skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to do that too. The most limiting factor for "mainstream computing" is crapware / ads / shifting UX. That's always the reason why average joe neighbors ends up buying a new machine. Random popups slowing down and frustration over 4-5 years adds up to enough for someone to believe that shelling 500$ out again on new shiny will finally bring them the land of click abundance they dream of.

Very few hard requirements are valuable today for most users: battery lifetime, hd video for skype/facetime. And maybe SSD, which are now large and cheap enough for people to switch, and get back the bliss of instantaneous reaction again. Other than that no important task will require more than a core 2 duo. They won't saturate Excel (which was not long ago still single core only). In the case they really do, that spreadsheet is probably worth enough to buy a full fledge MBP.
Interesting, I don't see anything of John Lasseter in
there, not even this gem:
http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~decarlo/671/readings/lasseter87.p...
Related- my post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9999817 (Ask HN: How many non-techies are employed in software for every engineer?)
Neat -- but you still need to have an existing domain + ssh access to that domain right?
Essentially immortal? The article seemed to indicate the expected lifespan of this tree was around 200 years, despite it having lived nearly twice that long.
Correction: There is a small chance that the celebrity/politician's publicity agent will tweet back at you. There is an even smaller chance the celebrity will tweet back at you.

I think that this is part of the reason why it's really the "illusion of engagement" and not real engagement. The elite will perpetually be separated from the masses... the specific medium may change, but the separation will persist.
Your comment shows an ignorance of how prices work. Companies cannot arbitrarily set whatever price they want.
They did, and it worked! The RCA connectors on the IBM EGA card aren't connected to anything - they only work if an add-on daughterboard is installed (I don't know if that daughterboard was ever actually made).
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How FreshBooks scales Capybara testing
The podcast 99% Invisible covered these tubes as well, and included a bit of their history. Interesting listen if you want to learn a bit more.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-61-a-series-of...
Lots of examples in the recurring threads about passive income and side projects:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9423592

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402
Yes, CGA has an RCA connector on the back for NTSC composite. This is what we used for the demo.
There is also a header on the card itself, to which an RF modulator can be connected, for a regular TV antenna input (this was an option, probably because of regulations. An RF modulator generates a lot of interference, so fitting one stock would require expensive shielding. Fitting it 'aftermarket' circumvents that).
The IBM 5155 portable PC abuses this header to connect the composite signal to an internal monochrome CGA monitor.
Respectfully, it's a terrible point.

In practice, it doesn't work this way, and universities are much, much more than a monetary resource:

- unrestricted access to cross-disciplinary expertise

- access to a huge recruitment pool

- access to SBIR/STTR grants (with far fewer strings attached as compared to VC funding)

- scientific/technical credibility and legitimacy

- access to bleeding-edge equipment that cannot be purchased

While it's true that scientists often know little about entrepreneurship, this is a prime example of VCs knowing little about science. Reasoning in terms of cheaper lab space is penny wise and pound foolish.
I would argue no - what would be the difference between him spinning up VMs and handing off the credentials and hosting a public web service on it? The VMs are still his responsibility - he is just allowing other people to use them.
Looks like a nice alternative to using public hashtags on instagram.

A couple questions off the top of my head: 1) can you join an event you haven't been specifically invited to? 2) my wedding was at a ranch away from cell service, do you need to be connected in order to use Ceremony?
We do that. They're called, "Reservoirs": Consider the Colorado River, where rain and snow runoff from mountains is diverted from that river and used for such things as agriculture. It's used so heavily, that the river does not run to the ocean any more and the resevoirs we've been using the river to fill up are at historical lows. So that's tapped out.

If you're thinking of using the runoff from local rains, consider that California is in a drought. Rainwater isn't going to be all that dependable. There are things called, "Aquifers" - the water table below ground. Rainwater is used to fill this up, and - well: those are also at historical lows because of wells.

Much of the rain that falls is actually evaporated up again, it doesn't run into the ocean.

So, we're still left with a problem of populations that don't have an adequate and cheap water supply. Uh oh.
CI and deployment pipeline?!? What are you a spoiled millenials thinking... we build local, and copy the whole folder over RDP copy/paste onto the production server.

You may laugh, but I've seen that far more often than an actual CI/CD process in place...
I was aware of uCLinux but had never heard of retroBSD :)

I've some embedded projects ideas that in the future I might want to try out. A midi sequencer or a groovebox.

I'm looking at this $4 arm board - http://www.cypress.com/documentation/development-kitsboards/...
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It could be that the best workers have a crazy productivity that accounts for the major part of the GDP while the rest has a low productivity.
"In the end, the Internet would only be as free as the world’s least free place."

Well, duh! Governments WANT this.
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So you're saying its impossible to have decentralized software that non-tech-savvy people can use?

Decentralized services aren't somehow fundamentally incompatible with usability—its just a challenge we haven't tackled yet.

I don't say it is impossible. Just a lot harder due, for example, to the CAP theorem and friends. But that isn't that important because...

Making software centralized makes it easier for non-tech-savvy people to use, as there are incentives to people to make their websites more accessible (larger profits).

Yes! It isn't a matter of usability but of incentives. By having more tech savvy people you change the incentives, there is less to win by centralization (because they can do it alone) and more to lose (for instance they can't fiddle with it any longer). Also it is less attractive to make a centralization because a larger percent of the users will work around the attempts to control them.
Nothing has ever come close to the level of, for the lack of a better word, intellectual intimacy I felt with my small circle of Google Reader friends. I still miss their daily share of thought-provoking articles to this day.
>but outside of Silicon Valley you won't find that many software houses that develop on Mac's or Linux machines that often either.

That's patently untrue - Linux is extremely, extremely popular all over India. All major laptop manufacturers (Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Acer) sell laptops with pre-installed Linux.

Unfortunately, Macs are getting pretty popular here - even though they are double in cost.
I just tried this example, since anaconda-mode + company (which uses jedi) has been really good for me, it doesn't show variable1 for me.

http://imgur.com/4l6Otvt

I used to use the auto-complete package instead, which in some configs (with ac-source-words-in-buffer or ac-source-words-in-same-mode-buffers in the source list) basically tokenize the buffer and provide autocomplete on all words.
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