skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually bought a copy of OS/2 Warp when it came out because I was interested in its preemptive multi-tasking, and it was a decent operating system for what it's worth. I was definitely more stable than Window 3.11, but its real problem was compatibility. Back in the early 90s, everything was about getting compatibility, and while OS/2 had good compatibility, didn't have perfect compatibility.

As well, I worked at a bank, and as the article correctly stated, the entire bank was run on OS/2, most notably the ATMs, except the ATMs I worked with was using OS/2 2.0.

However, when Windows NT 3.51 came out, that was the game changer. I was the only person I knew who even knew what it was (I read about it in a magazine at the time), and I was able to get a student-priced copy at my college bookstore. I started using it, and it was awesome, everything just worked, except for some games. You couldn't even compare NT 3.51 to OS/2, it wasn't even in the same level. The look and feel of NT was exactly the same as Windows 3.11, and all the programs worked.
Since it's been 2+ hours now, I'll just say that an hour ago half my machines came up but the other half remains offline. I don't think they're still coming back up. Waiting patiently… by grousing on Hacker News.
GNU tar seems to have gained the a switch which will detect the right decompressor.

e.g.

tar axf linux.tar.gz

tar axf linux.tar.bz2

tar axf linux.tar.xz

will all work, assuming you have gzip, bzip2 and xz installed.
I dunno about that. At least where I grew up, if your family had a Mac or an Amiga, it was like you had domesticated a unicorn. Everybody wanted to see it, play with it. It marked you out as a member of a family possessed of either great sophistication or enormous wealth, either of which translates easily to status.

If there was any stigma, it was for being on the opposite end of the spectrum -- having a computer whose primary selling point was that it was cheap, like a Commodore 64. The C64 was a fine machine for the price, but nobody was going to ooooh and aaah over it they way they would if you took them into your Dad's study and showed them MacPaint.
Many of those "problems" really don't seem to exist in Germany. I guess part of it stems from the common law system, but I'm not sure.
the circle of liiiiiifeee...
My Experience with the Surface Pro 2 as a Software Developer
Great Quote !
What the author is described is simply Google Now's contextual awareness that a feature could be useful in a given situation. Even if the Listen to TV card doesn't appear in Google Now, you can simply say "Ok Google, listen to my tv," and it will start listening.
> Only Microsoft realised the hardware didn't matter, software was the main game.

Yes. This was one of Bill Gates' many strokes of genius. After just one year of Traf'o'Data (Microsoft's precursor), Gates saw that the future was in software, not hardware, and he created Microsoft centered around this very vision (while Apple bet the farm on hardware).
I would be interested , though admittedly I'm not very knowledgeable.
Well, I read it letting my eyes sweep back and forth.
I wrote a website (http://nextchessmove.com/, GNUChess-backed) and corresponding iPhone app (Stockfish-backed, $0.99, mostly covers website hosting). Both let you drag pieces around "freestyle" and ask the engine for a move.

I've gotten absolutely clobbered with traffic lately, presumably tournament-related. I'd love to hear what you all think about the site's applicability to learning the game.
I find Path(www.path.com) to be promising. Pretty neat and intuitive.
No one objected to using "pure" instead of the more common "abstract" (which is the actual antonym of "concrete") ?? Why do people do this?
>I’m a business man and a family man. I love collecting chairs and getting drunk on the weekends. I want to introduce all of these aspects to my network...Combining your identities, creates a synergy and depth to your online persona.

