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I was about 12 years old. I had been engrossed with both the family Apple IIe computer and the fleet of Apple computers installed at my school, learning how to write BASIC programs. Wandering through the local shopping mall with my dad, we saw in the window of a software shop an Amiga 1200 running Lemmings.

I was awestruck. I started getting copies of Amiga-related magazines, and saw these amazing three-dimensional pictures of things like balls and rubber ducks. It was like gazing into the future.

Thankfully, my dad was likewise impressed, and within a few months we received delivery of a shiny new Amiga 3000. In anticipation of continuing my pursuit of programming, we got a compiler for an Amiga variant of BASIC, but I ended up focusing on two-dimensional graphics with Brillance, three-dimensional graphics with Imagine, and video editing with a variety of tools.

A friend at school picked up an Amiga 2000 and joined the multimedia production fun. It might be a good thing that we didn't have YouTube back then, as we likely would have published all sorts of embarrassingly poorly-done animations and videos. We persuaded our school to buy its own Amiga computer for us to edit the student newsletter on, but we both left the school the following year, and it was reported that the Amiga got shoved into a storage space, never to be used again.

I tried hard to persuade anyone who would listen to get an Amiga. The IBM-clones and Macs of the day just seemed so flat-out inferior, I couldn't imagine why anyone wouldn't want an Amiga if they just realized what it could do.

I suppose I would have been happy to still be using the Amiga to this day, except that, after the demise of Commodore, it became increasingly (but not surprisingly) clear that support for the Amiga platform was dwindling. Some users have heroically clung to the Amiga even to this day, but even by 1996 or so it was looking prudent to move elsewhere.

Like remembering a corned beef sandwich from a deli you visited twenty years ago, I might be remembering the Amiga greater than it actually was. But even after thirteen years of using modern Apple computers (and iPads and iPhones and what-not), I still feel there was something magical about the Amiga that has not been captured in anything else.

Or maybe the Amiga captured something magical in me.
I agree, wrong timezone (DST or not?) is as bad as no timezone. I have gotten in the habit of using Olson timezone names, US/Eastern for example, because I have seen CT used to refer to both US and European Central time.
I'll generally post a link to specific people or a whole channel on teampseak3.
I thought it was interesting that they pulled out the old physicist trope, "X-rays generate radiation that causes cancer. Cell phones don't generate that kind of radiation. So it's unlikely they cause cancer" (paraphrase of a quote from the article). That's wholly unconvincing. It's assuming there's only one mechanism leading to cancer: high frequency radiation. We actually don't know much about the relationship of low-frequency, low-power radiation and cancer. More importantly, there could be a mechanism that is unknown to physics and biology which could make cell phones cause cancer. For example, we do know, for a fact, that using a cell phone heats the tissue surrounding your ear, and that the body has known heat-damage-response pathways that when activated, lead to tumors. So that alone is a plausible mechanism that should be studied further, presuming the epidemiological studies show there is some correlation between using a cell phone and having cancer, that can't be more easily explained by other factors, such as lifestyle or other forms of exposure.

That said, the followup point about epidemiological studies is also pretty suspect. The phone technology has changed dramatically over the years, and much of the studies are based on self-reporting. No carefully controlled clinical trial has been carried out. However, the studies that have been carried out do suggest, if not prove, that the increased incidence of cancer, if it exists at all, is a very small effect, barely statistically significant even in a well-controlled, high-population study.

Making policy like Berkeley is doing just isn't supported by the science- there are far more risky things in Berkeley, like inhaling secondhand smoke on Telegraph or driving on Ashby.
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It was also only worthwhile as long as multiple resolutions had different tradeoffs in terms of supported palette etc.

On the Amiga you even had paint programs using this to display the image you were editing at one resolution/palette, and the UI / tools etc. in a strip displayed at a different resolution.
that's the thing with judges and jury. (despite what TV show with precedence and such)

nobody knows!

so the law is only slightly just for whoever has the money to keep appealing decisions until they find one they like (and the opponent is out of money to appeal further).
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Total link-bait. The author repeatedly mentions experience with various scripting languages' package systems, and uses BSD/csh to boot, then seems upset that compiling Go programs isn't exactly like he's used to. That's not even a critique of the language, let alone a strong argument that it won't succeed. It's just an explanation of why he personally doesn't find it convenient.

Yes, I'm being negative about a gratuitously negative article, so it's a net positive. ;)
and it's rarely prosecuted.
There's always been a market for low-quality tabloid journalism, and a market for high-quality journalism.

Gawker et al are competing for the first market, not the second.
I've been really unsuccessful at getting a Pi to not destroy SD cards. Good quality cards, good quality power supplies, no swapping - it still eats them up.

