skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a pretty cool website.

As a European, I think they show way too many highways. Especially considering the claim that Atlanta has more trees than any other city.
The way things are going we will probably not have any Save buttons at all soon.
Lower Florida Keys resident here. I still own a place in Orlando which I have only visited once in the 6 years I've been gone. I got tired of hearing gunshots in the middle of the night. Between that and the chaotic (and plentiful) highway drivers, you couldn't possibly pay me to live in most (any?) large cities in mainland Florida. Despite being only 120 miles from Miami, I've still never visited, unless you count traffic jams when trying to get through it.

Once you get away from the urban nightmares, Florida isn't so bad though. Admittedly not everyone likes the climate, but I run a few miles every morning, even in the summer, and getting on a boat helps to cool off. No malls or dance clubs, and almost no big-box stores or fast food. But we do have Amazon Prime and a fishing pole.
IE11 on Windows 8.1 - Google Search loads in legacy mode
Though I don't like the one-button design, the original Mac mouse was actually really nice, it just felt really solid and responsive, much better than the Logitech optical mice of the same era (which in my experience tended to be really flimsy and temperamental).

I suppose it's sort of been all downhill since then, but Apple deserves some credit ... ^^;
I would argue that it is the captain that is managing/controlling the ship.
Are we that old? :(
Dammit I was about to start developing something exactly like this... :(
I guess it comes down to whether you believe people are overly conservative with their money. Inflationary currency incentivizes investment, which is useful in a world with scarcity. But if you believe enough people spend too much on luxuries, deflationary currency wins out.
Unfortunately, because of all the hype, all it is going to get is douchebags instead.
Google Play Vending Machines Released In Japan
TIL I am old.
One simple way to find new problems is to follow the advice once given by Deep Throat: "Follow the money!"

What I mean is look into your own spending patterns (or those of your friends/ parents/ neighbours/ colleagues) and ask yourself why does something cost as much as it does? Can it be made more cheaper? Or if it is already cheap, can the difference consumer saves be used for some meaningful, complementary services/items?

Thinking this way can reveal many interesting and unexpected answers and the best thing is that this quest takes you out of your room, since you have to follow the money trail and understand how different businesses work. Doing that as an outsider is likely to spark many interesting thoughts.
Wall warts used to work as a step down transformer and a linear regulator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_regulator). The step down transformer is the big brick like piece of the wall wart.

More modern transformers are switch mode supplies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-mode_power_supply). Switch mode supplies (like the OP describes) are smaller, run cooler, and (nowdays) cheaper than linear supplies.

The main thing that's happened is IC manufacturers have made switch mode controllers cheap, and reliable. As a result, most wall warts are going away, to be replaced by switched supplies.
And quality, I'm sad to say. I wish those places were as good.
It took a while(5seconds) but it opened for me.

Next time check: http://www.digitaloceanstatus.com/
Having written TSR's in Pascal and C I have to disagree. C had significantly more power and was a lot simpler to get working for lower level stuff.
I now officially christen this the "old guy thread of the day".

Back in my day, kid, we didn't have no stinking floppies for our PCs. All we had was cassette recorders, and we were happy to have 'em!

Reading this question took me down memory lane to doing a lot of PR#6. Couldn't remember if that command was for floppies or cassettes. Had to look it up. It was how we did I/O on the Apple II. As I remember, you changed the number (PR#3, PR#4, etc) based on the physical slot the peripheral was plugged into. This was back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and real men wore skirts.
This has been around for a while, but seems to have had a facelift recently. Looks much better!
invoices are submitted early this year (like january), they paid some, but there are still quite a chunk of money they havent paid yet

like you said, it is "a bit dramatic" and stupid i would think if you havent submitted an invoice(s) and expected to be paid.

and i would think you will agree with me that january 2013 invoice is very late in october 2013.

