skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you to an extent: The IBM PC was not a very elegant design, and other computers certainly had less complexity to them. But there is a point I want to make which defends this choice somewhat:

Newbies like me are more frustrated by thinking there's no path from introductory material to something useful or realistic. Something that's more immediately friendly would be a simplified virtual machine with no or trivial peripheral hardware, like Redcode in Core War:

http://vyznev.net/corewar/guide.html

The death of education is "So What?": "OK, I've learned to play Core War and I know enough to write a warrior that can occasionally beat other warriors written by beginners. So far, so good... so what? I want to program computers in assembly, not play games using assembly programs, so where's the path from where I am now to where I want to be?"

In this case, the pathway from VM opcodes to native opcodes is hardware interface and, while the IBM PC has some funky hardware, it's heartening to know that your code could, in principle and barring emulation errors, run unmodified on real hardware and do something. Not something useful, but you can get to useful. You can ramp up to it, now that you have the pathway in front of you. It might be a long pathway, but it's there.
You could read a biography of Bryan; he was an important figure of the era, so there's plenty to choose from.

A great short biographical sketch can be found in Richard Hofstadter's classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/773961.The_American_Poli...), which is an excellent, compulsively readable book, though Hofstadter had a low opinion of Bryan so this is not the source to turn to if you want to argue with me. The "I will look up the arguments later" quote can be found in Robert Cherney's A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1704339.A_Righteous_Caus...), which I haven't read myself but looks to be a good general-interest book-length biography. A contrarian view on Bryan can be found in Michael Kazin's A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79196.A_Godly_Hero), but the rehabilitation of populism has been a project of Kazin's for decades now, so it will come as no surprise that Kazin has more respect for Bryan than most historians.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40475242/how-a-hacker-helped-the...
We already have the Air Force Space Command, which is the mission that The Space Force is going to take over. I'd say what they'll be doing is about a well defined as any other forces role.

We don't know what a major war in orbit will look like, but we don't know what a major war against modern naval powers would look like either.
Keyboard: Kinesis Advantage (1 and 2)

Mouse: Still searching...
American airports are publicly owned, and get most of their income from parking, and no one wants to change it.
The dispute over bimetallic currency is now more than a hundred years old and has been made entirely moot by the floating US dollar and the post-Bretton Woods international monetary order.

Setting aside the technical detail (gold vs. silver), the debate was really over hard vs. soft money. The issue is as relevant today as it was in the 1800s.

Hard (scarce, gold) money policies favor lenders, who care very much about getting the full real value of their loans back. Inflation eats into their returns by decreasing the future value of money.

Soft money policies favor borrowers, who pay back loans in ever cheaper currency through inflation. Buy a farm today with a 10-year loan, and every year the real value of the money you pay back (factoring inflation) decreases.

What we see with a lot of the interest in Bitcoin is a direct reaction to decades of soft-money policies by the world's governments.

Here's the money quote:

... There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. ...

This is what the Cross of Gold speech was about, in a nutshell.
today in order to do a Google search I had to prove to Google that I wasn’t a robot. And even though I did it right the second time, they still made me do it a third time. I just remember sitting there going, Google, I actually am a human and your AI sucks so if I have to tap on storefronts and cars one more time to do a freaking Google search then I’m just using Bing.
This certainly explains reports of almost every Google car accident being the case of human rear-ending it. Google did it right from the start, didnt gamble with false positives.
False dichotomy perhaps. One can be pro-Brexit while not liking Theresa May’s government’s handling of the mandate.
And by what legal authority did you just state that?

Microsoft was forced to ship competitive browsers in the OS to avoid monopoly claims, but Apple - unlike Microsft, they won't even allow 'un-blessed' apps to RUN on the phone. Seems patently illegal
It's a distraction from the fact that Michael Cohen might cooperate with Mueller, Paul Manafort is currently in prison, and it just became public that Roger Stone had another meeting with the Russians.
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I really hope this sees some success. I loved the way Plan9 and Inferno did things compared to UNIX and DOS.
my dude

edit: this guy quests
The Mathematics of Spot It (2014)
It's not breaking the law though.

Don't like it? Don't buy an iPhone then. Nobody is holding a gun to your head to use iOS or the App Store. End of story.

There's a number of handsets for you to choose from that aren't Apple's.
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It dropped a lot of the themes, pacing and mechanics of Diablo 1 and 2.

The classic aesthetic of Diablo is a slow-medium paced dungeon crawler rouge like with brooding death metally horror atmosphere and deep lore.

Diablo 3 is fast paced anime esque disney lore slot machine
> Power creep is real. If you remember the days when Savannah Lions was highly efficient, you're in for quite a shock.

