skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Timing is everything.

The Apple II was special because it was released in 1977 with bit-mapped color graphics and sound. The Apple Disk II disk drive was released in 1978. Being a few years early with an all-in-one computer with a fast disk drive, bit-mapped color graphics and sound gave the Apple II an edge over the others. Five years later, Commodore released the low cost Commodore 64, and Apple no longer had the edge in the 8-bit market, but did have significant market share.

Radio Shack TRS-80: 1977 mono-text (Z/80)

Commodore Pet: 1977 mono-text, VIC-20: 1981, Commodore 64: 1982, Amiga 1985

Atari 2600 game console: late 1977, Atari 400/800: 1979, Atari ST: 1985

Acorn System 75: 1979

ZX 80: 1980, ZX 81: 1981, Spectrum: 1982

CP/M operating system: 1973-74, S-100 bus: 1974, Altair: 1974

Those CP/M "business" machines, CP/M (Z80) and 80-column cards that you could plug into the Apple II, and then the IBM-PC was released in 1981.

Apple Lisa: 1983 mouse mono, Mac: 1984 mono 3 1/2" disk drive, 1985 AppleTalk networking
This article was OK, but the inclusion of affiliate links in the middle of the body copy made me feel like I was reading an ad in disguise...
Is ETAG some sort of JTAG variant? If yes, does OpenOCD have support for this ETAG interface?
If the financial job in question is an exact zero sum job (with 0 social value), then neither taxation nor charity would help at all, because essentially while doing your job you're already causing a negative value to someone else. And even if you give always ALL your wealth, you'd just return those wealth back to society. In essence, after a lot of shuffling of wealth around, you still didn't contribute anything.
(And again, that's an "IF". I'm not stating whether the premise - financial job is a zero sum game - is correct or not.)
If you want more details about pg_shard, have a look to this blog post.

http://www.databasesoup.com/2014/12/whats-this-pgshard-thing...

It explains a bit more what it does and doesn't
This is what happened when I tried to build my first app
Understanding recursion in functional JavaScript programming
In average French restaurants/coffee shops, since waiters aren't tipped, they don't care so much about the efficient part, sometimes even the cordial part. They are out of your way though.

In America if a waiter is too chatty you can politely ask for more quiet time, they are chatty because they want a good tip. Asking a French waiter to be less out of your way isn't as easy
I doubt they would want to directly compete with someone who is 100% focused at that market and is already in a partnership with Microsoft. It just doesn't make any sense for them.

tbh I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft just flat out bought Xamarin eventually.
Google's transforming material icons in HTML and CSS
If screen technology could go far beyond retina scale DPI, yet is constrained by the limits of what the human eye can discern, this concept would be great for discrete read-only user interfaces. e.g. put it on a mechanical watch to retain style and tradition, whilst also delivering feeds, alerts à la smart-watch.
I guess IIS and Windows Server have an important role providing high performance HTTP service hosting nodes in Azure. If this effort from the .NET team can revive the future of .NET server-side development, the server team can capitalize on the integration of the managed stack on top of the kernel-mode http.sys web tier, to provide a first class hosting environment for ASP.NET applications on the Azure cloud. Microsoft is the one hosting provider in the world who can scale out Windows servers without having to worry about license costs.
You can buy the cards at retail with no ID at all. When you get home, you need to activate the card online. To do that all you need is a valid DOB/SSN/address/name combination (checked against credit header file info). They only ask for copies of ID's etc. if their online activation system can't automatically verify the info through the credit bureaus. Fortunately, full profiles with this info are available on the cheap on Russian hacker forums (less than $5 per record). They do send a permanent card in the mail about 10 days after activation, but the temporary one bought in the store and activated online is all you need to take cash from ATM's. By the time the permanent card arrived at the address you used to activate it, you would have long been done using the account.
Chris Messina: Hashtag was an 'accidental trip over a simple idea'
Still interesting to people not knowing the other advantages Lua has. Might get some interested in the language.

