skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One reason: stigma.

All I recall from childhood/teen years is "IBM compatible PC" a mantra on every TV commercial IBM or others produced.

A PC was for business and you were rich or a fool to spend thousands on something so useless to a regular Joe.

Apple was even more expensive and even less common than a PC and even so Apple was quirky and drew pictures, ATARI and Commodore were for games.

They were in totally different worlds. Back then I wouldn't have even thought to have one computer that did everything.
A previous HN thread on OS/2.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3785819
This is a really cool concept, but one that is totally impossible. In the actual world, few things are truly independent. Even if you could find 33 binary questions that did not correlate with each other at all, you still run the risk of having multiple people yield the same 33 answers.

Just because two things aren't statistically linked does not mean that they will never overlap.
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Yea the metaphor didn't seem quite right. Do you even lift refers to commonly attainable results of consistent effort, like 50-100K salaries in software. If you can't squat 300 lbs after working out for years you're doing it wrong.

Building world changing products like Google is more like winning olympic gold. You need luck in genetics, competitors and training in addition to the work.
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I can't speak for everyone, but I thought that it should be decided by the county/state court who's jurisdiction it was in. I know nothing about power-of-attorney disputes, and way less about the particulars of this case than you seem to. But I know the president shouldn't be signing legislation aimed at a single power-of-attorney dispute that happens to be a national controversy for some dumb reason.
I agree! This kind of learning system will never be able to hit 100% accuracy, and even if it hits 95%, sometimes the 5% it misses are unusually important. It has to have a way to deal promptly with unexpected circumstances.

I don't think this requires manual user customization though. I think it's quite reasonable to expect the software itself to probe you for further info on the fly in case of failure.
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Sadly, most recent commercials lack even the charm of that. I have an OTA antenna just for occasional live sports, but TV is just abject now. One time I found like three celebrity gossip shows on at the same time, on broadcast networks! The networks used to be more dignified than that. So just to protect my will to live, I always change my tuner to the Mexican station before I turn the TV off. Not that Mexican TV is any better, but my intelligence is that much less insulted when I don't understand what they're saying, and it is ever so slightly more surreal to watch than the Chinese stations and occasionally has soccer highlights.
I would expect it to show up here eventually:

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dron/
As I mentioned in a comment on a os2museum blog post, keep in mind Letwin left in 1993, before MS did many of the unethical attacks against OS/2 that is not mentioned in this article.
Not really impressed, also FB login? They could've at least added Google also.

TBH, my http://www.last.fm/events is more useful, I find.
Do tons of tsumego. There are a variety of websites and smartphone apps for this.

Play a ton of games. At least 50 9x9 games, then transition into 19x19. Play fast games at first. You don't have the intuition or knowledge to read 25 moves in when you're only 20kyu (ladders might be an exception). I ripped through 30 games in a week and dropped from 9 to 5 stone handicap against gnuGo a while back.

There's a ton of books, but it helps to be cognizant of what you really need. In the early stages "Graded Go Problems for Beginners" is pretty good, as is "The Second Book of Go". Then there are a few titles in the "Elementary Go" series that are quite good. http://senseis.xmp.net/ is a tremendous reading resource.

Videos:
baduk tv (some free, mostly paid)
baduk movies (some free, mostly paid)
http://www.youtube.com/user/nicksibicky (tons of free, not super duper structured though)

Honestly, put in the time. Look at your games, especially your losses. Analyze the bejesus out of them. KGS is quite good for getting others to review your games too.
I remember installing it from the 15 billion floppies it came on and thinking much the same thing.

It seems like it was on 5-1/4" disks. Can that be right?

And REXX! Ha. REXX.
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They may want to rethink their name, when you say Notch most people respond with Minecraft.
XRP exists to help protect the Ripple network by making it costly to mount an attack against the network.

The drama that took place earlier this year when there were several denial of service attacks against Mt. Gox, causing the price of BTC to drop so that it could be bought cheaper by the attackers and their friends is way less likely to happen to Ripple.

Unlike transfering BTC, sending XRP from one Ripple user to another is free and confirmation is instant—no need for miners to confirm the transaction.
What I fear is the invasion of advertisers on the online channels. Youtube is already getting there. I just hope that it doesn't get as bad as TV though.
have you guys heard of this great thing called myspace? None of my relatives on there, and I hear Justin Timberlake owns a stake in it.

it's super cool!
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Slip up, yes. You're right, I said the wrong one.