and also imho, having been living in the valley for 18 years as a developer, sometimes old clients are like leeches, because they keep asking lower and lower prices, and before you know it, they want you to compete in pricing with a guy in india, or they will send out somekind of cease and desist email firing you for being not punctual etc, when all this time you have been helping them and giving them really low price. Trust me that all good things must eventually come to an end.
If I could, I'd start everyone off "learning" about computers by using an Apple ][+. It is an open enough environment to learn just about everything, and a restricted enough environment to encourage efficiency and elegant design. After that, kick 'em upstairs to something modern with a Lisp compiler and you've got 'em for life.
Having a name like that is very bad, because a) you will be forever trailing on the 6473th page of Google Search results and b) it will be difficult to grow a meaningful brand around a name, which already has such a strong emotional charge.

If I were you, I would definitely rethink the name.
You know when I saw punchcards first, they were already a somewhat bygone relic of ages past. But I used floppy disks for a long time. That someone would ask this question today, never having seen a computer with a floppy disk... Yeah I feel old....
I already love it, better than Pingdom.

FYI: I'd be willing to pay for SMS alerts (should be "straight forward" with Twilio) or might just work by linking the custom RSS feed to IFTTT...
Perhaps I meant to say "practical person" instead.
I think you misunderstood. I'm denying nothing.

What I meant was that if I'm going to run a website with jQuery calls, I should absolutely test with jQuery calls. It makes no sense to claim that one should, say, always use short variable names, if one then ships with google closure.
I'm not the world's biggest C++ fan, quite the opposite. But this guy hasn't really realized yet that any attempt to build something as expressive and powerful as C++, and just as fast, without any of the things he dislikes in C++ will hit any number of walls, problems, and challenges that nobody out there has overcome. Objective-C gives you almost as much performance as C++ except in the critical cases where message passing can degrade overall performance due to objective C run-time message send overhead.

Performance, Compatibility, Ecosystems, Existing Running Code In Production. Go ahead and rewrite your piddly little apps in Anything You Like. C++, and any other language you hate (Java, C#, whatever) will still be used and significant and powerful tools that people use to get stuff done.

Me I love Delphi, and I'm used to people considering it dead. (It's not dead.) I consider it a better language than C++, but that's just a subjective opinion of my own. I've spent years hating on C++, but I'm done with that. C++ 2011 is a great step forward for the language, and when they finally get modules (2020?) they'll have caught up with TurboPascal (1984). Awesome.
A: and B: were more relevant when PCs didn't have hard drives. Back then usually the OS would be on A and your current game/app would be on B.

I still remember the first game that was soooo big it required both A and B, meaning you to take the OS boot disk out (which you of course always forgot to put back in after you were done.)

Good thing I had a dad who soldered Philips' Apple ][ clone together when I was 2 so that I don't feel that old for knowing this ;)
Right. That's exactly the same.
As of this posting, https://www.digitalocean.com/login is returning CloudFlare's "Always Online" cache.

I just got woken up by two of our boxes being unreachable, but one of my other boxes is up, so maybe it's just affecting one of their datacenters?
That kind of notation is often used while discussing various fan fictions to avoid confusion when people are talking about 'canon' version of character and 'modified'. So it's common to just always prepend which version you're talking about, so HPMOR!Harry/canon!Harry/other-fan-fic!Voldemort etc. etc.
I found this really sad. I don't consider myself old, but I suppose I'm going to have to start at some point. Maybe this is it.
The responses raise some pretty good points - but do you think that there is a level of detail at which public disclosure is OK? What about if transactions were randomly made public, with a probability of disclosure that increased with the size of the transaction? The chances of Sally's activities being made public would therefore be vanishingly small, but any cash flow, or series of flows, which were significant (in aggregate) would be made public with near certainty. Obviously, there are parameters that control this mechanism, and there is harm to be had, as well as good.

Are there sets of parameters for which the good outweighs the bad, and, if so, is there a parameter that maximises either the good / bad ratio, or maximises the good for a certain "acceptable" level of good, or minimises the bad for a certain "desired" level of good.
Dude, my copy of SCO Unix was only maybe 15 floppies....
So? Do it anyway. Competition stimulates demand and the fact you've got long-lived competitors indicates there's demand already. By coincidence I was literally about to sign up for Pingdom, but I'm going to try these guys out instead. If this had been your service, you'd have just had a new customer right now.