Creatures have steadily grown in power while non-creature spells have fallen in power quite a bit. The designers of the game concluded that making the game more creature-centric lead to more interesting gameplay decisions. Power level overall has been trending downwards if anything.
It's just the typical hipster journalist looking for any excuse possible to justify Apple status signalling. You have to create something to sneer at before you can feel smug and superior about what OS a proper POS terminal should run before allowing it to process your black card.
There are lots of risks in A/B testing. Is B a complete failure for some basic UI issue, and you just lost real customers or harmed a relationship?

Doing this step first is a good way to avoid some of the worst case issues.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9264195
Consumers don't want that.
Apple, Qualcomm battle over possible ban on some U.S. iPhone imports
Really?

I've a system that has for years swapped NACHA files with a major bank for hundreds of thousands of accounts each day, and without fail it has worked 100% of the time! Guess what we use? SFTP whitelisted to specific IPs. A fixed width GPG encrypted file. That's it.

Can't say the same for most of these rubbish REST of an APIs out there that I've had to suffer through.

Some 70s technologies btw are great. There's nothing wrong with a well defined fixed width file with checksums. I wish all data files were those or CSVs.
I don't think that's the point. The article says the "Square Register" device is $999. Obviously, you can get an iPad for much less than that.
While I really liked the idea of Hellgate: London the subscription model they attempted to push was a huge turn-off. It was more like Diablo/Diablo 2 than it was an MMO, very few people playing together in an instance. This means that it had comparable costs of Diablo 2 with battle.net.

The subscription model looked more like a cheap way to squeeze extra money out of players. Charging extra for additional content (like Lord of Destruction for Diablo 2) would make a lot more sense.
Huh? "Here's item A that breaks the law - if you don't like it, don't buy it". That's the crux of your tirade.

Apple's legal non-compliance cannot be justified by the existence of Android. Hence the lawsuit
Ask HN: How to begin and implement Machine learning as a JavaScript Developer?
I'm just a beginner who is puzzled where to start and what to do with machine learning. I'm aware of ML use cases but don't have a clear vision on how to progress. Algorithms and Maths excite me. I would like to get hands-on ML and build software on top of it. Any kind of help from ML enthusiasts would be highly appreciated. Thanks!
Python 2 support only, which is sad. I fully intend to try out the Azure provider, but without access to Python libraries there is not much I can create off the cuff.

Also, this reminds me a bit of metaparticle, which I’m quite fond of.
The entire genre of flight and space-sims has almost entirely gone away and to me its such a tremendous shame- with today's multi-monitor setups and wide screens they would be such a better experience. X-wing, descent, flight simulator, were all so much fun. I still have my MS sidewinder collecting dust in a closet- which may be part of the problem- these games really needed a decent flight stick to enjoy, and that's a big barrier to entry.
Ahhh, Zen of Graphic Programming was my one of first graphics books, which led straight to Foley, vanDam, et. al., and I was hooked :)

It's safe to say Abrash's book had a big impact on me.

Norton's books also make me nostalgic, so thank you for that, GP.
https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/...

One chapter talks about Mattis, including various emails that were sent. He comes across as genuinely wanting to do the best thing for his men and hoping that Theranos could save lives in the field. There never were any field tests, because Mattis listened to his underlings when they said it would need to get FDA approval first. They then offered to let Theranos test random blood samples to validate the results but Theranos never took them up on that offer.
I started with 6502, then ARM in 1989 (thanks acorn!), then a little bit of x86. The latter was a culture shock. It’s was like grooming the devil’s genitals in comparison to ARM. It drove me to C and Unix where I’ve been happy ever since (occasionally a bit of PIC assembly as well).

It’s not scary just nasty.
I didn't stick around past two years because I regularly had to make decisions based on assumptions that I outlined above and I just wasn't comfortable with it. It felt bad reading a pretty good application from a kid in Puerto Rico, but passing because "We'll see much better Puerto Ricans in the NYC schools when we review those". Those kids didn't know they were competing, but they definitely were.

I'd say a university's doctoral programs are designed to "expand horizons and channel the talents of hard-working people toward productive and fulfilling ends". Their undergraduate programs are to perpetuate a base of influence and financial prosperity across as many spheres of society as possible and their masters programs are to print money from selling credentials to middling corporate people looking for a leg up.
Illegal immigration is illegal. If you do it you are literally a criminal. How is that not arguing in good faith?

> I don't want to meet someone who's "neutral" on the idea of separating children from their parents, and locking them up.

You meet people that support the law and legal immigration (but not illegal) all of the time. Most people hold this opinion.
It's not a crux at all it's the facts, Apple isn't breaking the law.

Whatever gymnastics you need to do to not think that is on your own. The Supreme court is being pulled in due to a split opinion, but one federal court has already ruled it legal.