But what's important is not the label, but the principle. :-)
Has this ever been conclusively documented? I've seen accusations by some and denials by those close to her, but never any proof of the claim.
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Almost everything is a bubble right now (thanks to the FED's money printing) ! Check this website : http://www.zerohedge.com/
The market doesn't give out points for foresight.

Indeed; in fact I'd argue the market (and society in general) flat out punishes foresight, especially when it's right. What's that old Heinlein quote about Cassandra? And I think this is why so many nerds/engineers are "unsuccessful", at least by market definitions, or why they end up bitter: they'd rather be right than rich. Just look at the deriding RMS gets, and yet "Right to Read" has more or less come to pass.
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Link is in that NSA likes computing power for reasons you should really know about, and who knows what else for, and in that SETI@home forms an "unprecedented network of over 5 million independent SETI@home volunteers constitutes the world’s largest supercomputer" [1].

Do I need to be more explicit?

[1] http://seti.berkeley.edu/
> a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators

Wow. This'll lead to some interesting hacks, I think.
Fair enough.. if you're talking about a giant class hierarchy with lots of mutable state, then I tend to agree that it doesn't usually lead to good software (although things like java's collections library and the outputstream hierarchy are good exceptions).
The Graded Go Problems for Beginners (http://www.amazon.com/Graded-Problems-Beginners-Beginner-Ele...) has four volumes of increasingly difficult tactical problems. For the strategic side of things, I enjoyed Janice Kim's Learn To Play Go series, which has five or more volumes (http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Play-Go-Masters-Ultimate/dp/1453...)

And, of course, with Go you have a nice progression from learning to play on the 9x9 board for tactics, the 13x13 board to begin learning strategy, and the 19x19 board to play the real game. And thanks to the handicapping system, you can play much stronger players with both of you playing your hardest and both with a chance to win.
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Also see these threads with my comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3785819

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3441885
> Median per-capita income in Santa Clara is somewhere around $100K/yr.

Incomes vary a lot even in the Valley, though; people seem to self-sort. Santa Clara is $89K median as of 2011, Cupertino even higher at $124k. But Mountain View? $54k median income.
> Why be an asshole?

In my opinion, I am not an asshole, but at least one other person in this thread certainly is. Why ask this question? Has my answer contributed anything of value? Were you expecting it to?

> Write your comments for the readers of HN, not for whomever you're replying to.

Do as you say, not as you do?

> I have no idea what OnSwipe is supposed to be. It's not obvious at all.

It's a UI for mobile/touchscreen devices. I even stated as much in my original comment, and I reject the notion that it is non-obvious.

Every time you encounter a crappy example of a product category, do you ask what the product is supposed to be? What answer are you even expecting? "This is really bad spaghetti." "OK, but what is it supposed to be?"... Wat?
There will always be enough entertainment to meet the demand of viewers. What we have now is a deluge of crap to meet the demands of advertisers wanting to sell eyeballs.
A see a huge problem with the shared profit thing, with virtual worthless points like Likes you already have all sorts of retardness from people dying to pull a hit stunt to profile for a dead baby mummy, can you imagine if the users were paid for the attention their posts get? "A thousand likes or this kitty goes in the microwave". I think the nice new place to be would be one where you are not the product, doesn't matter if you are being paid or not, or if you are paying or not.
Any recommendations for a good place to play chess online?
This is the cycle of our industry.

A beautiful thing is created. It is very expensive. It is sold to very few customers at very high margins. The very high margins subsidise the further perfection of the beautiful thing.

An ugly thing is created. It is very cheap. It is sold to very many customers at very low margins. The very large revenues subsidise the further papering-over of the flaws of the ugly thing.

Eventually, the ugly thing utterly supplants the beautiful thing. A few wistful old high priests mutter about the beautiful thing. Meanwhile, billions of dollars and millions of hours are wasted working around the flaws of the ugly thing and reinventing, poorly, the features of the beautiful thing.
All the things you mention are so true! I learned the same this year so I can relate.

Unfortunate but I suspect that wisdom cannot be taught, only learned from experience.
Singletons can be made thread-safe (with difficulty), and you can use complex lazy singletons in C++ code while complex globals gets you into trouble with module initialization order. So there're some very pragmatic reasons to use singletons over globals, even if the same drawbacks apply to both.
Couldn't the Amiga already do all that multitasking on a 256KB machine, years before?
Excellent points all around.

