skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because PCs were IBM only when they appeared.

The clone market only happened thanks to the clean room reverse engineering done by Compaq, which prevented IBM to legally kill the clones.

They tried to do it later via the MCA architecture and PS/2 platform, but failed to do so.
People regularly confuse "security through obscurity" with "obscuring your security". The first is bad, the second is powerful.

Even before I read about the hacksaw (long ago) I knew clubs by themselves were bad cause they were visible. They reveal intel to the attacker. Intel the attacker can take and, in safe environment, at their leisure, devise way to defeat it. If the attacker doesn't know what countermeasures there are, (or are common) they can't defeat them. GPS trackers can be hidden, but car thieves know about them so they can counter (say by getting car into faraday cage ASAP, or using radio wave detector to track it down and disable. So, you have to be more creative, unusual.

Where the club could be useful is a honey pot. Put it on the worthless (to you) car you want stolen so the more valuable (to you) car is skipped over.

Maybe bait car has secondary devices for tracking that thieves will be less likely to look for since it had the club and and multiple defenses are unexpected.
I second this. I just finished this book and it was excellent - however the edition I read is called "The science of mediation". They're very honest about which studies provide robust evidence and really quantify what the benefits of meditation are. They also delved into the 4 "neural pathways" meditation transforms. I've been meditating for 3.5 years and it was a real eye opener reading about how the different techniques I use affect different parts of my brain.

A highly recommended read!
As arrogant as this comment may sound, when you're talking about a facility like Amazon's HQ2, HN user "clarity" is right.

There really is only one place that combines a ridiculous amount of technology expertise, with an east coast location, and multi-modal transport links to both the US and the Europe-Africa side of the world.

But that's all the more reason that NY state did not need to offer that much in subsidies. (Again, I know they got a good deal, but not giving Amazon anything would have been an even better deal.)
Defending Apple's business decision as if it were really a means to protect the user from harm is rather silly. It took a while for Apple to allow effective ad blockers on iOS, was that meant to protect users as well?

As said, I never have (nor had) problems with notification spam for the simple reason that only allow notifications for sites which need it. I don't have problems with spam because I block the stuff, I hardly see any advertising as I block that as well.

Communications is an adversarial field, there are those out there who'll try to get their message across by any means. Whatever way you choose to limit their access to your eyes and ears (and other sensory organs, and eventually your brain), there will be trade-offs. As an example I choose not to have a television in my house as that medium has been entirely taken over by adversarial parties. I do have computers of all sorts which connect to the 'net even though those are also being targeted by those parties. In contrast to television the computers give me the means to tailor the communications to (what I perceive to be) my wants and needs without needing to allow too many other parties access to my time and attention.
You put zero effort into your comments. That is insulting.

You asked for an example and I wasted my time giving you one.
The BBS ANSI scene was fun, but then we moved to Photoshop. Now it’s fun to work with Retina level graphics! And the tools now... I love Lightwave.

So it’s always been peculiar that some are attached to this particular style. Then I noticed a bit of it is quite explicit or just nasty, and the art style complements the restricted artistic method ANSI provides.

Also since I associate it with my youth, it just seems so immature. That’s obviously my personal bias.
Acorn and Sinclair were mostly UK. Commodore did better most other places in Western Europe, with some local variation. Eg pockets of Amstrad,abd I think Apple did OK in France.

Growing up in Norway I never saw an Acorn machine in person until someone brought some RiscOS machine to a party in '92. One unfortunate kid in my class had a Spectrum. Other than that I rarely saw non-Commodore machines outside of computer stores until PCs started being common, though Atari STs did also gain a foothold.

Interestingly I also never saw an Apple machine in person until the Macintosh - the pre-Mac Apple machines were virtually unheard of in most of Europe.
Maybe I am not a UI designer but I much prefer rule based approaches than drawing.

Rule based means I tell use instruction like "this button must be on top on that button horizontally centered", "this label must fit that text", "this image must be between this and that", etc... and let the layout engine deal with it. UIs are usually not paintings, window sizes vary, text length changes with localization, decorations change depending on the environment, etc... Approaching a UI like a canvas will certainly yield good results on the designer machine, but will look out of place everywhere else, if it is usable at all.

I think it is the basis or what they call "responsive web design".
AMP always seems to be slower for me. I don't understand what Google is doing.
>No, that's not how it works. You can't compare to a random, made up scenario. Go look up antitrust cases...

>Seriously, I'm not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse or really don't understand.

You're wrong about this:

>The plaintiff must demonstrate that there is a likelihood that the scheme alleged would cause a rise in prices above a competitive level sufficient to compensate for the amounts expended on the predation, including the time value of the money invested in it

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-466.ZS.html

The test is "above a competitive level" and not more than prices before the scheme.

>Your product sucking is not a antitrust issue, it is simply your incompetence.