That's not breaking the law. Also "if you don't like it, don't buy it" is literally how the market works. If you don't agree with the software decisions by Apple, you can happily flock elsewhere.
Great Product!
Love to use it
By the way it would be great if you configure the swap file to be setup for each new instance.
For a web server under high load, exceptions are extremely expensive to build the stack frame as mentioned below. The rule of thumb is to reserve Exceptions for Exceptional Circumstances (oom, unable to connect to db etc) and to use a pattern like in this article for un-exceptional exceptions such as required field validation errors. Having done this clean up a few times, it makes a huge difference.
Musique Concrète is the near ancestor of the West Coast school of synthesis, the Tape Music Center, Don Buchla, et al.

While I do not care much for MC, tape music or WC synthesis (more of a Moog guy myself), I do appreciate the work they did in breaking the mold when it comes to what's possible in synthesis.

And then there's the work of Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and all the crazy work they did on Dr. Who and other series, almost all in tape. Truly ground-breaking stuff that enriched the musical landscape.
And yet phage therapy's been successfully used under communism but not capitalism. This is because it's cheap, low tech, and there are no economic barriers to market entry.
I travel a lot, so my selections are made with this in mind.

Kebyoard: Logitech K380. Perfect travel size, excellent keys, lovely stylings and — from what I can tell — infinite battery life. (Mine has been running for a year on the same batteries with no complaints.) It also doesn't bend like the expensive Apple wireless keyboard if you chuck it in your backpack.

Mouse: Logitech G403 Wireless. (I think the G703 might be an updated model.) It's the perfect middle ground between an office and gaming mouse: G903 guts, IntelliMouse feel. (It even has the clicky side buttons!) I was worried that charging every 2-3 days would be annoying, but it just hasn't been a problem so far: the mouse charges in half an hour and you can use it with the cable in wired mode.

I also spent a lot of time with the Logitech MX Master[2], but the Bluetooth worked awfully on my Mac, and the latency while using the USB receiver (however small) was unsuitable for my FPS gaming needs. Boy, that scroll wheel was nice, though!

[2]: http://archagon.net/blog/2017/05/22/almost-winning-the-wirel...
The phages are found in nature so you cant really patent them. Using them to treat patients has been done for a century or so so it's hard to patent that.

The FDA could help by letting anyone provide phage therapy without further testing given it's been proven over the decades and is pretty harmless to humans. At the moment I think you'd be blocked by regulations, unnecessary ones in my opinion.
I'd venture to say it's closer to maybe 99% of the battle for women, and maybe 95% for men.

Even Jason Fenske, of the Engineering Explained channel, is super attractive. He has a channel dedicated to the minutiae of automotive technology that is considered highly niche. Not many people care to learn about tire sipes, yet he has a 10 minute video on the subject. I bet his audience demographics skew very heavily male.
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The great-grandparent was providing a justification for splitting space operations off of AFSC, as its mission is "vague and nebulous" and manages to eat up money and personnel in an opaque manner.

You countered that other areas of the military could also be "vague and nebulous" and could be split off as well.

I put forth that the other areas you mentioned have well-defined purposes, but spacecraft do not.

First: now you have mentioned that we already have the AFSC. Doesn't this seem a bit circular to you?

Second, AFSC already operates satellites, including the GPS constellation. If the Space Command inherits ownership of those satellites it will indeed be "operating spacecraft" without any real or described grandiosity.
As to your second point, like I said, it wasn't about asian people. There were TONS of white kids with applications like the ones I outlined. Those kids got whacked too, but asians were the biggest group in the cohort.
I wonder for how long traditional style of music charts and albums sales hold up for when digital streaming and downloading is becoming the norm.
Right, but one manufacturer's device does not a market make.
There is a rather sizable and mature industry providing mapping products for first responders.
Looking at the DMCA requirements, it doesn't appear like it would require a lot of human intervention.

1. Copyright owner provides written notification of the alleged infringement.

The notification has to provide reasonably sufficient information to allow Google to locate the alleged infringing material; provide contact information for the claimant; include a statement that the claimant has a good faith believe that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement that the information the claim is accurate, and that the claimant is authorized to act for the owner.

2. Google then has to remove or disable the material, and take reasonable steps to notify the uploader of the issue.

If the uploader does not make a counter notification, it looks like that's the end of Google's obligations.

If the uploader files a counter notification, Google has to notify the claimant. If the claimant does not file a lawsuit against the uploader within 14 days, Google has to restore the material.

Note that nothing in here seems to require Google to actually look at the material and decide if they think it is infringing. Nor does it require them to proactively seek to find infringing material and notify content providers or block such material. They just have to check that the claimant (and the uploader if they get a counter notice) have included the things in their notice that the law requires. They should be able to automate that for most claims.