Isn't this what Google+ has been trying to do from the start?
Backlash by the bay - tech riches alter a city
That's like that joke;

How many people does it take to start a ski resort? Three. One to buy all the land, go broke, and declare bankruptcy. The second to do all the paperwork, permits, go broke, and declare bankruptcy. Then a third to buy all that and start a ski resort.
Sorry, but I think this is just Google Maps. Sitting here in the USA, typing "vidyarthi bhavan" into maps.google.com takes me to the one in Gandhi Bazar, too. Maybe because it has 155 reviews?
12-14 hours mostly.
The sad thing is that I have never seen an article on the entire MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco that is what I call complete and detailed and many omitting for example the unethical attacks MS did against OS/2 such as "Microsoft Munchkins". I try with my own blog article, but I admit it is not very good either.
Starting a Startup in College
The biggest joke I've heard recently. Those guys want to manipulate the market and buy cheap Bitcoins, I bet.
There are so many other, better ways to solve that problem which don't involve an unnecessary transfer of wealth to OpenCoin Inc. Also, I wouldn't even call it a solution: it makes opening accounts costly, which directly hampers scalability and eliminates entire classes of use cases. That's a weakness, not an advantage.
For me, the worst thing is that Caldera was able to continue suing MS due to this Win9x dependency on DOS.
My computer had 8mb RAM at the time and NT required 16 to install so I "borrowed" another 8 from one of the school computers, installed NT and then returned the memory. It ran well enough on 8.
The Sandra-Bullock movie "Gravity" cost as much to produce as the Mars mission recently launched by India (~ 100Million USD).

Gravity made 500Million USD.

Something does not sit right.
Its truly amazing to see such a large bounty for an open source project. Even though this bug poses no security threat, the reward offered is akin to those offered by the big power houses (FB, Microsoft, Google) for providing fixes to critical security issues.
lt30.com (if they accept you)
Full Metal Jacket redux (for CS majors)
Apple really dropped the ball with Siri. It feels like the upgrade to iOS 7 made Siri slightly worse, and I was hoping for much, much better.

The key use for me is responding to texts or making phone calls while driving. Being able to say "Call home" is really great, but the really annoying thing is that it I can't appear to force it to use speakerphone. Why is such a small feature unavailable to me? Also, the response time for Siri is extremely slow, and the responses are far too verbose. I wish you could do things like adjust the speaking speed, etc.

The other thing is Apple should have allowed people to integrate their apps with Siri, but it doesn't seem like it's possible. I would love to launch some apps verbally, but Siri isn't useful enough to do that.

Sure, it's clever enough to figure out "I'm locked out of my house" to mean call a locksmith, like the ad shows, but other than what I mentioned above, and setting timers and alarms verbally, it has become almost complete useless to me.
Honestly this is horrifying. The idea that companies are making damaging decisions because they have favorable tax benefits and congress probably didn't even realize it. Well that makes me sad.
hmm.. I am with Digital Ocean. Does anyone know where (physical address) exactly their NYC1 Equinix datacenter is?
The perfect HTML5, light, responsive site that works in IE6 [sfw]
Then we agree that it is a very risky investment and one should be careful about it =)
Well to be fair in this case the bounty was setup before the recent rise in price. It's only getting attention now because it's now worth something.

But the donors could have backed out and did not, and there are other similarly-sized bounties in the bitcoin community (I currently make my living off of community donations as a bitcoin-core developer).
So embarrasing Weird guy has been seeing too many twerking videos.
This guy must be have the twerking spirit in him.
Where is that low-power x86 and its fleet of low-power support chips to do what something like an Armada or EnergyCore can do on its own? They have yet to come up with one.

As for your 8051 example, it's bogus because that chip simply can't do the work. It can't run a real OS, and even if it could do that it couldn't keep even a single Ethernet or SATA port busy. Therefore you'd need a lot more nodes, each with their own network/storage/memory that don't come for free, rapidly wiping out any savings on the CPU alone before you even get to the high-node-count coordination problems that would make the whole thing fall flat on its face.

The whole issue here is not just absolute minimum power but balance. In a server environment, where the processor's job is about keeping ports full more than about pure number-crunching, you have to start with what kinds of ports you have. What processor and memory most exactly matches a commodity I/O profile, neither running over nor falling short, while consuming the fewest watts? Modern ARM chips are often a better answer to that question than anything Intel makes. It's a shame that some people who've invested many years in x86-specific expertise might find the market for those skills eroding as a result, but that's the harsh reality.
I like a lot of bullet points in this document.
Facebook New Vulnerability Allow to view Hidden Friends List
I was lucky enough to have a 486DX-50 (not a DX2-66)with 16 MB of RAM, so it ran perfectly for me.

