skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly had a hard time following this - who is this person and why are they "screening" Point Break? Is this for a paid cinema and they need to secure these rights, or is it a private thing and the person is being anal retentive about the legalities? Perhaps theres some context I'm missing here?
Nope, not at all, its quite legit actually
Maybe Blizzard is paying patent trolls or otherwise buying patent protection for something stupid like XML parsing that should never have been awarded a patent; a lot of companies do, since it's cheaper than fighting. But there are tons of library options to do XML parsing and image handling that don't involve (L)GPLv3. Can't imagine why they WOULD use it.

If they are using LGPLv3 libraries, then presumably their lawyers are OK with it, or they failed to run it past legal. Regardless, it's completely irrelevant to my point what Blizzard uses or doesn't use.

If you want to see a lossless compression format on the Web, you need the format to be picked up by, at a minimum, Google and Microsoft, the owners of the two top browsers in the world today.

Firefox would also be important, but would certainly follow if Google and Microsoft stepped up to support it. So really it only matters what Google and Microsoft think. If it's a license that they can freely use, then there's a chance it becomes a new Web standard. If it's only available LGPLv3, then Microsoft and Google would need to buy LGPLv3 exceptions in order to use it. A much bigger barrier to entry, and at least Google might object based on the concept that Web standards should be open. Mozilla would certainly resist if they weren't open -- though they eventually caved on H.264.

If you want to see adoption where it counts, you need cooperation from the companies behind the browsers with the market share.

No one is expecting Starcraft 2 to be the next big Web plug-in, so it's irrelevant to the product that they have LGPLv3 code in it (if they do). And if they do, Blizzard better hope that their lawyers are right in their interpretation of GPLv3, and that no one sues them hoping to take home a share of the profits you've pointed out that they are rolling in by forcing them to buy a license to get around the GPLv3 restrictions that they may or may not be violating. That's an expensive lawsuit even if they win.
Not a big multiple for a supposed growing company. Phil Libin said it takes on average of 40ish months to convert a free to paid user, that's harsh.
You should check out the Whitebox Software Defined Radio Project. It is a hacker friendly software defined radio started by my friend Chris, a former lead engineer from Google/YouTube and the former VP of technology at Adly. http://radio.testa.co
History of Computers: A Brief Timeline
Maybe for late stage investors, but if you applied that strategy as an early stage consumer investor you would have missed almost much every big hit (FB, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, etc).
I am not blind, but I do have terrible floaters and other eyesight issues as a consequence of my medical condition. I suspect many handicapped people spend more time online than average. I certainly do and have for many years. Online banking and a million other things make my life far more manageable than it would be without the Internet in the face of a serious handicap.
Instead of using the deprecated /dev/fb interface, you should be using DRM/KMS instead, which has support for modesetting, page flipping, cursors, overlays/planes (including YUV planes), and plenty more.

I have a simple toy app that shows how to use the API here: https://github.com/magcius/drmdemo
I call it wisdom because the ability to remain calm and ego-less in all situations seems to be the sort of thing taught by certain religious groups who are big on meditation. But of course, it doesn't require that. Truck drivers need to learn to drive this way too.

Humans seem to need some kind of training let go of our natural instinct to punish "cheaters". A machine can just do it, as can a stone for that matter. So: artificial wisdom.
doesn't seem to happen. people who raise ridiculous amount of money seems to do it again and again and investors are happy to keep shoveling piles of money around. vast amount of money is moved around and evaporated.

that kind of money if distributed to single founders who have a working product, generating revenues would have a far more benefit to society and consumers instead of one giant company that bullies it's way into the markets by splashing money around.
OTOH, Many companies provide B2C services to million users for free as a side effect of raising awareness for their B2B paid offers. I wonder whether society should value this benevolent side effect to the point of reclassifying their primary purpose to "Providing a benevolent service". Yes, I'm almost being ironic because it's a failure of a business model, and I'm afraid of whether GitHub will maintain its public free service for long.
Great work! I build[1] a classic javascript interpreter for Langton's Ant a few years ago. Just updated it to include support for custom rules. Thanks for reminding me about Langton's Ant it is always cool to recall things one build in the past.

[1]: http://codepen.io/FWeinb/pen/CJpjl
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=evernote
Psychology is a tribe pseudoscience.
We could ask a human driver the same questions, but no country (that I know of) insists that people be able to answer questions like "You have to choose between killing your spouse sitting next to you and three kids walking across the street. What will you do?" before getting their driver's license.

(In any case, the "correct" answer would be "Why the F--- should I be in such a situation, and what should I have done differently to avoid being in such a situation?")

