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They had a good run, unlike the Atari ST and Amiga shops that went bust not years after opening.

There was a store here that specialized in Newton hardware which, for a few years, was flying high and could do no wrong. Then the end came and they shuttered the store.

That was heartbreaking. We had a Concorde moment there and we still haven't caught up with it.
Ha! Then more power to you :)

My point with this was from a workaday aspect. I both understand and respect getting nerdy about the tooling. And congrats, the first novel is the hardest.
The IBM 1401 was built using "SMS cards"[0] connected using wire wrap

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Standard_Modular_System
Don't forget the 25% (!!) extra fee tacked on to the final price. Definitely not for the bargain hunter.
For example, newest versions of Notepad++ save all your "unsaved" tabs on the fly. They are available when you reopen the program. It's a good UX.
Perhaps I was unclear. By "online services" I meant third parties that provide processing power and half of the connectivity. That is, they run servers. With a peer model, each collaborator pays for a fraction of connectivity and processing, but we wouldn't say any one of them is a service provider.
It's really a problem because there's no telling what might be a domain tomorrow. Will ICANN sell `.x` to buy everyone on the board a new car? Will they start issuing gTLDs in Klingon language? What about Emoji?

This makes writing code that vets a fully qualified domain name a lot more complicated. If anything could be a domain name they you need to lean on DNS to do testing, and if that's not producing concrete answers, you have no idea if it's valid or not.

Is clownpenis.fart a possible domain? Twenty years ago, no way that would ever happen. Now I'm surprised it hasn't.

Ideally you want a root namespace that's clean, orderly and predictable so that people can comprehend it. microsoft.com looks legit. microsoft4u.info feels sketchy, and it should. microsoft.xyz is...legit? Or not? I can't tell any more, the waters are so muddied.

Plus, ICANN doesn't seem to consider the ramifications of some of their decisions. The right-to-left gTLDs are obviously a great thing for speakers of certain languages like Hebrew and Arabic, but they also carry severe security hazards: http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2016/08/google-chrome-fi...
I've never encountered a doubleclick outside launching programs, opening files in explorer.
I think that argument at best supports the claim that there might be some things that not (almost) everyone should know/should be able to do, but certainly not that programming specifically is amongst those. Your argument would equally apply to arithmetic or reading and writing. Would you say that we should drop those from the school curriculum as well? If not, what distinguishes programming from those that it should not be a skill that's taught to everyone?
for an excellent and knowledgable look at the si, its origins and legacy read The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark [1], author of the si influenced look at technology 2004's A Hacker Manifesto

https://www.versobooks.com/books/1869-the-beach-beneath-the-...
Yes, the fab could put in a backdoor. That's why you need to build your own. But, what if the machinery you purchase has a backdoor? Now you need to build your own fab machinery! It's backdoors all the way down. There always has to be some level of trust.
I can't ID the Macs, because "Apple ][ Forever" people don't dig Macs. I can point out that there is an Apple //e, an Apple //c, a Lisa, and an Apple /// in that lot, none of which are Macs. The NeXT Cube isn't even an Apple.
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> While the world may seem to center around Manhattan, some people start their trips in savage lands like Queens.

Queens has subways too, bro. Used to live in Astoria, never once drove a car. I think I took the m60 into Manhattan like once.
That doesn't seem to be an invisible button. Just the icon of the app in the title bar. It opens the context menu for the titlebar if you click it.
More work up front, less work afterwards.
Good book, but too NYC-centric for my taste. OTOH, that made everything pretty concrete.

Another great book is "Underground" by David Macaulay. Beautiful, breathtaking drawings.
What's China's policy if, in a conventional war, someone starts attacking there nuclear facilities?
does the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction have roots in game theory? or does the concept itself simply tie back into tit for tat?
Nashville's Metro recommends $6B transit plan for region
What you should be asking yourself is why don't forms behave as if the browser had the Lazarus extension (for firefox and chrome) already installed.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lazarus-form-recov...
It's certainly an anecdote that could be interpreted that way. I think the main answer to things like these are always the same: a multi-pronged approach. Searching for a silver bullet for something as complex as human-human and human-society interactions is somewhat futile: usually we improve these by tackling it in as many ways as we can. I think diversity in hiring is similar, personally.
Any specific case you use git for?
If you don't mind revealing this information, which version is doing better?
I imagine it could be a tactic to launch a single ICBM from a submarine at yourself to give cause to launch a nuclear offense. In reality it doesn't matter who shoots first against a determined enemy who is willing to execute a false flag.
These policies are always just band-aids for a deeper rooted problem. In the best case scenario, it masks the problem and diverts attention away from actual solutions that actually provide equality of opportunity at an earlier stage for underrepresented segments.
You can use win+tab also. Or rightclick on the taskbar and move. It works for windows that are out of the screen as well.
I find that usually, long-lived idle TCP connections get killed by stateful firewalls, of which there are often several along any given path through the Internet.

e.g. my home router has a connection timeout of 24 hours.
You'd be surprised then. There are two things going for it, one it has a lot of machines in it, and two they seem to be in pretty decent shape. You could probably spend the next 3 - 10 years going around garage sales, haunting Craig's list and other auction sites, and put something together. But it will take time and the outcome is uncertain.