Not everything has to be strictly on-topic to have merit, especially since we've already derived from the topic (from a specific embeddable JS engine to the comparative merits, implementation wise, of JS vs Lua).
It's still 32 bit, only has 1GB RAM and it's $91 at Digikey, but the Olinuxino A20, from Olimex seems to meet just about all of your other criteria.

I've only used the A10, which is $42, but single core, no flash, no analog audio jacks, and for some maddening/expensive reason, 0.05" headers, instead of the 0.1" on the A20.

It's a little behind the bleeding edge of Linux (still at 3.4), but I've been able to port an app from a beaglebone black to this with virtually no headaches. In fact, it's been nice, since there is no device tree at 3.4. Best of all, it's readily available, unlike the BBB.
- How far away from a release is this?

- Given that Apple does not allow other render engines. What makes this Firefox?
It would be super difficult to represent value types, generics and the reflection metadata in the JVM without building some kind of giant abstraction layer. MSIL is rich, maybe overly rich. If you get rid of value types and generics from C# you're basically left with ... Java.
Samsung AT&T go phone.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/at-t-gophone-samsung-a157-no-con...

$10 to purchase. Throw it away, drop it in the toilet... as long as you can get the sim, no problem. And if, like me, you don't make a lot of cell calls (I have internet phone at home), around $10 a month in prepaid airtime.

Make sure you ask to have the mobile browser turned off because you "accidentally" can get a bunch of charges by the conveniently placed button that starts the browser.

There are different definitions of awesome, but around $150 a year for home and cell service with two phones is mine.
Results, achievements, accomplishments. Frankly I don't really care if you were better than the guy in the next cube. He might be an idiot or a complete slacker.

And I'm not sure I wouldn't get negative vibes from someone who felt they had to position themselves by de-positioning the people they worked with.

>You can easily determine if some one is a BS guy in a technical interview anyway, so I don't think, BSers are very frequent in IT and much less so in programming.

Of course they're frequent. They are everywhere.
Trust me, I know how it works. I had a pull request to do at least one part of this but it was never accepted. I'm not bitter about it, I don't care, it wasn't right for Docker at the time. We had to get something done to meet our commitments so we hacked it and moved on. Agreement in "theory" doesn't help when you have real commitments and limited resources.

> So the question is - Who's going to work on what and in what order? The feedback is important and with enough it would get higher on the list. But someone has to make it happen. Or make a proposal on how it would work. That would be truly welcome. Let me know how I personally, and we collectively, can help.

The community clearly desires a more stable and pluggable core, doesn't like the registry workflow, and desires a daemonless mode. If the discussion over the last few days hasn't woken the Docker team up to that fact, then I don't know what to say.

The new features are big and flashy so they get the big announcements, however, you should not be surprised that when a new announcement is dropped the community collectively responds "what about x y and z?"

I think a Roadmap to 2.0 is what is missing and would give the community the confidence that is currently lacking.
I opened this up this morning to show my daughter at breakfast, thinking, hey, getting kids interested in this stuff is good.

Dead silence. Nothing. Not a word of commentary. To a kid, that conveys boring. I could hear some white noise and after a while some faint public address system speech way off in the background. So disappointing.

NASA, do you still have an educational component to your mission? It would be really great if these big launches were explained a bit on the live video feed. If there's nothing going on to explain, there should be a ton of material waiting from NASA history to fill the air time.
New Cosmological Theory Goes Inflation-Free
That was the old wikileaks which I also supported. The new wikileaks, after they closed their leaks website, and when their team fractured internally, is a quite different thing.

The new wikileaks is not about leaks, it's about a particular agenda set by Assange.
If they are using semantic versioning, like they say that they will be transitioning to, a developer of a package could specific a major and minor version of .NET, and the latest patch version would be automatically grabbed.