The best way to fix this is to put the actual OS on an external disk. You absolutely must bootstrap from an SD card, there's no way around that. But that can be entirely read-only and then you bounce to the external drive. Or maybe you could do something like a PXE boot instead - copy a system image down from a server and boot that. Personal opinion, this is the only way I would try using Pis on a long-term basis.

The Jetson TK-1 board from NVIDIA includes a real SATA connector. Because it's GPGPU-capable it's also vastly more powerful than even a Pi2. It also has USB 3.0 so running swap on a memory stick would be much more performant.
Thank you. These are great for SAX but unfortunately don't implement iSAX. I'm working on iSAX for Python and will release that once it is complete.
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> why do millennials seem to prefer cities?

Do they? Most of the people who live and work in mountain towns are millennials, and I see far more millennials hiking, camping, and generally doing things outdoors than the older generations. Granted, I'm sure far more millennials live in cities, but many also prefer a 'simpler' life.

On a separate note though, the allure of cities is that they're nicer to live in than the suburbs. And they're where most jobs are. I think it's necessity more than anything.
Not the OP, but we went with Icinga2. Aside from some crappy pre- and post-upgrade scripts, it works remarkably well, and is compatible with the Nagios monitoring plugin ecosystem.

Add in some Skyline (based off the Etsy project), graphite, and collectd, and it makes for a flexible and extensible monitoring solution.
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I'd put magnetosphere in that list
"just" , there are very well paid full-time people working in big name companies doing pretty much this. Auditing is a real big pain, and this is certainly not the first company trying to address this.
It would, but the Earth Similarity Index doesn't consider the atmosphere.
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When I was 20 I would have loved games like this that share experiences and deep truths.

Now that I'm a bit older I just want games that help me escape those experiences and deep truths.
It certainly added a whole lot more cost and complexity. 64 was pretty inexpensive and very open and well known software and circuit wise. If you just wanted to do single task work - the 64 was ready with a flip of the power switch.

Then again it depended on what hobby things you were going into; hi-res graphics, music, and especially video. that's where the Amiga had a definite advantages.

I would say disk storage Amiga was at a disadvantage (at least until the 600), hard to get basic HDD controllers, floppies sometimes were problematic (this is back in the day where every system had their own proprietary disk format)
I'm wondering that too about Farscape.

Also the lack of frell makes me question it :P
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Awesome, backwards testing feature
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Crap, I was wrong. "S" doesn't stand for "Savings," it stands for "Standard." We really are in EDT.

All the more reason to never specify it! :)
> Handshakes done.

Nothing's done until the papers are signed. This goes for all things in life, too, from investing to renting apartments. If you don't have a signed piece of paper, you have no deal.
No, the water in the above examples will not sustain life if you put 'acid' in it to neutralize tested ph. The real core of the issue is the disolved mineral content of the water and how healty or not that is. That ph correlation is neither fundamental nor fully reliable. Its a gross oversimplification.
Or maybe those tools lack some features and that's why people decide to improvise with spreadsheets?
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Not really. Most web developers are scare of using the cli.

Last time I checked the WP install process was something like...

1. download zip, extract

2. change your some config file

3. upload whole folder using FTP

4. go to /install or something, and from there..

5. click, click, click, edit text, click, click, click ...

That was only if the web developer was in hardcore mode, otherwise it was just _log into cpanel to use one-click installer_
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I see Genghis as a solution to the question so many non-technical entrepreneurs ask (while pissing a lot of people off): "I have an idea, what do I do next?"

I think the question from non-tech people that infuriates those that are technical is, "I have an idea, want to help me build it?"

I like your approach here, but I don't think you've sold yourself enough. What experience do you have validating ideas, marketing products, and getting traction?
This looks interesting. I have been looking for a solution to this problem without any clear conclusions so far. Nessus and Qualys have new agent-based scanners now, but I have not tested them because they both only support Red Hat-based Linux distros.

It sounds like for most software you are using the Ubuntu package management system to check for vulnerable versions. Is that correct? And are you planning to add detection for binaries that live outside of the distro package manager? I am thinking of stuff like custom-compiled Nginx binaries for example. I realize it would be non-trivial to implement this but would consider it highly useful at least for a certain set of common software components.
A healthy economy should have a range of services that people might want to use in that area.

We have the same argument locally about betting shops and cafés.

It is a known business strategy in these industries to open additional stores to dilute the success of competing stores. This creates an artificially high number of stores, wasting public space and limited resources: potentially reducing the economic health of a whole area.
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Silver doorknobs would have a nasty problem of vanishing all the time.
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exactly. Wall Street is enamored with distributed databases, i.e. "shared replicated ledgers". Not the specific bitcoin blockchain or cryptocurrency.

