skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A critical historical factor that doomed OS/2 from the outside was that following IBM tradition, after the evolution of PC -> XT -> AT, they told IT managers the PC-AT would be the last microcomputer they'd have to buy for a long time.

Unfortunately, per Bill Gates, its 286 was "brain dead chip" and absolutely hopeless and slow in Protected Mode, which is where it needed to run for a modern, large address space computer. As I understand it, the OS/2 inability to abandon the 286/PC-AT for the 386 is what really drove the split.

(It wasn't even IBM that came out with the first major 386 system, but Compaq.)
[Firebase Community Manager here] I'm interested in seeing Firelaunch when your friend open sources yet!
Any engine worth using will produce large amounts of waste heat, which the ship will need to reject somehow. The most plausible option seems like large radiators; efficiency is as the fourth power of temperature, so it is very desirable to run radiators as hot as possible. 600-2000K are fairly plausible values.

Thermal insulation isn't necessary or helpful, except as it separates crew spaces from hot spaces and gives the radiators time to reject heat.

Also, the exhaust plume will be very hot and very bright. Even if the ship doesn't radiate, the exhaust will
Even with the gratuitous dick-swinging aside, I don't think I could disagree more with this reply. SDKs provide a much needed layer between provider and consumer to prevent unnecessary coupling.
It's pretty hard to label yourself since the labels seem to move faster than any of my beliefs have changed. Hell, saying your a member of a party isn't good enough given some of the conflicts between the "leadership" and the rank & file.

no insults and no idea where to find people.
Microsoft supports MinTTY and Cygwin?

/sarcasm
To be fair I was going to explain why it was a bad idea but I find reasoning with PHP developers very hard. As a recovering PHP developer myself, it will just be ignored.
Is there RFC3987(IRI validation) implementation done in JavaScript?
> "... he'll stop sending us stupid emails asking how to call our server-side API using jQuery or, not making this up as it's happened several times from several customers, a form on an HTML page."

Have you considered that maybe an API should be callable using `jQuery.ajax(...)` or a simple `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` POST?

(...or was this satire?)
That's me. While it is ready for use I wanted to clean up the code for deployment.

@myersgp if you want I can add you as a collaborator on GitHub.
Cycloramic video app made US$200,000 just an hour after appearing on Shark Tank
This "first interview as CEO of Microsoft" is boring as watching grass grow, 100% corporate newspeak. Surely great material for playing buzzword bingo though. Take all human potential, excited about learning new things, tremendous inspiring opportunity, the primary focus is to take innovation forward, everything becomes digital and software driven, unbounded opportunies, pick unique contribution, yadda yadda yadda. Oh FFS
Wasn't one of the major points about the D-Wave machine that while it appeared to work quantum like with low numbers of qubits, it appeared classical once you actually started doing real work?

This would perfectly align with the defended studies. Additionally it would also align with what skeptics claim it is doing, performing some efficient classical analysis on custom hardware.

Unfortunately the meat is missing from this response, specifically a non-trivial example of definitely quantum data.
The Xbox as a foothold in the living room is huge.
I thought it was a reflection from a teleprompter.
Intro to Libclang
Show HN: United States Quiz (Sound)
I think that's a false dichotomy. High profile targets like FF aren't going to survive without frequent updates, regardless of feature bumping releases. Personally I wouldn't want to have to go back to convincing people to upgrade between major releases again, and thus far Mozilla has kept FF pretty stable so I see no reason to worry.
Looking for a Tech Co-Founder? You don’t find one, you EARN one.
That's a terribly first-world-centric view to take. I live in Lebanon, definitely a country that does not qualify as "developed" by any standards and people here are in group (b).

