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>the Amiga 500 was probably the last great value product Commodore ever shipped

Agreed, the Amiga 1200 was too little too late, I remember when I first tried programming on the PC coming from Amiga, segmented memory and 16 colors, I thought no way am I ever gonna use this!

Next time I gave it a try there were dos extenders giving you a flat memory model as well as vga 256 color mode-x where each byte corresponded to a pixel on screen, which performed so much faster than the Amiga's blitter with bitplanes that it was suddenly very clear that it was all over for Commodore.
> Low SNR = Much signal, much noise

Or, the reason I gave up fb -- little signal, much noise.
If the extensively[1] debunked[2] "What the Health" makes your list, I'm skeptical of the standards to which you hold your sources.

Can you provide peer reviewed papers making claims comparable to the sources you provided?

[1] https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/science-and-health/2017/7/2...

[2] http://time.com/4897133/vegan-netflix-what-the-health/
Check out Mycroft https://mycroft.ai/blog/mycroft-now-available-raspberry-pi-i...
Unlike the US, the UK has quite liberal gambling legislation. You can legally bet online, there's a casino in every town, there's a betting shop on every high street, pubs can legally install slot machines, you'll see adverts for bookmakers during football matches.

Crucially, it's all regulated. You have to be 18 to enter a betting shop or a casino. A slot machine has to be inspected by the Gambling Commission and must clearly state the payout ratio. Every business and employee involved in gambling has to be licensed. There's a voluntary self-exclusion scheme, so problem gamblers can ban themselves from being able to place a bet.

Lootboxes are effectively a form of gambling - you pay x, but you get a prize worth anything from 0.01x to 1000x based on a random number generator. That RNG isn't audited. Customers don't know the odds. There's no age restriction or controls on advertising. Nobody involved in the business is licensed or subject to scrutiny by a suitable regulator. The operators have no social responsibility obligations.

I'm a gambler myself. I think that US gambling laws are a bit weird. I don't want to ban gambling, but it needs to be properly regulated, regardless of the form it takes. I don't want to see children being stealthily introduced to gambling by predatory game developers.
Not really.

If you built a new filesystem, competent software engineers will heavily test the corner cases. What happens when the fs runs out of space? What happens when the metadata store runs out of space? etc.

The original article mentions bugs that are pretty obvious cases to test. What precisely happens when you have a sparsebundle that exceeds the storage capacity of the containing volume? A PM needs to define what should happen and an eng needs to test that it does.

It's inexcusable that things like this aren't tested and is an organizational failure. This isn't some complex interaction of earbuds with watch and a cloud system. This is a very testable filesystem.
Completely agree. I gave up on Time Machine a long time ago for a variety of reasons, but CCC continues to meet my backup needs perfectly.
Yeah, right. Because linking to an image on a publicy accessible web server is shitting all over copyright law. Also, it strongly implies that the link creator hates puppies.
That's your spouse, come on. We're talking about coworkers, people who casually end up in meetings together and talk shit or play politics with zero regard for scorching the earth to get ahead. You have massive incentive not to casually degrade the existence of your spouse. Your example isn't even a different ballpark it's a different game.

In my experience most arguments of political nature have nothing to do with finding the right answer. These arguments are social posturing. It's not about me being right it's about you not being right. Some of the worst argumentative know-it-alls I ever met were only that way almost as a form of preemptive strike. They were terrified that someone might socially dominate them so they had to dominate the other person first.

For that reason I'm deeply skeptical that Damore was trying to have a conversation in good faith. It seems much more likely to me that he saw a social justice culture that claimed to have a monopoly on what is right and that really got on his nerves. I bet Damore would have been an outspoken social justice advocate if his workshop came to him and asked "hey, do you think these gender initiatives are good?" Instead I bet he got something more along the lines of "this is why you think wrong."
Yep, I had an APFS volume that I couldn't even health check. I was pretty sure it was filesystem corruption as it'd hang and shut off randomly then come back up without issues, same as when the SSD died the first time. Also am r APFS time machine volume would never finish encrypting, even after being plugged in for days.
I think you got the setup of that radio lab episode and not the later points. The points was that:
a) plants are a lot cooler than you think
b) looking at things from a non-standard position can lead to new insights even if that position might be wrong
c) anthropomorphizing causes people to assign values to them that may or may not exist regardless of other evidence.

The turn was after hooking you on all of the feelings by anthropomorphizing the plants more to you, then went back to cold logical examination that there is no structure in the plant for pain or learning and literally pointed out the manipulation they did. Radiolab does this a lot, manipulates the listener to get you meta insight into yourself.
Why do you need “the government” to dictate that you should be allowed to do what you want with your data? I can export both my RSS subscriptions from my RSS aggregator and my podcast subscriptions from my podcast player to OPML. I chose software that lets me do that. I can export my email and calendar data using open formats.