No, it's because your competitor is willing to spend more money than you and give their product away for free to protect their monopoly in another area.

>Asking that Google or Coca-Cola be punished for having a better product isn't only naive, is ignorance.

That's not what anyone is asking. If Google can make better maps for less cost than everyone else, bully for them. But that isn't what they do. They devote more resources than their competitors to make better products while giving them away for free. And they do it to extinguish competition and further cement their search/ad monopoly.
I just use a tp link router off the shelf and install openwrt on it. I haven't yet seen any routers that come with openwrt by default.

P.S. Never buy a ubiquiti devices router if you want to use openwrt.
Chess World Championship: Stockfish live-analyzing game 7
They don’t need to be monitored by a person 24/7. All you need is a decent video analytics; most are even built-in IP cameras these days. A simple one that’s effective just detects motion within a zone during certain hours
interesting. I misunderstood your comment, but now it makes clear sense. Thanks
Mastered? Far too soon to say that. Within the span of a few decades they moved from party rule where there seemed to be a meritocracy in place, to authoritarian rule by their president, which included an "anti-corruption" campaign that conveniently consolidated power and removed other power blocs. Doesn't sound like they are maintaining the balance you extol
Ask HN: How to deal with lonliness while running an early stage startup?
What are your biggest challenges with Pagerduty, OpsGenie and VictorOps?
Networking and being anonymous don't go together very well.
Show HN: Send yourself messages on WhatsApp
Can't or won't is a distinction without a difference. Desktop/laptop computer ownership is flat and has been for the past decade [0] with smart phones and tablets growing [1].

What's the use in learning an entirely new operating system on your desktop whenever most of your time (65%) is being spent on Mobile anyway? [2]

[0] http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/the-demographics-of-de...
[1] http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/technology-device-owne...
[2] "Mobile now accounts for about 65% of total digital media consumption" https://hackernoon.com/how-much-time-do-people-spend-on-thei...
> 9/11 was not conducted by a nation state.

Of course this post will be downvoted or ignored but maybe someone is willing to check the links to learn.

It was conducted by at least 2 states: USA and Israel; the only "beneficiaries". Besides the USA is not a nation state like Israel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_state

Larry Silverstein: WTC 7 "Pull It" from 2002 Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7lSC3jXFDE

Stand for the Truth: A Government Researcher Speaks Out | 9/11 Evidence and NIST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvAv-114bwM

The 9/11 Building Collapse | Richard Gage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu2QqxpYcvA

9/11 Suspects: The Dancing Israelis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XHm56O2NTI&t=414

9/11 Trillions: Follow The Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3xgjxJwedA&t=3131

CIA Agent Confesses On Deathbed: ‘We Blew Up WTC7 On 9 11’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmx-DiWUqfs
What are you talking about? The premise of this product was that it cost a fraction of what existing treatments cost, and was far better. That's the opposite of the dynamic you just described.
ZFS is no harder to use than ext4, if all you want is a file system. But then once you start needing multiple volumes or multiple disks per storage pool (eg LVM, mdadm, etc) then ZFS really does come into it's own for being by far the easiest tool for solve those problems (that I've used anyway).

The hardest part on Linux if you're running a distro that doesn't officially support ZoL so you'd have to compile you're own kernel module. But even that isn't the problem it used be in the old days of Linux since we usually have bootstrapping scripts to handle the pain now (however if you can run FreeBSD then that's always a good choice as well. It's genuinely a really nice platform to use).
q supports any kind of input and output delimiter (-d <input-delim> and -D <output-delim> respectively).

harelba (creator of q)
I'm less sure of this, but although correctness may not be a goal but I think in jockeying for position they are expressing an understanding of what will hurt or help them. I'm not sure I'm ready to say it is for position alone they are fighting for in the truest postmodern sense (sorry for using that word). I would like to think values and cultures have actual meaning instead of being completely content-free; and even if it was so our actions in accordance with those beliefs pretend they are real even if we may doubt them.
Learnings from 3,000 hours of creating a desktop app with PyQt
Nor is it actionable. Exists solely for the "critic" to signal how unimpressed they are, as if seeing the defects in something is some challenging feat.

We're in this obnoxious age of confusing useful criticism with any reaction one can come up with on the fly, no matter how superficial. Like it's their destiny to weigh in on something as rapidly as they can, and as if they're doing some critical service for the universe.

The comment above exemplifies this when they say "what, we're supposed to pat them on the head and say attaboy?" No, the problem is that you think you need to fire off some undigested response at all. If you have nothing meaningful to say, then just say nothing. It's okay.
Awk in Lisp as a macro with Lisp AST syntax:

http://nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-000264BC

* Implements almost all salient POSIX features and some Gawk extensions.

