skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Does anyone know what prevented older computers from doing this?

Your master power switch was actually just that, a master power switch within the power supply. Your computer was shocked to life by having this switch turned on, and your computer was turned off by literally having this turned off.

It was just easier to design around this. Also bios functionality was incredibly limited at the time, normally being configured via DIP switches on board and hardware control via OS was a long way off, typically the only hardware control was to assign interrupts and handle them.
Extremely well-done. Thanks, will build one.
Or its a different word, and we say it but don't admit it. Lots of words we say but don't write down. My French friend says Americans don't speak, we just grunt. "Huh. Unh-uh. Uh-huh. Hunh-uh!" Never taught in school; we don't admit they are words but say them every day.
Interesting what were you expecting based on that title?
Beautiful. Needs way more unices.
ISRO's Mars Orbiter Spacecraft completes 100 days in space
Not sure (Apple TV and Verizon I assume).

This article might implies quite a few might:
http://www.tuaw.com/2013/07/16/report-half-of-streaming-boxe...
> However hookah bars are allowed to exist almost everywhere as far as I can tell, and I really never understood how that fits into the law.

In my city, they have a simple rule that decides whether or not smoking indoors can happen: whether or not a majority percentage of retail revenue comes from the sale of tobacco products. So, things like cigar, pipe, and hookah shops can allow indoor smoking, but virtually no bar in the city can. (Who, by law, must put a sign up indicating a majority of sales come from the sale of alcohol for consumption on-premise. You can't have both a majority of sales from alcohol and from tobacco at the same time, so cigar bars all had to create patios.)

These laws are not loosely enforced in the city, to the extent that there is a team of bureaucrats tasked with enforcing action in regards to complaints. However, whether or not every customer reports infractions, is a different story. =)
There's not really much of a choking hazard here though, is there?
DigitalOcean opens a Singapore Datacenter
Saying the cost doesn't 'go away' is deflecting from the fact that it does reduce overall, because of a number of reasons. Administrative costs are vastly reduced. Employers no longer have to negotiate individual contracts with insurers. Hospitals don't need huge administrative staff for deals with different insurers and paperwork for each one. On the whole, the cost savings from moving to single-payer take a huge bite out of the increased taxes.

http://www.pnhp.org/facts/what-is-single-payer

Under plans like H-R 676, 95% of people are expected to pay less overall for healthcare. So, no, you are not paying for 'that $75k', you are paying for much less.
"as for those studies on young children"

It's reported in all of the child studies discussed in TFA. Fault the article if you want but "hormones" is in the title, and the whole point of the entire line of research is that it's implausible that prenatal hormone levels could be affected by cultural biases.
You could have just googled "Vietnam" if you wanted to find out if you were talking out of your ass or not.
The currency seems supported - "Danish Krone" is listed. Is there something else that is missing? (genuinly curious)
sounds good. i'm about to start a whisper tech blog and we can do that as our first post...
I've noticed less viral links (Upworthy, BuzzFeed) and more pure garbage memes (photos and Vine-like videos hosted on FB that go viral based on Likes and comments).

Either way my News Feed is a river of crap akin to reddit/r/pics. And then in a Kafkaesque moment I realize that this business is worth 167 billion dollars.
I can't imagine it needs to be; they just need people to watch the video and share the headlines on major news sites, Reddit, HN, etc. Suddenly the idea of Sony's waterproof walkman is in everybody's minds, almost free of charge. Most people will probably buy it online or from their favourite retail store.
Google's Java Coding Standards
Sounds like the sort of rumor usually caused by people not wanting to believe the universe is as random as it actually is.
Our Rokus all worked great, until one day around 1.5 years ago, something changed. They are only barely functional at this point. Charter cable here.
I'm going to write a Flappy Bird text adventure, where you play a desperate attention-grabbing software developer.

The aim of the game is to get onto the HN front page by in some way leveraging Flappy Bird fever.