Your options here for watching movies are (a) cinema(which doesn't work for TV shows), (b) wait for them to show up on crappy cable services, (c) buy pirated DVDs for 1~2$ a pop and (d) torrent. Buying legal DVDs is possible but extremely hard, not simply due to the cost but also the availability. If I wanted to buy a pirated DVD there are at least 3 different shops within 2min of my home in an eastern Beirut suburb whereas if I wanted to go the legal option I'd need to drive down to Virgin in downtown Beirut(15min drive) and pick from an extremely limited selection.

The only viable solutions if you want timely and not incredibly inconvenient access to movies or shows are (c) and (d). Internet connections are incredibly expensive relative to Europe or the US(50$/mo for 4mb and a 25GB cap) and yet I know a lot of people who go with option (d), mainly because traffic at night isn't subject to the cap. People will simply cue up their torrents and download them between 12am and 7am and watch them the next day. If you keep a buffer of unwatched movies/shows this can work quite well. My personal approach is to torrent to a digital ocean droplet and then download over regular HTTP overnight. Most people are not technically savvy enough to do that but they would be able to use put.io. I happen to use my droplet for other things, but if I didn't put.io would be cheaper as well.
I find it particularly frustrating that doctors of all people are so bad with statistics. I know people in general are bad with statistics, and when journalists misunderstand them I have some sympathy, because hey they probably got through college without seeing a number, but I expect more from doctors.
Because in your world running a business carries no risk as businesses never go bust. [...] And losing invested capital (for small business/startup - likely all one has and also a lot of borrowed money) is nothing

We are talking about Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe -- startups? Small businesses? No, market-clearing companies with billions in profit and rich dividends, quarter after quarter.

If they possess marketable skills of decent quality, it won't be long before they'd be paid for them.

As you put it, must be nice to be a man for whom losing a job is nothing. If you are a major investor in Intel or Adobe, chances are you are not going to lose your house over it; things tend to be different for most workers.

I am not saying business never carries risk; what I'm saying is that the type of risk is qualitatively different from the risk of losing a job for an average salaried worker.
I thought the Tesla S didn't come with fog lights anymore.
The screen colors invert at night so that the vast majority of the screen space is black (or dark blue in the case of maps). Google for some pictures to see how it looks. I found it not distracting at all when I drove one at night.
Because it's a bit petty and flat out wrong. Many laws exist not for moral reasons, but to keep the whole system running. If we were allowed to murder one another without consequences, society would be vastly different. If we were allowed to cheat on our taxes without punishment, the system itself may collapse.

While there are certainly buffoons legislating their morals on others, I think the greater chunk of modern legislation is corporate/profit driven rather than this pressing of morals you mentioned. There are, of course, exceptions, but I think your comments harped on only one motivator (of many) for legislation.
Weekend(y) project to teach myself some Sails.js.

https://github.com/gaving/murica
They abandoned it when they dominated developer mindshare, which they do not today.

Also, I'm not talking about a posix layer that is all but hidden, I'm talking about making Windows a posix system. Coreutils (or something like it), a free compiler, a terminal.
A couple of months ago, my friend was offered a job at Apple for 170k + 250k in RSUs over 4 years. I don't think they are getting paid below average.
A Tmux Walkthrough
if anyone is interested there is a similar tool (called "comp") but the queries are expressed with list comprehension syntax. It also allows to join data from json and xml.

It has two modes:
1) as a commnad line

./comp -f commits.json,authors.txt '[ i.commits | i <- commits, a <- author, i.commits.author.name == a ]'

2) as a service to allow querying of the files through simple http interface

./comp -f commits.json,authors.tx -l :9090

curl -d '{"expr": "[ i.commits | i <- commits, a <- author, i.commits.author.name == a ]"}' http://localhost:9090/full

or through an interactive console on http://localhost:9090/console

disclosure: I'm a co-author, and happy to get a feedback or answer any questions :)
I like it but, if there was an FAQ, I'd sure like it better. Too many unanswered questions to bother though. Which meds? What states? What's the cost of the meds? etc
This is a great list, thanks.
That is very unfortunate, but there is ongoing work on making Firefox multiprocess and sandboxed.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox
Localytics Raises $16M
"Delayed parenthood"

Can someone explain this? I'm guessing it's something referring to cervical cancer.
My browser is on the ESR (Extended Support Release) update channel instead of the usual, "release" update channel.

