skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's honestly just marketing copy.

And the case of the coworker vs. the website: There's a difference. If a coworker said that to me, I'd have words to say back (unless it really does suck. I'd be willing to hear a well-reasoned argument or admit my own flaws).

The website though? Unlike a coworker, I never have to see a website more than once. A coworker saying that directly to me sounds like an attack on my character and my ability to write code. A website published for everyone to see is just a critique of code.

Finally, I can close a website, turn off my computer, and take a walk after being offended (as I do often). I cannot do the same with a coworker. Knowing I can't avoid or dismiss a person like that means that I have to confront them. And that ends really, really poorly.

The idea of code sucking more or less is totally subjective. That website is purely opinion. I like to use dwm on my Desktop computer because it's really lightweight and easy to set up. Others prefer a shinier and less confusing system like GNOME Shell or something.

Essentially, they are presenting one side of the argument. They want to show the world why trying to minimize code is a good thing (and only good; there is a necessary bias in debate). And you are choosing to be offended by the idea that someone out there in the world thinks someone else's code sucks.

It seems like you just have a personal vendetta against suckless, and it seems you fully understand that and choose to make HN your soapbox regardless of whether or not it is on topic. That's why you're getting downvotes. Someone came up with a cool idea, and you nitpick on something so miniscule it's incredible, rather than discussing the pros and cons of the concepts themselves.

I don't really understand your position.
Apple ordered to pay $234M to university for infringing patent
I don't find his cover up story at all credible - Pakistan knew where Bin Laden was the whole time and kept it a secret from the U.S.? For what possible gain?
Understanding Andre the Giant, Wrestling’s Massive, Indefinable Contradiction
The Speed of Light Is Not About Light
Surprisingly progressive and a big positive for the UK. Wish the USA was as forward thinking.
I use and like both python and go. The presentation mirrors my own experiences, though I haven't come back again yet.
A quick google search makes it sound more like all herbal medicines are now more strictly regulated but not banned.
I never claim I know better than any investigators. I poked a bit at the media that hype the intrigue stories, but I am sure the investigators are doing their work proper.

My theory is just what I thought of in 5 minutes for fun. Is it really so bad it deserves to be downvoted?

I totally agree with your options, I even think it's rather unlikely they were ordered not to find him. Shooting someone in the woods is just a very difficult to solve crime.
Speck – A small unit testing framework for C
Why would you want to pay for sex if you can get free sex?
They also had full VAX 11/780 clones! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron_K_1840

Oh and wonderful art ( http://imgur.com/GPPI56E ) but that's another topic.
Mike Moritz: The subprime ‘unicorns’ that do not look a billion dollars
Glad that some people see the light.
Online advertisers admit they “messed up,” promise lighter ads
Soviet Rubles are different than today's Rubles, no?
Do you rank the same way in Bing?
Anybody had espresso from a Mirage?

http://www.keesvanderwesten.com/mirage-special-features.html

Awesome use of a PID loop.
> I'd wager a guess that most of the countries in the Eastern Block did have their own computers.

There's this beauty from Sweden:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC80

I'm guessing a lot of countries overall had their own computers, not just eastern block. We don't usually hear much about them because we base our computer history mostly on the canon of the US.

I was surprised to read in "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" that my former university's computer science department made a very prominent sendmail version back in the day (IDA sendmail) and that this was noteworthy in that context.

This field has been international for a very long time.
It was based on some of his ideas that his wife had written down over the years but not on any complete works by him.

The first season was OK given it's budget but when the studio kicked out Wolfe it turned into utter garbage.

Like most syndicated show it pretty much was run into the ground by the networks, less story, more self confined episodes that can be picked up by the average Joe Dumb while flipping channels, and constant budget cuts.

They've spent like 75% of their CGI budget for the 1st season on the Andromeda model for the pilot episode which resulted in pretty much every space battle after it being a scene for scene recut of the 3rd episode from different angles.

I would not recommend that show to anyone.
> Is there anything on OS X-only that you think you'd miss?

I've paid for a lot of software that can't run on Linux, but I feel like I've gotten the value out of most of them. In theory everything I do either works in Linux natively or has a Linux equivalent. I just haven't tried any of it on modern hardware to know if it'll actually work.

> Have you considered a Hackintosh? And what's keeping you off of Windows?

Most of the reasons for switching to Linux are related to OS/security/privacy/automation tweaks that I haven't been able to make work (or work reliably) in Windows/OSX. I have all that stuff working in Linux today, but my hardware is too out of date to do the bulk of my work on.

Honestly, I could probably spend some time in mastering powershell, and educating myself on the current state of Windows and maybe do everything I want, it's just not something I'm interested in doing.

