skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Quibbles:

You make good points. I typed ASAP. There are a lot of
possible "quibbles" with what I wrote.

You are correct about the 'vision' thing -- Tom, Jr.
did a very gutsy thing pushing out System 360. He
essentially bet the company. By then IBM was
well into computing, e.g., the 7094 based on
transistors instead of tubes, but 360 was
at least two giant steps more.

But I do remember
that somehow about then DEC was able to do
the PDP 10, nice system -- hmm. Dartmouth
was able to do the system that GE used to
sell time-sharing, etc. MIT did Multics.
Net, others were able to write OS software without
betting a Fortune 10 or so company on the work.

You are fully correct about the anti-trust suit -- in
a sense it made IBM 'gun shy' and timid for a long time.

As I recall, long IBM sold the main chips
used by Cisco and Juniper. I can guess that
IBM gets patent licensing revenue for
disk head technology, and maybe the heads
themselves. But the big bucks are in
selling the drives and the
subsystems.

I forgot about the sale of Maxtor to Seagate.

I guess my broad point was that IBM was essentially
always a 'marketing company' run by successful
mainframe salesmen. E.g., once, the day after my wedding,
I got an offer from the IBM Chicago branch office, and the
head there gave me that description of IBM. They wanted
me to hold the hands of the oil refining customers using
linear programming to make decisions on what inputs to take
and what outputs to make -- big bucks in that, still. They had sold a 360/85 and likely wanted to have sold more. Gee, I might have gotten to work with Ralph Gomory, later head of IBM Research.

I guess part of my 'broad point' was that they kept
throwing off their plates little opportunities like
Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Seagate, EMC, operating the whole
Internet (can you believe that!), Yahoo (IBM had
Prodigy, good idea, bad execution), OS/2 (ahead of
anything from Microsoft until Windows NT or 2000),
Netscape (IBM had a decent Web browser early on),
Web servers ("ah, what's to do with an Web server;
trivial, right?" -- build one easy to program and to serve 10,000 pages a second and then tell me that).

PL/I? Yup! It was done by a committee headed by
George Radin in about 1964. I used PL/I and CP67/CMS to
do the first computer based scheduling of the fleet
at FedEx. Nicely enough I was paid well
to learn PL/I by the US DoD at the
JHU/APL for some work on passive sonar and the
FFT. Once I tried to talk to Radin about
operating systems, and he said, "Three times
in my career I tried to help IBM in operating
systems, and three times I broke my pick trying.".

I remember the sale to Hitachi but didn't know that
the IBM drives sucked. I've heard only good things
about Hitachi drives; sorry I didn't mention them --
another quibble.

IBM had object oriented programming in
microcode as part of 'Future Systems'
in 1980 or was it 1970?

But, they were a 'marketing company' selling to
'good IBM customers'.

> Although that also seems to be happening in services.

I can believe that. Long IBM had their pick of
the job pool something like Google seems to today;
likely no more.

So be it.
It's surprisingly hard to do. Since the allowed styling does not affect positioning in any way (you used to be able to change the font-weight, but not anymore) and the browser removes all :visited styling for client side html-image libraries such as html2canvas you need to generate a massive amount of clicks from the user or have them targeted only to visited elements such as this page does.
Doesn't work for me because I disabled :visited last time this sort of thing got discussed. :V
> Bungie

You mean Gearbox.
None: I use a stand-up desk at work, and at home I alternate between standing, sitting on the floor in front of the coffee table, and lying on the couch.
Wow, did you really just say that state schools are easy, while private school are complex, and then use the phrase "private school caliber students" to punctuate that judgment?

I went to a private college. I am not better than my friends who went to state schools.
100-year-old negatives discovered in Antarctic (2013)
SELECT B.x
FROM tableA A
JOIN tableB B on A.foreign_key = B.index
WHERE A.index = 5

That's very simple, if you know SQL.

I think
City of Boston Data Portal
Speaking of the H-4, the Administration just announced it is allowing work authorization for H-1B spouses (H-4 visas).

Please submit a public comment: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=DHS_FRDOC_0001...
Power being one of the big expenses, materials for smelting are often shipped to where there is power.
No red squares here. Am I doing it wrong?
Google Trends: Golang is popular in China
Haha, should have been pr0n sites :P
One thing I didn't realize until it was too late was that attending community college first forfeits an extremely large amount of potential scholarship money. Transfer scholarships pale in comparison to freshman 4-year scholarships.
I'm going to go out on a limb and be a little controversial here: Just for reference I'm a non-American with a very strong scientific background and also a non-confrontational and personal Christian.

