skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of responses have mentioned usenet so I won't repeat.

However, one very important aspect of usenet was the curated FAQ document of the newsgroups (e.g., a FAQ for comp.lang.c [1]).

The document was maintained by the newsgroup maintainers and would be of very high quality, informative and with it's own unique sense of (geek?) humor. I have pored over pages of such documents and have learned a ton and enjoyed doing it.

Interestingly, I remember reading somewhere that stackoverflow.com was developed to eliminate some of the problems associated with maintaining a usenet newsgroup FAQ, e.g., through automatic and community-driven curation, although at this point, it seems like that kind of feature is either not used or not considered super-important. (well, in a way, that's what it's doing, but the final product is access to the answers through google search, not a single FAQ document).

[1] http://c-faq.com/

[2] a tiny list of comp.* newsgroups (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comp.*_hierarchy)

P.S.: Another important resource (in use in the past as well as in the present): irc.freenode.net chatrooms.
LOL at comparing MSFT to Apple or Google in this regard. Googles whole business model is ad supported, in return you get good free software.

Apple actually fights to protect your privacy, when you pay them money for hardware they just try to make it work well for you, not advertiser. And their updates/reboots are optional.

MSFT takes your money, then doesnt protect your privacy AND sells you out to advertisers.
How are you going to travel otherwise? It's not like private or commercial non-line aviation is any safer, nor are other forms of transport.

Realistically the risks here are so low, that you're really unlikely to be affected. There's a lot of risks you're frequently exposed to, that are higher.
Good on Google for giving people some lead time on deprecating this service.
Understanding the software of life
One thing that I find so amazing about AWS (Amazon Web Services) is that I'm not aware of them ever EOLing one of their apis (I could be wrong). We still have a bunch of code that still uses SimpleDB and even though they haven't promoted SDB for a while, they haven't EOLed it.
Before folks start comparing this to Reader or point to the general "Google shuts things down" narrative, Prediction API has been superset by the array of ML APIs and Google Cloud ML, found at [0].

[0] https://cloud.google.com/products/machine-learning/

(work at G)
Oh, man. QBASIC's manuals were fantastic and they set an expectation for documentation when I was, like, 7 that would rapidly be disappointed by basically everything that I touched for years afterwards.
From the FAQ:

Q: Why is Google Cloud Platform no longer supporting Cloud Prediction API?

A: As we've expanded our Cloud Machine Learning services, many of the use-cases supported by Cloud Prediction API can be better served by Cloud Machine Learning Engine.
This is also available as an online course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fighti...
tl;dr Cloud Prediction is deprecated in favor of Cloud Machine Learning (https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/)
I'd assume something like the conceptual difference between HTML5 canvas/video ("good") and Flash ("bad"). No plugins. Better sandboxing. Open specification not owned by some specific company. An expectation of multiple competing implementations.

Basically, it's a lot of the same stuff, but a (hopefully) better implementation, and promoted in a way that appeals to the people likely to use it. Start with an old technology. Tweak, relabel, and market under the new name.
Unfortunately corporate "people" act like sociopaths 99.99% of the time.

This is certainly a Good Thing, but I don't blame people for knee-jerk skepticism.
WTF is THIS: Understanding the “this” keyword in JavaScript
Also not a hardware guy, but the issue seems to revolve around density, intel puts transistors on a chip "like this" the other guys do it "l i k e t h i s". They can make small things, but haven't worked out how to really pack them in next to each other and work reliably.
Or maybe only double the pins, if you no longer make it square. But you're right, it's a waste of time and money.
Common practice, but still illegal. Recommend watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy if you haven't. Similar use case here.
Where did you come to the conclusion that they think he was one of the hackers? Neither the link, nor the Telegraph article said anything like that AFAIK.
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I'm from India, and amazon is more relevant now than any other time here. The market leader in India is flipkart, Amazon a close second and a company called snapdeal a distant third.

Interestingly, in next few months if not days, there is going be a big consolidation (merger of flipkart and snapdeal, that is first and third) which is aggressively pushed by Softbank (investor in snapdeal).

As an aside, for a long time, local entities are asking for concessions against global players like Amazon and uber, but so far it has not gone anywhere. One of the reasons against this is most of the investor money in local entities is from abroad. Though it is true, flipkart truly pioneered online market (in India) and when it tasted success, amazon simply jumped in with its huge cash war chest. It will be interesting how Indian market will play out with respect to Amazon.
For companies that aren't going to eat the world, only exist on the network effect, and are happy in their space, a P/E of 5 is reasonable. How much would you pay to buy craigslist?
>i simply don't trust amazon for things other than books at this point.