Remember there will be seasoned collectors bidding on this bunch, they already know all the places where things like this might be found, and they are still bidding.

Bottom line, unless you're a collector it is hard sometimes to see where the value comes from.

That said, you could try it and perhaps make a quick $5 - $10 thousand? I warn you though, you start and it gets weirdly addictive. I tell you this as someone who owned 63 variations of MicroVAX at one time.
> ... if I can't apt-get it, I'm not interested ...

I feel bad for you, then. The Ubuntu repos (and Debian) have almost nothing that is even remotely new and will usually be behind on most things. Trying to keep configs for an ArchLinux box and Ubuntu box synchronized is a bitch if new versions have good features, because you can't use them in your general config unless you give up on apt and install from source.
Anything remotely interacting with DirectX or OpenGL still supports Alt+enter for fullscreen. ( well most do anyway )
I think the author's illustration is technically correct, given the currently widely adopted definition of AI and its subfields.

However, you do have a point that simple machine learning aka linear regression is not really "Artificial Intelligence" if you raise the expectation of "Artificial Intelligence".
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does powershell compile to IL? is it possible to create stand-alone executables from it that do not depend on the runtime?
Facebook Recruiter: "I won't be able to afford to send my kid to college unless you wear this sombrero to your interviews."
The street outside near my apartment has been under constant construction during the entire 5 years I've lived there. They literally tear open the same part of the street multiple times, and cover it back up again, only to tear it open again, etc.

One day I asked one of the workers why they keep tearing open the same part of the road, why couldn't they just replace everything that is broken in one go?

He told me that they often do find and fix the problems, but sometimes they can't find them and give up, or sometimes they do and only kind of fix them. Other times they do fix the problem, only to have another in the same area. He also said sometimes an electric guy will mess up the plumbing, etc. And they aren't allowed to touch and telecom stuff. He said that sometimes some crews will just cut out his work, or cut into their pipes, drill and bolt into their pipes or riggings, causing leaks, etc.

I'm sure at some level this keeps these guys busy but its a wonder we haven't been able to come up with some kind of better system or way of doing things in all these years.
I fear this when I was watching Highway Thru Hell.
I bet somebody complained that their ads were being skipped over.
> a result of co-opting definitions from the association that "diversity is cool"

If you think that "diversity is cool" is just a given then I have to assume you are not from the USA, or have otherwise been insulated from the American culture war. (Lucky duck!)

In the US, the word "diversity" instantly alienates tens of millions of people.
Why is it a problem? I personally think it's a problem that there are so few women coal miners. Clearly this is a sign of deeper societal problems. We need to get women interested in coal mining at a younger age to help solve the gender gap in coal mining. Once we solve that we can tackle diversity in professional basketball and hockey. Obviously more white and Asians should be in the NBA and more blacks in the NHL. That the ethnic breakdown of these particular sports doesn't match up with my personal beliefs can only mean one thing: everyone is racist.
I'm not sure how this is surprising for anyone. Of all of the female friends I had growing up, I don't know a single one that went into software. I had one study "Happiness" at Mt Holyoke, one study Gender Studies at UMass, a few Biology majors who now are lab techs, one law school graduate who works with the ACLU, and a bunch of women who didn't even go to college.

If we want to fix this problem, we need to encourage women to stop studying such ridiculous nonsense feel-good bullshit. The problem lies with our culture and how we raise children, not "racist/sexist/whatever-ist" employers.
Visual is one thing, but the ability to react during an emergency is actually even more challenging.
You can just right click the title bar too.
I commuted for two years from Long Island to work in Manhattan via the LIRR and subway. It wasn't the best, but it wasn't the worst. The sheer amount of time it takes to make the trip i did was more stressful than the jostling and rummmaging on the rush hour E train. Even in the summer.
It's weird that the article describes Facebook as "largely white" when it's significantly less white than the US as a whole: (54.4% vs 61.6%[1])

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/00
https://www.wired.com/2015/04/delphi-autonomous-car-cross-co...
I'd expect that there would be some regulations surrounding fire safety but Tesla went so far as to use ceramic and steel for the floor pan. I've never heard of any other vehicle using ceramics to create a firewall. Even just the steel in addition to the ceramic is odd as the rest of the body and chassis is aluminum to save weight. I believe that the firewall is the only large steel plate in the entire car, the only other large steel reinforcement that I'm aware of is the B pillars.