For me, some American and a few European atheists appear to be as devout as the most strongly religious people I know. They are judgemental of others' beliefs, are absolutely convinced that their views are correct and disparage anyone who is even open or agnostic towards philosophical questions like whether there could be anything external to the Universe. These people dismiss any branch of rationality that is not directly measurable or quantifiable, and on one occasion I had to correct one by saying "yes, philosophy does actually serve a purpose, as a guide for which scientific questions we should tackle next".

That's a negative connotation I get when I meet someone who goes out of their way to let me know they're atheist. (This is a generalization which of course needs to be carefully balanced).
Hub for city/state data portals
I completely agree with this. IMO this is what constitutes as discrimination since it's favoring some particular group of people.
I don't know about Lyft, but the situation with Uber in the DC area is the opposite of what you describe: taxis are cheaper but substantially worse.
I remember there being a long string of attacks related to hooks of this kind, but as far as I know it is no longer a problem at all.

It's a good example of just how difficult browser security is.
There's no need to go posting every city portal to HN individually folks, they're already organized into maps and lists.
My first impression: "Wow. Those icons looks very Metro like Windows 8." Then, I realized the data is about City of Seattle, then it all makes sense. Regardless, good job on the city part. Providing data provides potential for the public to make more sense of them. New and interesting solutions or tidbits can be discovered from the public. I can see students playing with the data for their research papers.
I open sourced something very similar a couple years ago. It is basically an error monitoring service that uses git blame to figure out which developer last touched the code that caused the exception. It then sends that developer a stack trace, along with all the values of all the variables in the stack frame and additionally the HTTP request if it is running as a django/pylons middleware.

https://github.com/shopkick/flawless
You can't do a secondary market for Alinea tickets.

Consider also: the overwhelmingly dominant global standard for allocating fine dining tables --- the reservation system --- doesn't have any notion of floating prices. The owners of a restaurant design a menu and put a price on it. You could look the prices on up a site like Zagat and know that's what you'd be paying. (IIRC, Charlie Trotter's used to have a listing where the "price" was "VE", for "Very Expensive").
Key quotes from the article:

"In the cease and desist letters, DMV Commissioner Richard Holcomb told representatives for both companies that he is “once again making clear” that they must stop operating in Virginia until they get the proper authority."

"Lyft will continue to operate in Virginia. From a spokesperson: 'We've reviewed state transportation codes and believe we are following the applicable rules. We'll continue normal operations as we work to make policy progress.'"
I appreciate the clarification on the details, thank you!
hey, that hurt my feelings. :-(
The second trend is that whether a student graduates or not seems to depend today almost entirely on just one factor — how much money his or her parents make. To put it in blunt terms: Rich kids graduate; poor and working-class kids don’t. Or to put it more statistically: About a quarter of college freshmen born into the bottom half of the income distribution will manage to collect a bachelor’s degree by age 24, while almost 90 percent of freshmen born into families in the top income quartile will go on to finish their degree.

I find this very interesting in light of studies I've seen in Canada and Europe: Those studies all found that parental income was irrelevant after regressing for the overwhelming effect of parental education. Poor kids of well-educated parents were far more likely to graduate than rich kids of uneducated parents.

Of course, this would reinforce the story being told even more: Parents with college degrees encourage and expect their progeny to attend and graduate from college, while parents without that higher education do not provide an analogous proof of possibility.
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I would rather give all my info to the Government than to these corporate giants. Since when did they start caring about their users ? Until they change themselves, what's the point, oh right, CEO's have to be in news what else will they do in their free time!
I'm pretty sure he sees the point you're making, but disagrees with it. While your question, which is already answered in the post you're replying to, indicates to me that you're missing the point.
This is probably more on point--"A Note About Git Commit Messages” http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa...
Cratejoy (YC S13) is hiring a Merchant Advocate to help us scale in Austin, TX
Thanks. I covered a lot of ground quickly, and
there are many rough spots, but maybe my
main point that they were a 'marketing company'
selling to 'good IBM customers' was
appropriate.
There are good arguments pro and against positive discrimination; but instead of making your point in a way that is conducive to debate, you went with mockery and sarcasm. I didn't downvote you, but I won't upvote you either, and it has nothing to do with your opinion, but how you decided to express it.
I'm confused, why do you refer to minority developers as people who "have said nice things about other people with another gender or sexuality"?
Why not just use the IRC?
Download Fira Mono OT from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897009#c64, and you'll get 30% more lines.
Phinch: open-source framework for visualizing biological data
I'm sorry, but it's not very useful to the community to comment when you haven't read the article. It was written precisely to address your skepticism. I recommend reading it if you're curious about the issue.
Was on incognito and wondering why I didn't see any red squares...
You likely have layout.css.visited_links_enabled (or the equivalent boolean on your browser) set to false.
As a Seattle resident, I'm pretty excited to see this. There's a lot of interesting data here, but it seems that very little of it is available through an API[1]. Still, I imagine this will improve with time.