Your success will depend on the quality and efficacy of your marketing.
And I've just noticed that the "save file" icon in word processors isn't a floppy disk as it used to be.
I know how you feel. My ten year old daughter did not realize you could network computers together with a cable. To her, everything is networked wirelessly.
There seems to be an issue with the entire Net this morning.

Drudge Report unreachable.

Same for Twitter.

And WordPress dotcom's link to their Amazon S3 image storage is broken too.
Nope. 7 yes so far!
Google is broken in IE11 on Windows 8.1
My pay per consulting contract fluctuates. I am fortunate and happy to be doing better then previously.

Though what percentage is a fair share? I was fine with 25 percent tax, but damn after working hard and smart your reward is a little more money in your pocket and a lot more in Uncle Sam's pocket....
tumblr seems to be down on my side
Been using this for awhile - its not bloated with a bunch of crud and it just plain works. Not bad for free.
My DO based services, which are monitored by Pingdom, are all still showing as up. Internet Traffic Report is showing several routers as down in North America however: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm
I don't care what that lunatic Alexander Graham Bell says, and I don't care what stupid little one-time demos he has in his lab, the telephone is never going to take off.
I did, made me feel old, and Im 25
If I remember correctly, "PR#6" was basically just a command that executed the code at $c600. Each peripheral card had a 256-byte address space which was mapped into $cx00 where x was the slot number. Slot 6 was the standard slot for the disk controller -- it may even have been wired in, in later machines. So "PR#6" basically executed the firmware boot loader for the floppy drive.
Can ssh into some of the instances (and from there contact all the instances internally), but http/https ports definitely don't work. I think it's only NY1.

I realised, it would be great for cloudflare to optionally allow us to show a better 'down' page for non-static sites like dashboards etc. Right now it's showing the same page with a bar on top (and obviously login etc won't work), ideally it would show a static page where we could explain something is wrong, without login boxes etc.
Wow, if I'm counting correctly, eleven routers down. WTF happened? Is this a cyber attack?
State Supreme Court strikes down Internet sales tax
I'm guessing Brazil. And Sony just announced the PS4 would cost something like $1800 USD there..(!)
Damn. Looking forward to reading CloudFlare's post-mortem blog post on this. Seems to be widespread.
> Next time check: http://www.digitaloceanstatus.com/

Huh... Not the best source really. It took >30 minutes between I got an alert from the monitoring service and an update appearing on the status site.
It's extremely implausible for everyone to know that the value of ${commodity} will rise steadily, with no risk, for the foreseeable future.

Why? Think of the second-order effects of what you're saying--I expect the value of ${commodity} to rise indefinitely, so what do I do? Buy ${commodity}. Or, I own a bunch of ${commodity} and expect the price to rise indefinitely--what do I do if someone offers to buy my ${commodity}? Either sell for a higher price, or don't sell at all.

Both of these have the effect of bringing the future price increase into the present. If everyone expects a 10% increase in the next year, the price today will increase by roughly (10% - the risk-free interest rate).

Now, is the picture different for currencies? Yes. Economists call short-term prices "sticky," and sticky prices are why demand-side recessions are possible. If I'm earning $40,000 a year today, and my boss decreases my pay to $39,000 a year, I don't say "well, there was deflation this year, so I actually got a raise!" On the other hand, if I'm earning $40,000 a year, and my boss doesn't increase my pay at all, I don't say "there was inflation this year, so I just got a pay cut!" In the short term, sticky prices make things (like labor) cost more or less than they would in a frictionless market. That stickiness is why countries with deflationary currencies have problems.