And you cant even trust books https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546
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Nope, this would be invoked only after a standard access request has been denied from the cockpit.
> This is incredible. Walmart has free two-day shipping on orders over $35 right now, with no membership required, and yet people are still writing articles like this asking, "will it be possible for Walmart to get 2 day shipping within the next couple years?"

Free shipping on orders over $35 is useless in the same way that I find Amazon Prime Pantry useless. If I am trying to buy something, I don't want to fish around finding something else to get my order up to the limit. It's a ton of friction -- "do I need to add a pack of socks to this order or should I just pay shipping" -- when with Amazon I just order that book I saw mentioned on Twitter and don't think about it.
Not to mention books bring a depth and historical perspective largely unavailable on the internet, even though it is technically possible to do so.
I think largely because they are estimates; I think Craigslist is likely worth way more given the ubiquitous nature, high margin, low costs and the decisions to not monetize everything.

That said, IMO this article is not about Craigslist but a subtle advert for the 2 "competing firms" that are mentioned. I have seen an uptick in articles about Craigslist mentioning them and had never heard of them before.

Potentially cynacism on my part.
Apple makes more off PCs than every other PC maker combined, and continues to gain market share. MSFTs main goal seems to be getting people to buy more Macs, like their new crippled MacBook Air clone without a full OS (and the dirt magnet fabric covering).
I read the source code of web pages to learn how to do HTML, then did the same with Javascript. At the time I was learning plenty of people were blogging about how to do things with computers and I couldn't afford any books so I did it all through blogs and web sites. I remember JScript help manual and Netscape documentation showing me how to do OOP with JS back in the day and that really opened the doors up for me.
Stratix 10 is the latest offering though (very new and expensive), more comparable to what Xilinx refers to as their "UltraScale+ MPSOCs", which are basically their Zynqs, using the UltraScale+ fabric as opposed to Artix/Kintex level stuff, and branded differently.

You can get affordable Cyclone V FPGA/ARM boards though, which are more comparable to the traditional "Zynq" series (dual ~1ghz 32bit cores, some DDR3, etc).
> You claim Amazon has 42 million Prime-eligible SKU's, and them compare that to how many SKU's exist in an average Walmart warehouse... forgetting that Prime-eligible SKU's don't all reside in Amazon warehouses... a 3rd party seller can warehouse that inventory on their own.

I'm not trying to be rude, but I think you have a misunderstanding of how third-party Prime eligibility works.

Virtually all Prime-eligible SKUs reside in Amazon's warehouse. That's how the FBA program works. There is a very new initiative called Seller-Fulfilled Prime (where the inventory resides in the seller's warehouse), but this is an extremely small percentage of the 42m SKUs.
Regardless of what framework you choose you will still have to use some backend.
My first job out of school was at Sperry Univac in 1985. They had a lab that was a pretty big room (think maybe the size of a grocery store in the US, or maybe half that). I estimated then that the lab probably contained one transistor for every human on the planet.

Now you can get that in 8 mm x 10 mm on a single die. Absolutely amazing.
Recent is relative. I've had the same initial response to learning that a story is 10 or 20 years old (or more). But I think that reflects more our presumptions, cultural context, and age, than it does a deficiency in reporting. Unless Tanzania has experienced a significant and pertinent cultural shift since then, the year 2001 could be just as recent as yesterday as far as it concerns subject matter context.

Also, it's not like the year is buried 10 pages in. It's midway through a relatively short article. It's just as likely the writer put the year in the middle of the story out of artist license than as a way to obscure the timeline.
This is such an ignorant response. Do you realize how much of the country is dying because there's no industry, no jobs, no economy to speak of? I'm not saying give Amazon carte blanche but man, appreciate that your city's economy is growing instead of dying.
penisland was another famous site from the time with this property.

Edit: It was a site that sold pens; I think the alternative pronunciation of their domain name was unintentional.

Edit 2: I think I was wrong. Snopes says they did sell pens but they chose the name intentionally: http://www.snopes.com/business/names/domains.asp. Some other such names from that link: powergenitalia.com, molestationnursery.com, and whorepresents.com.
> "One thing that comes to mind is that while dropping XP might be the manufacturer's recommendation for the OS, it's not the only manufacturer's recommendation in play here. Only geeks like us and the ones in IT departments care about the OS."

The OS is simply a part of a piece of capital equipment. Like any other form of capital equipment (think trucks that need their oil, brakes, and tires replaced) the computer is also a piece of capital equipment that must be maintained. The fact that it is not maintained is a function of poor management that should be replaced with management that is more responsible. Nobody would settle for a truck not having brake jobs and tires replaced. That same standard should apply to any form of capital equipment.

