skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We developed a prototype of a new kind of microprocessor, the OpenTransputer
Hi everyone,

We are two final year students at the University of Bristol, UK and we developed a new microprocessor, the OpenTransputer (http://opentransputer.org) for our final year dissertation. The OpenTransputer is based on the Transputer developed at Inmos in the 1980s. Their lead designer, Professor David May, was the supervisor of our project.

At the moment we are at a stage where want to gauge interest in this project, which is why we've started attending conferences, and why we are trying to get the word out by posting here.

We're happy to take any questions and we'll be checking back here quite regularly!

We're also on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/OpenTransputer) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/opentransputer), just in case our website crashes from all the traffic you guys generate ;D.
You're 100% correct. Except neither Google nor Yahoo have yet to figure out how to get people to give them the amount of personal information that Facebook has and does.

I don't trust Google or Yahoo any more than I trust Facebook but at least the former two companies don't know about me what Facebook probably does. I say probably because I actually deleted my account several years ago and block their trackers. But I'm under no delusion that they don't know who I am or don't still retain a significant amount of my personal information even though I deleted my account.
Immersive sci-fi teambuilding experience - like Disneyland's star tours but for hours.
Want to get the NSA out of your inbox?
A high performance database-as-a-service platform that provides NoSQL and SQL access.
http://www.amisalabs.com/
Coincidentally, I have been roped into an office fantasy sports pool that starts next week, which I have no time to manage. I would love to be your beta tester!

Can it manage the draft and trades as well?
>Homosexuality is illegal in certain countries (like Saudi Arabia) and this hack might expose people to harm in these countries.

To me this is the same logic as saying that Manning/Snowden brought people to harm. Now if you already agree with that, no problem, but I wonder about people who follow this line of reasoning for this release but not for the Manning/Snowden releases.
I don't get this one. Could you elaborate?
Optimize for a balance of work-life balance and bank account balance. You need both.
Incorporating Your Startup: Corporation vs. S-Corporation vs. LLC
Working on some new features for a trivia game I released a couple of weeks ago: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.versuslabs...
World of Mathematics
I don't trust Facebook. At one point I even deleted my account. But, FB has allowed me to get back in contact with friends I made in college and at my first job (in Panama). The reward to me has been tremendous. It has meant so much to me. Prices are not just a function of costs, but also what consumers are willing to pay.

Also I think this article over-values personal information in a world where your local supermarket, Amazon, ad networks, the government, etc. already know so much about us. In that context, you aren't giving up that much additional privacy by also sharing with Facebook -- the price you are paying may not be that great.
Linkedin experiencing outages?
Really love the idea of this website.

There hasn't been an update to the content here in a little over a year. The owners of the website accept contributions and I'm pretty sure most articles were voluntarily created and edited afterward. info@mathigon.org seems to be accepting contributions to the content that has yet to be added.
Really bad code is written all the time. It's hard to say if it's intentional or not.
Yep, sorry about the state of the docs... hopefully it will improve over time. As the `status` section highlights, a lot of the stuff here is very green, but we wanted to open-source early and polish it along the way instead of waiting until everything is "done" ("done" doesn't make sense for an OSS project anywayzzz :-)

There will be a tutorial on the transducers stuff coming up at some point. That is the part that is under more active development indeed. We will also talk about that at CppCon next September.
Show HN: A daily collection of business journal articles
Core Infrastructure Initiative seeks help to improve open-source security
Really curious to hear more explanation of this comment from Patrick: "Printing is pretty incompatible with parallelism though." Is he saying that Servo as a parallel engine won't be able to handle printing?
hey i have been working on something similar with bit more ideas around it.. working on it alone sucks..i would love to have a chat with you .. pm meif you would be interested ..?
Go's Declaration Syntax
Some people who aren't critical to the company just have to go and try to prove the company wrong.

This is so childish and stupid it aggravates me. It only proves that the engineer was probably not a valuable asset and he really proved the company point with these actions. Hopefully he was on a performance plan or something similar.

At companies where there have been poor code control practices I have maintained git repositories locally of various files in the system to avoid exactly this thing, and to find issues/when things have changed (this too often is because operations teams don't like to maintain their files properly, so I go out to web servers and pull down configuration files on a daily basis and check them in somewhere. Now I'm telling them when their files changed).

Regardless, I have to assume this is before git/svn/mercurial. At least I hope it is.
Working on Recurvoice, a recurring invoicing system for freelancers: https://www.recurvoice.com
That isn't the issue at all. The issue is choosing which links to invest the time to follow, and which ones to ignore. Or do you read every link you find on HN? If so, I imagine you're one of a very select crowd who actually have the time to do that.
Not everything worthless to you is worthless to everyone. TV might be a worthless distraction to you, but not everyone.