Now then--bitcoin may be a currency of sorts, but are bitcoin prices sticky? No. Companies selling products for bitcoins overwhelmingly price their goods in dollars. At whatever time the transaction is conducted, the buyer converts that price into bitcoin and transfers bitcoin to the seller, who sells the bitcoin for dollars. A buyer will never say "yesterday your price was 1BTC, and today it's 1.2BTC--why have you increased your prices?" A seller will never say "yesterday you offered to pay me 1BTC, and today you're only offering 0.8BTC--no sale!" Both sides of the transaction are dealing in dollars, only using bitcoin as a medium to exchange those dollars. In other words, bitcoin is a medium of exchange but not a unit of account.

Is bitcoin likely to become sticky in the future? Well, if a large proportion of people were paid solely in bitcoin, and could live comfortable lives spending bitcoin instead of dollars, it's possible that we could have a cultural shift to thinking "I'm paid 333BTC a year" instead of "I'm paid $60,000 a year." And at that point, bitcoin's deflationary nature would be an issue. How likely are we to reach that point? Not very, not least because it's a self-limiting cycle--if the sticky-price/deflation combo is an issue in the bitcoin economy and not in the dollar economy, people have very little incentive to switch their accounting to bitcoin. But that's an entirely separate issue from whether bitcoin is or will remain a useful medium of exchange.
Local Miami resident here and I'm glad to see the startup community is finally getting some investment. I moved from DC 2 years ago and the only jobs I found were enterprise .NET/Java position about 30-60 min away from Miami in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton. I really enjoy living in Miami, but it's difficult to find a well paying job here, good devs will make about $90K. The reason is there's just not enough demand for the skillset. Hopefully that will change once the startup community here matures. One note about cost of living, compared to other cities the cost of living in Miami (proper or Miami Beach) is on par with any other large metro area (excluding NYC and SF of course). This coupled with the lower salaries makes moving to Miami a tough sell.
Gainesville, FL, is the best spot for young tech entrepreneurs IMO. Much cheaper than Miami, very little traffic and crime, bike friendly, tons of startups. Gainesville is the Silicon Valley of FL, but with a more laid back and unpretentious atmosphere.
Update from https://status.digitalocean.com/ :

Networking Issue in NY1 Facility

At this time, we are currently investigating an issue in our NY1 facility.

We are working to determine the exact cause/resolution of
the issue and will provide details as soon as they
become available.
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One of the backbones is having issues. I think over in Level 3 land, again. I'm on Time Warner and unable to reach anything at Rackspace, Facebook, Hotmail, etc.
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insert disc 2/15

http://i.imgur.com/aIv6Y90.jpg
OS2 came on 32 (thirty-two) 5.25" disks. I remember loading that beast.
One benefit of using this over Pingdom: they have a location in outside of the US and Europe (Singapore). If a networking issue causes your site to appear down for Japan, China or India Pingdom won't know.
I thought USA had low taxes compared to Europe but wtf property taxes
I've been using it for about a year and it works well, haven't gotten any false positives yet.

It can do keyword checking as well as standard ping + port connect.

That's about all it does, which is fine by me.

It's free and it works.
It's easy for a crawler to parse a robots.txt in different ways.

The article says to whitelist a few and deny everything else.

The crawler could parse that, and change the user agent to one whitelisted on further requests.
This is an interesting point. The point is made elsewhere in the thread that if you miss the deadline, but send what you have drawn so far anyway, with modern typical rendering software/hardware you'd get an incomplete drawing with holes and missing layers etc.

But that is not what tearing is. Tearing is, you've missed the deadline, so you finish the rendering to completion, then swap the buffer in the middle of a vertical scan. What you're saying is, you can do that, or wait until the next vertical scan before swapping the buffer. And further more, that can either result in simply a skipped frame, or the game switches down to a 30fps mode, perhaps based on some running statistical about frame render durations.

