skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Xenix was also ported to a variety of other architectures as well. At my very first programming job, we had a Z8000 running a very early (V7-like) Xenix port. Its performance was not impressive; a 386 could run rings around it. Also, the segmented memory architecture limited processes to 64K instructions and 64K data.

At a later job, we had several projects that we put together on the 386 version of Xenix; one of those is still in service today. It had moved to OpenServer relatively early on, and stayed that way until early this summer; my task was to get it running on a modern Linux. I was very (pleasantly) surprised to discover that the Unify database is still available, even for RHEL7 - and it was possible to directly take the database files from the old system and use them unmodified on the new one.

I wonder what prompted Microsoft to give up on Xenix? AT&T wanting too much money, or perhaps Not-Invented-Here syndrome? Windows could have been an X desktop.
Converting LLC to S/C corp is not hard though! Your entire chain of evidence was about two founders who had very different commitment levels, and had trouble converting. Of course they had trouble converting. They also would have had trouble diluting for investment if you did not dilute 50/50. There was an underlying problem there, and the corp conversion was the rip the bandaid off moment. It had to happen, and the sooner it happened the better!

Unless you know day 1 you are going to get investment (like, that is your entire goal of your business - say you already have ycom ready to invest), I still contest you should almost always start LLC. If say you putz around and bootstrap for a year, your taxes and accounting and everything else will be SO MUCH EASIER for the first year. Then sure, if you light on fire and need investments from traditional VCs, cool you can convert. What % of random startups founded on hacker news get to the point of VC investment? My gut would tell me 10% or less, but no idea how to measure this.
In Manchester there are plenty of opportunities for rails work. Also companies around here seem a lot more flexible about semi remote working i.e. you commute from Manchester to Liverpool/Sheffield/Leeds etc. once a week but work from home the rest of the time. In London remote working seems to be frowned upon and will at most be one day a week from home.
> The scary part is when I read about the roaring 20s. It reminds me of many of my experiences in silicon valley.

Could you elaborate a bit on that?
good point.

are google's search results neutral?
> Why not address his points and his ideas if they are so dangerous and wrong? Why not debate the meat of his argument?

Because I'm not here to have that discussion. I don't think the Internet is the right forum for political debate. I'm here for the other discussion, which is about how universities are failing to teach children to think, ultimately undermining the Enlightenment principles upon which they were founded. Universities should be teaching their students to recognize and understand Milo's rhetorical techniques, how to pick apart his arguments and decide whether they hold water. This is what they ought to be doing instead of teaching that words are violence. Leave that to Depeche Mode.

I put my analysis of Milo's technique in my comment so it would be clear that I did, in fact, spend 15 precious minutes of my life listening to his sophistry, and to illustrate the kind of analysis we should be teaching. I'm deeply uninterested in engaging in an internet debate about his ideas.
CEO wants our SaaS startup to become “data driven”. What does this mean to you?
I fear that this is something of a buzzword, but so far:

- Everyone has access to the company's financial metrics
- Our graphing and querying tools are open to employees (small 20 person company)

I'm thinking of:

- A monthly data/metrics talk
- Making sure the majority of engineering tickets have a definable success metric that can be measured afterwards in terms of app downloads
- Logging all data requests, and making this public so that people can see that we are not reinventing the wheel

Any more suggestions?
EU Court to Rule on ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Outside Europe
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BBC salaries: Gender pay chasm
Could that Core Contributor possibly contribute a report to https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/ExperienceReports#generics? :)
Obamacare passed without a single Republican vote. The Republicans took over congress largely as a result of the unpopularity of the policy and the process.
I don't think we could live without helm charts. There are so many moving parts, and developers, it really makes life far easier.
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Tango is the most free: every step is improvised. Maybe at the beginning the focus is on sequences (of steps), but you quickly leave this behind. So the "nerds" like this because you can do all kinds of creative stuff, without having to stick to "one-two-cha-cha-cha" or whatever. For some people this is too much, and they need sequences, but for me I am hopeless at memorizing the moves but am good at just negotiating the basic mechanics of the situation. Tango is also very "introverted": from the outside it doesn't look like much is happening! (i'm not talking about performance tango obviously..)

I would suggest you try whatever dance attracts you. For example, consider if you like the music. You might like swing, but I find it's too energetic & bouncy for me. Salsa always seems to have the music up way too loud. If you do try tango, stay away from "ballroom" tango, the real one is the argentine tango.

But yeah, be prepared to be not good at it at the start! It should be ok though, especially if you enjoy it, it wont matter how many moves you can do. It's all about letting go of the thinking mind and just being present to the moment.
How is a business anything like the lottery? Thousands of decisions over years vs 1 random event.

