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OS/400 is very interesting OS for those interested in OS architectures.

The complete userspace is bytecode based, regardless of the language.

Applications are compiled on installation phase, or when the generated code is deemed not to be valid any longer.

When there was an architecture change for the PowerPC, many installations only required a regeneration of the installed software.

A concept that Microsoft tried with Longhorn and Windows Phone 7. Or we could even say, the model Android almost has as well.

Native Oberon and Inferno also tried a similar approach, to certain extent.
Smartwatches aren't the next big thing
Why don't they just go directly to the ioctl instead of through all these libraries?

When ever I need something written to disk _immediately_ I go straight to the drivers:

if (ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF, NULL))
perror("BLKFLSBUF failed");

that should work.
5 KB of html, and 22 KB of Google Analytics JS + 1 gif.

It's 2013 and website owners still can't parse theirs motherfuckingwebserver's logs, extract browser info and apply GeoIP database for visitor counting. They speak about privacy, but prefer to send all the data about theirs 5KB motherfuckingpages to motherfuckinggoogle.
Yes, but it was 512 MB, not 256KB.

Plus it had a heterogeneous architecture, with dedicated chips for sound and graphics.

Just set the required data structures and let the chip do its work alone. Sounds familiar?
I think it's very unlikely that WinForms, a GDI+ wrapper, is going to get a major, incompatible, rendering change in a minor point release of the .NET Framework. GDI uses actual pixels as measurements, so being DPI aware is much more painful. Seeing as GDI is not the future, it's unlikely this will ever change.

It's probably not even theoretically possible to fix it, without having a list of programs and their DPI behaviour, then keep that list updated somehow and patch programs' rendering. Or MS would need to add another flag like "no, I'm really DPI aware, promise!" for new programs to opt-in, then continue to scale older programs.

WPF, DirectWrite, WinRT - apps based on those APIs should have far less problems with scaling.
I agree with this. I'm not sure that the next-big-thing is even imaginable yet. I don't think it will be just a product or service like Facebook. I think it will involve a complete paradigm shift, and perhaps some tech that we haven't yet envisioned.

This article makes some interesting points and, perhaps, the next generation will incorporate some of these ideas. But, it feels like a modest iteration over the current state of affairs. And, much like the current landscape (FB, Vine, Instagram, SnapChat, etc), the article feels fragmented. It consists of a lot of related ideas, but there's no real cohesion or unifying theme.
This is poor analysis. The writer takes an artificially high number ($9100), divides it by an artificially low number (12,000) and then multiplies it by an artificially high number (30 mph) resulting in just about the highest number possible.

Take a $15,000 car with a nice warranty and good mileage. $3 or so per hour for gas. $200/month for registration, insurance, etc. Maybe you'd get to $10 and hour in costs, but I doubt it. And the car would last for 10 years at least.
For people already with a car, the variable costs of driving (maintenance, fuel, etc.) is usually 25-45 cents (lower end is a economy car getting 30mpg city, higher end is a less fuel-efficient, less reliable car). Using 35c/mile, and an average urban driving speed, that's $5.25/hour.

Even idling half the time, that's 17.50-5.25=$12.25, better than many pizza delivery / the average urban courier rate. Delivery drivers often get far less than $35 while having to pay their own vehicle costs.

The calculus changes a lot just based on that single number, average speed. I'm sure the $35/hr number would be far higher if everyone was going on freeways between trips and racking up the miles like crazy (assuming Lyft incorporates distance into its pricing heavily)
Stone-tipped spear found which predates human existence
I'd suggest, "Do you self-identify as female?" There are slightly more women than men, so your bifercation is "female" and male/intersex/genderqueer. I'd suggest that currently intersex and genderqueer people are currently a small enough population that it would be close to 51/49 other to self-identified woman ratio.
Boost really should have been modular from the start. The way the docs are laid out almost implies they are modular, but then you have to pull in this massive codebase when all you want is smart pointers. I'm a big fan of Boost, and I'm glad to see them do this.
The point is that many people who would have otherwise answered your question on SO out of sheer goodwill would not answer questions if paid $20 to answer questions, a motivational phenomenon that has some empirical support in psychology.
> Most people do not go out and purchase a vehicle just to become a Lyft drivers.

