skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These were KC85/3 and KC85/4, small and neat Z80 machines with 16 to 128 kByte RAM, and a BASIC interpreter and pretty nice 'modular' OS in ROM. Unlike later machines (like the KC Compact which was a CPC clone), the KC85/2 to /4 haven't been straight copies of western 8-bitters (the chips were Z80 bootlegs, but the actual system and OS were quite unique, similar in performance and capabilities to the ZX Spectrum, but better color resolution (you could give a block of 8x4 or 8x1 pixels one out of 16 fore- and background colors) and completely different OS.

There's a bit more info about these machines on the About page here: http://flohofwoe.net/about.html

And I wrote a couple blog posts about the topic:

http://flohofwoe.blogspot.de/2013/11/messing-around-with-mes...

http://flohofwoe.blogspot.de/2014/11/new-adventures-in-8-bit...

Enjoy :)
I'll agree to that, and it's the reason why I still prefer working at the office vs working at home - social pressure.

But as said elsewhere, that doesn't mean open offices are the answer.
intimidating..told a few friends about their locations and got unfriended. It explains how much people are scared about their daily privacy information.
Yet Limbo is used nowhere. Now that's a paradox ! ;)
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Security is relative. No matter how your router is configured, a burgler can walk off with your hardware and the data it contains. Sure you can put bars on the windows, but it's not cost effective to protect against shaped charge wall breaching. For a bit of security, I'd look at upgrading any consumer grade router firmware to dd-wrt or openWRT to get rid of factory default service accounts and obtain finer grained control of the device than typically ships in the box.

From there it then just comes down to how much effort you enjoy putting into security. For some people UPnP is a feature, for others it's a horror. And of course if you really are concerned with security, don't use Wifi because it doesn't just leak information, it broadcasts it. Of course, wiring up the house with Cat-x is a big job compared to typing in a WPA pass-phrase.

Secure against what? is what you need to decide. The neighbor's dog is one thing, the NSA another.

Good luck.
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Well yes. If we can do that, I totally agree.

But, is that politically possible?
I would vote for serious resource investment in a plan for finishing the world poverty but I suspect it's not in the program of the political parties.

We prefer to organize military operations ¿!??, like the current European one against the "mafias" that "exploit" the Libyan illegal immigrants, instead of facing the roots of the problem.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platitude
Not sure if your question was real or merely a set-up for your bullet points. If the former:

Email. I don't tend to organize things with dozens of people on the list (for that I might be convinced that random mail threads might become cumbersome - I'm not convinced that FB is a solution!). If I want to go to a concert and discuss that with <= ten friends, mails are fine. That reply-all argument doesn't come up. If someone has to decline it's trivial for any participant to remove that address. Or he explicitly asks to be removed. Or - and that's probably the general case, that person doesn't care about a couple of emails and marks the thread as read. Done.

I don't claim that you make this issues up or that these things cannot be a nuisance for some people. I .. just don't have these problems, mails work just fine in all cases here.

I agree that a calendar is missing. I tend to use various things for that and don't have a good solution for this so far. Most of the time it's probably 'no calendar' and only a poll of sorts (think doodle or something similar).
The Ubuntu 14.04 package ships Go1.2

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/devel/golang-go
Yea, but I would guess software will be pretty helpful when solving those problems.
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DeMarco and Lister (Peopleware) saw the problems with open offices decades ago. The notion that open offices were a bad idea is not a new discovery. Companies like them because they are initially a lot cheaper than giving people their own offices.
This is not economics. Its "finance", well really just a bunch of very long contracts that people pretend to "value", by making up numbers as you see from this article, in order to make money from people.
SPA: Single Page Application

https://github.com/zeekay/flask-uwsgi-websocket
I actually came for the robust type system. Not sure if that falls into your "unimportant concepts" category, though :)
"Patio11" doesn't mean anything to people outside HN, and I suspect the people in HN sucking his e-peen don't have the $57,000 available to spend.
Excuse me, non-American here, but a passage from an article linked within states[0]:

> The nine justices request that U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr., the government's top lawyer before the Supreme Court, weigh in on about 20 cases a year in which the federal government has a strong interest. The justices generally give greater weight to what he or she says than other third parties that take a side in a case, an influence which has caused the solicitor general to be dubbed the "tenth justice."

Question: what the fuck?