This would allow updating a package's .NET Core dependency, as long as it's a functionality or security patch, without breaking anything inside of the application. Just speculation though :)
I have an even wimpier computer (2GB ram, 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo). The start up time is large, and it will happily use a couple of hundred megs of RAM, but I never felt that it was too slow. Maybe I'm using an old version (5.1), but I doubt it's gotten much worse lately.
>Most language implementations are written in C and most language implementations are quite slow

That's not a fair comparison. Speed is relative. Compare them to implementations written in other languages.
Any rough eta on some of the other boards?
Thanks for the info. I think I will have to do this over the holidays when I am not trying to crank through work deadlines.
I am betting on F# taking off big time.

None of the existing functional languages on linux could deliver on functional programming hype. Clojure is too ugly, Scala is too complicated, Haskell too arcane.
Encryption in a Distributed System
How's that being bitter when it's the truth?
Except it does.It's an exceptional thing to be close to the bottom in the org charts and being strongly compensated. Maybe cofounders or senior employees with a lot of stock.
One phone. There are companies out there who, generation after generation, make the same mistakes with their products.

At least Apple learned from that one.
Didn't PG say that mean people fail?
I'll second this. I actually use the site to view on my laptop, as well as the app.
Just wanted to mention that I work on NimbusFoundry(nimbus foundry.com) which has similar ideas except we focus on auth, storage of data, and permissioning instead of front end. This is so that users can create apps within enterprise environments like Google apps for business easily.
Out of curiosity, what features are you referring to?
Operation Auroragold – How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide
tl;dr it's a linux&mac package manager. It promises to install to your directory so you don't need to sudo. It also promises to update out of date software. eh, I'm not it's target market.
Amazon cuts the cost of sending data out from its cloud by as much as 43%
He essentially retracted his original assertion eight months after it was published, see the first few "Update" sections of

http://www.philipreames.com/Blog/2014/02/21/why-not-use-gcro...

and also

http://www.philipreames.com/Blog/2014/10/21/statepoints-vs-g...

"To explicitly state this again since I screwed this up once before, both statepoints and gc.roots can correctly represent relocation semantics in the IR. In fact, the underlying reasoning about their correctness are rather similar."
well, it's called the bitter truth, isn't it?
What further restriction were you talking about? Is it judicial precedent you're referring to, or legislative precedent? I believe there is at least one case where courts ruled that the government must fulfill the terms of a contract it made previously, but that's different than statutes.
Astronomers will take 'Image of the Century' our first glimpse of a Black Hole
tl;dr A python argument parser that uses your cli "-h" explanation as its config file.
I agree. I like Lyft but what the author feels is sterile and walled off about Uber appears to me as organization and professionalism. Likewise, what the author applauds about Lyft as being unique and perhaps more engaging appears to me as being a little too lax and carefree. If my life is in your hands via you driving then I'd better see you as a professional who takes their job seriously since I don't know you.
Lyft created that image because they thought they would need some cover story about "friends driving friends" in order to violate taxi licensing laws without repercussions. Uber demonstrated that such a cover story was unnecessary.
Its great but still too slow for that.
Show HN: API for retrieving the EDNS Client Subnet from DNS Requests
Just simplicity of the deployment. Now I think the right solution is an RPC to a NodeJS server, like you said.
I think even then, you'd find C isn't particularly fast if you consider the mean speed of all languages implemented in it.

Languages that have decent implementation speed are a rare outlier compared to the hordes of slow implementations out. That horde of slow languages is wide enough to also encompass slow implementations in other languages too.
Was coming here to say the same earlier, but I liked it so much I've now hacked together a sweet DSL to use it with my React form library.