(not a dig at this specific example - this one is quite cool)
PublicStuff: Impact your community
In his AMA he contrasts his younger self from other young billionaires and millionaires by stating that they are often much more interested in "giving back" than he was until he was much older. He was a ruthless man who cared only for himself in his younger days and that led to some rather unethical business practices. It wasn't until much later that he chilled out and learned some compassion for the rest of the world.
There's a bit of similarity to Polish here. While a lot of other languages in the region (including ones that are closely related) use the plural "you" as a formal address, this sounds quite unrefined in Polish (or like a Soviet holdover). And addressing a superior/stranger with the singular "you" is completely out of the question.

That means, just life in Sinhalese, it is correct to address the individual in the third person with the most appropriate title (and falling back on Sir/Madam when the title isn't known). E.g. "Could Sir help me find the nearest bus stop", etc. (The Polish for Sir/Madam here is the same as Lord/Lady).

In other circumstances things tend not to be as strict. For example among equals of lower social rank (e.g. younger people), often singular grammatically implicit "you" can suffice. Or, when addressing one's closer superior kin, you would be only partially formal, for example: "Could [you] o mother, pass the salt". This example does not translate very well into English. It helps that Polish verbs carry the information about the pronoun of the person being addressed as part of their grammar (e.g. "I eat" = "jem", "you [singular] eat" = "jesz", "we eat" = "jemy", "they eat" = "jedzą", etc). The personal pronoun can be used explicitly for additional emphasis, but in some circumstances using an explicit singular "you" can be considered less polite (like pointing you finger).

There are other quirks when some level of familiarity is attained (and thus the formality can be reduced). In such a circumstance for example, to say "Could you pass the book?", one could say "Let it be that Sir passes the book", or even less formally, "Sir will pass the book." It sounds impolite when translated into English because in Polish, familiarity/closeness is expressed by an assumption of the other party's willingness to help.
Having a way to pickle code objects and their dependencies is a huge win,
and I'm angry I hadn't heard of PiCloud earlier.

That's a nice use of the cloud library, without using the PiCloud service. Unfortunately, the PiCloud service itself is shutting down on February 25th (or thereabouts).
I would love to be able to listen to music while swimming. I try to go a few times a few week for 20-25 min each, and it'd be great to have something to listen to.
I fucking hate this slideshows, they never work. Clicking around, scrolling, nothing happens.
Man, it's not just custom. It's freakin' BESPOKE!!
You found one nit to pick and threw the baby out with the bathwater?
Where is this fear of Common Lisp from?

Just give them a fun book like Land of Lisp.
He's clearly not saying that, but talking about this one specific individual.
Holy shamoly! This is incredible! I'm actually checking to make sure it's not Apr 1. I'm beyond-amazed at the sheer breadth of this list. I mean, PayPal itself only supports 20-odd currencies, I think.

I mean, the Brazilian Real? Literally almost no payment processors support that. And believe me, I've looked for them.

This is amazing news.

(As a side question, if anybody from Stripe is listening here: how exactly is this done -- via partnerships with local banks, or via dynamic currency conversion? I ask because, in the case of DCC, you will find that there are big problems involved with Brazil specifically, and many legitimate transactions will be refused. Brazil is a very special case, and calling the BRL a supported currency could mean very many different things.)
"Doesn't generate money anymore", "Won't sue me", etc. those are all not in the slightest reasons to infringe copyright. In fact there are never reasons to do so.

The only reason why people are doing so at the moment is because they will get upvoted and retweeted because it's Flappy Bird.
The arrow keys don't work for you?

If it's got to be a slideshow, I much prefer this to SlideShare!
Evolution timeline true scale
While we're talking about important mistakes, [CLI 2] should in square brackets, not round ones. :)
According to the article Christie was unable to take over the schools in Camden, and took over the police force in 2013. Blaming him for not fixing the problems of Camden in less than a year is a little silly.

