skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although it's the source code for the Atari 800 version of PCS, it seems to have been built on an Apple II. From MAKE1 [1] for example:

CALL -151
3F2:69 FF 5A
BLOAD GPAK.OBJ,A$1300
BLOAD CDRAW.O,A$2480
BLOAD PCSA800.PIC,A$2B00
BLOAD DLIST.O,A$4910
BLOAD SWAP.O,D2,A$4A00
BLOAD TST.O,D1,A$4B00
BLOAD GOATARI.O,D2,A$4B45
BLOAD BOOT.O,D2,A$8E00
BLOAD BOOT2.O,A$8E80
BLOAD ZAP1.O,A$8F00
BLOAD DOWNLOAD.O,D1,A$300

The first line invokes the Apple II "System Monitor", the second writes 3 bytes to memory at address $3F2 (the effect of which is to tell the computer to enter the Monitor whenever someone resets the computer from the keyboard), and the rest load binary files into different memory areas. I'm guessing it's all to build an image to be written to disk. (See [2] for more on the System Monitor.)

[1] https://github.com/billbudge/PCS_Atari800/blob/master/Disk1/...

[2] http://apple2.info/wiki/index.php?title=System_Monitor#Gener...

EDIT: added additional details
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It only takes a few flags to kill a fresh submission. Anything referral or similar is doing to have a high flag risk.

It may not be a rule violation but HN is supposed to be self moderating. Up and down votes help garner a consensus over encouraged behaviour.

Doing a bit further are flags. I can well see people flagging a promotional code. I and many others come to HN for the discussion and we would be very disappointed if HN become a coupon hub.
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In light of this issue, what have you done to restrict the amount of harm that even a trusted employee can do? I'd be happy to learn that after a suitable time period for disputes, literally no employee would be able to provide any demographic info related to a particular charge. You can't harm my customers if you don't have access to their data.
An amazing article - really made my day.

What surprised me is at the end - that "hacking" (for want of a better term) is less destructive socially when it is aimed at financial gain.

It is why society can handle bank robbers more easily than terrorists, and worryingly gives an attack vector - buy 100,000 credentials (if they exist) and just randomly move money around using scripts. The whole consumer banking system would be DDOSd as they reversed transactions, sorted out fraud and stopped people taking all their money out.
Everybody in the debate has worked full time in a school for at least 12 years, and probably more like 16 to 20 or beyond if they are seriously participating in this debate. Sure, they were on the student side, but that's long enough to gain a breadth of experience that at least qualifies them to sit at the table. I'm really not sympathetic to "We're teachers and you aren't". Yes, you are, I value your feedback, but we're talking about a system that almost everyone is mandated to participate in for years. Of all the debates we could possibly be having, playing the "We're professionals" card is least suitable here. We've all been school professionals.
The logic is that the cost of acquisition must be constant.
I usually think it connotes some stupid social app.
But does it reduce it by 3x?
Here's Bill demoing this game in 1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...
What patio11 says is true. Our churn rate is under 1% on our highest accounts, and occasionally double digit on the cheapest. I've gotten lots of other SaaS owners drunk and we all share the same experience.

When it comes to low prices, people will make up any random reason they can "logic up" in absence of facts. Sure, "low prices to reduce churn" sounds totally logical, but it's utter bullhockey. Don't believe it. Always ask for the data.
Awesome! I love it. My favorite xkcd-inspired hack is still goatkcd[1] though.

[1] NSFW http://goatkcd.com : goatse parody
Intel/Infineon has an LTE baseband, but for whatever reason it isn't used in any phones. One factor is that Verizon and Sprint are locked into Qualcomm for backwards compatibility with their CDMA2000 networks and if you have to use Qualcomm for the Verizon version of the phone you might as well use Qualcomm for the GSM version as well.
Yes, he is specifically making that claim, but only in support of his larger claim, which goes something like "...Those who have imposed the mindless and destructive patterns of misuse of tests to drive policy in K–12 education are already moving to impose it on higher education..."

Gad, the essay rambled quite a bit and confused its own argument. I can understand your concern. These two ideas are conflated. I have no clue as to whether this was deliberate or not. But to me at least the gist was clear: if you're not doing my job, stay out of the business of judging me.

[Insert long discussion about whether the community as a whole has a right to delegate people to tell teachers how to do their jobs. I think this is a no-brainer, "yes", but there are a lot of side issues, most of which boil down to what my initial comment was: we've created educational systems of people which are monstrosities to understand, manage, and make work.]
Sure. But then everyone should be clear about it.