I can’t think of any software or platform where you don’t have an alternative of choosing something that is interoperable and how is the government going to enforce it? Are they going to define the standard? Are they going to enforce that for all developers? Does that mean I have to follow some government standard every time I write software?

If they enforce an open social graph, does that mean the people I am connected to can export my information and import it into another service that I am not already on?
so ads in the notches would be ok?
I will be happier eating meat than I will eating meat-substitutes. Am I supposed to sacrifice my own happiness just so that lobsters can live longer?

Since I'm already sacrificing my happiness for the comfort of lobsters, why not go all out and build them little lobster mansions where we serve them sautéed seaweed with a hand-made orange remoulade glaze every night for dinner? (Can't serve them their preferred meal of crab because that would be immoral).
Critical thinking skill: I’m too smart to make a comment with substance.
Motivation isn't what defines harassment; effect on others is what is relevant to harassment

So this is why hysterical ideologues have latched onto "harassment." It basically short-circuits due process and the necessity of proof. It also scores huge emotional points. It's the perfect vehicle for moral panics and witch-hunts and mob behaviors. Is it any wonder, then, that it is now exploited for political gain?
Whether they suffer more or less when caught vs killed naturally in the ocean, I don't know, but there are other issues with fishing in the ocean, mainly that it is unsustainable.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocean-fish-number...
It's rather obnoxious that they prod us to upgrade every other day while all this is in the news.
Quick link of post mortem blogposts: https://gist.github.com/cheapRoc/d9e73fe05480330c1e36410cbdf...

The best company blogs I see are ones that have their own open source projects. Like Facebook. Where they break off a generally usable piece of their codebase into a library.

Nothing beats a nice version release with an update on all the features and improvements it brings.

https://reactjs.org/blog/2014/02/20/react-v0.9.html

So I consider open source subsidiaries as "company tech blogs". Let's try to keep things purely to blogs:

https://stripe.com/blog/engineering

Favorite post was their post mortem: https://web.archive.org/web/20160126093909/https://support.s...

This was Stripe's 2015 outage with the database index change (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10365798) I presumed it was an index involving customer ID, but it wasn't specific.
The Commodore 128 effectively had a Commodore 64 built-in to support a sort-of "backward compatibility". Apple did this too, with the IIGS, which could boot into what was effectively IIe mode.
ad 2) touchbar is a gimmick making tasks more difficult (you have to visually check what you're doing), battery time is lower in comparison with older MBP, touchpad is uncomfortably big (touching it accidentally). The ports are not really an issue in comparison.

All this feels like they deprecated the Pro series, and replaced it with... this. Honestly - what is the difference between Macbook and MBP now - the touchbar?
It does not, because there's no 1A issue as the first amendment does not grant you any protections from your employer.

I was clearly referring to the greater issue with regards to Google's general power in our culture and what the attitude within Google which was revealed in this event might mean. Not only did you state that you did not want to have that discussion, but then you just tried to shove words in my mouth as if I were trying to have your different discussion and advocating an unsupportable point.

Privates entities aren't required to provide you a soapbox.

Private entities shouldn't be allowed to knock down everyone else's soapbox, which is precisely what Google's market power allows them to more or less do.
just an anecdote but a Chinese person I met told me how crap Amazon is for buying clothing vs taobao. she said taobao has models for most clothing and showed us some examples.

seems like there is plenty of room compete with Amazon and that's just one example.
This interview[0] from James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem on failure always gets me out of a rut.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYCz06bS380
I tried an X, and bought a 7 instead. The notch was ugly.

So now we've shared competing anecdotes. We can conclude only that anecdotes aren't arguments.
You can see how many people are falling for it by looking at the wallet address: https://etherscan.io/address/0x358EF89B4D37f16002cc4A853B321...
"actually executing on a rather ethical business model"

artificial scarcity seasonal events with limited availability on loot boxes which are marketed to children, with fancy skins they want, there's nothing ethical about marketing and profiting from children gambling. Just because even less ethical business models exist, Blizzard and Valve don't get a free pass for being slightly less evil than the competition.
That shift probably would already have happened if Facebook didn't buy WhatsApp and Instagram.
Why do you think it will be legal for a truck to operate without a driver anytime soon?

I mean that is possible but I'm skeptical about us being that shortsighted with so many jobs on the line.
Those K-Cups bottom out at .25? .08 for the water is a lot.
Venus on the Half-Shell (novel)
Writing can have two goals. Sorry three. Firstly, to communicate with yourself: the subclasses being taking notes and "thinking aloud on paper"

The other goal being to communicate with others.