Blockchain as a term has become a bit like Kleenex. It's just a generic term to describe a distributed database
What advantage do I gain from this over periodically running various distro tools that compile CVEs and security advisories into a flat file database and search on top of that, e.g. pkg audit on FreeBSD and glsa-check on Gentoo?
This is the service mentioned on the Raspberry Pi Foundation's website:

http://raspberrycolocation.com/

For 36 Euro's (39.54 USD) per year, they will host your RPi with a 100Mbit pipe and 500GB of traffic.
Simple and to the point
This is absurd. Lyme disease is incredibly uncommon. I grew up going camping for at least several weeks every year, live in a city that has wild, forested areas less than 5 minutes away, go on multi-day hikes into the back-country several times a year, and know a variety of people who, for all purposes, live for the outdoors. No one I know has ever contracted Lyme disease.
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Such curation does not exclude alternative choices. The mind works by narrowing the field of possibilities down to a manageable bandwith. We make tools to help us do this. But the choice is always still our own. And we can choose anything we can imagine.
Are you seriously making fun of him because he didn't want to get scammed?
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I kinda like this idea myself @bbcbasic. I think it would work on the west coast or nyc especially.
Well... Taking Japanese in high school will do that to you.
Hiragana and katakana are the first things you go over and it took a good part of the first year.

Korean is simpler by far. Just a couple weekends of looking at the rules and what they do. My problem is that I can't actually form the sounds in my head fast enough in order to know what the words mean.
Apple knows that they can't compete in the market, so they try to compete in the courtroom instead. It's the same reason they tried suing Samsung for such frivolous stuff as "icons with rounded rectangles" and "over-scroll rubber banding".

That said, HN is pretty much an echo chamber of Apple fans, so you're unlikely to get many here to admit that they do anything wrong.
If you hike at altitude, say above 3.5 km, you'll encounter few animals and plants. The Andes in Peru, Bolivia and Chile are very suitable for this kind of hiking. The sun is even stronger than at sea level though!
How does this differ from the standard react developer plugin from Facebook?
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Game of Thrones has top words of "rome", "england", and "france"? The only reason I can think of is if it's also including audio commentary.
Ah, the white light at the end, the flow of knowledge, being close to the all-knowing and other statements as described by those who had near-death-experiences. This seems logical and is quite fascinating. Thanks for describing it in detail.
I can leak some more info:

its 1400 light years away
in habitable zone
and the sun is 8% different than ours (don't quote me on the 8% but its very close in size)
we have zero experience with space travel so far.

This is patently false. You should probably stick with commenting about things you are qualified to do so on.
This is over 5 years old. I wouldn't be surprised if they have substantially reduced their fact checker numbers.
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What else was in the film?
Still have my Commodore 64. It still works. And I still have probably a hundreds of games and progams I downloaded from the old BBS systems on a 300 baud modem that at the time I thought was the coolest thing in the world. I busted my butt one summer mowing lawns to afford to pay for my own telephone line so that I could spend endless hours on that thing. And then the movie WarGames came out and I beefed up my efforts to take over the world on my old C64 :)
Most developers in most IT departments don't even have access to monitoring tools and very little of developer/application importance is monitored beyond server up/down, cpu, and memory usage.

A lot of the most important monitoring I do for my own application is looking at page load times, slow DB queries, custom app metrics, error rates, and looking for specific log statements. Many of these things can't even be done in basic monitoring systems.

Bosun's alerting rules look awesome. But most people don't even know what to monitor, let alone figure out how to write javascript expressions to do so.
I don't think I'd be able to handle an experience like that. Especially if it feels real and not dream-like.
The reason polymer is slow on firefox and not on chrome is because firefox does not support html imports yet, so polymer uses a polyfill that relies on asynchronously loading the html which causes a delay in the initial load. Support for html imports is not implemented in safari either.[1]

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At my day job I am stuck on a Windows IIS stack.

Any plans for windows servers? I'd honestly prioritize this after application dependencies checking for Java/Node etc, but just thought I'd ask.
Fastest decomplexification I ever felt. Before that Korean was like Chinese, and now it's as easy as Korean.
The "engineer" being Howie Singer, the CTO of Warner Music.
> Most of what you term as poor IT policies is just what (in my personal experience) just users finding something that works for them.

No, what I am terming "poor IT policies and organizational practices" is people being restricted as to what tools they are permitted to use in a blanket way that doesn't consider task specific needs, and having imposed difficult, inefficient, bureaucratic processes to get either permission to use other tools or support from the people that are permitted to use other tools, and/or which result in poor quality of support when those authorized to other tools do end up supporting them (often, again, because of inefficient, bureaucratic processes.)