> Consuming media through the laptop is another sticking point. I had tons of bizarre issues with Chrome/Firefox and streaming video sites. It was just a mess.

This has been my experience as well, but I'm also on 7 year old hardware.
by the time you guys figure out what's going on, you're going to be left with a broken blown-up black hawk in your browser tab
I heard once about someone setting up a ghetto CMS by hosting a static site on Amazon S3 and then having it pull dynamic content from the Google Docs "Sheets" API somehow. Then you could edit Google spreadsheets to fill it in.

Ghetto as hell but it worked and is almost free to host.
If only they did this in the UK.

Although when I went through school, A level mathematics didn't even touch anything past polynomials and physics didn't go much past classical mechanics and energy. Now they're all over calculus and quantum mechanics!
In case they needed a trump card to make nice?
True, but that's actually a very significant barrier to getting my DNA compared to having it sitting in a massive database that a cop somewhere can query.
> By assuming that watching "hipster movies" makes you intellectual, you've illustrated exactly my point, that (some) people watch these movies because they think it somehow makes them into intellectuals, which fits the definition of pretentious quite well.

Don't reverse the role, you are the one stating and assuming that people watching movies you don't enjoy are stoking their ego and you are the one who came up with the hipstometer word:

> Rotten Tomatoes is a hipstometer (if you don't believe me, look at the artsy film festival movies that rank highest there, or read some of the pedantic reviews).

> By assuming that watching "hipster movies" makes you intellectual, you've illustrated exactly my point,

Really, what a weird line of reasoning. I never wrote that and you can't conclude that's my opinion from anything I wrote because I never qualified any movies as `hipster movies' (while you did).

> that (some) people watch these movies because they think it somehow makes them into intellectuals, which fits the definition of pretentious quite well.

Likewise you seem to put yourself above them by not watching them and being a real intellectual while they would be frauds. Yeah, not pretentious at all.
The official accounts of its killing strongly reminded me of the way the 'link' between 9/11 and Al Qaeda was made.

The passport found by a cop, a few days later near ground zero :P
That would make a great submission in its own right, if you want to post it. Maybe wait a day or two since HN tends not to go for pile-on stories.
I maintain Grille, a simple Node.js CMS backed in Google Spreadsheets. It's primarily intended for use with games and tabular content, but building a blog with it wouldn't be too hard.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/grille

Data is loaded into memory, and reloaded at the call of a function, so lookups are quite fast.
So this post was original posted this morning, but after HN requested I repost it got to #1:

http://s.gsc.io/hn-repost-request.png
Which is an incredibly specific operation, and only affects one person, just like it should be.
Babylon 5 (1st 4 seasons, season 5 well meh) while potentially one of the best "space" shows ever created is hardly science fiction, actual science plays very little role as plot devices it's more of a space opera than classic SciFi.
23andme - I'll update my comment
RARE Vintage Computer Symbolics XL1201 Lisp Machine
That may prevent the simple unmount/replace image/mount workflow, but it doesn't prevent the separation between the mutable and immutable parts of the DBMS.
I'm not saying change the 140 character limit. As it stands there is usually a limit of 0 characters because by the time I fit a link, mentions, and a retweet into a tweet I am over the limit. Make these things not count against that limit and instead always allow for the user to input 140 characters of their own text
The problem is that they appear to have hit the ceiling on the audience that appeals to, and it's just not a big enough audience to justify the enormous amounts of capital that have been plowed into Twitter over the years. So they have a tricky tightrope act to pull off: come up with a way to reach enough new people to make those investments pay off, without losing the users they already have, and without spending so much more of other peoples' money to do so that they just end up digging the hole deeper.
"Amazon has been threatening publishers that if they choose no drm, their books won't benefit from text-to-speech, and various other possibilities of the kindle, including future compatility!"

Sorry, that is not correct.

I've got several indie books on Amazon, none with DRM, and Amazon has never "threatened" me with anything. It's a checkbox in the publishing portal. All of them have text to speech enabled.

Here's a link to an O'Reilly book (not one of mine). Check for yourself that "simultaneous device usage" is "unlimited" (i.e., no DRM) and that "text-to-speech" is "enabled".

http://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Programming-Chas-Emerick-ebook...
Dr. Who I can see, all of the doctors have been able to put a truly unique stamp on the franchise and the situations allowed are really broad. James Bond is just the wrong vehicle, he deserves his own start at a franchise. He needs his Die Hard, not to be the next guy in the queue.
It's still available for sale from the biggest herbal supplement retailer in the UK [1]. That fact alone makes this claim seem unlikely.

[1] http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/holland-barret...
"No shit. Are you any different?"

