skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes the BASIC interpreter was the best thing there was on the platform. Mainly for me at least because it was heavily structured, didn't require line numbering like earlier versions and had a stupidly powerful inline assembler.

I had a 1040ST and an Amiga 500 at the time as well (spot the geek) and the software wasn't that great on those platforms either IMHO. Even PDS on DOS was nicer to program in with the 2kg pile of manuals.

The killer was the rise of the PC and you know what; I'm glad it killed everything. Perhaps controversially, a couple of years down the line and as someone who wanted to get shit done back then, things like Windows 3, VB, Word, Excel, OLE appearing were clearly the future.
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The definitions are actually very narrow and specific if you read the text. And I imagine a specific law is necessary to clarify things for the justice system, who otherwise might not be sure whether such things are prosecutable when they occur via some new app or service online.
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I'll grant you excel.
> No one in this thread - or any comedian for that matter - is trying to incite a specific reader to take his or her life.

"If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out in the lobby, and then you go home and you kill yourself."

— Louis C.K. [1]

I and many others found Louis CK's performance hilarious, but what's stopping him from being locked up the next time he performs in New Zealand? It's only fame and prosecutorial discretion that stands between him and a prison sentence.

1. http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/how-louis-c-k-became...
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Most such laws were written before the explosion of social media, which is less than two decades old in the public mainstream.
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"Now I certainly enjoyed the platform but in retrospect, I'd have invested my money in something else back then if I knew what was going to happen."

I take your point about Acorn as a business but I used a 'lab' full of RISC-OS 2 bases A310s at College with 20Mb Rodime hard drives. We did scanning, dtp, Genesis multimedia packages &c and various home grown projects.

What else could we have bought at that time for similar use cases? Not trolling, my memory of the time is hazy and I recollect being extremely underwhelmed by DOS based PCs in another 'lab'.

EDIT: flashbacks to Aldus Framemaker on Apricot PCs, Amstrad PCW spreadsheet applications being used in a theatre box office, and an early 9" screen Mac being used with some form of DTP software.
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It's funny and I get what he/she is trying to say, but it's not that clever because there's no definition of what a security vulnerability is.

Pond is a great example of doing this well:
https://pond.imperialviolet.org/threat.html

"if an entity can do something that is not listed here then that should count as a break of Pond"
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Is there a good source of information about ARX (the originally-planned OS for the Acorn ARM machines) out there? I did search around a bit a few years back and found very, very little.
There's a 60/40 male/female split in that graph for people with IQ's of 140. First, you don't need an IQ of 140 to have a high-status position. Second, the male/female ratio for high-status positions is much higher than 60/40.
Could you elaborate on the difference kernel vs user as far as the end user is concerned? I'm pretty sure that we've seen how damaging CTOs opening Office docs can be.

And web browsers seemed to take off before Windows NT was the more popular desktop kernel.
*sheet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViewSheet
I have no idea how this will turn out, but i have some intuition. Suppose you shorted bitcoins in 2010, selling 10,000 bitcoins you didn't for $0.10 apiece. You'd earn yourself a profit of $1,000 - and if you didn't pay them back, you'd be $3,000,000 in debt today. I really think this kind of network could change the world. If you defect against people trying to make the world better, by trolling us - you are standing in the way of human progress. We are building a record book that essentially blocks trolls from the public discourse - is trolling that group of people really a good idea?

man what
Yes, it is a partial explanation.
How can you tell it is not published? It seemed to me that it had been published in the American psychologist according to [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16366817
I do not think many individuals have a (personal) benefit by adhering to these rules.

Also, people like to keep implicit grey areas in their opinions. To have space for 'I did not mean it that way'. There is a small politician in every one of us ;-)
> Man can be far from being best fit for raising children and still forward his genes to next generation.

This would seem to predict that men show less variance than women in whether or not they forward their genes. They actually show more.

Why would too high intelligence make someone a worse parent?
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Great article from @guerric - a nice take on creativity and innovation for teams!
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> stealing your best friends girlfriend.

She's not property that belongs to someone.