In this case, MS said that the OS was no longer supported. End of Story. Responsible boards need to start hiring CEOs that understand that it is important to maintain capital equipment.
seems like a potential suicidal pilot would have quite a chance to get the drop on the flight attendant...
For many applications, it isn't financially viable to ever make them fast and memory efficient because compute time is just far, far cheaper than programmer time. Electron is perfect for that type of application.
> Why would they want to shift from their high-margin B2B sales market to a low-margin consumer service market?

I'm not convinced that market is going to exist forever. If self driving cars do take off then you're going to see more people owning less cars. Cars will get consolidated to large companies and they won't have a need for as many.

GM has talked with Lyft a number of times and most car manufacturers seem to be working on self driving systems. I think it's a move they'll have to make over the next decade or so.
>You, like many others, underestimate Tcl.

Not in this case, at least :-), since on that wiki page there is one implementation of command pipes that I wrote and a link to another (in fptools).

What I mean when I say that "you cannot pipe to or from functions" is that while you can pipe data from one external process to another in an [exec] command, you can't pipe it from an external process to a proc or vice versa, which would be analogous to what the POSIX shell can do. Functions and external processes are less similar in Tcl than they are in sh.

The best you can do with a simple command pipe implementation like those on the wiki page is pipe data from [exec foo] to [bar $arg] to [exec baz << $arg], which, unlike [exec foo | baz], will read foo's entire output before passing it along. The only real solution that I know to allow you to treat snippets of Tcl code and external processes as basically interchangeable in a gradually read pipeline is rkeene's pipethread library. I am a big fan of it, but using an external dependency that isn't in your operating system's package repositories adds considerable friction to writing and distributing a simple script. (I do hope pipethread ends up in Tcllib.)
Yeah, see, I don't even know what a GPO rule is, and I'm more technically inclined than 99% of the users out there. I'm sure there are some people that can totally customize Windows 10 to their liking and get rid of all of the anti-user stuff, but it's such a small proportion of the overall home userbase as to be statistically insignificant.
That's an intriguing concept, but it seems like it would be a headache to implement, from a software perspective. Unless I'm mistaken, if you wanted this low-power chip to perform windows updates, you would need MS to provide an ARM compiled program to perform x86_64 updates. Or you'd need a third party to do it somehow, which sounds messy. The same would apply for anything else you wanted to do that's more complicated than putting files in fixed locations. I suppose it could be relatively easy to just do the downloads, and leave installations/updates for when the main chip kicks in.

And the fileserver concept is pretty neat. Rather than having a separate low power machine that you send files to, your main PC could act as a fileserver using separate software while fully powered or in low-power mode. I'd buy that, if only for the novelty.
Physical objects take dollars and time to design and produce at scale. Most of these vectors take time to design and money for living and the initial computer, but the implementation of them takes almost no money nor time (ok, yes a few miliseconds and the electrical power, but it's basically nothing). Corey Doctorow has said it best : "A lot of threat modeling is based on something like economic rationality by your adversary: you assume that no one would spend $10 to steal $1 from you. But with nitwits, all bets are off: this isn't about designing a safe to keep out a smart mastermind cat-burglar, it's trying to figure out if a drunk and belligerent dudebro will walk up to you on the street and punch you in the face to blow off some pent-up hormonal steam."

(https://boingboing.net/2017/05/13/heroism-through-domain-squ...)
It seems like it would be a little backward to go from WASM to javascript in order to invoke native code (in e.g. an OpenGL driver). More likely WASM will have some way of its own to interface with such things. Right?
I'd believe it if the Dutch Oven were made out of a higher emissivity material than a standard oven. But I think they're both porcelain-coated.
Speaking for Costco -- No, because they treat their employees well, provide good benefits and pay, and don't view their employees as just another cost to slash in order to increase shareholder value and corporate bonuses. Basically they treat their people as a priority.

Speaking for Lowes and Home Depot -- Yes, because they view the human element of their labor as inputs in a function to get as much labor as humanly cheap as possible, circumventing as many laws as possible, to increase shareholder value and corporate bonuses. Basically they treat their people as a liability. (If I have one anecdote that basically sums up Lowe's C-levels: They treat technology and people as a cost. When we asked 49,000 dollars to upgrade a server room that was practically a fire hazard, we had to pull teeth. When it came time to spend 21 million dollars to upgrade their private jetliner so that it could make it to China in one trip, instead of having to stop and refuel, they approved the cost unanimously, almost without thought. Money that amounts to basically a drop in the bucket to make your job, a core function of our daily operations, much better? Nah. 21 million so we can fly to China faster every time the need arises to find more workers to exploit for cheap labor and then resell here in America for 90% markup? Heck yes.)