[0]: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/15/google-oracle-lawsuit-idUSL1N0Y32YG20150515
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Curious, I haven't heard about Overleaf so what's an advantage over Sharelatex (OSS)?
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What you do next is you go to a a Starbucks in a big city, pick a table somewhere in the middle of the store, take out the rotary phone and start calling people there. You will immediately become the biggest hipster of the local community. Given how eager people are to share pictures of edgy people on the Internet, you are looking forward to world fame here.
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>To be fair, the adorable `except:` black magic exists there to be used in such a case. Of course its use is extremely dangerous for obvious reasons (it even catches the `SystemExit` exception!), so I can understand why the author didn't mention this.

This is why you use "except Exception:" which doesn't catch system exceptions.
Maybe the big parties were not so much to celebrate the arrival of the 21st century, but the arrival of the magical year 2000 with its flying cars and stuff.
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Just imagine how "ease of interaction" is not a problem if you don't mind not to interact at all. That's another problem fixed forcefully by open offices. I like not being alone in my office, having the whole team of a dozen people in my reach. I don't like loud discussions either, but I can mute those with my ear plugs. I cannot unmute a solo office box.
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do you think that Elm is in the good track? if you are involved with Elm, why I must using it? give me good reasons ;)
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> Personally, I find that kind of thinking to be a relic of the past when memory and disk space were expensive and compilation took a long time.

OTOH, it does well with the culture of making a lot of small, specialized executables rather than a single, monolithic application.
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Interesting. I wonder if it would work on Android as well?
Maybe socket.io and go-socket.io. Socket.io support multiple transports.
I find the atmosphere in a room with 2, 3 or 4 people far more oppressive that a room with a 100. Probably something to do with being able to ignore people when they are a multitude, but things getting too personal when it's a small group.

I always found it very easy to concentrate in big spaces as long as I feel nobody cares about what I am doing, and that seems easy in a big room. I also don't care much about small distractions or noises, I always hear people complaining about getting out of the zone when they have to chat a bit with a coworker. It takes me a big effort to get into the zone when I am starting to work, some kind of a starting period while I load all the relevant information in my head, but once I'm there I can get in and out and attend subtasks or have a conversation with somebody with no problem.
I am surely missing something, why would you want to delay in the function?
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Some mistakes in his benchmarks, among probably others:

- I don't see any mongodb index creation, so mongodb is inserting with no index while rethinkdb is inserting with the index. That's probably why there's a gap between the two

- there's no mongodb index, and rethinkdb queries do not make use of the index (this is probably why rethinkdb is not 1000x slower: both aren't using indexes)

- the $in query should be last_update: random_timestamp(), there's no need for $in here

- his insertion code creates 100K memory clones of the object to insert in the mongodb version only, not in rethinkdb

I'm sad to add: what the author is benchmarking here is the likely performance of a system he could build with either db. It's not necessarily bad (save for bad press) that he's bad at benchmarking: the mistakes he's made in his benchmark are similar to the mistakes he'll make in his code.

But yes, the author may use some help!
I was surprised to see Plan 9 still supported. Are there any core Go developers who still use Plan 9 as one of their primary work machines? Is Plan 9's userbase growing?
Wealth != social status. E.g Garbage collectors have triple the median wage but to many they have low social status.
> was overblown and now is

Was overblown? Now is?

So, it's not a lie. It's just not an accurate picture of the current state of affairs on that site. Or is your position that it never happened in the first place?
I did some Mame hacking the other day. Basically, I added code that would let me automatically reload a state and record my inputs at the touch of a button on my fight stick. I wanted this functionality so that I could test various glitches in games and then replay and record the event.

While I'm not the biggest fan of Mame's source code (it's still got a lot of macros from it's C heritage), it is fairly simple to understand, and you can gain a lot of insight into how the hardware worked back in those days. I hope this project lives on for a very long time.
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This is an awesome project. After watching all of his videos this[1] one is the most curious, because you could probably get his phone number by measure the time it takes for a digit to dial.
Not that this is something I would endorse but it came to my mind the second he tried to hide the dialing process.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_e1oqCkeng&feature=youtu.be...
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xxxv, actually.

(it makes sense if you know why Roman numerals look the way they do)
From my experience this is all depends on people in question. We've been experimenting in my circle of friends of about 20-30 people over these years with trying different solutions for event invitations : email, g+ events, FB events, SMS, various chat services.

The outcome was that some people simply aren't reliable to follow up if they're fine with the event terms or not, no matter what medium. It's not a tech problem, it's a people problem and everyone's responsible.
There is also a policy of stuffing laptops in locked drawers or taking them home after work, although it's perfectly fine to leave one when going out for lunch.

Which wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that company laptop is unusable for approximately 30 minutes after boot (or hibernate/suspend), when it tries to scan the whole drive for viruses or whatever.