Honestly, why are people so fascinated with these never-happens-in-a-lifetime ethical thought experiments when it comes to self-driving cars? We people aren't that good with ethical problems either, and we have no problem letting people drive.
The Evernote Mac client is the one of the worst piece of software on the Mac platform. I've actually been using a $5 replacement app, Alternate, and moving my Evernote text notes back to nvALT synced through Dropbox.

Evernote, please, I do not want:

- Work Chat

- Headlines from Business Insider

- To be CONSTANTLY BUGGED TO UPGRADE

That's the biggest thing. I'd love to give Evernote money, if I knew I was going to get left alone. Instead, all the Evernote Premium members I know are _still_ bugged to upgrade and get all these stupid, useless features thrown at them that they don't want.
As a user, be afraid of services that don't charge money.
Also relevant to Elixir folk using Phoenix, which uses Cowboy code.
I agree with you. I am a middle tier ($25/year) user and I eschue the Mac app and just use the web interface.

I filed a bug report last week on getting too many nags to use new features. On my Android phone, saying NO to using a new feature did not prevent many new nags about the same feature.

It is this nagging that might convince me to not renew my yearly service when it expires.
Are obesity rates increasing? I'd like to see your source. Same with smoking rates.
The man who may one-up Darwin
How often does that happen outside of Hollywood? Most carjackings already happen when the vehicle is already stopped and I'd bet that the fact that a self-driving car will have 360° video streaming to the police will do more to keep the occupants safe than your video game-honed fantasies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
If you like nvALT, have you try voogla? http://youtu.be/u-pBvs3PNIY
> There's so many completely unlikely edge cases.

Fixed that for you :) Although I think you're joking, coming up with scenarios like these is often exactly what people do when change is presented to them - they fill in the gaps with their imagination. Our imagination can create infinite edge cases, but its bad at predicting frequency. Just remove 'driverless car' from your statement and ask yourself the same thing. How would you get out of that?
DTP is Mac and iOS only which makes it far less useful. I use Evernote on nearly every major OS: OS X, Windows, Android, iOS and web. DTP isn't an option.
What's sad is that most diabetes research money goes to the more common obesity induced Type II diabetes (80% of which is self-inflicted by overeating), and not Type I diabetes which is not the fault of the person afflicted with it.
The Juno 106 is absolutely glorious.

Not everyone's type of music but this track is basically a Juno 106 pad, strings and lead demo and my angry driving music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsLYwR9Jp-Y

I myself drive a Korg Triton which I paid equiv $90 for because it was broken. Turned out to be a shorted cap in the power supply that took 10 mins with a multimeter to find.
7 Annoying Habits of LinkedIn Users
While it sounds like your solution works for you, don't you think there's room in the market for one app that does all that?

One of the ways of providing value is to do nothing particularly unique, but to combine several things into a unique workflow.

The fact that you use 4 different services plus one that's been shutdown suggests to me someone else might want that functionality without the trial and error of figuring it all out and setting it all up...
The map is not the territory...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation...
Maybe? No, not at all.
Become Multi-Lingual with the Help of Duolingo
Well they could use an ordinary pipe, but they would have to group the later expression in parantheses.
In bash the | creates a fork, so if you try:
echo "sdfsdf" | read sid && echo $sid
you get a blank line,
but if you try:
echo "sdfsdf" | (read sid && echo $sid)
you get "sdfsdf"
|& is an abbreviation for >2&1 | .
In zsh the grouping isn't needed, the expression works out of the box.

For more information on the subject:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13763942/bash-why-piping-...
Point of semantics - DTP already means something; DeskTop Publishing. Using it to describe another piece of software is confusing.
I build this to help students find internships opportunities with startups
In first two years of college, only one student cared to stop the teacher, it was the blind guy. I don't want to be positively discriminating, but it seems being blind forces you to be sharp and focused in everything (I'm almost envious).

I'd love to discuss their perception and thoughts about everything.

ps: this is a great tool you linked in.
It was an interesting read, but I'm frustrated at how link baity the title is.

There actually was no discussion of how "beautiful people" are hard to draw. Read the whole article looking for the line. Very frustrating.
Seems simple enough. If you're a musician, your Great Commission is to create sounds that nobody has ever heard before, and use those sounds to express things that will resonate at some level with everybody. "Synthesis" means creation by composition.

I'm not a musician so I can't say I get it either, but I can certainly enjoy the result.
Thanks for the progress.

I've used virtual machines for
decades, e.g., IBM's VM with
the interactive CMS (Conversational
Monitor System).
In what sense is the Microsoft
CIL/CLR a virtual machine?
E.g., does it have any
security properties, e.g.,
restrictions via some
attribute control lists?

The CLI is a virtual machine
only in the sense that
the byte codes are not
actual machine instructions
for any real processor core
but are just some intermediate
code instructions
for an imaginary machine
that does not really exist
and, in that sense, is virtual?

