skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
QuickLetter from Working Software ran just fine on an 8 MHz Mac Plus with 4 MB of memory. I expect it would have been able to run, perhaps not acceptably but it would have run, with just 2 MB of memory.

It had a full-featured styled text engine - fonts, tabs, margins and so on. It was built on the same CoreEdit styled text engine that MacWrite was. The very first MacWrite, I'm pretty sure ran on the 1984 Superbowl Mac - that model was later given the name "Mac 128k".

The Mac 128k had a 64kB ROM and single-sided 400kB floppy disk; there was a port for an external 400kB single-sided floppy however most folks didn't have one as the drives were quite costly.

Fast forward to today, and I have a 64-bit Core Quad i7 CPU, a 500 GB SSD drive, 8 GB of DDR3 memory, and all the advances that academic computer science has made in the way of algorithms but even so...

it is quite uncommon that I don't regard a GUI program - open source or proprietary - as unacceptably unresponsive to my mouse or keyboard.

Consider Moore's Law. I don't think he actually said that hardware doubled in speed every 18 months, rather that the transistor count per chip doubled. But loosely speaking that produces the effect of hardware getting twice as fast.

It is incredibly difficult to double the transistor count on an already complex chip.

How hard could it possibly be - to make your executable code run half as fast? :-/
Having almost no knowlegde on how water supply works, I am curious. If you need more water, why can't you just produce more water? Wouldn't you just need to ship in more water (some pipes) and filter it (some facilities that do some chemistry tricks)?

Why is it not that easy?
> of course, this should make you question statistics to begin with

This doesn't make me question statistics at all. What it does do is further my belief that those doing financial forecasting have the same issues as meteorologists: incomplete models.
Wall Street has historically underestimated tail risk. I'm curious under what model this is a "once in 3 billion years" sort of move. Basically, financial markets don't behave as a normal distribution, and black swans are a lot more likely than their 7-sigma probabilities would suggest.
That's it? Just 300?
Are you aware that is already possible to remote login into a powershell session without any add-on on windows server? Just use Enter-PsSession -computername
And stepping on shit brings good fortune in many different cultures :)
The reason that I myself prefer vim, is that Emacs Makes A Computer Slow.

;-D
Why wouldn't you be able to fire someone because you think they cost too much money? This is a perfectly acceptable reason to fire someone under at-will employment. It's probably also one of the most common reasons.

There are very few reasons that don't fly for a firing under at-will employment. Discrimination against a protected class is the big one, and companies do the performance plan thing so that they have something objective to point to should an employee ever try to claim they were discriminated against. The thing about performance plans is they take 3-6 months to mature into a full firing. If a company needs to clear out an employee quicker than that, they'll forgo the performance plan.

The handful of other reasons you can't fire someone are things like the FMLA and retaliation for good-faith reports of harassment or violations of labor law. Pretty much any other reason will probably work.

I Am Not a Lawyer and This Has Not Been Legal Advice (tm). Everything I've said is probably wrong.
You are partially right. It is completely possible to write in JS/Mongo systems as robust as Ada/Oracle|DB2|SQL Server. You just have to know what you are doing. There is no magic in Ada, Oracle, etc.

Node and Mongo are moving hundreds of billions daily in HFS shops.
How is the performance of Bromium?
Why are you normalizing to world production and not how much you eat? 5% of cattle production could be a lot of cattle and 80% of almonds could be a fairly small amount of cattle.

Percentages of different things cannot be compared sanely.
> no concerns that the repo will ever disappear

Why say that? Are the bits rotting? Does your build process involve deleting dependencies? Is your disk lossy?
neovim is trying to do just that via libuv -- https://github.com/neovim/neovim
Well, duh, stock (or bond) market is not stochastic process.
http://longbets.org

Go ahead and put your money where your mouth is. :)
American police killed more people in March than the UK police since 1900
This is a great example of "simple is better than easy". It always seems so easy to "just make a callback" in JavaScript/UIs but when things go beyond a very simple UI component things go downhill, FAST. This sort of callback dependency nightmare is so common in workflows adopted by many JavaScript/UI frameworks. It's scary and sad at the same time.