* awk expression can be used anywhere an expression is allowed, including nested within another awk invocation. Awk variables are lexically scoped locals: each invocation has its nf, fs, rec and others.

* awk expression returns a useful value: the value of the last form in the last :end clause.

* can scan sources other than files, such as in-memory string streams, strings and lists of strings.

* supports regex-delimited record mode, and can optionally keep the record separator as part of the record (via "krs" Boolean variable).

* unlike Awk, range expressions freely combine with other expressions including other range expression.

* ranges are extended with semantic 8 variations, for succinctly expressing range-based situations that would require one or more state flags and convoluted logic in Awk: http://nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-000264BC

* strongly typed: no duck-typed nonsense of "1.23" being a number or string depending on how you use it. Only nil is false.

Recently accepted Unix Stackexchange answer featuring awk macro: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/316664/change-speci...
I'm attacking the part of your argument that it's a scam based on your own limited knowledge.

You then respond by asking me to present proof to you as if your own ignorance is somehow compelling.
If you have a 2% interest rate, 10-15k in your account will generate that amount monthly. Totally doable if you’re living in a country with a COL that low to begin with.
Golang proposal: crypto/tls: make server name extension optional
Cant collect damages if the tenant is flat broke :/
Show HN: Opensourcing geolocation server written in crystal language
yet I believe that meditation is not a tool to calm the mind, but rather to focus it. The mind is always active and meditation gives you the means to shift the activity focus to something healthier, even if it means that the mind is working harder at it.

When you meditate you are not disperse in a thoughtless slumber, that would be the first stage of non-rem sleep, but rather completely focused. That might explain the increase in gamma waves.
That's pretty good. With the device is there some sort of emergency way to split the lock in case of emergency? It would be unfortunate to be unable to make outgoing calls if you needed to call 911.
It is that and so much more. That quiet place is infinitely deep.
Does anyone have any pointers to a resource for single disk ZFS setups? Last time I looked, most search results were entry points into a persistent flame war.
From my reading in the past primarily because cross OS portability was not a design goal for hammer. This lets them take advantage of tighter integration with DragonFly's VM and VFS subsystems.
The first "affordable" PC clones (in Europe at least) didn't appear until 1986, with the Amstrad PC1512 (apparently also marketed in the US as the PC6400):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512
It's not "inexplicable". uniQure is a going concern with treatments in the pipeline for Huntingtons, hemophilia, and congestive heart failure. They have a finite amount of resources and are allocating them to projects that they're more optimistic about than this one. Glybera is of questionable efficacy and is very expensive to administer (they're on the hook for long-term monitoring for everyone they dose).

It's not at all hard to see why they'd stop production.
Yeah, but the drug also has weak efficacy. Who cares if it is "only" 100k instead of 1M if it do what it claims?
Hi, q's creator here,

Any kind of input/output delimiter is supported (-d <delim> and -D <delim>), and also multiple encodings (-e <encoding>). Also, q performs automatic type inference over the actual data.

Encoding autodetection and fixed width files are not supported though.
Common sense says that since FB owns WhatsApp no one should trust it. It's no different than if China owned WhatsApp. I mean WeChat. Just common sense.
This is an interesting quote that I think is somewhat relevant:

“Can these four Yoga Aṅga – Yama, Niyama, Āsana, Prāṇāyāma
– be practiced by everyone at every stage of life?
How often and how long should one practice?
How can we adapt our practice to changing circumstances?
These questions and others like them must be answered by a competent teacher,
according to each student’s individual circumstances.”
– T Krishnamacharya’s commentary to Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 30
what is an ASW account?
I was camping in west Wales (UK) in summer and there were some really odd sounds coming in off the sea. The sounds were not audibly ‘loud’; you could here them but they sounded like they were a long way off. What was strange was that they ‘hurt’ the eardrum and could be felt in the chest.
I speculated that it was big guns or something. But I’ve no idea really.
Does anyone know what this could be? The internet is particularly unhelpful.
What if you can't figure out who the offending country is? The USA like any other nation is just some people who have emotions and psychology that can be tinkered with. How about six American Carrier groups against the other six??
I'm sure it gave an option to some that otherwise couldn't afford one, but the C64 outsold Spectrum several times over, and the VIC-20 before it was the first home computer to reach sales of 1m units,so I'm not sure I'd argue it was Sinclair that made computers mass market.
I hear what you're saying, but I confess I don't 'get' exceptions. On the spectrum of ways to report an error (C return values, Swift errors, C++ exceptions, Lisp conditions), they seem like an arbitrary spot in the middle that doesn't really give me the best of anything. They're neither as efficient as C/Swift, nor as flexible as Lisp.