She's presumably an adult who can make her own choices.
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I've been bullied on the playground (not just by Xcode). Most of the physical bullying I've forgot. That sad there were some rally vicious assholes (later on probably ended up on a war crimes bench) that did psychological damage. What kids do to kids in these days is beyond belief. Younger sister having someone savvy in like most of the people here to give her advice not to take it seriously is not as common as we tend to bias here. Psychological bullying in gangs is worse than being beaten on the playground. Let's not get paranoid. This is New Zealand we speak about :) Do your homework.
I learned almost all my low-level computer knowledge from Archimedes & RISC PC through the 90s. Very glad that ARM code is still a useful skill, even if knowledge of absolute memory address of OS_ SWI patch tables went in the dustbin :)

But it was only after Acorn imploded in 1998, and a a couple of years of working with Linux that I thought "hmmm, you mean I can write shared libraries for my C code that aren't kernel modules?" and "what, you mean the computer can just switch away from my task even though I've not called Wimp_Poll? What if I'm not done?" and "What, you mean the OS will just kill my task if I address some memory I'm not supposed to? How does it not know I didn't intend to patch the OS from my desktop application?" etc. etc.

Also the Archimedes (at least) was pretty much the most expensive computer on the planet at the time - something like £3000 in 1988 money - it's amazing they sold so many to people just on the strength of Zarch :) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALfnZjCiuUQ )
Due to the way instruction fetch and dispatch worked on the first few generations of the Alpha, you had to put in lots of NOPs to get decent performance.
How is revenge porn worse than any of other morally questionable acts (to say the least) that we decided not to police in the sexual arena? Right now, if I defraud someone into having sex with me (e.g. by saying I'm some famous actor or that I'm not having sex with anyone else), the state will not intervene unless maybe there's some STD involved.

If someone agrees to be filmed/photographed and leaves the material with the other person, I don't see why the state should intervene. This is especially so if the person doesn't attach any conditions at the time (though as I showed, we're even prepared not to enforce such conditions in other circumstances).
My bad. It looks like the link was to a pre-publication draft, but it has indeed since been published.
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But then "d" will be true, contradicting "b".
One of the advantages of underscore (and lodash) is that you can iterate over arrays AND objects indistinctly in most cases. How would you do:

var a1b2 = _.reduceRight({a:1,b:2},(memo,val,key) => key+val+memo,'');

or:

var two = _.find({a:2,b:3,c:4},(val,key) => key !== 'a' && key !== 'c' )

Until I see _.chain, _.compose, _.partialRight, _.zip or _.throttle (among others) implemented in the standard library lodash is a no-opt.

With iterables and the "for of" loop javascript is definitely not going in the direction of functional programming though.
The automated elevator industry wasn't pushing a whole worldview along with their technology, and Henry Ford offered the concrete prospect of well paying jobs building cars. Henry Ford is a particularly bad example because he very consciously addressed the issue of providing jobs.
Well, it doesn't "explain why" - it correlates, which is a radical difference.

https://xkcd.com/552/

;-)
The next article in this series on "Which sex is playing higher stakes reproductive game?" is also worth reading: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-how-and-why-sex-diff...

It reminds me of an interesting hypothesis I've read about the other day that the concept marriage plays a significant role in the success of our culture as it counteracts this difference. It allows more men to reach a social status at which they are motivated to be productive members of society. So we are possibly actively destroying a pillar of our culture as we are devaluing marriage.

By the way, Veritasium has a great episode on why women are stripey: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw
This would result in bugs between different UIs on different platforms, resulting in duplicated effort and codebase, and many frustrated developers who want to work on feature Y on platform X, and cannot port it to platform Z because of missing support or different implementations.

I don't really care if an application is native or not, Firefox works great for me on Os X and I really appreciate I can run the same browser on all platforms I have to use or developer for.
Octopress is built on top of jekyll and what is a real nuisance is how long it takes to re-generate a site with more than a few posts.
Brainstorming hides two major problems:

1. No-one is clear on the structure of the session and it becomes a waste of time, rather than a way to stimulate ideas
2. Brainstorming does not prepare to the next steps: prototyping, testing, and implementing
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Nice. But as with most of these libraries, I don't think it can handle large numbers of nodes/edges and show such graphs in a meaningful way. It really takes more than a force-directed algorithm to present data in an understandable way.

Here is a nice collection of large graphs: [1]
Visualize that in a useful way, and I'm impressed.