I encourage any JavaScript developer to seriously take a look at ClojureScript + React + core.async for front end development. Not a silver bullet, and there's the learning curve of a new language, but definitely better tools to build the foundation for an asynchronous & inherently complex UI. If the problem/project you're solving/working on is not trivial, the payoffs are there.
Dropbox isn't even close to this experience. Yes the files themselves would be everywhere, but I don't want to have to go into the Dropbox app to view my photos (not to mention the Dropbox app being extremely slow in my experience). With iCloud they're all in your regular Photos app ready to be shared or used in other apps just like the photos you shot with your phone.
Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games Because “Hacking” Is Illegal
This guy is going places.
I guess you missed the /s at the end. As the perfect program runs on top of buggy hardware, OS, libraries, VMs, etc.
What Kind of Smart Device Would You Actually Want to Wear?
Square acquires Fastbite, integrates it with Caviar
New understanding of electromagnetism could enable 'antennas on a chip'
Dang, COW registry is pretty neat.
"Resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The main reason that I am able to do without IDEs most of the time, is that it is uncommon for me to use debuggers anymore.

For the most part I use assertions. Quite commonly all I require is to assert the validity of input parameters to subroutines. Less commonly I do that for return values. Uncommonly I use insertions somewhere in the middle.

Very rarely - but sometimes - I use class invariants. That is, a circle class has an invariant that its radius is fixed all the way around; that's not the case for ellipses. However when I do use class invariants, they are very helpful.

I also use memory debuggers like guard malloc and valgrind.

It's not that I don't use step-through debuggers at all, but with all the above it is uncommon that I feel the need to.
Can you explain how you got that 7.0 for almonds? I'm getting a much, much lower number; not as bad as beef, of course, but worse than corn.

Are you using waterfootprint.org's "ground nuts in shell" as a proxy for almonds?
Finally! This beta has proven beyond reasonable doubt of their reasoning behind shuttering aperture.

In love! Phenomenal product, this.
That's a good list right there!
OP said:

>"customer support in any company is like this."

My post was specifically in response to that, because it was an inaccurate statement.

I'm really sorry to hear you've had such poor experiences in support. That sucks, and I realize how hard/impossible that can be to turn around from a business and culture standpoint.

Sounds like you have found a path that works better for you, so congrats!
How does this compare to Carousel, Dropbox's photo backup offering from last year?

https://carousel.dropbox.com/

Carousel is great as long as you have enough Dropbox space for your photos. Anecdotally, I find I could trust Dropbox's backup model more than Apple's because I understand it better.
The first part of my technical writeup is now at http://www.reenigne.org/blog/1k-colours-on-cga-how-its-done/
And where would you get the water from at the other end of the pipe?
Or, you got served leftovers because throwing food away is exremely wasteful. I eat leftovers all the time. What's the big deal?
its just a checklist, why does this site need my email to show me the content? :/
Why is Angellist asking startup salaries from hires?
Disney would like to disagree.[1]

[1] http://www.helpscout.net/blog/disney-customer-experience/
Because if almond-eating is actually more defensible than beef-eating, then I should be able to replace my beef with almonds and leave California in a better situation. In reality though, if I replaced beef with almonds, California would be considerably worse off.

Think about it, which harms California's water supply more? A New Yorker drinking a gallon of cow's milk? Or a New Yorker drinking a gallon of almond milk?
The Atmosphere Story
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. You're absolutely right.
Dunno guys, when six-sigma events keep happening every seven or eight years, maybe it's time to reconsider a normal distribution as our go-to model.
5 Tips to Manage Relationships with Portfolio Companies as a Startup Investor
Stereotypes describe a generality that may or may not apply to the majority. Despite the fact that it doesn't apply to the majority, the stereotype itself still describes an actual real-world generality. Coming to a conclusion based off of a generality/stereotype is not totally unfounded.