Once you're going to go to the effort to walk the stack, why not give the caller the opportunity to continue? It's a huge increment in power for what seems like a minimal addition.
When I worked at TI in the UK (circa 1991) they were still using their not-quite-PC-compatible "TI Professional Computer" as dumb terminals.
Still, it's a game that should be stopped. The federal government should stop things like this from happening, as it extracts value from local governments and gives it to corporations
As with any research on meditation we should caution that except for subjective measures , meditation has not been linked to some objective life benefit
Why not to build an Electron app
Excuse this old geezer, but.... how do you have discussions on instagram? how is instagram replacing groups and forums for people who share specific interests?

this "we don't use facebook anymore, we use instagram" seems for a narrow usecase.
I create a virtualenv and add to it whatever Python or pip I need. I've got many of them and I really don't care about which language versions my Ubuntu comes from. Same for Ruby, Node, Elixir, Erlang. And if that doesn't work for something there is docker.
Not only is it hubris in the sense that nobody has all the answers, it is also hubris in the sense that it is a naked power grab. Whoever decides what is true also rules.
BTRFS does provide a status for all the major features: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status
The feedback was actionable

- add a requirements.txt to list dependencies

- create a .gitignore file.
The timescales are slightly shorter than many people think - the 1970s-90s were basically a whole scale westernization of Chinese society. Big economic reforms in the mid-late 1990s really freed up the economy from the burdens of inefficient state enterprise, and then real insane growth started in the 2000s and post 2008 with huge quantitive easing.

A lot of the “China can’t fail” rhetoric suggests it’s been a 40-50yr trend that defies all critics, but it’s only in the last 10-20 years we’ve seen a rise of this insane wealth, massive debt fueled economy, reverse in liberalization trends etc.
Ah, thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding. That makes it even more interesting!
Even most of the folks described in the article did not have an initial reaction of "It only costs a fraction of existing methods!"
Instead, their reaction was that the price was set by forces that had nothing to do with the R&D of the drug, and by that measure, it costs far much more that it otherwise could be. When the patent expires, a generic alternative will likely be made for far cheaper.
I have bought two Samsung Galaxy Tabs (from different generations) for my mother and they are obviously subpar devices. Windows will minimize and close left and right; basic text editing it jumpy and therefore takes forever; clicks don't always register; the screen randomly auto-rotates; they ship with outdated versions of Android and receive no OS updates, etc. Mind you, the Samsung Galaxy Tabs are considered mid-range Android tablets so I can't imagine how awful cheaper tablets are.

So no, I can't imagine using Android tablets as a professional considering they work so poorly for even the most basic usage.
Personalities like this are incredibly common in that whole industry.
It's not an important question as all the jobs will have moved to China
Neat, but wouldn't it just be easier to have a pallet of controls / components that user could drag into a view and cut out the need for interpreting a drawing?
So if Facebook is gone we’ll all reconnect in a kumbaya?
I'm sure somebody will think along the lines of "they are selling me Linux with support now, maybe they'll find a way to force me buy Windows in a few years". Embrace, extend, estinguish. I'm not trusting Microsoft, which has its own OS, not to play tricks like that.
You can meditate while walking if you want to, or meditate while sitting outside in the sun. Not that going for a walk period isn't great.
It would be nice if you could tap the red header text and move to a different module.
If I was using a lot of parameterization and abstraction, this approach would be very annoying. I mean, it’s great if I just have to do one UI, not so great if I have to do many of them in slightly different ways.

This might make more sense for a designer, but they shouldn’t be so close to production anyways.
Progressives should explain why good neighborhoods and schools and high home values are more important than inclusive housing policies.
> To this day I try to get my finance team to send gifts to the AP team of our clients.

1. Many, many big companies require vendors to agree to codes of conduct that explicitly prohibit such gifts.

2. If the customer were to file for bankruptcy protection, the trustee (or debtor-in-possession) likely would characterize recent payments as "avoidable preference" payments and seek to claw them back — with claw-back being the presumption and the vendors having the burden of proving that they're entitled to keep the payments (which is somewhat of a PITA). [0]

3. If the recipient of such a gift happens to be a foreign "official," then the criminal penalties of the (U.S.) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act might become salient. [1]

[0] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/pre-bankruptcy-payme...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
> USA's best and brightest minds are currently being used to figure out how to sell ads for corrupt social media companies

Are they really the brightest if they can't find a way to make a high wage without working in advertising? :)

Also LOL at calling advertising, a scummy but legal industry "corrupt" in a conversation about China

https://web.archive.org/web/20081210040251/http://www.csis.o...
Seinfeld describes the difference between first place and second place: https://youtu.be/xK9rbwM3omA?t=65
That's awesome to hear. I'm so very happy for you. Looking forward to a world where these gene therapy solutions are available to more and more people for a wider range of illnesses.
Yeah- I agree. Reconfigure the APN on the network side and you have clearly isolated the source of given traffic.

This is either a government honeypot, or it should be rebranded as “rusty trombone.”