Markdown is good for both. Sorry all three.
Yes it could, but then my guess is that it would reduce traffic to their site quite a bit. That review system is generally the reason that online shopping works. The point is that Walmart has been more anti-competitive than amazon. I believe they have policies which discourage their vendors / resellers from hosting on AWS - http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/06/21/wal-mart-to-v...

Edit: I’m not an amazon fan. I’ve had issues with their delivery and I would definitely prefer ups or fedex to them in that area. I also prefer Apple products to kindle fire series, and so on. I’m not against intelligent regulation either. I’m really against a rush to regulate or calls to regulate in the absence evidence.
>Since the down-voting is the tool we have been given, I have tried to be more active in using it to mark comments that take discussion to wrong direction.

I thought downvotes were to be used on posts which don’t move the discussion or contribute to it. For example, non-sequitors or inaccuracies. Judging which direction is “wrong” sounds like opinion abuse to me.

One of my favorite parts of HN is intelligent and diverse discussion, two things I believe must exist hand in hand.

Maybe this is what you meant, but I would not choose to downvote you either way.
So you reply with another anecdote? The sales figures prove that it has been seen as largely successful.
And the obvious problem in the DMCA case is that the modifications are also necessary to do things that aren't copyright infringement, like side loading apps on iOS, or creating a screen reader for the blind, or making useful third party improvements to the media device in general.

It's as if the problem was people rolling back odometers and instead of passing a law against rolling back odometers they passed a law against making any modifications whatsoever to a vehicle that has an odometer.

There is already a law against copyright infringement. What is the DMCA anti-circumvention law adding to that other than to prohibit things that aren't copyright infringement?
There's a lot more similarity than just the looks. They're both arthropods.
Second, "thought-crime" refers to the rules of a society with a certain type of government (an imaginary one, in Orwell's book)

You know full well that it has come to mean a certain form of deliberately suppressing dissent through coercive means.

Google is not a society, it's a private company and you can't really think of its internal rules as defining crime, or being laws etc.

But our society is a society. Apparently, Google is full of ideologues who I wouldn't expect to have any qualms about unnerving forms of social engineering society, to make it fit their particular political agenda.
Correct, selling a vehicle with a tampered odometer with the intent to defraud is illegal. I repair gauge clusters in the Jeep community and it is very easy to change the odometer. There is a documentation process that has to be followed to remain legal when doing so.
Not until the conquistadors brought the necessary bugs.
Apple's OS support for iOS devices has generally been quite generous -- 5 years is typical. For example, iOS 11, which was released in September 2017, dropped support for the iPhone 5, which was released in September 2012.
You and I are not even discussing the same thing. I am talking about discussions about Damore on the internet generally and on HN in specific. Discussion on HN can develop over hours, days, weeks, months even years. Some people here have known each other for years. In most cases, they can just walk away if things get too harried, regroup, rethink, conclude "that phrasing went super bad" and try something else.
From the subhead above the picture: 'If you do the maths, all of a sudden you are talking about 40,000 building foundations up there'
"doesn't have raid5 in geom but has raidz1 in zfs" got me. Geom is useful as a layer abstraction without raid5 and zfs has raid5 equivalent (and better) so.. why does it matter?
>I thought downvotes were to be used on posts which don’t move the discussion or contribute to it. For example, non-sequitors or inaccuracies. Judging which direction is “wrong” sounds like opinion abuse to me.

Downvotes can be used for any reason at all, as can upvotes. AFAIK only flagging has guidelines.
For simple stuff, I prefer org-mode. I have great memories of using OmniOutliner on OS X Tiger. The hierarchical nature of outliners is great for structuring thoughts quickly. Org is even better, as it's plain text and has tons of modules for all sorts of crazy things, including kanban or spaced-repetition. And plenty of export options, including many facilitated by pandoc, literate programming, etc.

I do use LaTeX, but I have a love-hate relationship with it. Lots of LaTeX packages don't compose well, and there are tons of pitfalls. But there are beautiful parts too, like TikZ or Memoir. I'd be happier with TeX, but few people use that.
Kotlin Native is progressing well?
Yeah I don't get it either. It doesn't impact consumer's ability to get either product.

Would we force Ford dealerships to sell Hondas as well? For Whole Foods to carry Safeway-branded products?

Of course not.
That's impossible. He clearly stated "Literally no one".
Thanks.

I checked Damore's Twitter account, and he has not yet made a statement on this, perhaps wisely following his lawyer's advice.

from the NLRB Memo: "[Damore's] statements about immutable traits linked to sex—such as women’s heightened neuroticism and men’s prevalence at the top of the IQ distribution—were discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment, notwithstanding [his] effort to cloak comments with “scientific” references and analysis, and notwithstanding “not all women” disclaimers."