But that's a likely direction.

And if you're trying to make much money from Lyft, you're probably driving it much more for Lyft than for yourself already.
It pays to present yourself as a JavaScript developer to a company that's looking for a javascript developer. You should hardly mention any other technology you are proficient with. Once I got rejected from javascript developer recruitmetn process mostly for reminiscing fondly about my expeirience with C#
Nobody cares about your stick figure family
Self-driving flying cars? Able to park anywhere a car parks
What was the event in April causing a spike in both searches?
Yes, many like to bash Windows, but the NT family is actually a VMS at heart, spoiled by a not so good user land experience.

I once attend a session by him about the Windows kernel design, quite interesting.
One Giant Leap for Frogkind
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Like we native folks (mainframe) keep talking about those trying to stuff applications inside an application created for reading hypertext documents (pc).
Uber Strikes Deal To Lower The Cost Of Car Ownership For Drivers
.... You're ignoring the fact that static pages ARE loaded (cached) in memory. You're ignoring the fact that server applications will have to usually hit a database to render pages.

This is a very basic proposition (static assets are served faster than dynamically rendered assets), and I'm seriously bewildered as to why you are arguing against that point.
End Violence against Women 
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Very spot on! Not many seem to remember, but OS/2 truly was technically superior to just about everything else out there in consumer computer land, excepting maybe things like 386BSD (which many of us didn't know about at the time, and probably would have peed our pants at setting up X ;). OS/2 had pre-emptive multitasking and memory protection; Apple and Microsoft didn't even come close in their offerings. Say what you will about how IBM fumbled the marketing, licensing, etc, or how the upstarts(!) won against the Evil Empire, but OS/2 was the better operating system, and Microsoft honed it's FUD by attacking IBM and OS/2, whilst offering a truly awful alternative.
The AREXX error was my mistake. I just read the technology transfer part backwards when I was researching. I've already fixed it in the article and updated it.
Apple Awarded $290M in Patent Dispute with Samsung
Yeah, variations of this have been tried repeatedly and failed. Refer.ly is one of the most recent that comes to mind.

The whole point of social networks is to be social with people you enjoy. As soon as you provide financial incentive, then things get skewed.

Maybe there's a model or variation under which this could work. But, simply allowing people to monetize interactions, the stuff they share, etc. will pervert the incentive and devalue the platform.
If they haven't really considered that use case, and their service doesn't handle it well, why on earth do they provide the means to make their service look bad?

Based on the GP's (and your) report, the search box should be replaced with a freeform text field or somesuch that lets you input artists you're interested in, and a button that subscribes you to notifications.
I wonder how they intend to monetize?
We actually don't "need" anything more social.
> I'm not sure how I feel about having empathy for someone who can't give it in return

That is always the hard part because at some point pretend empathy always slips up and isn't as deep as real empathy. Some people are able to make up the gap using manipulation (not myself).
Yeah.

I was the only one, among my circle of friends owning computers, that had a PC instead of an Amiga.

My dad thought the Amiga were only good for playing games, for anyone serious about computers, PC was the way to go.

So I was left reading 68000 Assembly manuals, some Amiga reference books, and playing with them on computer parties we used to organize.