In fact, that is exactly the difference. Men want sex so much that they will even sleep with someone to whom they have zero attraction. And afterwards, not only will they feel no shame or disgust, but they might even brag about it to their friends.

Sure, some women want sex that much. But, most do not - as you say they value the attraction. So, it's only logical that it's easier for women to have sex. The problem is that sex alone is not enough. So it's not any easier for them to get what they desire.
Nginx is a server, not a browser.
I agree with you. But it's likely they will extend the character limit to much more, and that will change the nature of the service.
Amazon files suit against 1,000 Fiverr users over fake product reviews
"How did you this iceberg photograph get so widespread?"

Just... embarrassing. Why can I skim an article on The Verge or nautil.us and find typos every damn time?
Not unheard of in other eras as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyfraith_Hywel#Compensation
I used to do a lot of Excel programming, and I found the environment to be extremely unstable. I've had spreadsheets with thousands of entries with data that would just become corrupted or erased for no discernible reason. It really turned me off from using it as a regular tool.
Identical twins?
I appreciate these war stories more than the "look at this great new thing that will take over the world" posts (those have a place as well). We need more war stories in this industry because everything has pros and cons, and our job as software engineers is to be able to make decisions based on limited information. Case studies are great way to glean real-world experience from others without having to implement every new technology yourself in order to make high-level assumptions about that technology.

This article shouldn't say to you: "See, Go is BAD, Python is GOOD!" It should say, "That's an interesting case study. If I'm working on a project that involves lots of sockets and concurrency, I'll want to take what they said into account when I'm making technology decisions."
The problem could be the VBA hurdle. It's enough of a hurdle that you would need an actual developer to go beyond basic functionality. At that point, a developer would just recommend you use whichever hammer the developer is holding or is most interested in at the moment.

The exception to this seems to be MS Access. I have come across multiple situations in which business users end up using MS Access for applications. I don't know if it was set up for them by developers initially, but it was clear to me that they continued to enhance it based on their needs without developer assistance.
I agree, politics does definitely have a hand, especially at the state level where prosecutors are often elected officials. Judges too. I think that's an abomination to justice, but it's the unfortunate reality.

Even at the federal level, we see the Justice department "deprioritizing" enforcement of drug laws in states that have legalized marijuana. I agree with the outcome in that particular case, but it's definitely pushing the limits of the intended separation of powers.
I've been porting a project from Ruby to Go in search of making it a bit lighter. The project is about a 1000 lines now so I'm not allowed to criticize Go yet, but so far it's very nice. I picked the language up in just a few hours as I went and the whole project took just about a week and a half.

So as someone who is clearly in no position to be criticizing other projects yet, isn't Heka exactly the sort of project you shouldn't do in Go? I say that because I have the feeling you should use Go only for very concrete cases, given its lack of proper abstractions.

I.e. writing a tool that receives log lines over HTTP, extracts metrics and forwards those to StatsD? Perfect use case for Go. But writing a tool that lets you plug in arbitrary frontends to forwards to arbitrary backends? Perhaps they got it to work nice, but that sounds more like a case for a more general language.
Bariatric surgery linked to suicide attempts
Please read the article before posting. There _are_ some things that can be done client side to raise the minimum level of encryption, although not to raise the maximum level of encryption.

One tactic the NSA and at least one vendor are suspected to use is to inject/drop a header which prevents the client and server of an SSL/TLS connection from settling on the highest level of encryption that both the client and server have. In this case, it's best for your client to disable the weakest forms of SSL/TLS encryption which raises the minimum level of encryption of the connection.

That's what much of this EFF article describes, although it fails to describe these steps for browsers other than Firefox and Chrome.
Big Data Is Saving This Little Bird
I once suggested that they should just start charging for extra characters. Like, charge a penny per character, or sell a block of 100 to be used across as many tweets as you want for 90 cents. The marginal cost to them of shipping 141 characters instead of 140 is so small as to be practically nonexistent, so it'd be more or less pure profit.

Would anyone actually buy them? I think maybe they would, as long as they were priced low enough to be impulse-buyable. For the power users who live on Twitter, it could easily be worth the time it would save them over constantly having to edit their posts to get them under the 140 character limit. It could be to Twitter what in-app purchases are to "free-to-play" games like Candy Crush -- a way to skip out of a grind.
IBM Allows Chinese Government to Review Source Code
A very cool idea @ the high level, but one fatal flaw:

"At the end of each day you will fill out a short survey with a few questions evaluating the effects of the pills."

Self-reporting is an unsuitable mechanism to draw out scientific results.

