skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The C64 was more comparable with the TRS-80 Color Computer, which was extremely mediocre by comparison but only modestly cheaper.

The CoCo & its UK clone the dragon 32 had 64 K ram (it took a while to figure that one out), a better screen and a much better processor (the 6809) on which you could run (with some fiddling) os/9.

Those were redeeming features. The C64 was a fantastic gaming machine with hardware sprites and a really nice audio chip, the CoCo/Dragon was the better machine if you wanted to learn how to program.

Computers back then were not as simple to compare as they are today, depending on what you wanted to do with your computer then one or the other was the better choice.
If you are using Python, you can also use pyv8 to evaluate Javascript code.
> By 1983 the IBM PC was the microcomputer of choice, and it was in turn to be superseded by the Mac in 1984.

That's a completely different picture from where I lived. The Mac was a curiosity that you'd come across every now and then but pcs were everywhere.
Motivating posters for your startup
Yes, it is complicated. That said, this is partly just because there aren't enough cases - and partly because the law hasn't stabilised (took a century to stabilise after invention of printing press). It isn't clear what rights society should grant yet, for maximising business.

My take on it, from ScraperWiki's point of view:
http://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/04/02/is-scraping-legal/
Yeah, well - it could have been worse. The UK's Office Government Commerce released a very unfortunate logo. At least this didn't happen here...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1901656/OGC-unveils-new-logo...
Here is a typical scenario:

- Your AAC encoder runs UN CPU #1.

- Your AAC encoder stalls on I/O.

- The scheduler picks some other thread to run on CPU #1.

- The I/O request completes.

- A third thread, running on CPU #2, blocks.

- Your AAC encoder is the first waiting thread.

Should the scheduler:

- run your AAC encoder on CPU #2?

- run your AAC encoder on CPU #1,
and move the program happily running there to #2?

- wait until CPU #1 becomes available before running your AAC encoder again?

Keep in mind that 'the program happily running there' could very well be my AAC encoder.

Variations include the case where, by the time your I/O completes, CPU's #1 and #3 are available, but #1 is asleep. Should the scheduler wake it, so that your thread can stay on the CPU?

Your AAC encoder may be the most important process alive for you, but how is the scheduler to know that?

(Running processes you deem important at a nice level might help, but I do not know enough about current schedulers to know about that)
Your not going to be Famous for being Famous
I've started playing with zombie.js recently as well - much lighter and faster than the ones that instrument a completely full browser. But has a full Javascript engine.
What about something like http:// tubes.io
Reminds me of the uproar here at Aalto University over the winning entry[0] for the design contest and the final logo[1].

[0]: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/aalto_un...

[1]: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/follow_u...
Currently about 20% of NameTerrific payments are made in Bitcoin. Credit card is expected to be the dominant payment method anyway.
There is nothing you can do to prevent scraping especially with tools like PhantomJS which use exactly the same engine as in your browser.

The ONLY way is to as suggested throttle based on IP address and X-Forwarded For.
Air Force May Be Developing Stealth Drones in Secret
Never understood the appeal of NZBMatrix. Just use a search engine like Binsearch, NZBIndex.nl, etc.

In any case, with more and more takedown requests being directed at usenet providers, I think usenet's days as a safe haven for piracy are numbered.
Onion browser on iOS professes tor based anonymity
Thank you for this!

I just found an unintended use for this:

I use pry with a `binding.pry` statement to debug my code, Now I can just `raise 'Something'` to do this instead. One upside of this is that I can easily navigate through all the frames from the UI and inspect stuff. If I want to know what env vars are available in some middleware, I can just click on it in the UI and start inspecting it.
The index would be insanely huge. A lot of these indexing sites are used for their API. Dedicated applications like SickBeard automatically compile lists of wanted files (movies, TV rips and music) and use them to search against the provider. The provider returns a file (NZB) that contains references to hundreds of encoded files hosted on newsgroups.

Here's a breakdown of one NZB, for a single 3.88GB file.

Inside are 74 RAR files, and 15 additional PAR files containing parity for recovering corrupted data.

Each of these 89 files is split into 37 parts of 1.4MB for ~3200 pieces total.

These pieces are then encoded with yENC (similar to base64) and then uploaded to the newsgroup.

