally I can't understand the logic. Who cares what species something is, it's just a question of level of consciousness. A dog is pretty much a 2 yr old child. Why have no concern for such a consciousness, whether it's an animal, android, human, or whatever.
I always wonder why they don't just order more from the factory and sell to the Chinese? (Or raise prices.)

Why don't they want to make more money?
As the developer of an RSS parser, I spend a lot of time hitting View Source, surprisingly often on pages that appear empty in Chrome.

In a more general sense than RSS, I also have to install extensions to format JSON. Considering how much browsers are targeting developers these days, might they consider rendering JSON, XML, etc in some standard way that is useful to developers (as an option at least). I am talking about syntax highlighting as well as some basic interactive features like expanding/collapsing.
Why would it have to be "extra"? ISTM they could just train as they do now, except that they would concentrate all the ICE issues in the five hours in which they're flying with ICE.
<The flags, if they still exist, are likely to be blank now anyway.>

Didn't at least one LRO photo show a clear shadow of a flag at one of the Apollo sites?
> not why popen is being used on the result of the interpretation.

I haven't read the source but I'm guessing that if HAVE_POPEN is undefined, this special argument interpretation is disabled, in which case it would just be two different ways of looking at the same thing.

> Also, why are pipes even being allowed in the file name in the first place?

The sibling comments are correct, but whether or not POSIX supports pipe characters in filenames is irrelevant for the issue at hand. ImageMagick is free to allow any kind of character in the arguments that it accepts. There is no POSIX/*nix magic that would ensure all arguments passed on the command line (or in the xlink:href attribute, as per the SVG example) are valid filenames.
Stupidly enough, that scandal was partially to blame on the government price caps on milk.

Farmers' inputs were getting more expensive but they were prevented from raising prices. So some farmers were more likely to resort to such poisonous fraud.

Of course, the foreign milk products they import these days are even more expensive.
I am agreeing. The "No" was in answer to your question "Is this a lesser concern..."
In 2016 having a fuel mixture in a plane makes me wonder why is that needed; not only that some popular engines (like Rotax 912 family) do not need it, but processor controlled injection engines definitely do not need it. Fuel mixture is so 1960 and carb heat so 1990... (I'm a pilot in my free time flying propeller driven 2 seaters).
i went to that site after reading your comment thinking how bad it could be. You are right, that has to be one of the poorly designed website i've ever been to.
The Chinese government capped prices of milk products in a bid to tame inflation.
I had to do the same when I first heard it, a sure sign that the metaphor fails, and most of the search results were pieces explaining what a terrible idea it is. Just searched again, yep, nearly all the first page is why you should never implement it, along with BK and a stack exchange "what's the lined menu icon called".

Better question, why not just stick with a GUI element that can be described succinctly? A gear perhaps.
There is so much glee and coverage around all this anti-drone tech. There's about 2Million of these drones out there [1]. Talking about spike strips and auto-blockades when there were just 2 Million cars out there in the early 1900's would've surely been considered counter-productive? And all the drone sightings seems so hyperbolic, and that's when they weren't "maybe plastic bags" [2]. Click-baiting is afoot methinks.

[1] http://dronelife.com/2015/04/16/drone-sales-numbers-nobody-k...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/21/drone-believed-to...
Serious question from someone who knows very little about planes. Do they seriously still have new carbuereuted planes? I can understand if it's a Cessna from the 50's, 60's, 70's, but I'm surprised they haven't been converted to EFI just from an efficiency and reliability stand point. Does that have to do with all the certification required for aircraft? (ie, if you change the engine, the aircraft has to go through another inspection by the FAA or whomever?)
Certainly artillery. Could a ground density measure have been made with 1800s tech? I think probably.
Well, the one reviewer said it was only a start toward a method for practical software with practical part maxing out at a sorting algorithm. Is that true or do you have examples of realistic stuff covered by book?
CO2 is but one of the products of the metabolism via oxygen. Water is another one.

The CO2 escapes, taking C out of the bread. The water (mostly) stays, adding extra O2 into the bread. I don't know which process has the bigger impact on weight of the dough, though. Especially as the dough also dries out over time.