> I agree that you should analyze games with your opponent after the game (and also with stronger players), but keep in mind that, if you're both sub-2000, you'll both miss obvious tactics even as you review the game, which doesn't really improve your chess thought.

This is very true, although there might be an additional benefit to that. If you miss something during a game, you can always write it off as "time pressure / momentary lapse", but if you miss it again during a subsequent analysis, there may be something deeper going on (i.e. you are probably not considering certain types of combinations, etc). Knowing this allows you to ask "why did I miss that twice, even without pressure?", which may lead to good insight into your thinking process and an increase in playing strength. Of course, this may not necessarily mean that it's the best way to spend your time, it's just an additional thought.
I like your transaction idea and have an improvement. The trick is to reduce the costs of one-time punishment. This makes transactions less risky for contract keepers and more risky for contract breakers:

Terminology: I would call a contract where both parties lock up funds to be released on successful contract completion a "co-investment contract". Then I would add third parties we can call "co-investment insurers".

A co-investment insurer could be any party with a solid reputation of their own to keep, and who has a long term relationship with you (your bank for instance). For a small fee, (1%?) the co-investment insurer agrees to cover your investment loss if a contract fails.

Then the economics work like this:

1) People will not be afraid to lock up co-investments when their investment is insured because the worst that can happen if a contract is broken is they are out the small insurance fee.

2) Any party who gets insurance will still be incentivized to complete the contract successfully, so as not to harm their reputation with their long term co-investment insurer. (Who could increase their insurance fee or cancel their account if many transactions failed.)

3) Not everyone needs to buy co-investment insurance for this to have a big impact. The mere possibility of insurance makes punishment a stronger threat and therefore contracts more reliable.

4) As the systems's reputation for reliably punishing contract breakers increases, the insurance costs go down, making it even more affordable. This further increases the system's reliability for punishing contract breakers.

Given that all this can be automated, and reinforces incentives to keep contracts, I would think that insurance fees of only 1% or even less would become possible.
"API for Google Now to developers"

that would last about 5 minutes before Now turned into another ad platform.
Speaking of getting better at chess, someone on Reddit pointed out that Shredder for iPhone/iPod and iPad went on sale at half price ($3.99 [1]) for the world chess championship.

There are stronger chess engines for iOS available for free (Stockfish and Smallfish), and Shredder has some interface annoyances (the move list only shows the last couple of moves, making it annoying if you want to jump around while analyzing a game), but its saving grace is that it seems (both from what I've read and what I've experienced after a few games with it) to be better at playing at a lower level.

Many engines, when asked to dumb it down to give the human a chance, play like a grandmaster and then suddenly make a dumb sacrifice or ignore an attack on a piece--and then they go back to playing like a grandmaster.

That doesn't give the human a good game. It gives the human an ass kicking, then a brief moment of hope, and then teaches the human that even if the engine gives him rook odds or more it will still destroy him.

Shredder's lower levels seem to me to actually play pretty much like humans of that level. It keeps track of how you do against it at various levels, and by default automatically adjusts its level based on your performance.

[1] the sale is still on. I have no idea how long until the price goes back to $7.99. Also note that unfortunately Shredder for iPhone and Shredder for iPad are separate apps.
I remember my dad getting a promotional shirt for OS/2 with the caption "Flight 4.0 to Chicago has been delayed, I'm taking off with OS/2"

The idea being that Windows 95 was internally called Windows 4.0 with the codename Chicago.

I keep on searching for it but can't find it anywhere.

And Bill Gates on OS/2 in 1987: "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
IA-32 is a subset of x86, as x86 includes everything from the 8086 up and IA-32 (often AKA i386) is the 32-bit architecture from the 80386 up. But this doesn't really explain why both were listed there, particularly when listed alongside the 386 as a separate listing.
Too lazy to move off tumblr, but heard good things about blogofile.
3 1/2"

The IBM PS/2 only came with the smaller disk, so bigger wasn't necessary
Yeah, I think you would need to make something new and un-thought of. Something unique that draws a lot of attention.
Removing features unpredictably would be annoying. But merely suggesting a certain feature based on it's predictions would be helpful and useful I think. The feature should still be able to be found in the menus or through a search.
Is there something like this for programming ?
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The bit at the end about people "cutting the cord" on broadband and going to free wifi rings... not just false, really, but simply ridiculous. To a reasonable approximation, nobody is relying on Starbucks (or whatever) for their Internet access - that's simply not a substitute.
play, play, play, play.