There's an excellent detailed explanation available (1) but in TL;DR here are four of the most compelling factors at work:

1 - Honesty/Image management

2 - Introspective ability

3 - Understanding / Question Interpretation

4 - Response bias

Take Image Management & Response Bias - participants know that they will be able to see their results vs. the control group and it's not a leap to realize how easily our ego and even subconscious need for validation could dramatically skew the full study results.

(1) http://www.sciencebrainwaves.com/the-dangers-of-self-report/
Yes, it is time for Rust.
This is the first I hear about the Robotron 1715 being developed in Russia. All other sources I can find say that it was developed and built in Eastern Germany (Robotron was an Eastern German company that developed a number of computers in the 80s). Even the russian wikipedia say so. Wikipedia says that even the U880 processor, a Z80 clone, was produced in East Germany.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron_1715

http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=864&amp;s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U880
FYI, here the link to its paper,

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~niessner/papers/2015/10face/th...
Transforming Glial Cells into Neurons
In either case it makes a lot of sense to start dosing patients with anti-fungal medication and see if their symptoms improve. Usually you do not give fungicide to patients because it has a lot of side-effects but those drugs are readily available and easily prescribed.
The majority of "Al Qaeda"'s "organization" came from families and warlords whose financial history is extremely linked with CIA operations, their friends the Saudis, and almost all of the intel concerning that link came from the NSA, European agencies the US has administered in proxy since the start of the Cold War, and reported gossip from the aforementioned families. Are 9/11 truthers really that nutty?

EDIT: Downvotes without refutations can be assumed to be public opinion bots, morons, or both.
Total 0%
O-1: Typically I would think of athletes/entertainers, in the US for competition/show/tour/etc

No, athletes and entertainers are covered by the P-* visas:

P-1A Internationally recognized athletes.

P-1B Internationally recognized entertainers or members of internationally recognized entertainment groups.

P-2 Individual performer or part of a group entering to perform under a reciprocal exchange program.

P-3 Artists or entertainers, either an individual or group, to perform, teach, or coach under a program that is culturally unique.
If challenged I would stick it under "negotiating a contract".

"Yes, I am negotiating a contract for investment. The work I am doing is part of the negotiation"
Solving the empty room problem
Bellabox Gives China a Taste of Australian Beauty
Short repeat encoding
If you can pill it, you could add unique markers (maybe apply pseudo-random patterns to pill blanks) and take pictures before randomization and immediately before consumption. Or build something that dispenses a random choice from multiple boxes and keeps a log.
Yeah, Rust sounds like a great Python replacement. /s

I do like Rust, but must we clutter every Go-related thread with comments about it? The zealousness is annoying.
for the downvoter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satam_al-Suqami#Passport_disco...
For heka, one of the things we wanted besides performance, was a small, easy-to-distribute binary you could drop on a system and 'just run'. Go is fantastic for distribution thanks to the small staticly linked binaries you can get out of it. To accommodate the pluggable filters and such later, a Lua sandbox system was added... and oddly some of the other Go pieces ended up being faster in Lua which is why Lua decoders/inputs are now an option for heka as well.

Note: I gave this talk.
I don't buy framing that as a purely political issue; it's exceptionally rare that anything fits so neatly into a box like that. Furthermore, boiling down the deprecation of the original Skype protocol at the hands of post-acquisition Microsoft is pretty far removed by what I'm saying; there's just too much to account for.

Your characterization of a coercive state just isn't how the US political world works. Black suits don't show up at a developer's door with a gun and tell them "you must introduce technical vulnerabilities in your protocol and/or implementation or we're going to kill you". That's Hollywood. In reality, the government puts indirect economic pressure on Microsoft, and this has a measurable impact on the command chain there, and eventually a "favorable" outcome (from the government's perspective) is reached. This may even be internally justified for "performance reasons" (and it was).

The plain fact of the matter is that at the end of the day, a technical vulnerability was implemented somewhere in the Skype protocol + implementation + system chain. That is still a technical deficiency, even if, as I said in my original reply, it is influenced by economic and political factors.
You're missing the point that if automation does all the work there is no competitive reason not to lower the price down to near 0 (or the cost of capital, which at current interest rates is VERY low).

If I can get land, put robots on it and churn out apples, all entirely without my labor, and I can borrow the money for near free, at what price could I sell said apples for?
Well, I think, being a software engineer is still pretty cool in Silicon Valley :)
Not a user, but no mention of AirTable? https://airtable.com/
There has been a good amount of U.S. aid money going to Pakistan since the war on terror. Pakistan would have the incentive to prolong the war on terror, may have reasoned that a living Bin Laden was a cash cow.
What makes a technology "ghetto"?
Subprime unicorns
You are joking yourself if you think it's easier for men to get laid than women.