I don't even want to count how many hours of productivity are wasted because of stupidities like these.
Unfortunatly most "buzz words" can be used to avoid doing work, this seems to be the selling point of Agile in a lot of places I have worked.

I think what the pro and anti YAGNI groups can agree on is that maluable code is better.
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"Is it a coincidence that companies who pioneered the open office plan are also some of the most successful in the world?"

Yes. If a successful company had their employees sitting in bean bag chairs all day, that wouldn't mean that somehow bean bag chairs we're responsible for their success.
Of course it would. WebView on android can be displayed without the URL bar just as easily.
Using smartphones as remote shouldn't be a pain
letting 0,1% of people in third-world countries come and enjoy good things does nothing for their society in a long run

Sure it does. It alleviates the problem of the (often) explosive population growth, it brings in billions of dollars in remittances, and it allows future returnees to come with education and work experience which is, if not better, at least different from what the origin country provides.

There's a nice example in this week's TAL episode, regarding Kaiser Kuo, the American-born son of Chinese immigrants who "brought rock and roll to China" (by being one of the founders of Tang Dynasty). I think it's clear that the immigration of his parents was essential for his accomplishments.
I can so relate to this notion of a lost culture or era.

In grades 4-6 I lived near Olympia, Washington, as my father was stationed at Ft. Lewis. Me and my peers were all gaming/computer types. I had an Atari 2600 and a TI-99/4A, another had a Timex Sinclair and Intellivision, another a ColecoVision (no computer), and 2 others had an Apple II (no consoles). All of us played games on the computers, of course, and all of us tried our hands at programming, whether it was copying lines of BASIC from a computer book (I had BASIC Computer Games, Vol 1, I think) or exploring the rabbit hole of peeks and pokes found in magazines. In hindsight, I suppose this fact alone in the early 80s was a sign of privilege many never had.

There was a local arcade called Shadowfax, and my buddies and I would spend hours there on Friday or Saturday nights. The place ran on tokens, not quarters. And if you bought $10 worth, you'd get double the tokens -- 2 whole rolls. So $20 would set us young dudes up for hours of fun.

The low lighting, the neon, the thumping bass from the cabinets themselves, and the ambient music. It all set the mood. I'm pretty certain there was even smoking allowed back then, well before the Clean Air Act stuff kicked in.

A row of quarters on the marquee marking one's place in line for a chance to be the next winner or loser in the PvP game of choice. The thrill of making that pattern work in Pacman, and the rage of your last man getting eaten a mere 3 dots away from getting to see the 3rd intermission. The awesomeness of those vector graphics games (Star Wars, Tempest, Asteroids, etc.). The odd combination of annoyance, envy, and admiration of that one dude who through raw skill could monopolize a favorite game of yours for hours at a stretch. The token weasley kid who slyly showed you how to get free credits by using washers or jamming a flattened soda straw into the coin slot. Or that asshole who unplugged the cabinet and erased your hard-earned initials from the #1 rank.

Such good times.

Sure, some of the above can be chalked up to the rose-colored tint of reminiscing about a long-lost youth -- I'm sure guys 20+ years my senior can similarly wax poetic about the pinball era. But that time was so exciting for me, as it was for so many here I'm sure. The atmosphere and culture was so unique and interesting, with a camaraderie that was unique at the time. Video games were becoming big, and personal computing was just ramping up. I'm glad I was able to enjoy that era at the age in which I did. It had no small influence on who I am today. And while my kids were playing and loving the old classics thanks to MAME at a very young age, they'll never truly know the joy of the arcade.
One facet that never comes up in these anti-open office articles is that it is 100% impossible to design the perfect office for you as an individual, for every other individual, all while designing an office that is perfect for the organization.

Many people here advocate private offices, which are great, but as soon as you start putting up walls, you've totally restricted access to natural light in the interior of the building. Access to natural light and breaking down the hierarchy that came with private offices (exterior for high-level employees, corner for the highest) are partly responsible for creating an environment where open office are desirable alternatives.

With all of condemnation for open plan office happening, I'm excited to see what the next swing of the pendulum back toward privacy will bring us. Hint: It won't be private offices.

Some of the things I'm excited about in this regard are:

-Activity-based working office designs

-Increased working from home/telecommuting arrangements

The most important part of office design is to consider your company's culture, and then develop an office that will best support it rather than jumping onto what types of designs have worked for the unique cultures of other companies.
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If they "unfriended" you for that they weren't really friends anyway.
In addition (as mentioned above), FIFA sanctions don't mean all that much to the US, so the US has a lot less to lose by prosecuting this, both financially and in the court of public opinion.
Right. I think the closest languages to Go, regarding respective niches or overall philosophies, are Java and Oberon. Yet nobody ever compares them.
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If you have to plug it into your computer for it to work it's not a unicorn it's a 1 trick pony.
This article talks about the last world cup final:

http://www.espnfc.com/fifa-world-cup/story/1950567/world-cup...