Linode is a toy and should never be used if you value the security of your data.
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If that last part is the only thing they can do, I say move to somewhere warm and cheap and just "agree" to their terms ;) I thought they could call InterPol on you or something...
Ugh. That's like saying that high-level programming languages "don't count" because you can do that stuff in assembler.
Two things:

1) I don't think your comments labelling those who disagree with you as "idiots" is constructive or in keeping with the spirit of HN.

2) "Mission critical" to one person may mean something else to someone else. Depending on their requirements, those who consider something to be "mission critical" may be willing to accept varying levels and/or guarantees of uptime or security.
Almost all teachers dislike NCLB.
Almost all policemen dislike right-to-record-the-police laws.
Almost all doctors want to limit malpractice.
Almost all taxi companies dislike Uber.

It's as though there's something going on with those groups besides their greater familiarity with the subject. Some kind of... incentive.
Of course, optimize your content so that it's easy to find and index. That's building your site correctly. All I am saying is that after market SEO is a little gimmicky because of the patchwork approach taken by many SEO specialists. As a longtime developer that has had lots of interaction with clients, I know they often spend their time worrying about SEO instead of posting good content. If a consumer isn't satisfied with search rankings and they think their site is poorly built, then they are better off contracting someone that will build it correctly the first time. Now obviously a dynamically served website has some SEO issues and needs some special attention, but this shouldn't be an after thought or third party component.
Just a marketing ploy. Box.com, formerly box.net, was initially a free 50GB offering, until they decided to make their usual offering a special promo after October 2012.
Bravo! How difficult was it making the characters posable?
Or F#, so you're already in a more functional environment.
Are any of those companies self-supporting on revenue from those products?

There's your answer.

It's not about what the market "lets" you do. It's about what you demonstrate to the market your product is worth to them. When in doubt, take responsibility and create agency. Otherwise your business is just a Disney princess waiting to be rescued.
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Wikipedia[1] says he's now at Google. Does any great programmer end up not working for them?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Budge
Nice to see how technology played a big part in this story - the text about the craigslist ad via ifttt.com
I use Amazon and American Express for the same reason.

I'm just saying Google is hardly unique. Amazon and Amex are notable for their good support, not the other way around.
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The fact that teachers aren't motivated more by greater rewards for excellence (money), but are strongly motivated by having a job with excellent security even for mediocre performers, should not be something that comforts us.
> I think the worst offender is the idea that people who don't do X cannot sit in judgment of those who do X. Our entire system of democracy -- of jurisprudence -- rests on informed citizens making judgments about areas where they spend their money. Nobody gets a free ride. I get to vote on whether the fire station gets a new truck whether or not I've ever been a fireman, whether or not I've ever driven a truck, and whether or not my house has ever been on fire. To do this any other way is insane.

This isn't really accurate, as in most places you elect someone who then goes on to make decisions on your behalf, presumably representing you and your community's desires and needs. We also don't vote directly on particular one off issues like funding items for fire or police departments. I also disagree that doing things in another fashion is insane, as there have been successes and failures that don't follow the western democratic republic model.

> The saddest part is that the public education system took a reasonable request -- measure your performance -- and turned it into a bureaucratic nightmare.

It was not the education system itself that made the bureaucratic nightmare. Testing policy like No Child Left Behind's purpose was to begin to enforce taking measurements and applying those measurements against schools, pupils, and staff. Applying those measurements directly is a problem, as we aren't accurately measuring things, we are sacrificing well rounded education for better test results, and are using those measurements to fire expensive teachers and replace them with newer, cheaper teachers. New programs like Race to the Top make this even worse, as the aim is to now replace public schools with private charter schools, schools which have not been shown to work on the same scale as public systems and will leave people with even less choice.

> As sharp as my criticism is, I mean it in the aggregate. There are no bad people here, only a bad, overly complex system that is failing our children. It's a scandal, and removing testing isn't going to do anything but make it less visible. This is very much akin to the attitude of "Why do we need testers? All they ever do is complain!"

This is very true, we need data about what is going on, and most school systems do collect this kind of information. The real core of the issue is what to do with that information.

> In my mind once the tests leave, the teachers leave, because I'm not writing a check for something I can't measure.

I can appreciate you want accountability, but not having standardized testing won't end education or the profession of being a teacher considering how long education and teaching have been around. Education is not capitalist in nature, so treating it by those rules would be foolhardy.
Are you assuming I'm chalking student performance solely up to teachers?