Complaining that NJ didn't force Hoboken to subsidize Newark is silly - San Fransisco and Toronto didn't subsidize Camden either, but I don't see you blaming them.
I got a waterproof ipod shuffle here: http://www.underwateraudio.com/waterproof-ipod-shuffle/

I would clip it to my goggle strap and swim about an hour a day 3 days a week back when I lived by a pool. The ipod shuffle really was an amazing form factor for the player as it had the clip built in which could clip to the straps.

The headphones were always a different story. You need specially made earbuds which a) use a waterproof membrane instead of a mesh for the speaker and b)fit tight enough in your ear so water wouldn't get in and fill the air chamber in front of the speaker. It took me 3 tries to find headphones that would stay in and be airtight.
No, but if your theory of healthcare is that private healthcare produces the best, most advanced treatments, then by all rights you should fear the world getting better than us at medicine. Healthcare is by it's nature a social issue as well as an economic issue. And a draining of doctors in the USA would have a devastating effect on general health.

Even more important is pointing out that medicine is already not a perfect capitalist economy. Insurance companies negotiate crazy deals with hospitals and doctors to avoid paying out, and the hospitals and docs are driven to post prices as high as humanly possible because the insurers are so ruthless in undercutting every single expense. What would Ayn Rand have made of a world where generic Advil in a hospital setting cost 1000% of what the drug store is charging? That's not a Smith economy. That's a gross perversion of free economics.

That's the snake eating it's tail on the other end of price control. $25 per pill for pain killers [1]? It's a joke.

[1] http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/blog/why-aspirin-taken-...
Extra credit if you kill the game just as it starts to get popular.
Scary 1929 market chart gains traction
Asyncio – Event loop in Python
Personally I expected a much broader analysis of technology and an actual conclusion. I skimmed it and only saw comments about phones.

I guess phones are the only technologies now.
On building a cult-like following around your startup
Mathematica can give an approximate answer! http://cl.ly/image/3L0F0n2J3U0c
6.002 midterm at MIT in 91 had a problem trivial to solve with a Laplace transform ... Actually it had a couple. Of course Laplace transforms would be taught in the second half. The few students who already knew the transform or somehow knew to read, ahead did well. I spent 20 minutes on one problem solving the differential equations from scratch without the damn transform. I felt sorry for those who weren't taking it as a freshman (it was pass/fail for all classes your first year at MIT).

That guy was a useless jerk. (As a teacher.) I did have professors that were useful jerks ... Difficult homework every single class with spot on directed feedback by the very next class. Unfortunately teaching well at a research university is just a mark of being eccentric. It seems to be negatively correlated with getting tenure. The 'useful jerk' already had tenure. He was mean, but an awesome teacher.
I also forgot GUI issues WRT greenwashing. My washer is green but that ruins clothes, so every time you boot it up you have to tell it to rinse the soap out, and let it soak a bit, and run the spin extra long to get rid of water, and use warmer water. Or just wash everything twice, which wastes far more water than just doing it correctly the first time.

Its always easier to ship something that meets the numbers but doesn't actually work, than to ship something that both meets the numbers and works. Therefore you have to do a lot of programming every time you boot up, to prevent "save the planet".

Eventually we'll need to flash the eeproms to get some super greenwashed appliance to actually work. But for now, the UI involves a lot of "useless" reconfiguration on every boot.

Aside from the washer, both the dryer and the dishwasher and the fridge and the thermostat are greenwashed out of the box and need reprogramming to actually work. The fridge wanted to greenly keep my food at like 55F until reconfigured away from green mode, now it works fine.
So as long as one uses things that might already have infringed copyright, it's okay to do so?

I strongly disagree. If there's a problem it's the (allegedly) original copyright holder and the (allegedly) copyright violator's problem. This does not allow others to copy it, just because it's currently viral.
> Just my point of view based on
numerous historical books I read.

Name three.
What countries would you like to see supported?

How about all of EU countries?
> I've found myself falling into almost the exact same trap when teaching people object oriented programming for example.