I can recommended it.
"When I saw how trivially wrong it was it was like opening a Christmas present and getting socks."

Wait, what is wrong with getting socks at Christmas? >_>
I think he's saying that their API is callable from jQuery, they just don't want any more questions emailed to them about it.
FWIW its not that bright.

In cars with "built in navigation" they put a lot of those on smaller screens in the center console. Then they throw the radio and climate controls onto that touch screen thing. I don't see how this is significantly different from those, which have been in use for years now.

I still prefer physical controls, but I'd not be honest if I said I could just reach and grab my cars climate controls without looking.

I think these screens are going to be a part of the future as they provide versatility and profit.

but voice control will be the best/ safest way to handle cars (although from my co-workers demo, they still need work...)
PG already responded in the post. (He got downvoted heavily so his post is muted):

As we say in the guidelines,
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
HN is a news site, not a forum for people with issues with companies we've funded
(even when concealed as Ask HNs). So I'm killing this.
If you have an issue with Dr Chrono, please contact them directly.

If you ask me, there wasn't anything wrong with the question. The guy reached out to the startup community for answers about a startup company... We regularly discuss other companies here... (Would the post had stayed if it was linked to external blog?)

With that said however, I think that over half of the comments in the thread were just getting ready to arm their pitchforks anyway so the constructiveness of any discussion was probably already over.

Clickable to original story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178004
Philip K. Dick on Reality, Media Manipulation, and Human Heroism
Response from PG on the dead link itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178300
Most airline lounges in the U.S. offer free snacks, wine and beer – not meals.
> But is it actually against Spanish law?

Not yet. http://rt.com/op-edge/spain-law-protest-violence-621/
It doesn't seem fair. If the OP (drdal) had created a blog post instead, would that have made a difference?!
https://github.com/michelf/php-markdown
I think the jury will remain out on this one for the next few generations of D-wave computers. If by the time it reaches 2k-4k qubits, they still can't prove without a doubt that it's at least a special form of quantum computing, then I guess then we'll have our final answer.
Some time ago I was a Firefox user. Then Chrome came out and I first started using it for free-time browsing, while still developing on Firefox. Later, I decided to fully migrate to Chrome.

I've decided to change it again, so I'm going to give Firefox a try during this month. For now, it looks really nice, performance seems to be quite good and the feeling of getting at least a small part of my digital life away from Google feels nice as well.

Tomorrow I'll be trying out the Firefox' developer tools.

I'd be really happy if Firefox convinced me to stay, as I really love what Mozilla is doing for the web community.
Satya Nadella's First Email To Employees As New Microsoft CEO: 'Who Am I?'
Very useful concept. Could this be forked? I would love to see it in action on other platforms as well. And I would be glad to do it.
Even if I don't use the SDK, I greatly appreciate when the same company that writes the API also builds an SDK.

APIs which don't also maintain SDKs - in my experience - don't understand the cost of making breaking changes, and aren't as 'nice' to consume. When the SDK is built, these issues are discovered: I appreciate that it's not me that has to go through those pains.
well and here is the link - http://github.com/ostap/comp

:)
That's a strange comment. OS X does indeed ship with Ruby. Maybe you are thinking about Rails? Or how developers often update it to a different version before using it? Mac OS X Mavericks includes Ruby 2.0.0p247.
I recently had the pleasure of talking about this particular subject over beers with someone very close to the quantum computing community.

The short answer is: "They aren't really doing quantum computing. They're essentially cheating."