Every single one of these yENC pieces is referenced in the NZB file, making for a total of 400KB. Just because of this, the NZB indexs are enormous; hundreds of gigabytes, probably terabytes in some cases.
Javascript was written by one guy in a shockingly short amount of time. What a language was intended for and what it's capable of are two very different things.
CoffeeScript is just JavaScript | Float Left
Such a project exists: Spotnet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotnet

The searchable information (and comments and such) is distributed through Usenet itself.
I too am not affiliated to Mozilla, unless the browser I'm using makes me an affiliated member. However judging from their discussion group, they know it's a problem and will probably try to reduce it to 15min(this is their goal, not their achieved min speed). Sadly, speed of compilation probably won't beat Go's which is 2min.

I do understand your complaint, but dismissing an alpha language because it compilation is too long, or documentation isn't up to par is a bit of an overstretch. They haven't been optimizing for it and the syntax is shifting, so making documentation at this point is like building a house on a sand pit.
The article fails because the seal still remains. In fact, the seal got upgraded too. Most schools have three "logos": marketing, seal and sports. Sometimes a fourth logo. The new UC logo is for marketing purposes when talking about the entire UC system, not individual schools. The seal hasn't been replaced. Each school still has their own sports logos.
> If this is the case then why don't CPU schedulers try to keep single threads running on the CPU instead of context switching?

The scheduler in the kernel does do this if possible. In order to maximize the chances of a process waking up to warm caches, the scheduler always attempt to wake up the process in the core that was most recently running it. If that core is not available then it tries another core on the same package before it tries other packages (if there are many cpu packages).

However, the kernel has other real world priorities than just trying to keep a single process throughput as high as
possible. It must also be fair to the other processes while keeping the current consumption low and as many cpu cores powered off as possible.

Because the kernel has to work with different workloads ranging from low-end not-so-smart phones with a battery to a supercomputer with it's own nuclear power plant, there are compromises to be made. There's also a lot of compile time and runtime configuration options you can use to tweak the kernel to your particular workload.
Already discussed here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4894401
Research: Association of colors to emotions
Access your computer by phone! Hah that picture is hilarious.
+ the great thing about nzbmatrix was to use their API for the searches. You could then have a local process download the actual files after doing a request to nzbmatrix.
In addition to economics, I reread "The Wizard of Oz" recently. In the book, the witch's shoes are silver while in the movie they are ruby red. This was only one of places where the book and movie diverged. I can understand that someone who likes the movie may prefer to read the book of the movie, rather than the original book.
A Tumultuous Trip to Mobile App Transparency
You should travel to Singapore. We've got a huge community of tech geeks in a small country.
I haven't experienced any missing binaries or bad NZBs recently, neither from NZBMatrix nor Astraweb. Can anyone corroborate this?
Except that there are 100 doors and only one gets opened. Switching still has the highest expected value, but the chance of a win after the switch is still very small.
This is awkward... When newzbin shut down, I was without a NZB provider for a week. Then 2 days ago I paid for my membership at NZBMatrix. And now it's gone?
relevant: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/rate-limiting-and-v...
Ask HN: Are we second class Apple citizens now?
Tim Cook recently gave an interview to Business Week (http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-06/tim-cooks-freshman-year-the-apple-ceo-speaks) where he sis something that I've felt for a while but now seems explicit, Mac machines are an after thought, if at all

"I mean, if you really look at it, we have four iPods. We have two main iPhones. We have two iPads, and we have a few Macs. That’s it."

It is not news that they have been forgetting their professional customers with consumer focused updates but are we going to be forgotten completely?
Following NZBmatrix, NZBs'R'US also closes
Using "ondemand" rather than "performance" can do quite a bit for your interactive performance as well. With "ondemand" your CPU runs at half speed until you've stressed it for a bit. So if say, switching to another desktop takes 0.1 cpu seconds, but the threshold is that the CPU must spend 0.5 seconds working before it kicks into full performance then all those UI actions might only execute at half speed.

So personally, I have my desktop CPU (i7) running at performance setting. That was clearly noticeable for me for short bursts of activity. It's possible you could settle on doing that for just some of the cores (I don't know if that makes sense, since they're in a single package).
When I see those, I always remember the quote from Peopleware - DeMarco / Lister :

"These motivational accessories, as they are called (including slogan coffee mugs, plaques, pins, key chains, and awards), are a triumph of form over substance. They seem to extol the importance of Quality, Leadership, Creativity, Teamwork, Loyalty, and a host of other organizational virtues. But they do so in such simplistic terms as to send an entirely different message: Management here believes that these virtues can be improved with posters rather than by hard work and managerial talent. Everyone quickly understands that the presence of the posters is a sure sign of the absence of hard work and talent."
Dinosuars with airsoft guns? Well, I suppose that would go some way to explaining their extinction...
There's no need for everybody to serve the entire index. Set up a DHT and let interested parties exchange the NZBs. All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection.
How different or similar is this to the wisdom of crowds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds)... or those online decision markets which have proved quite successful (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds#Prediction...)? Seems related in some ways.
How To Change The Language Of Your WordPress Site
Common Windows apps still without DEP and ASLR
Google OS X PDF security holes.
Despite being 99% illicit content, could somebody explain why this is not a case for Safe Harbour? Is this principle enshrined in any law at all, or is it just some neutrality idyll that we assume others share?