Interesting. The Board completely dismissed the scientific arguments, even going so far as to put quotes around "scientific". They didn't accept that he was making scientific statements at all! It's not clear whether they understood that Damore used "neuroticism" as a specific and uncontroversial psychological term, and not in the folk meaning of "crazy". I'm going to suppose no, since their qualifiers "heightened neuroticism" and "more prone to neuroticism" don't come from Damore's memo, and imply the "crazy" connotation.
If you are just reaching for something to jot notes and whatnot, you could do worse than looking at org mode. Pandoc is nice, but I have yet to find that a simple export from org doesn't get me most of where I want to go.
Yeah, that part didn't make sense. I would agree with the argument that a day of torture with no lasting effects would be preferable to death though.
Wow!

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights on this, and articulating them so well.
Do you think that will prevent the supposed harm?

Lottery tickets include odds on the back of the cards. I think that has a very small effects on discouraging play. And those odds are pretty straight forward (1 in 2,000,000 for a 500k payout). I imagine information about how randomization works would be even more indecipherable.
date gets me every time (hah). The date -jnu on OSX is incomplete against bad norms. Linux date is exceptionally hard to remember how to back convert date +%s strings to textual forms which bsd date does elegently.
That's serious damage. I'm a pilot but not an engineer, I would not fly an aircraft with that kind of damage without A&P consult, and there's a decent chance only ferry flight would be legal if it were flight worthy at all.

The centrifugal force stress at the hub (root) of a blade is thousands of times the weight of the blade. Easily there's tens to hundreds of tons of force "trying" to pull the blade apart and this not so little nick, makes that much more likely to succeed.
First off, she never mentioned Overwatch. She mentioned lootboxes as a whole. When you view the greater picture of lootboxes, arguing that they're somehow more ethical because one game does it better than others isn't a particularly strong argument. Assuming that her attack on lootboxes is a focused attack on Overwatch would be categorically incorrect.

Second, there is constant pressure to buy boxes. You have various event-limited lootboxes designed to encourage people buying on impulse, else they miss out. There's constant feedback into that desire loop through a dripfeed of free lootboxes designed to get you hooked.

Third, lootboxes do not prevent P2W behavior. You can see this in various Gacha games whose functionality is similar to lootboxes as well as games like Battlefront 2 where the player was encouraged to buy more to be stronger.

And the option for 'no support' did not seem to be a problem for say, League of Legends. Which until recently was surviving without any sort of lootbox paradigm based off of buying cosmetics. SFV is also similar. You create a bunch of contrived scenarios where the only end result is 'lootboxes or death' which we can see is false, given how many games seem to do just fine without them.
Markdown can do quite a lot, but it doesn't have any way to write mathematical formulae. Since that's 90% of why I use LaTeX in most cases it seems silly to recommend Markdown. LaTeX has a superset of features, and is well suited to what it does properly (typesetting). Markdown is quick and easy to use, so it's good for blog posts.
Eternal September seems to have "sadly started to affect HN" since the very beginning, or about a few months ago, depending on who you ask, and how old their account is.
I think the easiest answer is by testing it. I don't think a purity and substance test isn't that expensive.
Most farm animals in the US are fed by commercial agriculture. Eating meat multiplies the amount of plant agriculture required by a significant factor (dependent on the animal).

Often I see the concept you pointed out presented in a way that implies meat has separate and distinct negative externalities from plants, and that it's roughly equivalent whether you choose set of negatives A or set of negatives B. In reality one is a superset of the other.
I'm not sure what community he's talking about, but I can well imagine the Apple Tribe looking down on anything but pure OEM equipment, and anything that allows such a thing.
Musk gets permission to do a tiny bit of digging for his Hyperloop
He's citing "legitimate scientific sources" but he doesn't understand them, so his citations are meaningless.

You seemingly refuse to substantiate this.

I made no claim that his interpretations are "wrong". I said that his interpretations are most likely wrong because he's not a psychologist

What would you say if a prominent and widely cited academic and clinical Psychologist corroborated his interpretations?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU

I think your response would be to again be intellectually dishonest and tar him by association. However, in doing so, you abandon your former position.

You keep insulting me.

No, what you are doing semantically parallels what climate science deniers do. You are using the same techniques and tactics, seemingly counting on the audience to be too lazy to read the actual sources for themselves. My comparison is functional. If you wish to prevent me from making that point, then please start substantive responses, using facts, reasoning, and references. Otherwise you are just using the climate denier tactic of repeated assertion.
Shit... I was editing two comments at once and that last paragraph there was supposed to go in the other comment.
Facebook is just getting started. Imagine you have a dataset that can identify over a billion people around the world simply by looking at their face. When you walk into McDonalds, cameras analyze you and the people you enter with. Oh, there's John Smith and his friend Tom. He loves the McFlurry. Instantly the digital menus rearrange to feature a large McFlurry, animating and advertising a deal on the largest size. Facebook is just beginning to monetize the value of what they have created.