Even with what was bleeding edge hardware at the time, I still remember trying to finish writing my senior project using Corel Draw and Microsoft Word on Windows 3.11, and having my computer crash ever 30-45 mins, and my project partner eventually broke down and started crying because of how frustrating it was.
Friendster shall rise again!
How much does a Lyft driver earn?
Here is the paper - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/839348-silk-road-pap...

via http://www.pcworld.com/article/2066780/did-satoshi-nakamoto-...
Just checking: is it normal for the bitcoin-qt client to upload a burst of 1GB to an IP on startup? Havn't seen it b4
That is because those processors are running in thumb mode... essentially using 16-bit opcodes. The original ARM instruction set is 32-bit opcodes which is enough to encode 16 registers. The thumb mode was added to increase code density and subsequently they found it could be used for most common cases.
> The protocol needs a native currency (XRP) in order to pay the anti-DDOS fee.

No, it doesn't. Have you seen the various pre-OpenCoin ripple protocols, or the currently competing colored coin proposals? None of them necessarily needed or would have benefited from a scarce-money fee currency. Ripple is a protocol for generating ad-hoc user-issued assets and arranging trade networks for exchanging these currencies. There's no reason fees can't be collected in whatever currency is being transacted, and then atomically converted into whatever currency the collecting node desires. That's what ripple is designed to do.
Here is the paper - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/839348-silk-road-pap...

via
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2066780/did-satoshi-nakamoto-...
> "This isn't correct information anymore, in my opinion"

It looks like you hastily condemned the writer as a means to justify a parallel insight. The writer is clearly not against computer analysis, even in the quote that you have extracted. It does make sense to analyse without the aide of a computer then afterwards using one. Your insight still stands.
What if the twins are delivered via Caesarean, with the exact same datetime recorded? Including datetime (even as a string) also includes the aforementioned falsehoods about time.
Three Years in an Alternate Universe
The same thing happened with digital cameras. I remember hearing people scoff at them and thinking "wait and see, folks."
We were a participant and I am not worried about winning the 1M hackathon. Our focus was to build a great product and we did from Mon-Wed and submitted before 2pm which was told earlier and got changed to 6pm and we did not sleep for 36 hours. I would prefer if we can have all list posted in a reddit and let us crowdsource this winner not for the prize but for selecting the five best by crowdsourcing the hackathon - Our entry is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I3yhhP2HGk
Today I decided to learn about Go. I knew nothing prior. I read a few chapters of Chikun's "Go: A Complete Guide to the Game." I really like how he goes back and forth between introducing a game mechanic, and then some historical element.

The chapters look like: http://i.imgur.com/qcnWUng.png

I even went so far as to watch the first couple episodes of Hikaru no Go, which is honestly really awesome.
Photographer wins $1.3m payout from companies that took images from Twitter
In other words, you don't really know enough to say there's a difference. What we do know is that they're the same basic architecture and instruction set, at very similar process levels, so it's not at all unreasonable to estimate that the performance difference is proportional to the clock-rate difference. That clock-rate difference is probably dwarfed both by Viridis's 50% nodes-per-rack advantage and Copper's 2x memory-per-node advantage, so the quibble just wasn't worth it. Thanks for adding so much to the discussion.
You might be sharing the block chain, i.e. for a new user.
New research aims to teach computers common sense
The video is misleading. There are possible network configurations where nodes keeping different trust lists will end up partitioned from each other (separate lost closed ledgers). OpenCoin, to my knowledge, has done nothing to fix this as it is a problem inherent in the consensus mechanism they are using. The way you fix it is using some other deterministic method for decentralized consensus... like proof of work.
Google's Schmidt Sees Encryption Killing Censorship
> minimal overlap of trusted validators

Does that mean it does an intersect of sets of trusted validators? How does it determine which sets of trusted validators to use? What if the intersection is the empty set?
> never put postfix's spool and dovecot's storage on the same physical device and I/O controller. /var/log must live on the separate device too.