The ContentID system seems to be going far beyond what DMCA requires them to do to keep their safe harbor. I wonder why they are doing that? Maybe because they want to also be content sellers, and so want to keep the content providers happy with them?
I don't like mechanical keyboards. I think the Apple Magic keyboard 2 has some of the best chiclet keys ever made. I also really liked the keyboard on the Surface Book 1.

As for the mouse I really like the Logitech G Pro. It's precise, lightweight, and the shape is great for fingertip grip.
Except this was a discussion specifically about diablo 1 on a post about diablo 1's source code.
Keyboard: CoolerMaster QuickFire Rapid

It's a reasonably-priced mechanical keyboard, but not too loud for an office environment.

I also have a DAS, but prefer the CM
Actually, the iAPX432 came first in 1976. When it became obvious that this project was going to take longer than expected (it was only launched in 1981) Intel did a quick extension to the 8080 to keep customers from going to the competition while they waited.
Where did I say anything like that?
Ask HN: Where to find an Agent? Do they exist?
I am a freelance developer who can complete projects very efficiently, however I'm spending almost all of my time waiting on customers, chasing sales, and negotiating contracts.

Do freelance software development "agents" exist? Where could I go about hiring one of them? Will they work on commission only, or is that unreasonable?
I've always felt like false assertion of copyright should cause the loss of copyright. Seems like a fair balance for me.

And before someone gets on me...I realize that these are automated filters that are rarely asserted by the actual copyright holder.
In California all Cellular 911 calls are answered by CHP.
> Logitech K380

It's a great little keyboard. I was skeptical at first but it grew on me.
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Like I said, it's not a race thing, its that a lot of the asian applicants all basically look the same on paper and have the same stated goals. Lots of white kids apply with the same "look" and also get rejected. Those students are not seen as bringing enough to the table.
The same legal authority you've used to make your argument.

And Microsoft's situation was quite different from this one. For one, they had an overwhelming monopoly in desktop operating systems (something like 95% marketshare), and they had several times been caught intentionally breaking competitors' offerings.
Google Maps removes Uber integration
> I would vote legislation limiting the accident liability of 'qualified' companies developing self driving tech.

I'm not sure I agree, but if there were something like this, I think one of the requirements for being 'qualified' would be fully publishing all the data on any accident.
Ok, and that's fine. It gives people choice.

If people want the option where you trust the customer, that's what credit cards are for.

And if people make the opposite choice, that is ALSO ok, and is what crypto is for.

It is still very valuable to be able to move that trust somewhere else.

To give a concrete example, what if the merchant is inherently more trust worth in a specific market? Then, it is BETTER to put that trust on the merchant.
How does the level of locking of the Apple App store on iOS or Mac OS insulate Apple from outside competition the likes of Samsung, Google, Huawei, etc?

Edit:
In fact, doesn't the locked-down state of the hardware actually encourage competitors to release their own products? Anti-consumer could be valid here, but anti-competitive just doesn't seem correct.
> what did you use for chassis since theirs is custom

FWIW, in addition to their awesome disk stats Backblaze also provides blueprints for their chassis as well as a BOM for the parts inside
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/15/lightning-labs-just-raised...
Central banks should consider offering accounts to everyone
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I don't think so. The lock there just ensures that no pending transactions are going to write new rows with smaller sequence number.
> Too many people are willing to shill for free, which hurts anyone trying to do it for money.

But you're still a shill either way. Maybe I'm just old but when I was growing up being a sellout was a pejorative. Now it's considered a virtue. I frankly don't get it.
Being able to move the trust around is still valuable.

IE, if the merchant is more trustworthy, then we want that trust to be with the merchant, and on with the customer.

When the merchant is less trustworthy, well that's what credit cards are for.
Because they're natural organisms. You can't patent them any more than you could patent a breed of dog.

You might be able to patent genetically engineered ones, or a novel process involving them.
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Not in locations with substantial street lighting. It's usually in an unlit road that you get the danger (especially if you aren't using high beams due to an oncoming car).
Lawsuits like this, I'd imagine.

Also, waaaaaay more asians need to be running for Congress. It's getting better but they're still underrepresented slightly (4.8% of reps are asian while 5.6% of americans are).
For paid apps, it does. App store revenues totalled some $60B in 2017, and guess which app store saw an overwhelming majority of those dollars flow through it. There's your market
Maybe we should work on getting civilians in space first...
Solve 150+ random leetcode questions. Play a video on YouTube of someone watching you and "taking notes."
But the individual shops aren't, right? Why wouldn't they want to sell more things that travelers are interested in buying?