The US had 43.8 million people watching the final (in English and Spanish). Germany (who was in the final) had 34.65 million people watching. Even if Argentina had ever single person in their country watching, they'd only have 42.6 million people watching (wiki estimate). Granted Brazil almost definitely has higher viewership, but the US is definitely one of the largest.
> China (including special areas Macau, Hong Kong) should learn to respect an intellectual property.

What if you don't believe intellectual property is a thing? That it shouldn't be protected in the same way my laptop should be protected?
Ok, maybe de morgans laws are a bad example for a complex idea, but I'll tell you this: I'd have to look them up to know they are called de morgans laws, as the name is not relevant to their use.
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The focus on the tools in entirely justified. The reason is this:

You really should not be looking at it as a CMS. It is a complete workflow system. In short, these are the systems that the business depends on to write stories, edit stories, publish stories, syndicate stories, promote stories, and so on.

An advantage of a proper system is not merely 10% efficiency:
1. It can impose a process, where none existed before. Perhaps, this can be a quality check process. It can be user feedback process. It can be promotion of journalists process. A process can improve operations and the outcome.

2. It can automate a process. Even if process exists today, if it is not automated, it may not be enforced. We do not have measurement on how well the process is adhered to; who is using it and who is not; what the costs of not using the process are.

3. It can optimize a process. If we can automate and measure, then improvement is natural.

In addition to all these process improvements, something like Chorus can even improve the way it is reaching the customers. For instance, the costs of pushing to different channels is negligible. Their cards based context education system is considered innovative in the industry.

If you look at the existing publishing platforms, you will understand how CMS can change the game. See more about Chorus here: http://pfauth.com/publishing-platforms/vox-medias-chorus . If you want to see the competition that the rest use, see: http://www.ccieurope.com/solutions/NewsGate/ (this is the new version-- think about the previous version and then you can understand the excitement about Chorus).
I think the hackers were attacking the initial sign-up, not already created accounts. So I don't see how you could use 2FA.
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Well, for this very reason an open space office should have enough conference rooms for everybody. I dread the moment when I will need to "walk through the door" to speak with a manager. That's intimidating and discourages people from communicating with them. While private rooms help them do the job on the same and above level, I don't believe it works well for their teams.
Certainly, but the Olympics is something of a 20th century anachronism, celebrating a bunch of sports that few people have any genuine interest in. It is slowly becoming little more than a sports-themed fireworks roadshow.

FIFA controls the most popular and most profitable sport in the world. Period.
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OP's inability to grasp something is entirely their problem, not Facebook's. I object when privacy is taken from me. I will, however, give up a degree of privacy in exchange for convenience. That is informed consent.

If one's news feed is full of gossipy rubbish and stuff they aren't interested in, then one either need to learn how to customise one's feed (easy) or get better friends. Facebook make it pretty damn easy to do the former.

Facebook is a content sharing platform and one's friends are making the content. If the content is rubbish, that says more about the people involved than it says about Facebook.
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Taking away 0,1% of people sure doesn't solve the problem of population growth, it's statistically insignificant.

Your other points stand, but only if donor society is in relatively good shape.
Indian emigrants may help India but I doubt Somalian or Libyan emigrants help countries they fled.
Surely you don't actually need to measure anything. Just ask people what they prefer.

And to be fair, I've met people, online and off, who legitimately like open offices or would prefer a hybrid. But I've met roughly an order of magnitude more people who don't like them at all and just want a quiet, personal space.

And you're right, there are a lot of confounding factors when you look at companies like Google. For instance, I'm sure the prospect of getting filthy rich was pretty enticing for early employees, who probably found the work conditions nearly irrelevant in comparison. Same thing goes for Facebook. There's a well-known notion that some companies are just so successful so fast that they can basically do anything in terms of office dynamics and it will work for them. This is commonly applied to Valve's management strategy (or lack thereof).

Also, you could fairly easily argue that both Google and FB met with the majority of their success before they engineered massive open office farms. You could also fairly easily argue that both have been doing a pretty mediocre job lately, with some successes but lots of failures, mostly just maintaining their status (especially Facebook, in my humble opinion).

I'd imagine that the more upside there is for employees, and the more empowered the employees are in general, the more they'll tolerate and perform well in an open office on average.