Probably not very much impact, as you say.
Oh my goodness. I'd have never imagined Parallels started so a bank could run legacy OS/2 apps. Unreal lol.
Every new airplane type takes some type-specific instruction. True, it could count towards the FAA-minimum 40 hours, but almost no one takes a checkride with 40.0 hours in their logbook. I was a pretty dedicated student and at least a fair stick, and I was still in the 55-57 hour range when I took the checkride. Most people training at towered fields are in the 60-75 hour range at the ride.

Fuel isn't the dominant cost in flight training. (Source: I bought my first airplane during flight training and have been flying for almost 2 decades now. Fuel is more than a rounding error, but tends to run around 1/4 of my all-in costs.)
I've heard this argument a few times lately, though this is the first time I've heard it from someone claiming to be a liberal.

My question is this: What benefit is there to being tolerant of racists? It's not that we don't allow them on campus, it's that we don't allow them to spew their hatred and the things they think are facts, but are just racism.

I understand that diversity can bring different ways of looking at things, but how does someone who thinks that non-white people are inherently inferior add anything to the conversation, even if we manage to keep them from being hateful while they're on campus?

Assuming someone does manage to find a way that they are useful in a way that liberals are not, how do we justify letting them practice their hatred in return for that usefulness?
Just go to golf courses and demand they build houses?

Basingstoke golf course is being replaced with houses.
Won't the yeast get less oxygen that way?
Re: your edit

To be clear for anyone else that may read this, any sudden visual impairment warrants an immediate visit to the ER. Even though many problems will resolve themselves, there are plenty of others that can cause permanent vision loss if they aren't treated properly.

I'm not a doctor, but I've had similar symptoms unrelated to VR. After several tests (including an MRI), I was advised to wait and see if the problem recurs. Given how long you've been asymptomatic, just wait and see seems like a reasonable course[1]. On the other hand, my symptoms did come back after a while, and it sounds like that VR session put more strain on your eyes than I've ever subjected myself to.

[1] I am not a doctor; when in doubt, talk to anyone w/ a medical license
Anecdote here. I had an ~8 years old 500GB Western Digital hard disk which spent the last 3-4 years on a shelf and when I tried to reuse it, after 2-3 uneventful months, it started to "refuse" to spin up at boot time and, after several seconds of retrials, BIOS would print the classic "boot failure" message. Sometimes it would spin up after several reboots but after a while it refused to spin up at all so, after a quick google, I got to the "freezer" method and to my surprise it worked. After being left in the freezer for ~1 hour (wrapped in plastic) it spun up instantly and functioned normally, long enough to make a backup of some not very valuable files from it (after ~8 years, I was expecting failures). So "freezer method" could work as a measure of last resort.
Conventional wisdom around owning a gas powered vehicle is to maintain it until either the engine or the transmission goes. The reason for this is not because engines and transmissions are unreliable its because they are insanely expensive to manufacture and repair which often exceeds the value of the vehicle in the first place. As far as I'm aware with an electric vehicle there is no transmission and the electric motor is basically a spinning coil without any significant point of friction so its orders of magnitude cheaper to manufacture and replacement would be something your average consumer could potentially do themselves.

Batteries are definitely the bottleneck but its basically the only area further innovation is needed for the foreseeable future.

Basically what this means is that with electric vehicles you can continually drive and repair them until the chassis is no longer serviceable OR more likely your EULA runs out and you are forced to upgrade for licensing (software) reasons because there will be significant services revolving around these vehicles (autonomous driving, parking, recharging, repairs).

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The Sharkoon FireGlider Mouse software queries and connects to some porn website
Obviously the domain (but not my video or the image below) is NSFW, so don't open it.

I made a short 2min video showing the DNS query and connection made to (ServerClient.XXX.com) everytime the software is launched. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htuf9z2_PS8)

If you look here: http://i.imgur.com/DGZ1Z45.png you can see it is making connections to ServerClient.XXX.com.

>ping ServerClient.XXX.com

>Pinging www.XXX.com [141.0.173.173] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 141.0.173.173: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=46

If you open ServerClient.XXX dot com you will be redirected to porn. I am trying to give the company Sharkoon the benefit of doubt here, but I cannot come up with an idea why the software would do that.