Rendering demo: http://insin.github.io/newforms-gridforms/

DSL example: https://github.com/insin/newforms-gridforms#usage
API documentation: http://ip-api.com/docs/dns
What was the specific reason that you repeated their username back to them in your comment with words and capitalization modified?
I'm curious where you live. I live in Southern California and frequent several different independent coffee shops on a weekly basis. I just don't have this problem. "efficient, cordial, but out of your way" describes my experience perfectly.
great work! reminds me of my childhood, thanks!
Wire Retracts Promise Not to Read Your Messages
Not the main gecko repository, no.
Doesn't Linux have a relatively close relative to F# in OCaml? Which has had some successes, like on top of Xen and at Jane Street, but as far as I can tell has taken the world less by storm than your other mentioned options.
It comes with 'batteries included', and the defaults work fine on most modern machines.

If you are really resource constrained it's easy to go to the settings and restrict memory use, and turn off tools you don't intend to use. If you have a really slow machine there is even a minimal DrRacket.
> And I prefer the exact opposite

Fine with me, but here I'm not trying
for anything subtle or artistic: I
just want to be able to read the darned
text.

My suggestion of <= 60 characters per line
is closer to what newspapers long preferred.
My suggestion of only about 6 characters per
inch horizontally on the screen is due partly
to my eyes no longer being 20 years old, but
really tiny fonts get fuzzy on a screen 12.5"
wide with 1024 x 768 pixels.

I'd be glad to have any other situation, including
the one you prefer, if I could just read the
darned text.

I confess, I just tweaked my favorite text
editor to give me 62 characters, bold, in
9" horizontally, and I like it much better
than before. So, that's 6.88 characters per
inch horizontally on the screen, can clearly
see the difference between a comma and a
period, etc.

For some Web pages, I just copy the text
to the system clipboard, pull it into my
favorite text editor, re-flow the text back
to about 60 characters per line, and just
read the stuff easily.

But for this piece on quantum mechanics,
I guessed that there would be enough
in math notation that my copy, paste,
and re-flow into my 8 bit ASCII text
editor wouldn't work.

I'd enjoy reading the quantum mechanics
if I could read the text.
Since the CLR was designed to be hosted, I don't see why someone just doesn't make a CLR host that runs in/on the JVM, similar to something like SQL-CLR.
It's significantly more likely that the 'White Heroin' is actually Fentanyl or another designer opioid.
I like the idea behind this, I also like the decision to make it a simple content driven site without distractions, but I have to say the font choice, especially for the headers is really bugging me while I'm reading.

I don't usually care much about things like this but even just removing Hagin Caps Medium from the headers makes it much easier on the eyes in my opinion.
I just wanted to say thank you to Sam and YC for creating this class and putting it all online. I enjoyed each of them and its most probable that these set of lectures are going to return more value to me over my life than any of the other classes I am taking right now in college.
Wow, thats impressive.
Exactly. OpenBSD is very specific in what it is. That description is more a description for a fork of FreeBSD or NetBSD.
Yeah, I was hoping they would pick them up sooner rather than later. I really like working with Xamarin, I am able to work in C# and share >75% of my code between iOS and Android but I am hamstrung using it on my own projects and it can be a hard sell to use it on commercial projects.
Well... The patent list they use to extort Android makers is not a secret anymore, so there is no way B&N could threaten Microsoft with that.

But I guess they now enjoy a perpetual license to those patents anyway.
Around 200kB of code (flash), and around 25kB of RAM after startup, with low memory optimizations in the master branch (for the upcoming Duktape 1.1 release). This doesn't include User Javascript, just what Duktape needs to start up.

You can run Duktape with 128kB RAM, and to some extent with 96kB, see e.g.: http://www.slideshare.net/seoyounghwang77/js-onmicrocontroll...
wonderful news... a move like this will speed up the adoption of encryption and virtual currencies.

don't the bankers realize that by acting in their own-self interest they have sealed their fate. the use of the blockchain and cryptocontracts will only hasten their demise... not that they will be missed.
I had racket 5 running fine on an atom based eee pc. The most important thing is to turn off unused 'tools'. you can also restrict memory use by DrRacket. These days Minimal Racket does all the for you.
Can you really not think of reasons why they'd want to maximize revenue? Here are a few thoughts, off the top of my head:
* room to drop prices at the right moment, when it would most affect competitors
* more money in the bank means less pressure to raise money (before today; I'd guess this is the last big round they do). Less pressure means they can wait until they get a better deal for current stakeholders
* they don't think price is the determining factor for market share. I'm seeing Uber and Lyft mutually differentiate corporate personality to avoid being commoditized for each other
* people tend to judge safety / quality by price -- if they were 50% cheaper, people might be sketched out
* maximizing revenue also maximizes money in their driver's pockets -- they need high quality, reliable drivers, and thus need to pay them decent wages.