Domain knowledge obviously plays a role as well, if you can't code you're going to have a hard time making software. There's a lot of money to be made in AI right, the timing is good but it doesn't matter if you don't know anything about it.

By your logic some random guy off the street would have the same chances of building a successful business as Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.
The UK has public healthcare, so no direct costs to users.
Do trains have the same mechanisms cars use to generate electricity?
So should we just say it's not anonymous at all? Eliminate the whole notion of "mostly anonymous?" That's what the argument was. If Twilio isn't "mostly anonymous," what is? And why the heck does having subscriber data available via court order eliminate something from the "mostly anonymous" category?

edit: by the way, I never said '"anonymous" simply means it's not listed anywhere'
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You're asking all the wrong questions. HFT is just trading really fast, we live in a free country, some people want to trade really fast because they've found it profitable to take on the risk of doing so, it doesn't matter one bit if you or anyone else thinks it's pointless, you have no right to tell someone else they're trading too fast. They aren't hurting you, they're making your trades cheaper, they're making it easier for you to get into and out of any position you're in by being there to buy or sell exactly at the moment you want to buy or sell, and you're complaining about what? You don't even know.

You seem to have this backwards notion that they need to justify their existence, they don't, they're just traders executing their rights to buy and sell like everyone else. It's those like you seeking to regulate HFT that need to justify yourselves. You don't even understand what HFT is really as you're asking basic questions like what does market efficiency mean and does HFT help it, and you think you're in a position to question someone else's trading habits? Really? HFT doesn't need to look good, those of you trying to punish them need to show some actual evidence they're doing something bad, but they're not and you can't.

Efficiency in a market means things are priced accurately and you're not getting ripped off when you buy or sell; if you find that vague and hand wavy, well, sorry but that's what it means and you should be able to understand that without further explanation. HFT traders make the price more accurate benefiting you and everyone else, they don't need to justify themselves, you need to justify your witch hunt against them.

HFT is a form of electronic trading, I'm not conflating them, they're just different forms of using tech to trade and there's valid reason at all to single either of them out as bad. HFT are market makers, they're providing you and everyone else liquidity for a vastly smaller fee than you've been provided it ever before. So say thank you to HFT, enjoy your cheaper trades and increased liquidity, and go find a real problem to complain about instead of attacking those who make your life better.
I should have thought the disparity in cost between solar panels on roofs of trains vs electrifying millions of miles of track is gigantic?
You might want to read up on the design of mosh.

The way to tackle this is not to "buffer output up". In fact, the way to tackle this is the opposite of filling up buffers with output.

It is to decouple the terminal emulation from the rendering. Mosh runs the terminal emulator on the remote server machine, and transmits snapshots of state (using a difference algorithm for efficiency) at regular intervals over the network to the client, which renders the terminal state snapshots to the display on the local client.
Email me if you ever want to talk. pryelluw@gmail.com :-)
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Okay, but we already saw Microsoft drop support for Skylake features in Windows 7 and 8.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/16/10780876/microsoft-window...

We may need at least another data point, but it does look to me that Microsoft has gotten much more aggressive about dropping support for older hardware. It probably a result of Nadella's cut of the Q&A team. If the Q&A team is cut, it makes sense that less hardware would be support, and that you'll also see more bugs in the operating system.

> Despite being Microsoft’s newest and ‘most secure’ operating system, Windows 10 was found to have the highest proportion of vulnerabilities of any OS (395), 46% more than Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 (265 each).

https://www.avecto.com/news-and-events/news/94-of-critical-m...

It sounds to me like all of those anti-exploit mitigations that are supposed to come to Windows 10 will be needed just to make it as "secure" as previous versions.
Autonomous EVs are coming–but not nearly with the speed Musk expects
More info on the Vision Framework from WWDC 2017 here: https://youtu.be/UXhgjUIXUak
> So you think, you if you do testing you are overall slower ? Skipping tests makes you faster short term.

Not at all long run, but in the prototyping stage it may be a hindrance or when you are going for a fun gameplay mechanic over coverage. When you lock something down then tests make sense in this scenario. You'd always want tests for unit testing data, network, core tech, but might not need it when you are building gameplay that the test is really a user experiencing it/tuning it. Even writing some rendering or gameplay tests it takes time to get them right before they are actually useful tests.

Agree on all the other items there are many levels of testing. Usually core libraries are covered, when it comes to in-progress prototyping/pre-production, it can definitely slow you down (by adding weight to changes) if it is changing constantly and not yet locked down. Another area that weighs into it is how much budget and time that the code might be in use, if it is just a tool or something that isn't needed for live code (something prototyping or to help develop it, i.e. asset packing or the like) it might not be worth it to surround it with unit/integration testing.
I have transitioned to an environment where I only use a web browser, a terminal and an Emacs instance.