Finally, I can't speak for Target because I have no idea about them.

The common element here: People, and how you treat them.
I'm tired of Google shutting down or screwing up services. I come from marketing, and while I still use Adwords, I'm more and more moving to other platforms for research and spending my money. It's not only that, the moment you have a problem, it's up to yourself, while other companies have a customer service that actually replies, with more or less success.

I'm also learning programming, basically because I want to get into Data Science and I'm doing everything I can to avoid using Google Cloud, even though I found Bigtable to be easy to use and the kind of stuff that I wanted for a project, but I forced myself into learning how to get a postgre & couch dbs up. Also using vps's from a local provider (clouding.io).

It's like... I can see myself in the future spending time on modifying stuff because Google make X decision, instead of doing stuff I enjoy.
Yeah he was practically BEGGING to be updated to windows 10 what a slut.
Can confirm that the EC2 API team is still maintaining perfect backwards compatibility with the EC2 SOAP API released in 2006. It's kind of funny that the known issues are all still valid, too :P https://aws.amazon.com/releasenotes/Amazon-EC2/353
Why Topological Data Analysis and Clustering are not the same thing
FuseMind: Evaluate academic search results faster than ever
I'm not entirely convinced that the reason why people aren't using their preferred language is due to the absence of WASM up until now.

Almost all of the popular programming language have a js transpiler allowing programmers to code in their lang and use it on web.

I think the reasons why programmers aren't using their preference when coding for web is, firstly because of the lack industry approval/support and secondly the speed of development. As much I complain about writing js code, it's a lot faster to get things done compared to Rust/C++.
Totally misread this as google cloud predict-the-end-of-your-life API.
Doesn't matter. To general masses it just looks (and well you will have to change code) like they shut down another thing after short time people relied on. Bad move Google. Just stop offering it and keep in running in quiet for people who have it next time.
But "the cost of extra shipping" has to be offset against the annual Prime fee, and all the perks you list apply just as much to vanilla (non-Prime) Amazon.

In recent years I've found myself swinging back towards buying things in brick-and-mortar shops, mostly because the delivery experience can be so horrible. Maybe things are better in the US, but in the UK getting things delivered is non-trivial when you work during the day, and even if you're at home, it's very common for UK postmen to not bother even bringing your parcel with them; they just leave a "while you were out" card forcing you to arrange redelivery. Delivery woes of various kinds have been a staple of /r/britishproblems since the start.
Have the list of choices at each step arrived at by brute-force, or is there some algorithm for that?

I think I read some algorithm for solving mastermind; but never tried understanding mastermind. For the related game of Cows-and-Bulls, there is a elegant algorithm that goes on reducing the list of candidates at each turn. Starting with 9999 potential numbers seems like a lot, but that solution also quickly terminates (7 guesses max, I think).
Once upon a time I was writing an Android app. I wrote a simple Python script to monitor the APK file and copy it to my Dropbox when it changed so that I could easily install and test it on my phone. Uses the Win32 API, so not portable.

It's here: https://github.com/gusmd/vigil.py
This whole comment thread proves the point of the article.

Ye gods, people, if MS updates or win 10 defaults offend you so much, switch OS.

If you consider it a crime that the most widely used consumer desktop operating system in the world's latest iteration dares to not be tailored on install to your specific philosophy or preferences, switch! The alternative is free!
This same thread has bene flagged after rising to the top of the home page... What the heck?
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What about windows 7 and 8.1 ? They were also hacked.The uncertain nature of windows 10 update and the bad press about the telemetry issues was also the reason for the IT Departments to stay clear of it. Why would someone ignore a free windows upgrade ?
You do get that freedom.
I assume they could effortlessly ramp to $1B if that estimate is semi-close. It would cost virtually nothing to add more paid markets and services; maybe allow the gravity algo to be tweaked.

Figure very low costs for a site like that you could make your money back in 5-6 years; which is insane at that scale. I bet if they put it up for sale for $3B it would be sold by the end of the week
When the first digit becomes 1 keep two digits. A small effort for much higher precision.
(Something to do with Benford's Law? Maybe.)
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Java applets have a radically different security model from Javascript and wasm. There's only thing that makes wasm any closer to Java applets than Javascript already is- it's distributed as a bytecode that's not dynamically typed, rather than text.

But Javascript's dynamically typed textual representation has nothing to do with what makes it better than Java applets. It's the security model, which wasm shares.