I'm reminded about a discussion Carmack (was it him? or am I having a brain fart) about mitigating the tearing and framerate problem by doing per scanline rendering instead of per frame rendering.

hmmm! I will have a long think
can confirm that from germany
That's pretty fun. I'm glad the highest voted reply on superuser wasn't snarky about the answer. This sort of reminds me of the "Who the hell is Paul McCartney?" thing on Twitter recently... which is an order of magnitude more irritating than a kid who never saw a floppy drive.
mind white balance correction?
The real answer is to stop using Gmail. And probably Google products in general.
Adaptec 2940 FTW!
What I found weird was that I remembered the command, but not the technology it came from or exactly how I used it. So I'm Googling around trying to figure out when and why it was important. For some reason I remembered it as "Print #6".

Old age and forgetfulness is going to be really strange for a whole generation of computer nerds. So many different technologies, commands, and paradigms all jumbled up.
It's like they narrated the script with a TTS engine, then got an actual human to mimic it.
buy & sell occurs at an exchange, which is instant as long as the exchange does it instantly. The exchange is keeping tracking of which account inside their exchange has what stuff. So it is just the exchange writing its records to database.

This has nothing to do with how long a bitcoin transaction (sending bitcoin from address a to address b) takes. bitcoin transaction occur in bitcoin network. The buy & sell is just internal to an exchange (eg. mt. gox) and occur outside of bitcoin network.
The "right" decision depends on more information. For example, hitting on 20 is the right decision if you are betting no money or money that isn't your own.
cmd+up takes you to the parent directory. (my most-used finder shortcut.)
I can't reach Tumblr either, or Toogles (YouTube search site).
Orlando is horrible, one of my least favorite cities in Florida. Gainesville on the other hand is great.
Internet Issues in the US - Possible Backbone Issue
There seems to be an issue with Level 3 at the moment which is causing all sorts of sites to be unreachable for some people but not others. Rackspace (mail, hosting, cloud, etc), Facebook, Hotmail, Github, Digital Ocean, etc.

For those experiencing connectivity issues, try a different ISP/network. For example, I can't connect to any of the above networks via my regular Time Warner cable connection or via my T-Mobile hotspot. But I can connect via my Verizon hotspot.
I liked it too, but there were two versions. The first version I think is what gave it a bad rap because it was difficult to find the front of the mouse by feel. The second version had a big divot in the button and solved that issue.
This is completely wrong. When even the fastest human reaction time is on the order of 200ms, 5ms vs 1ms of monitor input lag has no effect on the outcome. Also consider that 5ms is within the snapshot time that servers run on, so +/- 5ms is effectively simultaneous to the server on average.

Pixel persistence is not about image quality and cannot be mitigated by anything, except turning off the backlight at an interval in sync with the frame rate you're updating the image. This is how CRTs work, and that's why they had no ghosting effects. The 3D graphics driver hack I mentioned does exactly that for 3D enabled LCD monitors.
Carmack said we need 5 petaflops for truly realistic graphics.

But I'm not even sure if he considered 4k+ resolutions, 120+ FPS and 3D when he said that, because all of those may play a role too in the future if we want "Matrix-like" graphics in our virtual reality goggles or holodecks. So we might need orders of magnitude more powerful hardware than that still.
I'm a little surprised Latinas wasn't on the list actually.
Ah, right, thanks! So old wall warts were like the power supplies the OP describes right at the start, and the change we've is that newer wall warts are like a scaled down version of the ones he spends the rest of the article describing.
Does you provider offer an email to MMS connection? I know with my cell carrier you can email to (my phone number)@telusblah.com and it'll forward it as an MMS.
The problem with taking too many vitamins
I have been using this for a while on my servers. For some months, I had Pingdom and Uptime Robot monitor the same server. According to my experience, the latter has less false positives - with Pingdom, it sometimes looked as if it was monitoring its own network congestion, and not the availability of my websites.

Uptime Robot also has an API like Pingdom, but with the added benefit you can monitor up to 50 websites for free. The API allows me to almost never log in to the control panel, as I watch the status using my custom monitoring panels.
all the things people are reporting down are working fine for me from the UK.

EDIT: except, I don't have a Digital Ocean NY instance I can try. Those might be down, but their website's fine.
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