Are you saying that a teacher's supervisor (the principle) shouldn't be in charge of evaluating their performance?

Are you assuming that I think administrators and school boards shouldn't be held accountable as well?

Are you assuming that I'm saying firing people will fix the system?

If we can't overcome a problem as simple as firing bad teachers, how can we address so many of the other issues that face the school system? Does the fact that other problems exist mean we should ignore this problem?
The 99% aren't customers.
They're the product.
It'd be cool if changes in visual editor would focus & highlight the changes in text and vice versa.
We live in a complex society. Most of the things you trust with your life are totally out of your control.
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It keeps out all the free and essentially unaccountable users who would like to use them for movie/software/game piracy.
If someone is trying to disrupt the very core of your business probably you won't like them nowhere near you.

Stephens shouldn't be surprised.
Fremont is by far the outlier here, its easily their most error prone DC. I'd highly recommend you move to another DC, all of which are much more stable.

Disclaimer: Customer for ~4 years, VPS in all DCs but Tokyo.
Could be to discourage people from storing media there. OS images and videos are probably the biggest things people would store. They're also the most pirated content. My guess is either: a) they don't care to host 100TB of pirated content, or b) they're afraid of the legal ramifications of it. Imposing a file size limit keeps a huge bulk of usage away and a lot of the piracy concerns while not really inconveniencing the vast majority of normal users.
The author of the post is lamenting that while these boards and panels put teachers on them, their input is completely ignored in favor of whatever is politically in vogue for the other participants. It doesn't make sense to invite a professional for their input and them ignore what they say.

> Of all the debates we could possibly be having, playing the "We're professionals" card is least suitable here. We've all been school professionals.

No, we haven't. Having gone to school does not make you a professional. That would be like saying anyone who has used a computer is a computer professional.
From reading through the comments, it seems a lot of the pain points for Linode happened in the non-Dallas datacenters. Our servers are hosted there with almost 0 problems. I did a good amount of research on which Linode datacenters are the best before placing our servers there (this was years ago) and found that the Fremont datacenter had a lot of flaky issues (and if your experience was recent at all, then they apparently still have issues).

So maybe Linode's main support system is set up to favor Dallas, which if this is true is pretty shoddy. I'd be interested to hear more experiences from other people across different datacenters.
>It's not entirely rational

So true. I moved a mail server I manage over to digital ocean recently because it needed more RAM and the price difference between a 4GB DO instance and a 4GB Linode one was just too much to swallow.

Very happy with DO so far but... I still have 7 1GB and 512MB vms with Linode and no plans to move any of them because I just can't bring myself to sever all ties with Linode :D
> A new iPhone costs $200 from any major US carrier.

$200 is the down payment.
And a large part of that is going to be due to luck. I don't think it's all due to luck, however. I think there are certain qualities people have, and what people call a certain "chemistry" small groups of such people have.

Depending on how much luck you think is involved, those qualities can either be common or rare. I think they're becoming more rare in the Bay Area startup environment, as notoriety and money attract more people who are pale imitators of the outward forms of success. (Already, it's considered a great advantage to come as someone already part of a group.)

In this way, the Bay Area is no better or worse than many other locales where economic, cultural, or intellectual movements have cropped up. It's also, obviously, not a single monolithic "scene." But as the population of doppelgangers increases, there's the possibility that something akin to "herd immunity" may kick in, where small groups of people with the right qualities will find it difficult to meet. Already successful people will find it harder to "infect" other susceptible people with success.

I note that YC has decided to reduce their "class size."
Goatse parody? That IS Goatse. Don't link to that!
That's the problem with Google. There is NO customer support. I had a website back in the days that was bringing me good money. A spam alerts from google tells me that I have to delete some spam pages of my website (which is generated by user content) in the 3 next work days otherwise they'll ban my account. I look through the pages and CAN'T find anything spammy, I decide to mail them something along those lines "I'm sorry but I can see no reference of what you want me to erase, can you please provide more informations?". No answers and 3 days later I was banned from Google Ads.

Twist : My website was in multiple language and the page they sent me was in a different language, I had not think of that.
Depends on the definition of database. It could rule out lots of projects working from large datasets.
It looks like he used an Apple II as the development environment, which is straight forward since both machines use the same CPU. The .S files are assembled to 6502 object files. The "makefile" loads each object file to a specific area in RAM, then Download.o transfers the contents of RAM to a waiting Atari 800 via serial connection.
It all depends on your service. I am willing to pay $20 a year for cross-device password management for personal use, not $20 a month. I am willing to pay $$$ for a CRM. For businesses, your product must save me more money than if I do it myself. If it's a mere convenience that can be duplicated by an excel spreadsheet, I'm only willing to spend so much.