I mean this guy called himself an asshole because he came to a very probable and realistic conclusion. Sometimes I think feminism goes a bit too far;... especially when the topic takes up 50% of my news feed nowadays.
Payment systems online and offline are fundamentally different in my view.

Online, there are differences in payment methods. The relative anonymity of a system like Bitcoin; the speed of PayPal or a pre-filled checkout like Amazon; etc.

In person there is zero personal benefit in me using anything other than cash. The only reason for me to use anything else is if the merchant forces me (e.g. metro smart card - use it or don't use the metro).

I simply don't care about the seconds that it takes to pay and that contactless or a magic brain chip could be instant - I don't actually want everything to be perfectly efficient.

The same applies all over the place really. For example, there's a distinct difference between walking to work, cycling to work, and driving/taking public transport. Each one is a significant step in time usage.

But give me the choice of having a 5 minute walk and a 4 minute walk? I don't care. If my life ever became so busy that it mattered, I would know that I am doing something wrong. Regimenting your life in that way is a source of stress.

It all just seems like bikeshedding to me.
I am reasonably sure those are the reasons why Zynga hasn't gone out of business already, not the reasons they're struggling.
I don't know about btrfs but didn't you need the huge RAM amount for deduplication? Without that, ZFS would be serviceable on any reasonably recent Mac, except probably the new Macbook, or they would need, at most, an upgrade to 8GB.

Also, why wouldn't you be able to unmount a ZFS disk?
No. But at the same time 2008 was a very different time for startups than 2015, and Zynga's business model has always been rather exploitive of its users (milking the obsessive-compulsive 1%).
Fantastic, can you mention this on your page? :)
That's more of a problem with iOS than a problem with Dropbox.
Developer Mode in Chrome is most definitely available on Windows.
Here you are, it's from the Lion review I think. Pretty scary reading, and particularly since we've had numerous releases since then with not many changes:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/12/
You should remove 'sudo' and '--global' from 'sudo npm install skit --global' in your getting started guide. I almost had a heart attack when I first saw it.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19352976/npm-modules-wont...

Otherwise, it looks very promising!
Next Windows Server offers even smaller 'Nano Server' footprint
I think the saying comes from junior bankers and lawyers, before their first bonus check, although even then, the math does not work out to minimum wage.

When I graduated college, base salaries in banking were about $65,000, which leads to $12.50 / hour. After their first bonus check, this doubles, of course, but that first year can feel pretty bad. Still not minimum wage, but I think the point they want to make is that, yes, we make lots of money, but is it worth it with the hours. In comparison, a $120,000 tech job at a big company (not counting equity), working 40 hours a week with 2 weeks vacation comes to about $60 / hour.

The difference is that the professional services compensation grows at a much faster rate than the tech compensation, unless you happen to pick the next Google/FB/whatever and get on-board early on.
The Millionaire Pitcher That Lives in a Van
I've got a NAS but these things come with gigabit Ethernet and Marvel processors that will no way be able to cope with gigabit speeds!

Doing a Time Machine backup to NAS isn't fun, I can tell you. Particularly if you use VMs (which you can exclude, but why would you when it's an entire machine image eh?)
I like the ease of use of 'git lfs track "*.psd"' and being able to use normal git commands after that.

Would it be possible to extend git-annex with a command that lets you set one or more extensions? By using git hooks you can probably ensure that the normal git commands work reliably.
I apologize if it came off as contempt for the manipulated. I meant it more as sadness for them. St. Steve on the other hand...
Well it's first and foremost a protocol. Feel officially invited to implement it in any language you like. Language correctness guaranties sounds to me as a term from MBA programs and business magazines and not something a REAL dev would EVER say.