I don't think it's unfair to say that Tesla went above and beyond on their design of the firewall. Even looking at the burned out husks from previous fires, the rest of the body literally melted away yet the floor pan appears to be in one piece. I don't see how you could realistically improve on that and from seeing images of burned out fisker karmas, I think Tesla is doing a better job than their competitors in this regard.
There's a reason political topics are discouraged on HackerNews, which is that they too often lead to unedifying discussions like this, in which nobody really learns anything and everyone comes away feeling worse.

Remember, the guiding principle behind the content on HN is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

I've read through your comment threads to try and understand why you feel this to be a hostile place.

Personally, I'm quite sympathetic to Milton Friedman's ideas, along with Hayek and other prominent free marketers, and I know that many others on HN are too. I doubt that many people are downvoting you merely for expressing pro-free-market positions.

I can only see a couple of comments of yours that are being downvoted, but because you removed the content I can't tell whether or not that was fair.

What I can say is that whilst some people will downvote a comment just because they disagree with it, more people will do so because the commenter conveys a bad attitude, and is contributing to the very hostility of which you're complaining. I can't say if that's the case in this particular instance, but given how quick you're being to claim victimhood status, I think it's possible.

Why not look at the positives: your account has been active for just 9 days and you already have over 120 karma points. That doesn't sound too unwelcoming to me.

A few downvotes on comments are no big deal; people have all kinds of different reasons for downvoting, and they're nothing to do with you, but rather how you make the voter feel.

In the past I've been quite vocal with some personal insights on health/medical topics, which have sometimes attracted some downvotes, I gather because they're a bit far outside the mainstream for some people to be willing to accept.

But I don't mind; it forces me to keep researching and challenging my knowledge, and working harder to present my positions in ways that are more persuasive, whilst also accepting that some people will simply never be persuaded, no matter how well I do (which is equally true of certain economics concepts).

So please, try not to be too down on the place just because of a few downvotes, and remember that if everyone tries their best to present their ideas in an informative and gracious manner, HN will be an increasingly worthwhile place to discuss interesting and challenging ideas, and we'll all be better off.
Fix this first: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...
Not in firefox it seems, but it's pretty neat.
Yeah because avoiding nuclear holocaust during the Cold War was a walk in the park and definitely not worth highlighting /s
Do you have a reference for this?

He's conflating two separate events. It was the basketball players not the swimmers who "accidentally" visited a brothel: http://www.tmz.com/2016/08/05/team-usa-basketball-players-br...
Now imagine a "combobox".
Cock! That's why it no longer works for me! It was so much easier when I was being lazy because it was a relatively big button I could just absent-mindedly mash when I was leaning on my desk with both of my hands.

I'm the guy in the xkcd comic
mod parent up!

(sorry, all this MS vs. Linux discussion brought me back to the slashdot days)

Seriously, powershell finally makes sense to me after reading this. Thank you.
Yes, feel good quotas mean nothing. You are probably diverse enough if your staff match the ratio of people enrolled at university 5 years ago, and even then i think its wrong to favor employing people based on race or gender at all.
Not really a cheat. Context menus already do that. Try opening a context menu near the bottom of your browser window.
It's still the same text. Not all of us have to deal with tools that can't handle Unicode or require exact byte-for-byte round trips. Yes, it bugs me too, from time to time, although less so than the extra line break at the end. In that case I have to go through [IO.File]::ReadAllText and ::WriteAllText and thus deal with full paths again. There are a few gotchas.

However, by now we can actually fix that issue. The encoding parameter that the file system provider adds to a bunch of cndlets is an enum and we can add a new value there.
The article doesn't mention any focus by Facebook on diversity of age.

Along with data on race and gender, does the company make public the percent of its workforce that is over 40 or 50?
It is interesting how the work is divided up. Ecs is a company from way back when that Verizon bought. They only are in manhattan, Bronx, queens (I think). The other two Boroughs verizon handles the conduits.

Everyone is pretty much able to run their own lines down city streets. They just have to pay the city to lease space. They also have to agree to move the utilities when asked. And pay other contractors to work around the tightness their utilities cause.

Ecs does this management and maintenance for verizon and for all the other companies like AT&T, cable vision, level3, federal govt, tmobile, etc. Of course the other companies may also run their own conduits depending on the economics.
Punk was invented by Malcolm McLaren to sell Vivienne Westwood's clothes. Punk had it's time, I suspect that the people that bought into this identity would have been just as likely to be 'football casuals' if they had been born a decade later or be sporting 'hipster beards' had they been born two decades later. So yes, just a mask to put on.
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Isn't that racist and sexist to give bonus to hire specific sex or race. Hiring by competency is still a concept that we cannot handle in 2016?
Finally, began learning bash recently, was driving me nuts.. Been more productive on 1st day with PowerShell than I've been with bash in past Month
The area of sphere [gif]
I was pretty annoyed by this the first time. That menubar didn't use to be hidden.