I don't understand how the sell your information argument comes in either. They run their own custom ad network. They aren't even leasing that infrastructure to anyone.

I challenge you, to please go pay Facebook and buy information about where I was on Sunday in the evening. If they sell you that, I'll pay you five times the amount. If you can't buy it, they aren't selling it.
Apple's history in South Africa: 1979 to 2015
Coinbase Brian Armstrong: Financial Pain Points That Will Drive Bitcoin Adoption
Yahoo's draft tools and auto-drafting is really great so I haven't messed with that. I'm working on trade stuff but it's not ready for beta testing yet.
JackDB already does this?
Well this was certainly better than extracting the AngularMaterial CSS, although I preferred the semantics used for the flexbox grid in the latter.
The distinction isn't irrelevant. Zombicide is a game whereas reaper bones is not a game at all there is no collection of a system of rules to apply using them. It is just miniatures that can be used in other games.
Adblock on iOS?
They only get 400k on EC2...
>What is worrying about this is that some people are in real physical danger because of this leak.

Everytime Tor is compromised, not matter how bad the people being hunted down, do we not risk the same thing happening to innocent people caught up (say government dissidents in certain countries)? Every time someone finds a way to break encryption and uses it to hunt down someone instead of immediately patching it, don't we run the risk of people who, by our own morals, are innocent being hurt if not killed?
There is no point worrying about your e-mail "at rest" when everyone has already seen it in transit.
This will not change until regulators step in and force companies to disclose what they store, how they use it and most importantly, what behaviors they are actively attempting to coerce their users into.

Much like the agriculture industry, tech companies that deal in user data use the shield of trade secrets, NDAs, lobbying etc to hide their actions from the public as they all know that if they general public knew what they were truly doing, they would have a much more difficult choice when deciding upon using that service.

It's not that users don't care or think they are getting a good value for their information, it's that users have so little information about how it is being used.
http://focusr.co
Base64 encode the string for added fun.
Just dont use it. I never have, and guess what? I still keep in touch with friends in family, because, those are the people who categorically won't disappear from your existence.
This is my attempt to process my huge collection of journal articles by focusing on a few articles a day. The goal is to find the research that's actually meaningful for real businesses.
I'm game for beta testing it.
I'm building a social network for scuba divers, mixed with some stackoverflow concepts (upvoting posted dive spots).
Neat. Really like the approach.

Is anyone else noticing the distracting optical illusion in the logo when reading the first paragraph on the landing page? If I am not the only one, someone should find a way to fix it.
Socialite - For keeping track of contacts: https://socialite.ooo/

The idea is that for each contact you can connect them to events and connect those events to locations. This way you can pivot off any piece of information about an acquaintance (where you met, when you met, etc.) to recall the details you know about them.
Comparing Browsers based on their feature set is a pretty bad idea imo. For example it probably has a reason why Safari doesn't support WebRTC, and it's not that they are too lazy to implement it. Is Safari a bad choice for Mac users only because there are some features missing? Hell No. For casual Mac users it probably is better to not include those features, and it's even better to not have features which are buggy (as in other browsers).
Generally this type of software relies upon inertia and vendor lock in rather than actual technical advantage.
Working on a JavaScript Metroidvania using Phaser.
A few months ago I launched an email newsletter that features one fantastic piece of journalism each day: http://readthisthing.com/

I just launched it for fun, and have had fun working on it. The list has grown to more than 5000 subscribers, which is pretty cool.

Not totally sure what I plan to do with it, but I really enjoy working on it and have found lots of people who like it, so that's good enough for now. :)
Perhaps we now finally know the story behind this: https://code.google.com/p/android-source-browsing/source/dif...

"probably can live undetected quite long" indeed...
Meal Planning Recommendations - suggests what you should eat this week.

The second stage will be to pre-order the food from a Supermarket API, so all the food will already be in your house.

If I can figure out how to make an app that actually cooks my food, I'm done :)
> I am working on React.js components for this.

Can you just use polymer though?
Is multithreaded rendering really the next big browser breakthrough? If so, are Google and Apple also working on similar projects?
Hypervault (https://hypervault.github.io/) - a complete file encrytion web app contained in a single HTML file (so it runs totally client-side). It outputs a "locked vault" - the encrypted file data embedded in a copy of itself.
I'm working on a receipt-saving service for small businesses/freelancers: https://receiptron.com/

The goal is to make it the easiest way to save receipts. No app to install, no complicated expense report forms to fill out, just take a picture of the receipt with your phone camera, email it to our specially-trained robots, and it gets saved and sorted for you for later.
What seems to be the trouble getting some of these to market?

Science.
I worked on javelinbrowser.com, but it's now lay to waste due to the focus I have to put into my startup.