This probably depends on the mail volume, no? I host all mail related services for myself and some family on a $9/month VPS (1 VCPU, 512 MB RAM, and pedestrian I/O capabilities) without any issues. My mail volume is typically under 20K messages/day.
Yeah, mine was a Pentium 90! (I decided to scrimp on RAM and get the 90 in stead of the 66.) It was a huge jump from the 286 I had before. (Upgrading memory meant socketing rows of individual DIPs.)
Ahem. Anyone remember Six Degrees?
Optimus – Ring middleware for front-end performance optimization
There are wallets around that use a shared blockchain too. Otherwise the download can be huge.
If the eyeballs move to netflix, the billions in ad revenue will move too.
Does Congress think we're stupid?
An easy way to construct the questions is to ask for increasingly precise time and location of birth.

There will be corner cases, but then so does asking if someone is male.
Another satisfied Cyrus IMAP user here. :-) I've heard nice things about Dovecot too, though.
This Is What America's School Lunches Really Look Like
stack overflow should allow you to attach BTC bounties to high priority questions like in this thread
The Remaining Two Character .io's
How distortion in source reporting affects HUMINT
Well certainly individual preference is a matter of taste. For me, "4 pooling" and these kind of largely random rock-paper-scissors choices -- which can often be decisive, as is the case here -- put me off Starcraft and a lot of games in general, at least as anything more than casual entertainment. But I do remember enjoying the game before I yelling at kids to get off my lawn.
No there were some unix-like systems running at that time, three or four years before OS/2.
Please share the YouTube link. Thanks.
That's not really the use case. The use case is more along the lines of "I like this band a lot and would love to see them live but I can't be bothered to track this stuff", so you go to songkick and it will send you an email when they announce dates near you. That part is awesome.

Your use case should be accommodated too, granted, but it's not the direction they're currently headed.
why do either when you can go outside and get some fresh air, maybe talk to a cute girl and/or guy.
>Finally, and most importantly for the future of the company, Bill Gates hired the architect of the industrial-strength minicomputer operating system VMS and put him in charge of the OS/2 3.0 NT group. Dave Cutler’s first directive was to throw away all the old OS/2 code and start from scratch. The company wanted to build a high-performance, fault-tolerant, platform-independent, and fully networkable operating system. It would be known as Windows NT.

A couple of decades later, Dave Cutler is still around at Microsoft and worked on the hypervisor for the Xbox One at the ripe young age of 71, allowing games to run seamlessly beside apps.

From http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/8/5075216/xbox-one-tv-micros...

>Underneath it all lies the magic — a system layer called the hypervisor that manages resources and keeps both platforms running optimally even as users bounce back and forth between games, apps, and TV.

>To build the hypervisor, Multerer recruited the heaviest hitter he could find: David Cutler, a legendary 71-year-old Microsoft senior technical fellow who wrote the VMS mainframe operating system in 1975 and then came to Microsoft and served as the chief architect of Windows NT.