[1] https://snap.stanford.edu/data/
I think we'll come to a point where we have strong AI, but we don't need strong AI to do pretty much every job humans currently do. It won't be one type of robot replacing all of us, it'll be specialized equipment doing it all.
Yes, sheet was pretty good. (As was word!), but Excel really had the edge there, even when it first came out.

It's the one product by MS that stood out as being best-in-class straight from day one.
Hey, I just signed up and I'm a bit unclear on how the "reproducible" part works. If I download my files they don't contain e.g. a requirements.txt?
I found it fairly easy to port stuff to the Atari ST. My local university used them in labs too.
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The travesty is a society where people aren't equals because a whole class of them provides domestic labor for another class. The travesty is a society that is so unequal, that the former class had internalized its inferiority to the latter class. The travesty is the lack of equal dignity.

"Productive individuals" is a crock excuse. We lived in that house with those servants because we won the genetic lottery. Society exists to maximize the prosperity of the greatest number of the population, not reward a few at the top for their good choice of parents.

And maybe trade and technological is the best way to maximize the prosperity of the median individual. I don't have the answers to that. In just talking about what I don't want America to look like 30 years from now.
> There is only one kind of "hardware" in the universe: the supported hypervisor. No need for drivers for anything else.

An explicit goal of rumprun is to support real hardware. Defining the cloud as the only supported platform makes sense if you have to write or port hardware device drivers. For rumprun those drivers come for free as rump kernel components, so if you want to link them in (optional) and run on real hardware, it's possible. Having that possibility makes sense too: your cloud platform and IoT (+) platform can be the same thing, it's just the orchestration layer that differs.

+) given a large enough "T"
He describes work as an annoying thing to do in order to live. If work becomes fun or ludic, then it's not work. I agree with this. If on Monday morning, you're pleased to join your colleagues and on Friday, you'd rather have a beer with them instead of going back home; then, it doesn't feel like work anymore.
If you have fun (If you play) while working, this is not considered as work (Work having a pejorative connotation). The goal is not to abolish work but make work enjoyable.
I looked for that once but couldn't find anything. However, it's quite easy to write and manipulate expressions in Haskell. The type system and recursion are a good fit for that kind of task (also, there's an expression parser).

If you only need it for some simple things, I'd recommend writing it yourself. It shouldn't take too long.
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What's stopping him from being locked up is that he is not attacking a specific individual, as the act clearly specifies he would need to for it to be a crime. He isn't pulling aside a member of his audience, then using email or social media in an attempt to get that person to kill themselves. That's what the law is there to prevent.
This is a very good point, that we haven't worked out a good solution to yet (it's a notoriously hard problem). A requirements.txt file would certainly help, but then that's the sort of thing you'd probably need to maintain yourself? Fully reproducible environments that can be run offline is a stretch goal of ours for the future though.

The 'reproducible' part that we mentioned was meant to refer to the fact that it's easily reproducible on DataJoy. I.e. if you share you work with a collaborator, you're not going to have any headaches around getting the scripts working on their system, installing the right packages again, etc.
Well, with morally questionable acts in general there is a question of whether the law getting involved will make things better. For some stuff like say cheating on your girlfriend the answer is probably no, for murder probably yes. As to revenge porn I'd lead towards yes in many cases. It the case of 'isanyoneup' for example

>Hunter Moore, 26, used to run a website called IsAnyoneUp.com, which he told "Nightline" he had launched as a place for "public humiliation."

I have no problem with people like that getting prosecuted which he was in the end.
This is the "if you didn't want to get abuse from white people you should have sat at the back of the bus" / "you should have known that being a prominent woman on twitter would get you daily rape threats" argument. As others are saying, it's not costless, in fact its quite damaging to the psyche.

Because you can't know, until communication starts, whether it's going to be vicious. And you can't walk around with your fingers in your ears all the time.

Some internet services get this, but it's awfully easy for people to generate new accounts to route abuse through.

We could do well to develop anti-abuse technology in the same mode as anti-spam.
I was lucky enough to have an Archimedes when I was 14, and despite the Arthur OS, it was the best thing in the world for writing games: fastest desktop computer in the world, easy to use 256 colour sprite system and interpreted basic as a programming language. When the basic compiler came out a few years later it all got even faster. The desktop ui seemed pretty amazing to me compared to what else was around that I had seen. But it was an expensive machine, granted.
Why not post all the Wikipedia links too bloody mass-murderous wars pre-deterance?
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I read this book a few years back, it's quite good even if you never do actual Forth programming, at least to skim.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9189937

The final design uses 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0, which makes sense but I kind of liked the old prototype that was AVR based.
One bias is so-called "stereotype threat".