I suggest looking at what your value proposition is: if you think you can provide $50,000 dollars of value to your customer, you shouldn't be charging $5 a month. If your plan provides only a small amount of value, you better hope it provides that value to a large number of people. :) But you're not going to get away with charging more.
Yeah, thats the catch, and its a big one. I tried switching once because of this same "offer", and went back to dropbox. It's funny how a service that got more popular first makes you feel more secure, and for probably the same reason all my clients have dropbox, so when they want to share assets thats what they choose.
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Paying people that are currently teachers more does not improve their performance.

But, the pool of people willing to take up the profession of teaching increases if the pay is higher.

Where I taught, teachers with only a bachelors degree maxed out at $60,000 a year after 15 years of teaching (you could get that up to $80,000 if you got a doctorate). I was earning less than half of that. After teaching for a year, I quit to take an entry level programming job and was suddenly making more than I would have ever made as a teacher and my job was physically and emotionally much easier.

I probably wasn't going to be a great teacher. But how many great teachers exist but can't/won't take a job that pays so little?

Right now schools hire the best candidate willing to work for so little. I'd like to see them start filling up with the best candidates.
the home page suggests that it works for C++...

Are you referring to this line:

"The fuzzy parser supports C, but is flexible enough to be useful for C++ and Java"

I think you might be misinterpreting the wording there. It's called "c"scope because it was initially written for C and C only. The line above is suggesting that it also has support for C++ and Java (because it has a "fuzzy" parser... whatever that means).
You come off as overly authoritarian in your comments such that a chance for measured discussion is I think probably often quelled by your domineering attitude.

Since the last decade our civil liberties have only been eroding -- that is the trend, not the opposite of that or something. So a good amount of leeriness is probably healthy and very well warranted. It's great that you're reading the executive orders and getting down to things, but please don't go off on those who by default take the position of skepticism. There's a reason they are that way, and that reason is a pretty good one.
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"...bad writing— no introduction, no conclusion, just hit the points of the rubric and provide the necessary factual support."

In other words, no worthless fluff? School writing where it's /encouraged/ to just get to the point and present your facts in a clear, short, efficient manner? Regardless of the other issues mentioned in the article, I think that at least is one good thing, because that is an absolute rarity in today's educational environment where you tend to fail if you don't express a 10 word idea in 100 of them.
37Signals, &yet, ColourLovers; just to pick a few examples from those that might be familiar to HN readers.

The Googles and the Facebooks, the Yammers and the Zappos's are outliers in terms of scale. That's what makes them interesting.
I feel it's dirty.
You should clarify this in the blog post. (Also a good marketing tool!) I was reaching for my pitchfork as I was reading.
but there is absolutely no circumstance in the entire company where a customer can reach a person and receive true support.

Google Apps has great phone support if you're paying for it: http://contact.googleapps.com/?&rd=1
No.

And frankly I can't understand how a VPS provider can act in this way and still have people acting like they have great support. As a customer I found out from Reddit before Linode. That's a pretty disgraceful effort.
> EDIT: I realize this is an anecdotal story. But the gist is that education in the USA is an inclusive opportunity for everyone and every student undergoes standardized testing.

Unfortunately this is just not true. Foreign language and special needs students suffer the most under a standardized testing regime, as do their teachers. The quality of your school has a lot to do with the quality of where you live, which means that significant portions of people get a substandard experience. The author's essay also highlights that the needs of any given community are likely to be overridden by someone who has no idea what a given school or community needs.
It's a cop-out to call Google an engineering company like they are still the small company that is just a search engine.

If they want to be a consumer electronics company, they should probably start acting like one and have actual humans deal with these problems.
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Considering that Justin Kan is the pivot master and Exec's cleaning service has been so well-received, I wouldn't be surprised if they become a cleaning-only service.
Part of the issue is how to measure future success? Research is starting to show that qualitative indicators in children are indicative of future successes as much as (or even more than) quantitative test scores. These "qualitative indicators" include things like self-control, delaying gratification, and social skills.

What metrics would you consider good? That is, measurements that accurately predict future successes in life? Reading comprehension and math ability honestly sound like decent metrics to me, but they're clearly not working as intended. What sorts of things do you think we should measure instead? I don't really have any good ideas myself.
It is about as Z80 as an ARM Cortex is a Pentium M.