>It appears his work bridging the two sides of the One has gone swimmingly: jumping between massively complex games like Forza Motorsport 5, TV, and apps like Skype and Internet Explorer was seamless when I got to play with a system in Redmond. Switching in and out of Forza was particularly impressive: the game instantly resumed, with no loading times at all. "It all just works for people," says Henshaw as he walks me through the demo. "They don’t have to think about what operating system is there."
Ripple (XRP) giveaway for Github users
If they don't do it, it could make an awesome chrome extension.
My Bitcoin Mining Experiment
Good chess player - sign of a great mind. Great chess player - sign of a wasted mind.
Founder of a French Hollande resignation website arrested Wednesday
Technology adoption lifecycle (bell curve)
Direct link to bell curve: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/DiffusionOfIn...
US House approves $5,000 fee for official drilling protests
The tsunami thing would be less amazing if you lived there rather than being just a visitor. Tsunamis are a big deal in Hawaii. Growing up there, we had monthly tests of the tsunami warning system - sort of like air-raid sirens. They teach tsunami preparedness in the schools and spend a lot of time in the local history class (hawaiiana) talking about the devastation caused by tsunamis in the past. I would not be surprised to find out that the engineer responsible for the tsunami alerts in Google Now was a kama'aina.
Good to hear that Dovecot scales. I personally went with Cyrus because at the time I was picking an IMAP server, Cyrus was already a well tested solution known to scale. As I recall, Dovecot back then was still young and developed by one person. I've heard a lot of good things about it since though. I'm sticking with Cyrus since it works fine for me, but it's good to have options.
I don't think the Amiga had real multi-tasking, from what I understand. I may be wrong.
A China Triangle: Bitcoin, Baidu, And Beijing
Old news. Fuck you America.
I really like Daniel King's game reviews. You can find them here: http://www.youtube.com/user/PowerPlayChess
What does it mean to be a "UI for mobile/touchscreen devices"? Mobile devices already have UIs. What is it trying to add to those? It's obviously trying to add something, unless you literally believe the developers that go to work in that office are setting out to make your life worse.
Here are the problems with only spending $30 on ads.

#1. Ads are experiments both is where they're located but also the text, target, etc. IE: you didn't spend nearly enough and try enough possible ads to get anywhere.

#2. You're only charging $.99 - This just flat out doesn't work as a model unless you're a novelty that goes viral. Even then though, the majority of apps that achieve this are running at a $.99 price point in order maximize downloads and not revenues because they capture an audience to their brand or via social networks and eventually market expansions, in app purchases, or other materials (the moron test is a great example of this).

Like another user said your purchase rate isn't going to drop horribly when doubling to $1.99. Once a user has made the decision to purchase an application, by which I mean spend any amount of money, the difference of a dollar in the mind is minimal. It's the hurdle between free and paid that creates a huge barrier in conversions.

Example: Currently you have ~4% conversion rate (with that demographic at least). This means that at $1 price point (and because of apple fees, $.70 profit) you'll need to spend less than $.027 per click to the page to break even.

Now under the assumption that you drop down to a 3% conversion rate when doubling your price. You'll make $1.39 per purchase, meaning you can spend $.042 per click to break even.

Lastly, while still on this note... you're unable to ever offer a 'sale' unless you'd like to go temporarily free. Sales, while not a huge deal for applications that no one has really heard of... they do still drive people to purchase through impulse if they were already thinking about it.

Warning: While I say this and it tends to be true... test it... always test it! Play with different prices and see what happens.

#3. Offer upgrades/in app purchases. If someone has already come to pay $1 for the application, they're likely to invest more into the game.
> According to this Consumer Reports article, “the median car costs more than $9,100 a year to own” over the first five years of ownership driving 12,000 miles a year. That means the median cars costs about 76 cents per mile driven ($9100/12000). I’m just guessing that I’ll average a speed of 30 miles/hour while I’m doing my Lyft job. So my expenses will come to about $22.80 per hour (0.76*30).

Doesn't that $9100 a year median include a bunch of fixed costs (or at least costs that wouldn't grow linearly with the mileage driven)? e.g., the lease/cost of car itself, insurance, etc. I'm not saying this would take the profitability of being a Lyft driver from pretty terrible to great, but it does seem like a pretty significant oversight.
> I’m just guessing that I’ll average a speed of 30 miles/hour while I’m doing my Lyft job. So my expenses will come to about $22.80 per hour.

You're implying that you will driving 30 miles each hour, on average. That is a ridiculous overestimation for the type of urban driving Lyft will involve. I'd guess closer to 15-20 in off-peak periods, and perhaps something close to 10 miles on average. That brings maintenance expenses down to $7.60/hr from $22/hr.