In any case, the only way to buy any of them in my home country was on credit.
Facebook is already a hugely popular social networking platform. Facebook login is the most immediately visible aspect of this platform.
If anyone's interested in how I studied chess, I wrote a few posts on my blog on chess.com about it: http://www.chess.com/blog/Matetricks

I became a National Master when I was 13 and I played a lot as a kid.
At $10/hour expenses (your estimate) and $26/hour income (the original article's estimate) the Lyft driver is now netting $16/hour.
Psychological altruism bias notwithstanding, I think bounties sure have their place -- perhaps not side-to-side with altruistic ones as to not interfere with them: SO tends to get a lot of attention on interesting questions, and very few otherwise. This leaves an opportunity for low interest, high personal value questions, the dual of SO. There would still be a void for low interest low value questions, but reaching those is asking too much.
Wow you sure exploited that fast, and in such a dark manner. Congrats!
The "visual languages" concept is something that has been in the industry for quite a long time. I guess it may have been successful in some domain specific languages but when it comes to general purpose languages, it seems that the generality of these languages somehow make the visual representation not feasible.
You haven't provided any evidence that social networks in fact behave like TV shows.

The fact that one effect of social networks is to entertain people, and the fact that TV shows also have the effect of entertaining people, does not imply social networks are therefore bound to the rules/generalizations of TV shows.
I Love this comment! The parable to chess is most appropriate. It's easy to learn how each piece works, but to use them properly to create a magnificent system is the work of grand masters.

PS: C makes me feel like this too! I just know how the pieces work.
You're no longer hellbanned.
Down for me :( Quotum has been reached (not sure which quotum, I don't use Google Trends often). Can someone please post the chart?
Wu’er Kaixi turn himself to China Government
Australia's Federal Government did a one-off $900 handout at the start of the GFC. Later studies showed that it was mostly diverted into paying off credit cards, so it didn't actually have the stimulatory effect that was hoped for.

The problem with the blunt instruments of monetary and fiscal policy is ... they're blunt. And usually come with nasty side-effects. Again, in Australia, the Reserve Bank has been steadily pushing interest rates down to try and get our dollar to fall. They're not having much luck in that department, but they have kicked up a surge in Sydney house prices due to record low mortgage rates.

As for there being a software bubble, I think there is such a thing, separately from any effects of US monetary policy. But I also expect that monetary policy is making it more spectacular. The S&P 500 has been surging ahead of other economic indicators, that's usually a sign that there's a lot of money swirling around looking for somewhere to go.
Windows should at least implement 200% scaling (like retina on the Mac) where apps are useable/look OK, even if they don't support scaling at all.
http://lbiegaj.netshock.pl/_/screenshot-25-11-13-052041088.p...
98/100. "Toronto" and "Xylophone" were really hard for me. I arranged them and tried to squint from afar to make sure they looked balanced.
95/100. I thought the second-to-last was hardest. Serif/sans-serif didn't make as much of a difference as I expected.
Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch
We are building a platform network around this idea. we believe that a social network is defined by the places were you are regularly (sport club, work, bar). Our plattform lets you communicate with the people at those places even if you are at a rock concert.
This is is almost proof of concept technology. If it takes off I'm sure that DELL will invest a lot more R&D in it.
Works perfectly for me on Firefox 25 on Linux. Worked fine in Nightly on Linux as well. Is something wrong with your profile?
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Google doc, gist, tumblr, any free blog engine.
fyi, deleting then resubmitting submissions is a bannable offense, and I've seen this link atleast 3 times so far.
I'm not sure what mining profitability of vastly outclassed hardware has to do with Bitcoin being a "naked front running racket" or "pump and dump".
Video is just a sample, there is a download button provided for the complete video.
It's also caused by using Tor. (Any comments from new accounts posted via Tor are autokilled.)
Ask HN: Immersive Programming Summer Bootcamp in the Bay Area?
Does anyone know of a very immersive (~90 hrs/week) summer programming bootcamp in the Bay Area (or possibly elsewhere)? I'm a college student looking at CS major or minor but would like to get a head start. I have a reasonably substantial amount of programming experience and really don't want a basic youth summer camp type deal.
Ideally something like appacademy.io but over the summer.
I used to watch a fair amount of TV, now I have three young kids and watch less than an hour per month. I wonder what I actually got out of those 30+ hours a week of watching television. What a waste of life. how many people on their death bed say... I wish I had watched more television. Some people are going to spend 1/4 of their life watching television. Seriously? think of what you could have done with that time.