You can disagree with my perception that this one of the biggest problems with spreadsheets, but please don't try to redefine what I'm actually talking about.
It's 1075 light years away. If there's life there and they looked at us, they'd see vikings colonizing northern France and they'd see the Maya civilization collapse.
This similarity index only measures radius, density, escape velocity and surface temperature, so it doesn't mean nearly as much as one would think upon reading the headline
"Who comes? ...

Crow comes.

Slow Joe Crow comes.

Who sews crow's clothes?

Sue sews crow's clothes.

Slow Joe Crow sews whose clothes?

Sue's clothes.

Sue sews socks of fox in socks now.

Slow Joe Crow sews Knox in box now.

Sue sews rose on Slow Joe Crow's clothes.

Fox sews hose on Slow Joe Crow's nose.

Hose goes.

Rose grows.

Nose hose goes some.

Crow's rose grows some."

Love reading "Fox in Socks" to my kids.
First of all this is all still in very early beta work ! I'm not sure how it got to HN but here it is so all your feedback is great. I'll try to answer some of your questions the best I can:

1) The top words are those that characterize the show the best. This is not perfect science, and is an output of the LDA algorithm, but it gives already a good indication. Some words indeed shouldn't be there. Some possible explanation: subtitle mistake or a bug...

2) The words that appear more then once are again a glitch, and should be fixed. Again, work in progress...

3) The top topics are found using a topic modelling algorithm. It splits a corpus of documents into a number of topics, and every documents contains a certain proportion of each topic (20% Police, 80% Terrorism for example). The topics are bag-of-words, and so we manually give them names to what we think fits best.

4) Again beta...

I hope the 'about' is clear enough, if you have any questions feel free to ask !
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Well, reading the article, this guy had an illegal business finding illegal music on the internet for people to play for free they didn't have rights to. A label sued him. The end.

Apple doesn't have much to do with it. They had a legal music business and negotiated to pay the labels, as they should, since the labels own the music rights. They and the labels correctly figured out their competitors were illegal, and they sued.

Should you not be able to sue someone doing something illegal just because they are in the same business as you?
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9933226
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Yep, it's Gephi !
I had that exact idea a while ago and filed it into my "ideas that might be fun and might be successful" list. Time to cross it off. Good luck with this, it's a great idea!
It's a portal provided by the government (through a contract). It's may be competitive for taxis (that's an empirical question, I think), but it's not competitive in terms of algorithms, ratings systems, predictive taxi distribution, etc.
Or in the personnel:

Fifteen minutes later they found Legg, also dead—he had been impaled to the ceiling by one of the plugs used to seal the unused control rod channels

That's pretty metal, I've got to say.
... No, my comment is specifically targeted at the example of making simple boxes, lines, and text. There are trivial tools for making diagrams where the barrier of entry is lower, and the ease of use is higher. I provided reasons why those tools aren't being used more.
Such would be a strong indicator that something is continually generating gaseous oxygen. Otherwise, the O2 usually ends up oxidizing anything it can touch, and gets bound up in minerals, or as oxygen-containing gases.

Awesome for potential terraforming would be an atmosphere containing gaseous NO2, H2O, CO2, NH3, and SO2. That would be oxygen-rich, but not as molecular O2, which is almost as good as putting up an "OCCUPIED" sign on the planet.

Unless, of course, you're actually looking for alien life. In that case, any atmosphere with F2, Cl2, O3, O2, NO, CO, H2, or N2 is nearly a dead giveaway. Those don't persist for long in that form on a geological time scale, so if you detect them, something must be continually generating them.
You're right that the "low-end news" market probably can't afford to do any substantial quality control. But in the high end segment of the market, it's more important than ever. Edward Snowden's journalist/organisation selection was not arbitrary.

It's hyperbolic to say that the business case for fact checking is dying, as that suggests that the writing is on the wall and Der Spiegel & friends will soon be moving to a clickbait model.

I think a better assessment is that the market for fact checked articles can only support a certain number of players, and the barrier to entry is somewhat high. Meanwhile, the barrier to entry for clickbait news is low, hence the advert saturation and race to the bottom outcome.
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ELI5: until we flew next to Pluto this month all we had is blurry 16-pixel images. How can we get such precise data on something millions of times further?
PXE boot is something I thought about, but I don't know if it is possible on RPI. Do you have any link where I can just go read up about that?
>And are you planning to add detection for binaries that live outside of the distro package manager?

It's on the roadmap! Others have mentioned that before. First we need to get really good at knowing about CVEs :).
Thanks for posting the pictures. Absolutely magnificent!
Only on HN would a discussion about the discovery of an earth-like planet devolve into a discussion on the proper use of time zones...
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