Anyone wanna take it over? Send me a mail.
People (and even more companies) used to pay for services which now are replaced by Google searches.
Like the hidden Goatse hyperlinks on Slashdot?
I think there's a small but important difference. The hack would be closer to someone revealing the list of customers of whoever gave her the narcotics. They did not reveal the identity of those trying to fix their issues, like AA/NA would be.

Or, to put it the other way around, they revealed the database of the cheating site, not the patient list of the marriage counselor.
Most likely due to the way printing APIs work across OSes.
Understanding Malvertising Through Ad-Injecting Browser Extensions [pdf]
Awesome! If you have any trouble with the signup on the site feel free to contact me through the link in the footer.
I love Mlist! Keep up the great work.
Coding style guides across languages
Is there anything that can do html5 animation that is free as an alternative to Adobe Edge?
http://hasgluten.com (database of gluten-free ingredients in 5 languages) and its successor, not released yet.
Are you guys familiar with lowRISC.org and is your work maybe partly overlapping with their work? I read that your MISC design falls somewhere in the middle between RISC and CISC.
Decrease your urgency and increase your effiency: work smarter not harder
> technology companies wage war on one another for top prospects by doling out six-figure salaries

First, how far does a "six figure" salary
go when living within commuting distance
of a job in Silicon Valley? Can such
a job buy a house, two late model cars,
and support a wife and family, at
at least a moderately high standard
of living, while saving for
emergencies, education for the kids,
and retirement? Right, I thought not.

Second, early in my career in a hot
job market, my annual salary was a little
over six times what a new, high end
Camaro cost. And where I was living
the cost of living was not especially high.
So, to do that now, say, a Camaro
for $50,000, would need
$300,000 a year plus another
100% for Silicon Valley, $600,000
year, plus more for higher
Federal taxes now, plus more
for higher California taxes,
entry level, non-management.
Are people getting that in Silicon
Valley? I thought not.

Third, Silicon Valley is still the HQ of
H1-B fraud, right? I thought so.

Fourth, in a successful startup,
other than founders and
a few of the early employees,
how many of the employees ever
see any significant financial
gain from their stock? Only a
tiny fraction? Thought so.

Fifth, what's this stuff about
"talent"? Can that be measured
by SAT scores, college grades
in computer science, good
projects in computing successfully
completed, a world class research
university Ph.D. in applied
math with published work in
nearly all of the topics
in data science? Will HR even look at
such things? I thought not.
Instead they want why manhole
covers are round? And they
want skills -- Linux,
Java, Python, etc., to hack
code, 100 hours a week,
on a laptop, at
a folding table,
in a big room,
with all the tables
packed with other
coders? I thought so.

Question: Why does the NYT
publish such absurd, misleading,
potentially harmful propaganda?
When and how you should turn down a project that's not for you
Interactive tutorials to teach people things like SQL (http://sqlbolt.com) and Regular Expressions (http://regexone.com)!
Google has far more personal information than Facebook.
Flying a drone in your browser with WebBluetooth
https://signupforms.com - event registration/management
#define ntoh hton
Lessons learned about how to make a header-file library
Cool URIs don't change
Thanks awwstn! :) you too!
So, I guess I'm a monster raving loon[1]. Oh, well, I like Forth too, but always found Postscript to be easier to read and program.

1) http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247#comment-3085
This is neat. Are you using OCR to extract data from receipts?
Working on a website to connect enthusiastic fans of TV shows, books and music to each other for fun, exciting conversations. Without all the creeps
brushing teeth and toilet are a real challenge. What tips can you offer?
Employee unions have traditionally resolved such employer abuses like lowering the hourly wage by unpaid overtime. Thanks to this many western countries have contracts or even laws which forbid unpaid or mandatory overtime.
The author lost me when he wrote "On mobile I’ll take iOS Safari over any Android-based browser..."

Safari on mobile is crap because it doesn't render like the other browsers do. Just like with IE we are constantly having to do special conditions for those unfortunate souls on iOS Safari. Hence, Safari is the new IE.
this is actually really easy - you can target adverts to anyone you have an email address for on Facebook - just upload a list of email addresses and you can "retarget" them
I'm assuming what they would do is render the website using multi threading and then generate a PDF or something and print that.

But basically printing APIs are not multithreaded across all OS's
You might be sleeping a long time. I doubt this will see the light of day anytime in the near future. It goes against the current "planned obsolescence" model.
But nobody says we need to increase the number of visas for CEOs and VCs. That's because the cultural expectation is that those people make lots of money. Engineers need to stop selling themselves short, or allowing MBAs to short them, as if they are mere "code monkeys."
1) CERN also did a grown-up negotiation to have the person work for them, and therefore carry out his function as the legal entity "CERN", not as himself. Any action he did in his function, is legally executed by CERN, not by the employee. That of course includes installing software he needs for his job, and certainly covers installing any software CERN directed him to install.