Online gaming is becoming as much of a time drain. It at least does not have as much of a social, political and interpersonal agenda as television (though it does warp you mind in other ways) but still, what a waste of precious life.

What would the world look like if television was gone tomorrow. No more marketers and hidden agenda writers and directors programming your mind subtlety.

What happened to board games? getting together with family and friends to socialize? I would like to see numbers on what television, media, and gaming has replaced (as far as time spent). Eventually, humans won't even act like traditional humans. All social skills and collaboration, perhaps even empathy one day will be far diminished or lost. Our very humanity.

See how much your demographic watches (or is influenced/brainwashed by):
http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2013-10-21/less-time-i...
> clojure with optional typing, a Python-like syntax

http://julialang.org/
I've done some internal work written entirely in Python 3.3. We largely did it as a "proof of concept" to try out the new language. And yeah, we did indeed have dependencies. No complaints.

Going back to 2 is kind of a bummer when you add up all the little niceties you get with 3(.3): unicode native strings, smarter import system, yield from, keyword-only arguments... at least those were the features I used. It has some other stuff that I never got around to touching.
> and Y should be enough to incentivize me work my ass off for you.

So for you the salary component has no impact on whether you work hard for your employer or not? That's simply the cost of doing business from your perspective?
Child’s Play Charity Raised Over $20 Million In 10 Years
US government shutdown almost happened but was averted by last-minute stop-gap deal (which ultimately resulted in an partial government shutdown months later)
OTOH, subreddits like IAMA, AskScience and ELI5 are fairly significant parts of reddit. In fact, most of the top items in /all are memes that refer back to things that happen within Reddit, so I'm not sure the links to external websites are nearly as important as the community these days.
Cypriot bank craziness, perhaps?

Bitcoin was in one of its bubbly phases at the time.
Me: Cancel my TV service. I'm going to watch TV over the internet.

Comcast: OK... Done. We'll miss you as a Comcast customer. Will there be anything else?

Me: Yes. Please sign me up for internet service. I'm going to watch TV over the internet.

Comcast: OK... Done. We'd like to welcome you as a Comcast customer.
Still counts. As long as you would have bought the vehicle for your own use anyway, it's a sunk cost. Whether or not it's profitable to rent it out via Lyft depends solely on the incremental costs of the extra driving -- not how much extra driving you do. And if it is profitable, then driving more is more profitable, not less.
Amazon workers face 'increased risk of mental illness'
Why the Moto X “always listenting” feature didn’t make it to the Nexus 5
This simply isn't true.

Many of the subreddits (e.g. the ones dedicated to cities or schools) are far more about the community than the content.
Reminds me of what the NSA produced for hardening OS X [1].

I find it some what strange that Apple hasn't updated their hardening guide since OS X 10.6 [2]

[1] - http://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/security_configura...

[2] - https://ssl.apple.com/support/security/guides/
Buildbox: Multiple Project Summary Reporting Standard (cc.xml)
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Of course there's a namespace called `optimus.prime`.
nothing wrong with font tags per se (well back then, anyway)... more a matter of what appears to be a complete lack of understanding of the difference between a tag and an attribute. The page is a wealth of HTML abominations and bad quotation mark placement:

alt="To Access Our Book: "Heaven's Gate"

and so on
Norway's controversial 'cushy prison' experiment - could it catch on?
Urgh! Isn't Zope dead yet?
I can somewhat relate to the conversations in the article. While I admit that I don't think I used OOP correctly, since I started using more functions instead of classes (in Python, my primary language), I observed that it has been more convenient to reuse and refactor existing code.