A lot of videos and guides aren't hugely useful until post <10kru since you are still mastering the very basics such as move order, counting liberties, basic structures.

Still videos are good. There are dozens on youtube "Bat's lectures" are one I follow (He's a 2Dan American) "Youtube user dywrin" also https://www.youtube.com/user/gocommentary gets an honorable mention he's very useful but is no longer making videos.

The biggest piece of advice I can offer is learn joseki's, and not only learn them. But learn to punish when people don't play properly, this will easily push you into single digit kru.
"awesome" ???

I just tried it, for the bay area it said there were 1887 concerts, then gave me no way to facet the search results by genre, venue etc. I tried the search box, which, confusingly, is right next to the "sign up as an artist". The search results despite the bay area being set as my location showed me concerts in London as the first result.

I wouldn't say songkick is anything like awesome.
I've personally not found this difficult. Unless perhaps you're dealing very large volumes of mail and overhead of SpamAssassin is an issue. Mail volume in 10s of thousands/day on a low end VPS has been no problem for me.
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So, did Letwin ever pay up?
Thanks for the feedback. Scaling to 4,000 is goal as that'll bring me to the $100K revenue mark. It should be interesting. I have ~75 customers.

The website doesn't play well with office managers who are a big target customer. I want to sell and ship the jerky to offices who want healthier snacks that don't put employees in a food coma or spike their insulin.

It also falls flat among strangers who don't trust a one-pager and a paypal link.
Do you know which finalist the check in deadline was extended for ?
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iOS7 all the things! Sorry, that's all I could think when seeing this.
He said for a PC, i.e. an IBM PC clone.
How exactly is ripple different than any other payment system?
My guess is that the name is a play on "ruminate", which originally meant "to chew the cud" as ruminant animals do. However, long ago it came to also mean "to think deeply about", as if a person might be "chewing" some information in an attempt to digest it. I'm assuming they mean the latter meaning.
I just recently got a card that entitled 'Watch now' that has a list of shows to watch, and has a 'Listen to TV' button in the top corner. It appears that my phone can listen to the tv, and figure out what I am watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04dpHTxqI6U - apparently this has been around for a while.
> Japanese textbooks do cover Japanese war crimes in detail, with denialists a marginal fringe

While I agree that denialists might be marginal, I wasn't aware that textbooks cover war crimes "in detail"? My only personal experience is as an exchange student to Fukuoka in 96-97 -- and there certainly wasn't much "detailed" coverage of Japanese war crimes in second year of high school as I recall.

But that's a few years ago now, maybe the curriculum has been updated?
This is a great comment. Thank you.

I have had the opposite question from one posted to SE: What enlightenment will I attain when I can move beyond thinking of every solution in programming as a FSM? I have never understood the obsession with higher level languages with objects, classes, methods, etc. I can't seem to think beyond lex, regular expressions and case statements.

You comment is reassuring. Maybe I'm already emlightened. And I just don't know it.
Yes true. Running a program with no side effects is a no-op. All side effect free programs are identical, and do nothing. This is one of the most common misconceptions people afraid to learn haskell bring up, because people keep saying "functional programming is having no side effects".
In its natural habitat. A Unix beard is genderless; it merely seems to exhibit a preference for male hosts.
chess.com is OK, ICC (chessclub.com) is where its at, but has a subscription fee.
While I came in here to defend Digital Ocean, I will say that I pay several tons for Digital Ocean and I'm having the same downtime. It's a power outage and UPS also failed. But I don't think the cost has anything to do with it. They're pretty well funded and have big goals.
That's very useful too - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11886812/whats-the-differ...

and then looking for a way to send everything via the keyboard brought me to http://superuser.com/questions/288772/shell-sigkill-keybindi...
Thanks. I'll take a look at Stylebot. I'm pretty convinced what I'm looking to do isn't possible with default Chrome, but it might be, and I'd guess that I'm not the first person to wonder this.
Ugh, not a fan at all. This is horrible, obviously very iOS7 influenced (and that's not a good thing).
why study chess when you can play go?

The rules of go are so elegant, organic and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe they almost certainly play go. -Lasker
This reminds me of MS's PX00307 that I found and linked in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3441885 with my comments pointing out the flaws in the thinking.