There's a setting to have it always displayed I think.
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This seems like it would be pretty easy to hack.
Reddit discussion on r/math: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/4yf5h4/the_area_of_sp...
> Facebook says it wants its workforce to better reflect the diversity of its 1.7 billion monthly users—85% of which are outside the U.S. and Canada.
Wow~~~~Just see it.
If you look at big C++ apps like Firefox or AAA games, most of the third party libraries are used through C apis. Even commercial libraries written in C++ often have C based APIs because of historical binary compatibility problems in C++ linking.
Is safely wrapping a C api in C++ significantly easier than wrapping it in Rust?
I seem to remember reading a tutorial about making this effect back in the 90s (it was a great series by someone called "Denthor", or something like that). The bottom part of the effect was supposed to be hidden, only showing the flames I think.
It's clear that tech is the Golden mine of XXI century, so democratize this industry in particular is important.
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I have never seen the phrasing "mutually assured destruction" in game theory (outside of nuclear references). However, outside of edge cases, it is the same concept as a Nash equilibrium. Specifically, it is a strategy where defecting leads to a worse outcome for both parties.
Sorry, so you're suggesting the problem is that women don't study computer science? Hmm. [0]

It sounds like you're chalking this up to the famous "pipeline problem." [1] This is empirically incorrect. In particular, Figure 8.2 demonstrates that the quit rate for women in "high tech" is almost 2.5x higher than the quit rate for me.

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-technology-stanford-...

[1] http://documents.library.nsf.gov/edocs/HD6060-.A84-2008-PDF-...
Yeah, I held up for a second because of that, but the data presented is from the US EEOC, so presumably applies to their US workforce. Their workforce might be "largely white" when compared to the worldwide FB userbase, but not to who they're allowed to hire domestically.
Like a computer from a 1960s movie - computers as art meant them!
The funny thing is that for the iterated prisoner's dilemma, tit for tat is less optimal than an extortionist strategy. I don't know what this entails for the moral principles of human society though haha.

https://www.edge.org/conversation/william_h_press-freeman_dy...
Yep, but this discussion creates a lot of projects targeting to improve these numbers in the future
> That's the problem I always had, you may get them into a trained state, but good luck figuring out any reason 'why' they ended up in that state (or even what that state really is).

Can you give a specific example of what you mean? I ask because I see this sentiment often, but primarily from people who are very new to deep learning.

You can definitely debug a neural network. You mostly want to look at metrics from training such as gradient norms or try adjusting parameters to see if you can get a gain in overall performance as measured by cross validation performance.

You can definitely analyze a neural network. You do so by forming hypotheses, preparing datasets that reflect those hypotheses, and running them through your trained models, noting cross validation performance. It's also possible to visualize the weights in various ways, there are many papers written about it.

So what do you mean exactly when you say no one has figured out how to debug or analyze DNNs?
How to safely generate random numbers on Windows[1][2]:

#include <windows.h>
#define SystemFunction036 NTAPI SystemFunction036
#include <ntsecapi.h>
#undef SystemFunction036

RtlGenRandom(buf, size);

This is more convenient than both rand_s[3] and CryptGenRandom[4]. The former can only generate one byte per call and the latter requires you to create a CSP (cryptographic service provider) before you can call it (which means you have to destroy the CSP when you're done using it). In the end these all call RtlGenRandom.

RtlGenRandom uses a CSPRNG specified in NIST 800-90[4]. It uses AES256 in CTR mode AFAIK.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

[2] https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/master/crypto...

[3] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sxtz2fa8.aspx

[4] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
This is the worst comment I've read on HN in a long time. You extrapolate from some weird personal anecdotes to "women study ridiculous nonsense feel-good bullshit" and then ironically imply that sexism is not a problem. I suspect you'll be downvoted eventually (and be flabbergasted as to why) but I thought I'd drop a comment with my gut reaction to your post instead.
NASA uses plutonium for radioisotope thermoelectric generators whereas the OP is talking about nuclear pulse propulsion, which uses the shockwave from nuclear warhead detonations to propel a spacecraft. These are two fundamentally different things. The latter is illegal in most countries because of the aforementioned Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which bans any atmospheric or outer space detonations.
> If I recall, it was optional for CounterStrike1.4, but then required for CS1.6.

1.6 was the only version on Steam, 1.5 used the WonID servers, which they shut down a few years later.

The largest issue with Steam when it was released was the fact that the client was slow as molasses, and plenty of others had resource issues since you had to also run the client in the background along with whichever game you were playing.