Another observation is that it's far easier to read someone else's code if there is no mutation. For eg. I have enrolled for the proglang course[1] on coursera and only yesterday I completed this weeks homework which involves enhancing an already written game of Tetris in Ruby. Major part of the assignment was about reading and understanding the provided code that uses OOP and makes heavy use of mutation. It was quite difficult to understand what one method does without having a picture of the current state of the object, specially with side effecting methods that call other side effecting methods. A few times I had to add print statements here and there to actually understand which one is being when and how many times. While I could score full marks in the end, I am still not confident about completely understanding the code and have a feeling that if I ever need to work with it again, the amount of time it will take to load up everything again into my mind's memory will be equal to what it took for the first time.

Of course, one could only make a true comparison by studying an implementation of Tetris written in FP style. But from my experience with reading and writing code in Erlang (for production) and Racket, Clojure (as hobby) I find it relatively easier to study functional code written by others.

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang
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'Rescue' might be the wrong word here. A simple transfer, or updated 'address' form would seem more likely. Like when you want to delete a WP blog, it gives you several options for your content/blog (though most imply not owning it anymore).
Oh god. I remember setting up X back in the dark days of the early linux era. Peeing ones pants would have been preferable, it's astounding how far we've come.

As for Windows vs. OS/2 it's at best complicated. It's a bit like a micro-cosm of the PC vs mainframe debate. The raison d'etre of Windows 95 was backward compatability with a low memory footprint.

That may seem like a small thing, or at best not a thing to make so many enormous compromises over, but back then it was everything. The problem with doing multi-tasking "right" was that it imposed a ~4mb RAM requirement per 16-bit application being run at the same time. That is nothing today but back then 4mb was the minimum requirement for installing Windows 95, and it represented a cost of around $100 in 1995. Owning a computer powerful enough to run even a handful of 16-bit apps while running OS/2 or NT was simply above the economic means of a lot of people. And by the time technology caught up and RAM became cheap enough to make proper multi-tasking cost effective there was too much Windows 9x network effect for competitors to make much headway.
How Did Dread Pirate Roberts Acquire and Protect His Bitcoin Wealth? [pdf]
Upgrading my computer case
My pc's PSU is limited to 250W by my current computer case. I want to upgrade to something spacious and WELL BUILT (metal frame?)
-I'd like to spend $30-50
-Front and back USB ports is kind of mandatory for me
-Looking for at least one 120mm fan in the case

I could also use URL suggestions relating to inexpensive but quality motherboards

please send URL suggestions to soultormentor @ live dot com. thanks

If you look at the URL for an image reference my case is the smallest one on the right --_--
I chose that URL because it wont be removed or cancelled anytime soon (aka reliable)
And of course Peter Schiff is predictably on one side of Bitcoin vs Gold ... take a guess which one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L7SOPDOvvI
quite similar to http://www.readborg.com
Existing platforms suck. Some of them have plugins or hacks for this, but mostly it's the fault of the developers for not making their tools more robust. So my comment is partly to blog users, partly to blog developers.
How basecamp onboards new users?
http://www.slideshare.net/SamuelHulick/how-basecamp-onboards-new-users
One thing that does work is turning it into a game: non-monetary reputation points, badges, etc. No surprise, this is what stackoverflow has pioneered (and Wikipedia should take note).
I couldn't disagree more that thinking harder about where things belong is a benefit of OOP: it's an entirely unnecessary tax caused by the requirement to wrap every symbol in a class.

Another aspect of this is unnecessary effort expended on deciding if A.operateson(B) or B.operateson(A). Sometimes, you want to Operate(A, B). If your language doesn't allow that, you end up with operator.Operate(A, B).

Classes are not always the best organizational tool.
Is it a coincidence that most of the partners (YC in particular) aren't teens (or in that potential demographic)? If you're good enough, you can spot a hot/interesting product. You raise a very valid point, however, and that's part of the reason why the internet is so rad -- it's ever-evolving.
> how they can be cheaper than cabs while simultaneously (if their advertising for drivers is to be believed) paying their drivers a lot more than typical cabbies.

The capital cost of buying a taxi medallion?
Bitcoin is using an older version of leveldb (although, as mentioned, this fix is backported in a pull request).