*Thought it was part of the DMCA
And of course all the fun bits that never appeared in books (did they?) such as the shoe shop intensifier ray.
Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement
It would cost Google $140 billion for nation wide 1Gbps (USA)
thanks, thats higher than i expected

are you specifically targeting the bitcoin crowd with nameterrific?
I think WP comes with many languages out of the box.
AB: Star Wars is a more complex and fun game than AB. My iOS (au) top paid game charts: 1) AB: Star Wars. 2) GTA: Vice City. 3) Baldurs Gate. 4) The Room. 5) Bad Piggies.

There is still hope. (The counterpoint to the above is the top grossing list. That's much sadder)
Node.js is excellent for web scaping, especially if you're scraping large amounts very often.
Your workflow may be good, I don't mean to judge that.

But is not the rails way to be in the shell, rails console and editor at all times? Instead of trying things out in the browser you have automated testing doing that for you?
Although 'strongly typed' shouldn't be confused with 'dynamic typed'.
or cracked-rack, to make it a bit more punny
Gabe Newell says Valve will release its own console-like PC for the living room
Warning: Download.com (CNET Downloads) A Cesspool For Privacy Invading Malware
Show HN: My weekend project - Hacker News inside Sublime Text 2
U.S. Defense Department Developing Super Precise Drone
Disclaimer: I have a Ph.D. in philosophy, so I'm probably biased.

You're not biased: you know WTF you are talking about. Whereas pg doesn't. He's fallen into the same trap that many very smart people fall into: thinking they understand philosophy, just because they're capable of deeply thinking about a problem. They fail to understand that that isn't enough: you need to very thoroughly study and understand what others have had to say on a subject, because nobody is smart enough to think of all angles and relevant points on his own.

You see this a lot with theoretical physicists, who ramble on about philosophical consequences of theories without a clue of the actual complexity of the subject.
Weekend project - my first Sublime Text 2 plugin. If you have package control installed, no need to go to the Github page, just search "Hacker News" and you should be able to find it.
The 2 weeks notice is for the party being notified. Not the other way around.

When you suddenly quit you leave them high and dry. Which is where the notice comes in. If however they don't need your services anymore either then it's perfectly reasonable for you to mutually end the contract.

I mean what are you really complaining about. You wanted to quit and they said OK.
Why DevOps Matters (To Developers)...
Does it have an inline context aware repl? It saves me the trouble of putting the breakpoint, running the request again, and removing the breakpoint.

> You even have a complete analysis for each request, that you can open with one click:

Do I get the queries generated for the request and time it took for them? And the time it took for the templates to be rendered?

Werkzeug debugger and flask-debug-toolbar are my baseline for debugging toolbars. They don't try to be everything and give me everything I need.

> You guys would be amazed if you tried frameworks like Symfony (instead of discarding PHP for not being beautiful or whatever)

Helpful exception logs and inline repls are one of n things to take into consideration. This alone isn't going to buy any converts.

At the end of day, they are convenience tools. It's not like I can't debug code or profile db requests without them. If I can get an inline context aware repl, superb. If not, good old breakpoints are mighty fine.
Google kills off free Google Apps offering
The Raspberry Pi web server speed test
Not all Asians are Chinese. It's not a mystery. It's tiger parenting, which Western culture lacks.
It's worth noting how comprehensive Radio Shack's solution was. They seem to have offered it all.
Tin whiskers can break through conformal coating in some situations and the coating process does not always cover the entire surface evenly leaving thin areas or even entirely uncovered places in which whiskers can still form and escape. http://www.freelists.org/post/tinwhiskers/NASA-experiments-c...
My Git workflow for inuit.css
Inspired by thoughts of natural evolution, perhaps?

It's a funny thing -- with proof of God, and good certainty He can interact, what should one make of evolution?

There's this thing in astrophysics where they are off by ten to the hundred. It's kinda funny.

I keep insisting the world is just, but I'm not confident my balance is good. I could be in big trouble, I'm not sure.

----

Another thought is... since I get puppeted, sometimes, how do I know if I think of something or I'm operating above my potential? Kinda funny. Fortunately, it doesn't seem like Hellish demon possession very often. That could really be bad, huh? There are rules.