But, I'm no quantum mechanic PhD, so it's not first hand knowledge as to why.
He asked the startup community about advice in how to proceed with a startup. He showed much evidence of others feeling similar grievance. It attracted lots of attention in a short amount of time. That should worry someone though:(
I thought there were infrared photovoltaic cells, but they aren't as common as the visible light ones.
Permutation of the ethic described here: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/03/google-..., I guess ?
Could anyone who downvotes me take a sec to enlighten me as for what they found worthwhile about it? Or is cheering simply obligatory
I think that's currently called 'Representative Democracy'

Ba dum chhhh!
Thank you for clearing that to me :)
Closing down a newspaper for reporting on illegal actions of the government.

Just what the fuck has GB become? Saudi Arabia? China? Turkey?
Yes, the voicedream app + instapaper is great for listening to these articles while you walk around.
While I understand PG's reasoning, I wonder if he's not risking drawing even more attention to things, given how much attention gets paid to HN.
You are the only one who thinks writing stuff in PHP is 'magically' easy. Let's see your complex PHP projects.
Note that we don't wait 6 weeks to push security updates when there is any serious issue. We do "chemspill" releases in these cases to fix the problem as soon as possible (usually less than 2 days after it's reported).
So what would be the shortest explanation using concepts from linear algebra?
Out of interest - what part of what I said are you correcting? :-)
In a case where the union member, prior to termination, goes around the building telling everyone that the manager is a drunk and a criminal, making up stories and telling everyone that they're all going to be fired soon, in what might be called a fit of paranoid delusion, do you think the union should then go to bat for that employee? I think the union should absolutely have the right to pick and choose which cases to defend, especially in cases of clear and blatant violation of established rules and protocols.

The fact that most cops might get away with this kind of behavior does not make it any less egregious or untenable. If someone is a patent holder, does their lawyer have a duty to represent them in suit after suit when it becomes clear they (plaintiff) don't have a leg to stand on, and they are just trolling for settlements? Say, just because he pays the bills? No, absolutely not, and if it's done in a sustained and repeated kind of way that's recognized as abusive and the pattern is established, this kind of behavior should be grounds for disbarment.

It's a waste of procedural time. Maybe you're technically right in this case for some reason, because it's a public sector union, the stewards have a duty and the officer requested a defense, but that doesn't make it right.
An explanation would definitely be prudent - if only to prevent people from jumping to, perhaps incorrect, conclusions in the absence of all the facts.

EDIT: I see from other responses that PG addressed the issue in the original submission. The response feels like an inappropriate copout. The submission did not "conceal" anything. Furthermore - if the submission had been exactly the same but in reference to dealings with a company not funded by YC it would have stood as a useful source of advice to the OP. This relying on ToS puts my back up hugely.
If Dr Bedi were to write an article titled "My experience with DrChrono" on, say, Medium and posted it here. Would it be killed as well?
I use Cmder, which is nice and you can resize arbitrarily (I agree that it's ridiculous not to be able to horizontally resize a console window).
I think drdal showed a lot of courtesey in posting his complaint here. He had also made it quite clear that he had reached out to DrChrono several times. In comparison pg's response seemed lacking good form. The first time I have ever felt so about pg's responses.
>> chief technology officer of D-Wave and 2010 NAGA Brazilian jiu-jitsu light heavyweight world champion.

He could always challenge skeptics in a fight to the death.
Becoming A Software Consultant: My Backstory
> If you run your own identity provider, you are only trusting yourself with your secret.

And the service I run the identity provider on. And the janitors they hire. And the legal jurisdiction it resides in. And the people (voters, oligarchs or dictators) who control that legal jurisdiction.

A secure log-in system does not require any secret which leaves my immediate personal control. This is not rocket science, and is not difficult.

My laptop browser should have an internal secret key; I should be able to get an account on a site with a site-specific key; I should be able to authorise a site-specific key on my desktop to access the same site. Heck, I should be able to connect from a public computer temporarily, and authorise the same usage with my phone. No passwords or long-term shared secrets required. If my laptop, phone or desktop is stolen I should be able to, with some inconvenience, kill the access for that device and only that device.