So, on Windows,
say 7, 8.1, 10, Windows Server
of some year, etc., suppose
I take a file A.VB I've
typed in with Visual Basic .NET
source code, give that file A.VB to the
.NET program
VBC.EXE, which is in the collection
of .NET files, and get out from
running VBC.EXE
file A.EXE. Now A.EXE has
CIL byte code?

Why byte code? Or, in
what sense can each code
be only one byte long?

Does this byte code
mean that it would be
the same for running on 32
bit Intel x86 processors,
64 bit Intel processors,
ARM processors, etc.?

The CLR part is mostly
run time, that is,
code my program A.VB
and A.EXE needs to run,
that is, in old terms,
a library to be
linked in via a
linkage editor?
Then with .NET on Windows,
the JIT work also plays
the role of a linkage editor?

One old trick was, don't even
bring in the code to be linked
and, really, don't even link to
that code and, instead, as the
program runs and such code
gets called, that is, an
attempt is made to use it,
in case that happens (which
maybe often it won't),
there is a software fault,
interrupt, or some such
and the JIT code, still
in Windows and still
available to run,
only then, after the interrupt,
actually gets and links the code
that is needed but so far
was missing?

Another old trick was,
really, never bring that
library code in the user's
program, do link to it,
but have the code it
part of the user's address
space that is shared with
all the user address spaces
or even in another security
ring -- maybe Microsoft
is also doing some such trick?
I just outlined the Windows
Global Cache, e.g., mostly
from DLLs instead of EXEs?

Okay, I can see the point, as
in the OP, of
the effort for native. Indeed,
I've suspected that on Windows
frequently used programs
are kept in a cache somewhere
and, likely, ready to
read into an address space
or part of a process
as fast as possible, maybe
even with the usual
address relocation
work already done. So,
this looks like an
under the covers version
of native for Windows?

Ah, I just looked up Microsoft's
ngen, and maybe what I just
described was ngen?

I've seen no very clear documentation
of these issues. I've been
guessing at what happens, and that's
not so good.

Thanks for the tutorial.
They also have great keyboards, great pointing devices, no irritating touch pad, and are highly portable and highly robust. It would be nice if there was something newer that actually compared on these fronts, but there just doesn't seem to be. (I am using a 2015 MBP presently and it's pretty ghastly compared to any of my X-series Thinkpads, except the X1 which is even worse.)

One bummer about these is that the aspect ratio isn't 4:3, though.
Ask HN: Are alternative search engines good enough for me to replace Google?
I'm thinking of switching from Google.com for my searching.

Does anyone have any feedback on how effective the competition is?
Working on the assumption that the crawlers will index the JSON in the script tag?
As a Mac and Windows user I've never used google keep as there is no native app.
It is not static, hence why it is linked to being a level of trust. While this can happen in the US, its rare to happen at the federal level without some sort of check/balance. On the other side, arbitrary application of law is the routine system of governing at all levels in China. One type you can mostly trust, especially if history tells you how the pattern plays out. The other side there cannot be any trust.
Interesting details. That they had to kill it off rather than accept its market-induced death tops off evidence it went somewhere. I think the $7 million price tag along with the politics did more than anything to hurt it.

Of course, seeing what he did with MULTICS, gotta wonder what other huge inaccuracies might be in there. Suddenly goes from a really nice paper to something review just in case.

EDIT: Just noticed the author I'm critiquing is the smart guy I complimented by name in my post for past work. Oh the ironies lol...
It was in the Tom Brady section.

You know what's hardest to draw? Beautiful people. Reproducing beauty is hard. Beauty is usually based on very fine, careful proportions with no irregularities. There are a couple judges who are just too handsome or too pretty. It's a challenge going in to draw them. It's a challenge to get a good likeness of them. A lot of beautiful people are just bland.
Ask HN: Yahoo Pipes Replacement?
Hey gang!

As some of you may have noticed, Yahoo! Pipes recently went dark (RIP).

A speed-reading service I developed and use daily, Glance.wtf, was built on top of Yahoo! Pipes, and now I'm looking for a Pipes-compatible replacement.

Fortunately, I was able to extract the Pipe-bodies before Pipes died, and those are available here: https://github.com/GlanceApps/PipeIDs/tree/master/pipes

There are two interesting solutions I can see: pipe2py (https://github.com/ggaughan/pipe2py) + Google App Engine and pipes2js (https://github.com/neyric/pipes2js) + AWS SWF/Lambda.

But really, I'd just like to get my service back up again with as little time and money being required as possible. I'm hoping that somebody else out there has already come up with a hosted Pipes replacement that I can simply piggy-back on.

Does anybody know of anything like that, or have any suggestions about how to best solve this platform migration problem?