Those are just a few reasons why they would maximize revenue pre-VC money.
Nook isn't competition for Kindle. It's an also-ran.
Absolutely, the original motivation was to have a Lua-like implementation for Javascript.
My Ivy Bridge i7 with 16 gigs of RAM is not exactly resource constrained. I'll take your word for it that you can disable features to get the resource usage down, but it's kinda sad that the default config can't run without stuttering on a machine like that, especially since the program is intended to be used in education where the average machine is significantly less powerful than that.
> Carrying around hundreds of books is the obvious killer feature.

Better indexing and search would be the killer killer feature.

I carry about a hundred books and about that many magazines (in PDF). Being able to search through that stack would increase my perceived IQ by a hundred points.
Nationwide, how big was this program compared to the size of a police force's asset budget?
I too enjoy buying paper books, but I do not enjoy carrying too many of them.
Can you email me one at http://scr.im/nikolay please?
James Watson auctioned his Nobel prize medal
Lots of small things; they added up and the regime became more oppressive and nationalistic. People started to feel it even if they stayed away from politics.
It's a pretty standard RISC about halfway between SH4 and ARM in RISCiness(TM).

It's memory map is a little different. (For MIPS32 at least, not sure what KSEG of MIPS64 looks like) 80000000-9FFFFFFF is fixed to a cached view of the first 512MB of physical memory. A0000000-BFFFFFFF is fixed to an uncached view. Everything else is only accessible by mapping it via the MMU (both from a physical and virtual context). Last I played with MIPS cores, they were only soft fill TLBs, but maybe that's changed. Thumb2 is more expressive than MIPS16 IMO (but that's just, like, my opinion, man).

Other than that, the microarchitectual differences between individual implementations greatly outweigh the influence of the ISA, but for an in order design at least you can probably make a MIPS that'll compete well with an ARM for less transistors.
Well according to tweets, not very far.

And with the release of WKWebView, I guess it makes it a skin.
Visualising Correlations using Graphs
Is "ugliness" the main point of contention with Clojure? It's a Lisp, so sure people will love it or hate it, but I hadn't heard this criticism directed specifically at Clojure until now.
Ractive.js for the components, Backbone for Model/Collections, Router etc.
* lastest chrome + air 2011 -> hangs.

* i have no idea what this website does.
Seems Wire were simply trying to ride the trend of proclaiming your application/service is hack proof and your messages cannot be read from the likes of the NSA or employees of the company. I am glad that they were called out on this. Seems to be in bad taste that they did not publicly acknowledge the removal and give an explanation.

I will not be using Wire. Not because their service doesn't truly protect your privacy, because hardly any major app (Skype, Facebook Chat) does, but rather because they chose to quietly sweep the claim under the rug and not publicly fess up that they made a claim they could not guarantee with a high level of certainty.
Looks like a great Swift reference! Nice work!
Did anybody notice that they killed the email obfuscation service? It made possible to share publicly your email, which was getting revealed with reCAPTCHA.
Indeed. Why would they ever act to sacrifice themselves to benefit the company?
Cleveland Police Investigation
This is from 2009 ...
F# is very close to OCaml (each language has a few features the other doesn't have). I love OCaml, but Visual Studio's F# integration is why I use F# now. The tooling for other functional langauges has seemed lacking to me, but having a legitimate debugger and intellisense and error highlighting as I type has been a delight.