None of this is rocket science. It's all very possible, and the UI could (I think) be quite elegant. In part, I blame X.509 and the CA mafia for making it so tough: it was in their interest to have a rigid global hierarchy rather than a free-flowing ecosystem; it was in their interest to make certificate minting expensive rather than free (never mind that the root of any certificate hierarchy could still cost...); it was in their interest to tie identity and authorisation, which simply doesn't make sense.

One of these days I really do need to brush off SPKI, clean it up and try to push it as a solution. The guys who designed it thought long and hard about identity and authorisation, and they came up with some damned smart solutions.
You might not be glad he got fired, but rest assured there are many of us who are. This type of thing happens constantly on every police force in America (and pretty much everywhere) and is oftentimes a lot worse.

It's a small win, but someone like this _deserves_ to be made an example out of. I doubt it will change anything, even in Seattle, but at least there's one less police officer arresting people and ruining their lives (arrest records are permanent; they cannot be expunged ever).

I personally can relate, having been threatened (along with about a dozen or more other people) by a police officer with death by SUV if I did not leave the public sidewalk. Yes, the officer started rolling into the crowd.
But the sharing is per the user's privacy policy so what restriction can there be?
didnt they have this on gilligan's island like 50 years ago?
My argument is that women's lack of economic success is in part due to how they are wired and not some widespread culture of male repression.

>Actually, we still have a pretty sexist environment, and women aren't really free to do any thing they want. There's a pretence that they can do anything, but it isn't really true in many ways.

Can't argue with that.
The sad thing is that I'm of Indian heritage and I have to agree with him. It's not related to race, it's more about the education that most Indians receive. All are taught more about being bean-counters than striving to create new and innovative (gah, hate that word) solutions. I like the Metro approach. It just needs to be split into two configurations for both desktop and a tablet OS, and Microsoft could have a real winner.

I'm afraid that we'll backtrack all the way back to the 7 days and inhibit progress. It's been shown to happen in the past, and it's not an illegitimate concern, however racist it may seem.
It's only 5% the first year. Since it's a flat amount, the % of the inflation would reduce every year.
Stick him in a polo neck and he looks like an Indian Steve Jobs...
Actually both of these approaches make sense to me - I had read something on HN in the past asserting that deadlines dramatically increased the productivity of a particular startup compared to feature goals (as in: "We're launching version 2 on Jan 1. with whatever we can get done before then" vs. "we're going to incorporate XYZ in version 2, and we'll launch it when we do")- so up to this point I've been considering June as a hard deadline. "I need to get as much as I can get done by June" as opposed to "I need to go and collect XYZ skills". Probably the correct approach is being aware of XYZ skills and collect those first, but always having a looming job-jump deadline. Thanks to both of you for your advice!
Sorry that's not more apparent to navigate to - there is a list of common FAQ's here: https://pillpack.com/support.
Breast cancer is one of the more common cancers in woman.

Having your first pregnancy before 20 versus after 35 lowers your chance of breast cancer by 50%.

For each birth, breast cancer risk decreases by 7%.

For each year of breast feeding, breast cancer risks decreases by 4%

Source: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/breast/hea...

The mechanism isn't entirely worked out, but the hypothesis is that immature breast cells are more likely to cause cancer, and that pregnancy and breastfeeding cause breast cells to mature into cells that are less likely to become cancerous.

This paper explores the mechanism more:
http://erc.endocrinology-journals.org/content/14/4/907.full
There are official Linux packages with the latest version: http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#mainline
From the guidelines:

> Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

Should this submission be amended to the URL and headline of the original article?
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/01/24/Man-uses-fi...
This was classless of pg.

(Tangent: I found out that if you submit a story linking into the killed thread, your submission gets auto-killed. This one apparently survived because the text URI was not parsed as such).
Some people say the "rods from god" idea is really deployed on satellites. The USAF could make tungsten metal spears fall out of space and hit precise targets with the force of a small nuclear blast.