At least in my experience, a huge issue in teaching OOP is that the introductory examples are not compelling examples of class design (DiagonalMatrix and IdentityMatrix are both Matrices! Dogs and Cats are both Animals!). Students don't really understand the pros and cons of OOP from those sorts of examples.

Perhaps due to this, I would attempt to do OOP by creating taxonomies that modeled the ones in the real world. It wouldn't be until into my professional career that I would realize that this is an anti-pattern in most cases.

Though OOP best practices have matured since I was in school (interfaces base classes are encouraged, deep hierarchies and reuse through inheritance are discouraged, the integration of functional programming), so perhaps things are better now than they used to be.
"Now accepting Bitcoin" has become a marketing gimmick
Can you elaborate further on what restrictions are preventing multi currency support? If I'm not mistaken NAB are your acquiring bank, surely they would be able to assist you as they did for pin?
Check out the Neptune from FINIS. It's designed similarly to jawbone and does require earbuds while you're swimming. Actually works quite well. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00ACP3OOM (disclosure: Used to work for finis a couple of years back)
It's a post on /r/conspiracy, though. A good deal of people are going to be turned away by that fact.
It doesn't have to be dedicated, just bustable to a reasonably large number of subscribers at a time. Netflix will prefretch data and a small amount of burstable bandwidth goes a long way in viewing quality. This isn't about letting everyone stream SuperHD content at the same time, this is about relieving some pressure around the average bitrate (somewhere around 1900Kbps)
And i will write a post about playing the flappy bird adventure ;-)
Troubleshooting, as important as it is to engineering and computer science, is a general skill that should be taught to kids starting in pre-school.

I'd argue that you can generalize all non-creative disciplines (science, business, plumbing, etc) down to a specific area of troubleshooting. And for the creative and athletic disciplines, troubleshooting will be needed to get the best output from your tools, be they chisels, oboes, your voice, your muscles, paints, or anything.
Reminds of the famous story about a Sony exec throwing a device in a fish tank and seeing bubbles.
Tried to reboot Windows ME but it crashed.
I can see several reasons:

1. This isn't US, so those rules don't apply ("a confectionery product with a non-nutritive object, partially or totally imbedded within it, cannot be sold within the United States")

2. This may be more a viral thing than an actual packaging.

3. The water may not really be meant to be drunk, it's just a gimmick.
"Really tied of the media exaggerating the term 'food desert'"

This article has been given the full "MATT TAIBBI" treatment. Of course he's a writer and wants to sell magazines.

He didn't add a "to be sure" phrase he is going for maximum gullibility of the readers to get emotion and engagement.

For example:

"where oblivious tourists pour in every year, gobbling cheese steaks and gazing at the Liberty Bell, having no idea that they're a short walk over the Ben Franklin Bridge from a full-blown sovereignty crisis – an un-Fantasy Island of extreme poverty and violence where the police just a few years ago essentially surrendered a city of 77,000."

So the definition of "oblivious" is "not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one."

That would seem to imply to me that they have some kind of an obligation to be (when they are going on vacation) aware of what is happening across the river (and out of site) in a major city in the US. As if they are the CEO and aren't aware that there is sexual abuse going on and hey they should be. No such requirement exists. That they feel bad or should have some clue. Sorry not the case. Work hard, make money, take family on vacation. Saving the world do that on a different trip. Why not skip the trip and give the money you would spend to the poor people of Camden? Good for you.

Note also the triviality of "gobbling cheese steaks and gazing at the Liberty Bell" juxtaposed against true tragedy. Why does that matter? It doesn't but it provides color to the story and contrast. (By the way Philly is way more than cheesesteaks and the Liberty Bell I wish the media would get off of that already with the city).

Tourists of course are most likely aware that there is poverty somewhere in any big city. There is also plenty of poverty in North Philly but Taibbi doesn't focus on that (and that's just as close and in the same city).