I realise the advantage one of the huge advantages of this approach is that you have so few dependencies even Android or iOS can be OK.
In a POW network with 1,000 miners (with equal hash power), let's say 95% follow one chain and ignore another chain, and that the remaining 5% follow that other chain. The two chains are completely different, but are both valid.

The second chain is just an alt coin resulting of a fork.
I've always wondered how much is wasted supporting the full IEEE floating point standard. How rare is it for a program to actually care about rounding behavior and NaN and inf and whatever that support for tiny numbers is called? Obviously medical imaging devices and physics simulations will need to stop and do this properly but they can get special hardware. How much silicon goes towards supporting that stuff in an i7? In a 1080?

I have no idea, but it sounds like a lot to me.
If it were likely people would create new ISPs that could compete then net neutrality would be less of an issue for me, because the ISP would have less leverage. As it stands today in the US though that's exceedingly and increasingly unlikely.
Sometimes it's split even more: https://www.google.ca/search?q=sector+antenna&tbm=isch
Excuse my French but what a fucking surprise. Who ever thought they would? That's right, I did.

Hence I'm a bit pissed off right now. But even though I was dumb enough to believe, at least I was smart enough to wait for it, and did not waste my money.
On my first trip to japan, I have been warned by my japanese acquaintances to pay special attention to cyclists in cities because, and I quote: "they are crazy"

And I indeed witnessed a total disregard for most safety measures, disregard for pedestrians etc.. While I wouldn't go around and make a documentary out of it, it was indeed a weird phenomena to witness.
Only if it were personal data, while in this case it's mostly experimental data, Monte Carlo simulations, and so on.
If expressions in OCaml (and why they're awesome)
NewStore secures $50M Series B funding to lead the mobile retail industry
New hijab emoji is thanks to a 16-year-old Saudi Arabian girl
Are There Parts of German WW1 Warships in Space? [video]
This blog is not Apple's first blog; they started a Swift blog shortly after the release of Swift: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/
I don't think this is lottery winning. We all get paid a lot of money for our skills, they just work and observe that some of their skills can be amplified in value(in the viewpoint of contractors that turn to startups).

There has been a lot of indiehackers that have started as contractors and built startups. I think the biggest value I learned is, "Understand you market" and "find problems that people have" and its brilliant to be a contractor cause you learn both for a living!
I think competition was more responsible for free long distance than the cost of billing customers.
Most of the Apple-imposed constraints on local development and code execution were lifted recently:
https://www.macstories.net/stories/coding-on-ios-is-more-fea...

Of course, it will likely take a while before developers are able to publish apps that utilize these new permissions to the Store.
As long as you are okay with the "next Facebook" coming from outside the US where they don't have to pay the ISP to reach their initial customers with a reasonable speeds.
I said Pennsylvania has more fiber deployment (40%) than the Netherlands (33%). That's completely accurate http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2016/06/03/third-of-dutch-hom.... But even speaking about the other things, Pennsylvania is ahead on many metrics: https://www.akamai.com/fr/fr/multimedia/documents/state-of-t.... In the Netherlands, average connection speed in Akamai's testing is 17.4 mbps, versus 20.8 in Pennsylvania. And 46% of connections are above 15 mbps, versus 54% in Pennsylvania.

The "homes passed with 50 mbps+" statistic you cite is to a pay-walled article, but this source says https://www.telecompaper.com/research/netherlands-most-homes... that the Netherlands, Japan, and South Korea are above 80%, while Sweden, Hong Kong, Denmark, and Taiwan are between 50% and 80%. The number in Pennsylvania is 88%: http://broadbandnow.com/Pennsylvania.
That would be the "not interested" option, if you're not actively interested in learning it. There's not time for everything.
> Easier to start an ISP

The law of physics will gently back off and new ISPs will be able to install infrastructure on top of the existing one?

Existing ISPs have a de facto monopoly, because there isn't unlimited space to install backbones. Given that it is impossible to change that and have a free market, the next best thing is to regulate their market and forbid them from distorting the one built on top of it.

> cheaper services for the end consumers

Don't be naive: consumers will pay the same price for a shit-tier internet, those who can afford it will pay a premium for "regular" internet.
The difference is that I don't think any Frenchman would describe France as the greatest place on earth.
Go isn't particularly fast or close to the metal as compiled languages go - I feel like a lot of people compare it against scripting languages but those aren't the only alternatives. If GC is acceptable you have a wealth of mature languages available with a proper type system, e.g. OCaml.
I really wish this had an Atom or RSS feed
Windows upgrades have worked for decades without manufacturer support. I can't remember the last time in the "32 bit and above" era that a whole class of CPU stopped working release to release. You might be bound by RAM or a particular driver but you were generally ok to upgrade. Is Apple's grip on this community so strong that we now accept hardware deprecation for PCs? (Though even apple didn't cut off my 2009 machine until sierra.)
Avocados and their massive carbon footprints are destroying the planet
haha - I'm more like Mr. Shoestring Mustache. MMM has several hundred thousand a year coming in from his blog alone. He also had I think a million bucks in the bank before he retired. He also has a couple of rental properties I believe. I don't have anything like that.