I've been to at least 200 software conferences in my life and never heard speakers like Linus, Ken Thomson, RMS, Gordon Letwin, DHH, Anders Hejlsberg mention "correctness guarantees".
This is the nicesest coment I've ever got on hacker news.
Glad you find it usefull as a poster, that's how we started thinking about it.
PG essay are awesome, but there are so many of them, that it's hard to keep all in one head. We did this to help myself remember.
I sell premium as a primary investing strategy and as a rule there are only 20 or so underlyings with active enough derivatives markets by my standards. In widely traded underlyings not only do you get tighter markets, but a more valid crowd-sourcing of option probability.

As a rule, derivative liquidity in the bond market is significantly lower than equities.
Binary Analysis Platform and Reverse Engineering Tool Written in OCaml
Have they embraced and extended?

I can't tell from a quick read.
(Long time lurker, only a reader till now)
I've been looking for something like matrix for quite some time now (albeit probably in the wrong direction) and it seems like a really cool project. I've been wanting to build a chat application on top of a chat protocol like that for ages! Its a big boost to finally get started. Thanks!

Edit: whoops, I had commented once before, it was just so long ago that I forgot about it!
They could also charge for git-annex I think. It is not that they need their own type of private repo's to charge for that. By the way, GitLab.com offers unlimited repo's and 5GB per repo for free.
Very cool. Maybe this will shine a light on your project. First thing I looked for in their announcement was S3 support...
His post explains it. To have good design/UX (in his opinion), you need to exercise a lot of control over your product- totalitarian control, even. Apple is great at design- therefore, the company culture to maintain that control is also totalitarian.
Meteorologists Steaming After Hurricane Research Funding Is Slashed
I found a couple high-framerate videos showing the sweeping motion:

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA18YtiSNyQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ZmyWO-QU8

The movement is very nice to watch, the jerkiness is just barely perceptible at high speed. On the other hand 28,800bph mechanicals jitter visibly without slow motion capture. Since the spring drive is on some level imperceptibly smooth, I'd say it's a Retina-style improvement over the jitters.
Gender hypersensitivity is the new grammar nazi movement. It adds nothing to any given conversation and only derails every thread it's mentioned in. Much worse than grammar correction actually...

[EDIT]

Sadly my point is being proven. I REALLY wanted to hear about teaching Haskell to 10 year olds but now we've got the same boring ass gender war going on that never goes anywhere and is totally off topic. I wonder if you could delete your comment before it gets too out of hand. At the very least try not to bring it up next time.
If you want to use git-annex without any setup consider using GitLab.com, it is enabled by default and free to use.
Domo Raises $200M and Exits Stealth Mode
Hey, watch where you're flicking. That's a computer
I'd never thought of that, but it really is cloud hoarding! The masses of hi-definition tat on YouTube is really staggering. Unfortunately I contribute to it...
> I personally have used a Mac since the Mac+ and not one had corruption due to the filesystem.

You're a very lucky man, then. A large part of my time, at one point in my life, was spent fixing up corrupted HFS filesystems.
For all the hype over quantified self, sometimes old answers are still the best
If you use another open source project that gives you control right? It would be nice if everyone reused git-annex like they reused git.
My point is mankind can come up with powerful ideas.

> unless your argument is that mankind's idea of God also corresponds to the reality of what exists outside our heads

But all men do not agree on what God is at first place, or whether he exists or not. It doesn't make the idea of god less powerful(that's my point), however if you define "reality" as what men can experience, no men has ever experienced "God" and created a reproducible experiment of God. Therefore "God" cannot be a reality today. God is a philosophical question.
Is anyone else reminded of 3M by this? Also, Apple had Steve Jobs leave, company founder, then Jobs returned & Apple was swell. Similar situation. Maybe it's the grandpa in me but I feel like one gets a sense of that 'CEO feeling' at any company.. that is is why they're called the CEO.
This is exactly what should be done.
Would the ocean work?
There aren't very many large tech companies that publish compensation information in job postings, so I used Uber's job posting. Equity requires belief in any company's valuation. I'm not here to argue about Uber's valuation, I'm just using them as an example. It's also not really fair to call Uber's equity "paper" -- there are liquidation vehicles for average employees.