Thanks!,
R
Everyone breaks the law. Some people get disproportionate punishment. So while your statement is true, it entirely misses the point.
DuckDuckGo would be my recommendation. It is "good enough" for general searching, but I still have to use Google at work to find technical things slightly faster.
Agree. I think the way it will shake out is having a standardized communication protocol for driverless cars that allows them to tap into collective intelligence to make decisions together. This will probably be mandated, with testing to ensure that in certain scenarios all AIs respond in the same predictable way. Competing AIs sounds like it could quickly get out of hand.

I don't think driverless cars will act as individual units for a very long time when the opportunity to have them operate collectively can produce meaningful efficiency gains. For example, drafting on freeways to reduce drag, or being in communication with local streetlights to shape traffic patterns. That's one of the great benefits of moving away from human controlled cars - collective intelligence is possible.
As an aside, apart from the obvious "Keep a close watch on your glucose levels, take your insulin regularly, and do a glycosylated hemoglobin test every year or two" – are there any other things that diabetics can do to proactively ward off the chances of these happening?
If you work in retail then you are interested in profit, not making a good deal for your customers. If the proper branded product gives you a nice 37% margin (with that being 37% of a proper price), what is the incentive for selling something with a lower margin at a lower price?

The proper branded products have some distribution arrangements that mean you cannot sell their stuff at a low price, i.e. lower than everyone else. This is not 'price fixing' in a way the government can outlaw. Salesman from brand simply phones retailer's buyer and has a few words, implicit being the threat not to re-supply them. Large buyers will have negotiated a better price so long as they sell at the agreed price, clearly this privilege goes if they break their part of the deal, so next time they will have to buy at the official trade price, which is higher than what they need to make a profit.

Ma and Pa stores don't have the bargaining position - they buy from a 'cash 'n' carry' that might be supplied by another distributor (and an importer) all levels taking a percentage. They can stock 'off brand' products, but, even in a Ma and Pa store every square foot has to pay for itself, so why sell a low value, low margin, low $$$ turnover product?

Supermarkets sell own brand alongside branded products to present choice so you can buy big bottles of water at a price you would think does not make it worth them to stock. But check out the lunch purchases aisle, we are back to branded products at normal retail prices.

There is no conspiracy just capitalism and 'free market' practices. Having said that, water does have competition from a) the tap and b) the natural world. If you really wanted cheap water you could always run a tap (in the first world) or even collect your own rain water, filtering accordingly.
Doug emailed me personally to follow up with this. Couldn't be happier!
Not diabetic here, but with progressing myopic retinopathy of unclear aetiology. There is mostly random common sense advice on how to prolong one's retina usefulness, which different doctors mention different pieces of, but the unfortunate and exasperating part is the surprising lack of research. E.g. we still don't know what makes our eyeballs grow or stop, and there's been about two or three original attempts at investigating it (only one with humans last I checked).

On the other hand, we do have ample research that disproves or undermines most of the common sense advice (e.g. eye rest every hour, eye exercise, keeping fit, etc). Conflicting schools of traditional medicine do not help as well: you could get the opposite opinion on laser treatment (for retina) and scleroplasty depending on whether the specialist is from the US or Europe.

My hope is platforms like HealthKit will enable massive new research into this. Alternatively, cyber-eyes.
Can you explain why it's sad that a majority of the money is going to help the affliction that's most common? Sounds more like moral outrage than problem solving.
Why use TSV when you can use an sqlite3 file?
Not all products are equal.
I was of course stretching things a bit to make the point that taxonomy is a human classification system that life ignores :)

This is particularly the case with microbes where because of rampant horizontal gene transfer we don’t have clean evolutionary paths.
There's an app for that http://youtu.be/u-pBvs3PNIY
If you need note syncing, use Simplenote. Evernote is almost certainly overkill for what most people want.
If I were the authors I would be writing the follow up paper explaining exploring this - why write one big paper when you can salami-slice the data up into a couple of papers.
The headline is clearly written to attract clicks, but in the article body, I felt this was more tongue-in-cheek than stirring up controversy. The author repeatedly concludes that, though the driving style may be different, this "boringness" is actually a very positive feature.

> It was slow. It was cautious. It was safe, a more attentive driver than any human could possibly ever be.

> And later that evening, as I snaked my way back to San Francisco on the four-to-five lane wide Interstate 880, I wished it was the Google car driving me home.

...

> That's a terrible complaint, isn't it? The impeccable standards are a sign the technology is really quite magnificent.

...

> The way Google sees it is that even with those theoretical scenarios - where it's forced to choose between what it thinks is the least harmful - the Google car is still far smarter than a human, and, crucially, will save thousands of lives by existing in the first place.

> Riding in a Google car may be slow and boring, but the effect it will have on the world certainly isn't.
BSPSPSPSPSP - This program/configuration appears to execute a random walk. Hard to be sure.
There's a Chrome app, which is "native" enough for me.