> negative stereotypes raise inhibiting doubts and high-pressure anxieties in a test-taker's mind... even passing reminders that someone belongs to one group or another, such as a group stereotyped as inferior in academics, can wreak havoc with test performance.

http://www.apa.org/research/action/stereotype.aspx

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/12/156664337/stereotype-threat-wh...

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2008/1/29/Stereotype_Threat_A...
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> Could you elaborate on the difference kernel vs user as far as the end user is concerned?

* No possibility of a secure experience via strict privilege separation (e.g. strict usage of multiple account, inconvenient but protects against alteration of personal data)

* A ring0 program has unfettered access to the hardware, so the machine itself may be compromised, a breach is not "format & reinstall" let alone "run a bunch of antiviruses" it's possibly "throw the whole machine into the bin and buy a new one".

> And web browsers seemed to take off before Windows NT was the more popular desktop kernel.

Windows 98 didn't run in ring0. It was crap, but not that crap.
Helicopter parents = bad parents, usually = high intelligence parents. Same thing can be true in reverse.

The GP is arguing that men have the luxury to propagate their genes even if they do not make good parents, while women have to be a good parent in order to make their offspring survive to adulthood.
It's interesting to realize that if two groups have the same mean but different variability, the higher-variability group will have more outliers, on both the high end and the low end.

The danger is a kind of genetic fatalism, assuming that what we should do is just to be determined by our genes and how our bodies work. For example, it's possible for a man to produce many children by impregnating lots of women concurrently. I get the feeling that some men decide that the way that a person wins life is that they reproduce as much of their genetic material as possible, so they try to win. It seems like this kind of justification is used to excuse a wide variety of bad behavior: cheating, rape, women as chattel, etc.

It's debatable whether the argument made by the article is actually a real thing, and how much it contributes to the inequality we see in the world. I think social effects have a bigger influence.

But even if we took the argument as fact, it doesn't mean that we have to accept every naive consequence. We don't need to say "Of course the vast majority of CEOs, world leaders, and very wealthy people are male, because the most intelligent people are almost all male". We can choose to have a better society than that.
This is true; it's like the Domesday Project laserdisc/BBC micro system. Or Minitel. Ahead of its time at launch, but a technological dead end that ends up as a sunk investment.
Agreed but that is my point. National has diverged completely from its roots as a classical liberal party.
I don't think that this is targeted at HPC. I suppose it's more for people who already know C# and need a bit of symbolic computation.
Dashcams are illegal in Germany due to data privacy laws. Pretty much the excact scenario a Google car would face.
.. by being a careful GUI clone of the existing successful product, Lotus 1-2-3. Right down to being largely formula-compatible and having the same hotkeys. That's why F2 is "edit current cell".
That's true, however you would still need to possess the private key to be able to validate.
The answer is E.
> And you can't walk around with your fingers in your ears all the time.

I can only assume you have not talked with antivaxxers, climate change deniers or people taking their religion too seriously.

Whether insult hurts or not is your choice. If you have such weak control over your inner world - learn to not give a fuck. not that hard.
Are there or are there no differences is one discussion, sure. A much more interesting one to me is - if yes/no, then what? What does that imply? This articles notes that the answer is yes (but apparently, it's still debatable), but it then goes on into why, which is interesting.

I welcome differences. Recognizing and accepting them is the first meaningful step towards any worthwhile societal value adoption.
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You could still export/dump the WordPress pages as static html and still keep the editor. (and WordPress not accessible from the outside).
All of this information can be derived from a dashcam, and they're ubiquitous today.

They are? Where? According to the SF Chronicle, "hardly anyone in the U.S. uses dash cams except police and commercial truck and taxi drivers."

Here in Europe, many countries don't even allow them (we have a different concept of "expectation of privacy" around here).
Yeah, yeah, everyone loves to hate on Firefox.

Still, if you're gonna do some shaming, pick something serious, there are some serious things to pick form iirc.