I live in UK so healthcare is free here. Many years ago I had some mental health problems and the NHS here literally saved my life. I am so grateful for that. I also have a private medical plan that covers myself and my partner but it only costs about £1k a year, and I only have that because it can potentially reduce waiting times. I am considering just doing without it though.
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We’re Sending Another Probe to Mercury to Work Out Why the Planet’s Shrinking
What is wrong with AMQP (and how to fix it)
Second that.

My way was to find maintenance contract where I do programming few hours a week that pays my bills and mortgage + occasionally taking some contract work (about once a year, month - three months long).

Contracts could be very stressful (as I am usually picking on some VC type of startup as they use to pay more), but I know it is going to be over soon so it is easy to just go through it.

I am doing that for more then a decade and it works, the only thing is to figure out what you are going to do with your off time: I used to start startups, side projects, travel the world, but for past few years I am just farming and spending time with my kid.

More people should really think about this alternative.
AI could revolutionize war as much as nukes
I just wish those solar panels don't get stolen. That's a major problem with major valuable government installations here. People have stolen coal, road construction material etc. Although this seems impossible with the solar panels as they have been attached tightly. But with internal help from government employees, it is not.
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The other one I wanted was “Heard of it, but it's not relevant to my current projects” – “want to learn” overstated my level of interest in some cases.
Apple will not make Macs forever. A macOS-ARM VM that runs on iOS is plausible. There is certainly precedent for this sort of thing (Classic on PowerPC Macs, Rosetta on Intel Macs). We might even have Homebrew ARM :p
Isn't there a way simpler timing analysis. The blog post is about a conference paper which will be presented in CVPR and the conference starts in 2 days.
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Indeed, which, and how does that winning blockchain algorithm allocate value. And will it be society as a whole that decides or the people who will gain the most value from their blockchain being adopted - with current algorithms making the earliest adopters have more value/other peoples' wealth transferred to them?
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Let me take this opportunity to say "you guys do some damn good work". Certainly one of the more impressive games I play, stability/longevity/feature growth wise, especially considering the size of GGG.

Topical question; however, since the thread on a whole has focused on the more visible but more finniky-to-test aspects of these games. Do your same statements apply more or less to the backend/networking infra? I remember the decent ball of work you guys wrote about a while back when introducing the lockstep change, was curious what went on behind the scenes to support and validate that from an ops/maintainability perspective, if you can speak on that at all.
Sexism outrage as Audi advert in China compares women to second hand cars
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Not true at all. There are methods and practices that can help with the skill of starting and running a business. I've done it before successfully and the advice in the article is helpful. Luck helps too, but you need to set yourself up to be able to take advantage of the luck you get.
Or because Net Neutrality is not as popular in the society at large as it is in the SF headquarters of big tech companies.
To be fair on typescript, I think it's inheriting most of these issues from wanting to give a better way to do things, but keeping (near-)full backwards compatibility with JS.

It's ES5, ES6 etc that is adding to it.
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Suppose that we eliminate net neutrality. Further suppose that, in a few years, I start a video streaming service called "Notflix".

Because ISPs are no longer required to be dumb pipes, they've started charging their customers a premium for access to video content. This is bad for Netflix, of course, because it cuts into their subscriber base.

They crunch some numbers and come up with an amount they're willing to pay the ISPs to exclude their subscribers from this segmented pricing scheme. The ISPs accept this mutually beneficial deal, and everyone's happy, right?

What about Notflix, though? We don't have the capital that Netflix has to pay into this protection racket, so our subscribers must choose between paying the ISP video premium + our subscription fee, or Netflix's subscription fee.

That's an uphill battle and straightforwardly anti-competitive, but is also the precisely the promise of a world without net neutrality.

I also disagree with your assessment that anybody is subsidizing internet giants. All those players pay for the bandwidth they consume to dump their data into the network. The end-user pays for the other end of the connection. Everything is being paid for, proportionally to the usage.

The last-mile ISPs simply want to double-dip. Comcast thinks Netflix should pay both Level 3 AND Comcast for using the pipes, which fundamentally undermines the architecture of the internet.
Any survey like this should include at least one fake framework name to see which percentage of respondents aren't really reading the questions — but they'd probably have to preregister it on NPM to avoid someone publishing it as a joke.