There are a lot of cities trending towards making information like this more easily accessible. It'd be even better if there was some form of standardization between cities though.
VC Funding of Bitcoin Startups
Yet, they always had small inconsistencies and no one really cared in the end (except for an oversensitive minority).
Ask HN: What Is The Best Free IDE?
What is the best free IDE out there? Preferably ones that have multi-platform (especially Ubuntu) support, as well as multi-language support.
My charitable interpretation is that the OP is suggesting that large state schools might choose questions from broad, comprehensive body of material, to determine general aptitude. A liberal arts college might select more narrow or field-specific questions that would improve the resolution of the test for specific subjects.
I don't have any either. I think it's because I've turned off internet history on Firefox.
inclusive pricing is what I'd like to do but people compare pricing without gratuity for most places... TFL can do that. Next cannot.
Thanks for sharing! Here are my comments, mostly critiques but please note I really think you have a great start here.

Nice clean interface, reasonably quick to use.

Doesn't work with 1password.

HTTPS isn't the default, and when requested gives a cert failure (representing *.onmodulus.net)

Email notification should be opt-in? Also should have a toggle for product notifications.

When I click on someone like http://chapp.is/people/hayk/activity the profile link takes me to my profile instead of theirs.

All in all, I'm looking forward to watching this service grow! (p.s. I suggest looking into PostgreSQL 9.3 as a backup plan to Mongo)
This is a fantastic writeup.

I wonder if a part of the attraction isn't de-commercializing the experience for the diners? Paying up front, presumably via credit cards, means that the service experience is Uber-smooth. You never have to ask for the check, fumble with cards, or do the who-has-this-one dance with other people at the table. You simply show up, get treated like royalty, and leave when you're ready to.

I feel professionally obligated to quibble at one point:

Most reservation and ticketing systems charge by the number of customer transactions, the number of restaurant admin users, for equipment, or a combination of all three. The more business a restaurant does, the more they end up paying.
As a business owner I hate such models. Adding an incremental user on my end costs a software company nothing – especially one that has a cloud based system.

You may discover, in running a software company, that it is really valuable to have the prices which you can charge scale with the success of your users. It's how software companies can bid down their lower-end entry points, since we can't conveniently sell our users alcohol at 80% margins.
It's pretty astonishing how easily C++ trounces everything else including Java. I guess there's still something to be said for compiling directly to optimised binaries.
> It's not at all obvious that the overhead would be close to zero in context.

That's a fair point, although I think using a single function for all your checked addition like the one above would go a long way towards mitigating the resource waste you mention.

Maybe that's a naive assumption on my part: I suppose you could construct a branch predictor that maintains state based on the function call chain as opposed simply using the address of the branch... but that seems like it would be prohibitively complex.
Seattle is not part of Redmond, which is where Microsoft is. But probably a fair number of MS employees in the city.
An analogy: if you oppose violence, is it hypocrisy to support self-defense?
More technical people probably will continue to use IRC. That said, many others won't, simply due to the barriers to entry.

Our take, is that topic-based discussions are of interest to a lot of less-technical folks, too. For them, something like Chapp is easier.
We'd do better if you told us which languages you plan to work on. For instance, IntelliJ Idea, community edition, is a pretty strong contender, but it's at its best in JVM languages.
That is, I am guessing, because there aren't any re-marketing cookies,history and other markers when you open the page in incognito
Hmm! I was originally going to say I've never heard of companies having codes of conduct, but I guess that's more because I'd have heard of them as internal "policies" or similar.

And I wasn't aware that companies made them public, but I just googled and found this (not very recent, admittedly) article that lists some big players: http://drdianehamilton.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/top-10-compa... - interesting!

Curious to see others' replies to your question.
OpenSSL CCS Injection – Are the top 100 websites (and yours) safe yet?
Appeal to authority is only a fallacy when misused.
Does being OSS actually matter for this app? It would still be running on a proprietary OS, and you won't be personally inspecting the code closely enough to know that it's secure anyway.

If you were concerned about what was being sent and to where, you would probably be better off to capture all traffic originating from your computer and verify that nothing extra is being sent, and that the destination is appropriate. Whether it was sent by open or closed source software is utterly irrelevant
HelloSign (https://www.hellosign.com/) is actually what the candidate would have been working on. Sorry if there was any confusion.
a) has this study been reproduced (i.e. the Dashboard business)

b) still smells like Lysenko-ism
They could do the same game, but hard-code the results, and be right for 95% of the audience here :)
This is quite clever.
By the way now I've got a nice list of blogs/websites that I should probably read for various topics.
And Seattle and Redmond are both in King County, whose Metro transit signs inspired the "Metro" interface in the first place.
This is especially concerning considering how poor of job public schools are doing for boys already. There's an absolutely massive gender gap in college enrollments (~59% female to 41% male) and yet more and more organizations are making "scholarships" of this sort. It's already ethically troubling to reward people based on their anatomy, but doing so in high school to the detriment of an already severely marginalized group is reprehensible.