This works both ways : if he invents/builds/... something and CERN sells the fruits of his labor (or otherwise profits from it), he doesn't have a claim to single cent of that profit. If he does something as part of his job that damages CERN, the most he can lose is his job. If he unintentionally blows up CERN headquarters, CERN quite literally has to pay him his wages for doing so, medical expenses, ... the company would even have to replace his cell phone if it broke during the explosion and pay to have his pants cleaned afterwards. The unintentional part is only required because, if intentional, it would be a criminal act (and this intent needs to be proven beyond reasonable doubt, not merely indicated). Even if he failed to follow safety procedures while doing so, it was the company's responsibility to correct him, and the consequences for failing to do so are theirs.

2) stealing is a criminal act, and governed by an ENTIRELY different part of the law. The two cannot be compared. This case would be governed by employment law and commercial law, stealing is covered by criminal law.

But your example has another flaw: if you can even vaguely reasonably claim you took the item by accident, yes you should be able to pay the $5 and be even. No criminal court judge is going to convict anyone who non-violently took a $5 item, and offered to pay the damage in full the second he was confronted. This would not be reasonable.
What's amazing is the extent people go to downplay the harm and immority of infidelity. Hacking should be a crime but lying and willful harm using false pretense (cheating) is not...? Really shows how bankrupt our moral culture is.
Email handles all of this just fine. All we ever needed was a good "whitepages" for email addresses.
... And then how do we know the CPU's microcode executing these instructions is correct? The tests may reproduce the same error.
Most, if not all, installations of PHP won't have runkit installed. It's an extension.
This was true in the past but, I was under the impression that you could run the server version of OS X on non-mac hardware.
D3act – d3 with React
JackDB from what I see does not store your data. They provide a browser based tool to connect to your SQL databases. Amisalabs platform on the other hand is a DBaaS where you can store any kind of data and run any kind of queries.
Another option is to retire early in a country with a much lower cost of living. You don't need to cut your costs to the bone for 20 years if you go to a place with a cost of living that costs one-third (or more) of what it costs where you currently live.
It's likely possible to work around that limitation. For example, Servo could render to a binary image and then send that to the printer.
Yeah, but FB wins the hearts of ordinary people by providing convenience: all services are in one place and are simple to understand/use.
I wish modern computers had some reasonably efficient APIs for doing pixel-level screen buffer stuff in a straightforward way. Without using pixel shaders on polygons and other hacks.
We wanted to use MDL but had already committed to Stylus and weren't willing to use a prebuilt MDL, so I am maintaining a Stylus port here: https://github.com/xdissent/material-design-lite/tree/stylus
Unions seem like a good solution on the surface, but it seems like many unions quickly degrade into organizations focused more on self-preservation and expansion than looking after the interests and well-being of their members.

It seems like it also gets ugly, with unions not only striking for better pay and benefits, but also protesting and demeaning individuals and companies who aren't using union labor or putting in policies that work must be done by union workers that could easily be done by others at a much cheaper rate or with much less effort. ("Let's get a union electrician in here to run this extension cord")

I'd be more in favor of unions if it were done completely on a volunteer and donation basis, instead of with mandatory dues, paid leadership and policies that demonize those who choose not to join the union or people that choose not to use union labor.

An alternate solution would be to put laws in place that stops employers from preventing their employees from voicing concerns about policies and treatment publicly. (while still allowing employers to protect intellectual property rights) I'd argue that all these stories about the treatment of former Amazon employees will have more of an effect on Amazon, its hiring efforts and its policies than having a union threatening a strike would.
That's true. Facebook does give you something in return. In a way it's better than the new model we're seeing with these expensive home automation devices that upload everything to the cloud. In that case you pay for the privilege of installing a surveillance device.

I predict failure on a lot of that. The value provided is not sufficient to justify the cost alone, and then on top of that you add privacy concerns. That means I'm paying for a net negative.
So much win!
I'm making a bent wood bike basket with integrated elastic straps http://bentbasket.com
I have been thinking of doing this for a while. Thanks for sharing https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign. Is that all one needs (whatever if mentioned on the README)?
A suite[1] of open source tools for organizational knowledge sharing / collaboration / communication that includes:

1. Quoddy[2] - An Enterprise Social Network that uses Semantic Web technology to automatically detect entities in content, and enhance the content and show related content. And much, much more. It's an ESN that is really meant to integrate with other enterprise applications and business events, as opposed to being a simple "facebook clone" dropped inside an organization. We just added OpenMeetings integration so you get audio/video chat and whiteboarding as well.

2. Neddick[3] - Think "Reddit for the Enterprise", but with a lot of features that aren't in Reddit.

3. Some other stuff, but those two are where the bulk of the focus is right now. :-)

[1]: http://fogbeam.github.io/Fogcutter

[2]: http://fogbeam.github.io/Quoddy

[3]: http://fogbeam.github.io/Neddick