----

"Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law?" makes Satanists look good if it is to be understood not to let one be possessed. <Chuckle>

I'm slightly horrified thinking back on my childhood when my Mom taught me this prayer. "I offer you this day, in all my work and play, help me be Jesus, just for thee."
Gmail is written using the Closure library:

https://developers.google.com/closure/faq#gwt
Well, we experimented with pigeon-guided missiles in WW 2
Amazon’s Silk Browser Can Be Hacked to Provide Free Grid Computing
I've never used torrents and I've always used newsgroups. Does that make me old? Anyway, I feel naked now, with newzbin down and now this I feel I'm going to have to end my fun or try torrents which I'm worried about the legal issues. Are torrents "safe" now a days, what's the best approach (Seedbox?)
Ask HN: tips for fueling your brain each day?
When I get tired, either at night or in the afternoon, it "feels" like it's my brain getting tired more than my body. It's harder to concentrate, make decisions, and see things clearly.

My core solution is pretty simple: do various things to ensure I get a good night's sleep (which for me is 7.5 hours without waking up) and take a 20-minute nap in the afternoons. If I do these two things, my mind feels stronger for longer, more often at its best. If I don't, it can feel weak and drained and distracted.

I have also found eating less sugary foods tends to help, as does exercise, though I can't see as direct a impact on brain energy as sleeping and napping.

I suspect there's a lot more I could do. The brain consumes a great deal of a person's energy, perhaps even more dramatically for folks like me (and I suspect many on HN) whose minds are always buzzing with thought all day long, and I'd like to find more ways to "feed" it on a day to day basis.

So I ask you fellow hackers: what sleep, food, exercise, or other habits have you found to be most effective in fueling your day-to-day brain power?
That citation agrees with me rather than with you.

>"GOLDSTEIN: Well, no, because the past 100 years were - there was a big explosion of violence in the early part of the 20th century, but the 17th century was no picnic either. The Thirty Years' War destroyed a third of the population of Germany, and back through history there have been terrible wars much of the time."

>"And even in prehistoric times, as many as a quarter of the men in a society not infrequently died in wars. So it's actually a new thing and something that's developed in the least 60 years and especially the last 20 years. And we can talk about why it is, and Steven Pinker will have more to say about that also, but the big change is that people are finding other ways to solve their problems, not through war, and we're seeing an actual shrinking in the number of people killed worldwide."

That is to say that the source you found is making the claim that the reduction has happened in the last 20-60 years. Read that again: "So it's actually a new thing and something that's developed in the least 60 years and especially the last 20 years." Is that not the same thing I said: "We haven't had a global conflict in 60-odd years (and yay for that), but we had two global conflicts in the last hundred years." In fact what is said in this interview is pretty much what I said in my post.

>It doesn't much matter what you choose as "current period", because war and violence has been on the decline for quite a long time.

Yes it does, it really matters what you choose as your current period. Your own source backs me up on this.

>It's pretty annoying to try to have a factual discussion and get replies that are nothing but hand waving and anecdotes.

Large scale violence like WW2 is not really an anecdote but in fact a large chunk of data. I assumed that you were aware that most historians accepted that WW2 claimed the largest number of lives in human history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_...
exercise as you already mentioned and Green Tea. Lots of Green Tea.
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Not really because there wasn't any advertising happening around the Bitcoin idea. However we did a soft launch within the Bitcoin community when the payment solution wasn't ready, and that gained some initial adoption (with 100% Bitcoin payments).

Domain market is extremely competitive. But for domain registrars that accept Bitcoin, I'm quite confident that NameTerrific is simply the best. That's probably why the adoption rate is quite high.

EDIT: Just to clarify, we're seeing much more credit card orders coming up recently so it seems that the market for Bitcoin is quite limited. I guess even the largest Bitcoin merchants (like WordPress) may not have a large absolute figure for Bitcoin use. However, to us, accepting Bitcoin is somehow a symbol of "geekiness" so it's a good thing to continue.
Apple encouraging Chinese iOS app development
Just found this:

http://www.quora.com/Quora-Question-Policies-and-Guidelines/...

"Poll questions ask individuals for their opinions, preferences, habits, or other data without also asking those individuals how or why.Here are some examples:

Did you vote for McCain or Obama?
What is your favorite color?
What type of laptop do you own?
What is your favorite bar in San Francisco?
How many friends do you have on Facebook?
How often do you brush your teeth?"

They say that these type of questions are not allowed!
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I don't see any value or meaning in this "experiment". What should it demonstrate?