As far as the asshole tax, I don't think Uber's reputation is all that much worse than Facebook or Google, do you?
Check out California code 2870 which basically says anything you work on at home, on your own time, using your own equipment, and not related to your employers line of business, is yours. The company can still fire you for your side business though.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9344766 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ZmyWO-QU8
Thanks for mentioning us rakoo. Using git-annex on GitLab.com is completely free. We're thinking about a 5Gb per repo cap but right now its unlimited.
Unfortunately, living overseas on just a laptop means limited laptop storage, and no desire to lug a time machine or hard drives around.

All of this means complicated (for me) workflows of bringing in photos as referenced objects, backing the photos up to the cloud in a way I can easily re-reference them, then backup the aperture library to the cloud with thumbnails--which is still a quite large upload on sometimes questionable connections, and then delete the referenced objects locally once I am on to the next project, making sure they all got to the cloud ok first.

Not impossible. Just the prospect of a toggle button for iCloud photo sync is a very welcome idea.

I feel like my current flow is just waiting for me to make a mistake.
This is classic Business Insider. They explicitly ignore the context and try to shake you up with a cherry picked quote. Jamie Dimon doesn't think, and doesn't want his reader to think, that October 15th was a once in a 3B year move. Specifically, in the letter, Jamie Dimon 1) never uses the term "flash crash" and 2) spends the previous five paragraphs explaining exactly how and why liquidity dynamics in the fixed income markets have changed.

What he is saying is that the Oct 15th move looks really strange, but not if you actually understand how fixed income market makers are reacting to the Volker rule. Quoting Dimon:

For instance, the total inventory of Treasuries readily available to market-makers today is $1.7 trillion, down from $2.7 trillion at its peak in 2007. Meanwhile, the Treasury market is $12.5 trillion; it was $4.4 trillion in 2007.

What he's saying is that market makers have smaller inventories on absolute terms, and much smaller inventories on relative terms, so when multiple big market participants try to move in the same direction at the same time, there is much less inventory available to soak up demand.
What happens to Aperture after the upgrade? Will decide to upgrade in the near future based on what happens to it.
Depends on the role - for a COTS type of software, they are certainly not - they are revenue generating. Consultancy? Same thing. Now for internal tool development or support, sure, but how many businesses can operate without one? How many can 10 years from now? 20?
Joey has been most helpful to us at GitLab, I'm sure he would be happy to help out GitHub too.
Fix Discriminatory Attitudes and Broken Sidewalks, Not Humans
Ditto. I've had so many positive Apple experiences, even recently.

A while ago, I could walk in the store and get replacement parts on the spot. They've replaced my sister's broken computer when she was out of warranty without giving her a hard time.

Most recently I had a really esoteric thing where my Apple Developer account had my mom's name on it because it was linked to the phone I got from her... I dunno, anyways, I managed to get someone who manages developer accounts on the phone, even though I don't pay for the developer account, and they updated it for me and got it sorted out, with minimal friction, and only a small amount of time on the phone.
Yes, there are LPARs, but we were discussing software-based virtualisation. LPARs are more partitioning than virtualization which is very different from a multi-tenancy perspective.

The equivalent to LPARs in the Solaris world would be LDOMs on SPARC.
It's almost like you can't trust cloud providers!

I keep the majority of my data at home on a NAS instead of flinging it to the other side of the world and being disappointed that I have trouble getting it back.

Given the lowering cost of storage and out-of-the-box ease for shoving NAS boxes on a network and them popping up in a network browsing situation, I wonder if more people will return to local storage and processing? Will there be a cloud burst, like the dot com bubble burst?