For boys coming from the poorer half of family backgrounds, a non-traditional path in tech is often their best or even only credible shot at a middle-class life.

http://higheredlive.com/missing-men/

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23717131/carroll-gender-gap-col...
What OS are they running?
I'd love to see how Go stacks up here.
Let's hope this never gets popular: http://hnlivecomments.pex2.jp/
If you're interested in working with this data, you should come to the next Code for Seattle meetup: http://codeforseattle.org/
What's more interesting is that someone spun off Geocities and called it Neocities.
"The phone runs Amazon’s fork of Android, FireOS"
Healthcare is a highly imperfect market, and that's what makes it subject to either huge amounts of regulation, or outright external management. Consumers are very ill informed. Ccosts are not displayed, treatments options are not well defined, and knowing all of the options and understand them requires more time and education than is reasonable for most cases.

Education is tricky, and honestly, I don't know any better than the next guy how to solve the issue. What's important to one parent may not be important to another. Second language? Art? Music? Sports? Recess? Lectures? History? Religion? Critical thinking? What outcomes are important? Good test scores? Writing?
Netflix is paying someone for their traffic. Verizon customers are paying for broadband which includes streaming movies.

The ISP need to quit whining. They need to quit trying to get laws passed in every state that keep competition out.

Verizon 2014 1st quarter.
$30.8 billion revenue
$7.2 billion operating income
http://www.verizon.com/investor/news_verizon_reports_fifth_c...

no sympathy
Neat results, and a neat comparison of the languages.

I'm a bit curious how an asm.js port (via whatever means. maybe c++ -> emscripten?) ends up performing.

edit: heh.

>Also note that FORTRAN is not included in the list [of relative speedups], because no sane person would switch to FORTRAN from another programming language voluntarily.
Progressive JPEGs are also typically smaller than sequential ones, since they send equal-frequency components together in batches that compress better.
However, false advertising laws do apply. If they advertise "up to 40Mb/s", then they can't configure their routers to throttle you to 10Mb/s - they can only drop below 40Mb/s due to real contention for limited bandwidth as a result of high utilization.
Here's a great post about why, even if this were specifically about his specific girlfriend and didn't code sexist tropes, it would still be unacceptable: http://blog.izs.me/post/87902115343/re-maven-is-like-my-girl...
Actually, they don't seem to diverge much. I've tried randomly clicking on grey squares on different areas and it always gave me similar results (programming, gaming, technology, engineering).
Couldn't one simply make a display:none on normal links and display:block on :visited, then stack them all on top each other with position:absolute and catch mouse events from each element via JS?
Why Should You Be Doing Things That Don’t Scale?
Here's the original discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5957850
Thanks for the feedback @gazarsgo!
Meteor has great tools for integrating with other accounts. Haven't tried out 1password yet though. HTTPS is coming soon too :-)

Email notifications are on by default, but you can toggle them in the alerts area. Alerts certainly need more work too, as does the people page. The nav bug is on our task list already.

I hear what you're saying about Mongo. Hoping that Meteor will have additional DB options after 1.0 is released.
It's usually fairly straight forward to see if any two groups believe the same things by asking questions and seeing how they answer. If two groups believe differently about fundamental issues, they are not the same group.

Here are 3 such questions:

1) Who or what is God?

Christians: there is one God. there will only ever be one God. God has always been God. God is the creator of all things.

Athiests: there is no such thing as God or gods.

Mormons: there are many gods. You can become a god. God was once a man like us. Jesus is the spirit brother of Lucifer.

2: What is the afterlife?

Christians: There is an eternal afterlife. People who have faith in God will go to heaven. Others will go to hell.

Athiests: There is no afterlife. When you die, that's it.

Mormons: There is an eternal afterlife. Mormons in good standing will go to the highest heaven, and may eventually become gods. "Good" people go to a middle heaven. "Bad" people go to hell.

3) What is salvation, or the righteous life?

Christians: Salvation is by faith in God. Good works are a result of a life changed by God.

Athiests: There is nothing to be saved from. Live as you see fit while you're here.

Mormons: Salvation is by good works and by performing certain rituals. these activities can continue in the afterlife in order to become a god. You can be saved in the afterlife if a Mormon in good standing (in the here and now) baptizes you by proxy in a special temple ceremony (baptism of the dead).

Now, why one group with very different beliefs than a 2nd group would claim to be part of that 2nd group - that's another question.
SeL4 is going open source
If anything ISP's should be thankful that NetFlix exist.

They have subscribers because those subscribers want to use stuff like NetFlix.

Take away all the good 'content' and why bother having an ISP? Mobile phone can check emails too.