By the way I wonder how many people going to Rock Concerts are "oblivious" to all the things that go on with respect to musicians, drugs and the drug trade? Or do they just want to hear good music? That's fine, right?
I think people who care would find out pretty quick what happened and where to go next. Popularity on DNS is not the only way to be popular ;)

This isn't the first time Glenn has moved, he had his own blog for awhile, moved to salon, then to the Guardian. It doesn't seemed to have stopped people from finding him.
I know, right? Atleast he wrote a notice:

>Sorry guys, I can't handle the pressure. Just kidding. Server will be back in a few hours (about 8 hours or so).
> STM is about pure computations.

Yes, side-effects (not just I/O, altering non-transactional mutable bindings or objects is also broken) within transactions is fraught with peril as they may be retried time and time again until they succeed. You can still do transactions in languages unable to segregate side-effects, it's just (much) riskier (Clojure/Clojurescript has CAS-based semantics on atoms — usually performed through the higher-level `swap!` operation. It works quite well, but the language will not save you from the footgun of side-effects within a transaction and it will potentially retry hundreds of times if there's a lot of contention on the atom)
I think drives like these (whether intended to or not) result in heightened awareness of a problem, not necessarily a fixed outcome.

If something like this took place once a year (where sites protest mass surveillance) it would assure that people continue to discuss the issue instead of slowly forgetting about it.

Labeling the effort "The Day We Fight Back" has a certain "shock" value that intrigues people. If instead it were marketed as "let's talk about long-term strategies for dismantling mass-surveillance" support would probably trickle in.

After all, signing a petition or putting a url on your site isn't really "fighting back," it's a protesting.
Seemed to me like he was reacting to the threats he got online, not really anything to do where he lives. Strange that HNers seem to keep focusing on that.
Just getting a little geeky about social interactions here: the asshole bit is saying "that seems to be his M.O." about anybody- it reduces a person into a predictable pattern and insults their personal agency, even if valid. It doesn't actually imply weak or stupid, it implies predictable, reducible- that's where the insult is. A person can be strong and intelligent and still be insulted by "that seems to be her M.O."

</overanalysing>
I'm delighted to see that they're thinking about implementing generic methods, and even included the canonical Sort worst-case example.

The framing of the tradeoffs (slow programmer, slow compiler or slow execution) is interesting. To me it suggests that we'll go with "slow compiler", because slow programmer is always expensive, and slow execution is expensive when run at Google scale.

Although they did stick "and bloated binaries" alongside "slow compiler", which says maybe they haven't quite made their mind up.
Most of the world doesn't have those regulations. Or, in other words, cue the surprise of all the Europeans when they realize that Kinder eggs are illegal in the US.
Ah, I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully, they make their library code more readily available before closing their doors.
What is a polo bike, anyway?
Wasn't that steve jobs? At least the version I heard was steve jobs with an iPod prototype (the bubbles proved there was empty space so the ipod could be smaller)
> So sometimes ends justify means.

Fun fact - according to "The Better Angels of Our Nature" more people died in the Soviet gulags than in the rest of the war combined, Nazi concentration camps included.

So "we killed all these people to stop the Nazis from killing a substantially smaller number of people" doesn't really fly.
What is with "The Day We Fight Back"? Anonymous group?
Best 404 ever. ha!
Perhaps you should try reading the post before you criticize it. Vogel directly addresses that.
http://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html#sharin...

Why don't anyone build Celery and Redis alternative using this?
Never knew/seen people actually did this! Interesting
If I used Instagram this would be great. I guess I will have to up my photo skills.
> To clarify, I'm saying I don't think Sony's actually selling their walkmans in bottles of water, they just made a video of the idea of it. Can anbody disconfirm this?

I imagine they probably have at least 1 real vending machine, but you're probably right in that the publicity of the story is worth 1000x the sales from the vending machine
It was easier for him to kill a hobby project than to relocate to another country.
Indeed it was a lot of fun implementing it (author here), and yes it could do with some more documentation, though up to now no one besides me was really concerned about the functionality... :-0