skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I deleted (deleted, not deactivated) my Facebook profile 4 years ago. It had clearly become an addiction, kinda like my mobile phone is now (cost/benefit balance of mobile phone is still too good to throw away).

I remember actually having withdrawals in the first few weeks. Not sure if it was withdrawals or muscle memory that kept kicking in to check my feed, but there was an element of angst not being connected to the feed.

Now I am quite happy without it (almost liberated), and trying to spend that time I would have spent on Facebook doing something that adds value to my life like reading HN! Surprisingly my circle (more of a triangle) of friends still exists, even without Facebook.
I don't think that argument makes any sense. The options seem to be write everything from scratch or take AOSP and write only the services. The latter option makes a lot more sense to me.
It's silver! Tin is too cheap. :-)
You might want to talk him into putting that info on the fileformats wiki.
OnHub Makers: Custom Cases for Google's OnHub Router
China's GDP grew by something like 20,000% over that same period, so that really doesn't seem very impressive.
It might be better if Merissa Meyer took a long maternity leave.
Offline plugin (ServiceWorker, AppCache) for webpack
No point in asking for a citation on a press release statement, go directly to the paper (which seems to be much more careful in what it claims).
Startup aims to end insulin injections and improve diabetes patients’ lives
> So, we'd end up with a system where the only restriction on capitalism would be actions performed well after the fact.

Why is that a problem specific to capitalism? What system of justice prevents everything up front? As long as justice is somewhat predictable, others can plan based on what will happen to them.

For example, we are currently in a system where the only restriction on murder is an action performed well after the fact (e.g., prison).

> Herein is one of the huge problems of libertarianism - there's no space for shades of gray.

That's not how I see it. Markets are one big shade of gray. There's nothing absolute about them at all.
It seems clear to me. They're an investment business that owns shares in successful companies.
If they're fully spinning it out, it isn't just "under the same parent company". They can make two companies each with their own stock, initially distributed to shareholders of the initial company. After that, some stockholders might buy/sell shares of company A and some might buy/sell shares of company B, so that they're truly separate companies with different management and owners and such.
And if you click the "Ellen Ternan" link there you will see that they lived together for 10 years and are even suspected of having a child (who died early).
Algorithms of War – The dangers of enlisting algorithms in statecraft
How Conference Speakers Are Selected
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/14/niantic-la...
Using Python for offensive cyber security and penetration testing [audio]
> design that "pretends-to-be-like-another-thing" rather than "represent-that-thing-as-it-is"

Great, let's use the screen to do nothing but show that it is a bunch of pixels! Oh wait, that would render it completely useless.

No thank you, I'd rather stick to using conceptual metaphors[0] before letting UX design fall for the same mistakes made by contemporary arts, where everything has to be an abstract self-reference to that you are watching an artwork.

[0] http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Conceptual_metaphor
my parents tried hard (real, real hard) to get me to play tennis and piano, and refused to let me spend as much time on the computer as i wanted to. guess which i did at 2 in the morning while they were asleep? guess which i dropped like a bad habit as soon as i left the house? and this was in the 90s, when dot com mania was at its height.

newsflash: parents live vicariously through their kids and project all sorts of desires onto them, and it almost never turns out well (i went through a real trouble period that i attribute to their parenting style). seems like a lot of people just forget this once they have children.

it must be biological because you can't explain it otherwise - these are smart people that do this. my parents are both highly educated with graduate degrees. (or.. maybe that explains it)
The mighty power of defaults.
Well, HR / recruiters are a bit worse in most (tech?) professions; they seem really lazy when vetting people and just go for the stereotype great employee while discarding everyone else. So the only way back would be to go for a very small company in a smaller town. In the EU he would be hired for sure; I would hire him. I never cared about previous experiences/age/gender/race only about current skills and effort and we did very well by it.
Police raid home of suspected Bitcoin mastermind Satoshi Nakamoto
> Oh man, that reminds me of the 90s. You used to have this situation where certain games required a certain memory configuration (640K / extended memory).

Origin games often requires that kind of things... but they were the best games of all on MS-DOS PCs! I remember the time when most people wanted to buy a PC because of Wing Commander.
Funny thing i almost did exactly this until i realized you can use rss which can also watch directories easily enough for example https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/Documentati... . Also unfortunately i found that using the api is probably not going to scale if a lot of people want to use it and local clones are pretty expensive.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't the various game modding and emulation scenes been notoriously anti-open-source? Even the mighty Xentax had political issues which resulted in the creation of ZenHax
Time Person of the Year: Angela Merkel
>By 1982, an estimated 621,000 home computers were in American households, at an average sales price of US$530.

In a country of 220 million people. If we assume about 4 people could access a single computer, then 1,1% of population had access.

So it seems commercials of Apple II and TRS-80 was the thing that compelled women to stay out of the field. Or alternatively getting your hands on dads TRS-80 was incredibly compelling experience to almost every boy out there.

Edit: this stuff then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05M80HHNB6s
It's refreshing seeing some higher-level discussion about this issue. I feel like a lot of the discussion about copyright is among small-time bit players, on message boards and in "open letter" formats from mostly small and occasionally large artists. Meanwhile the fat cats who actually make the policy (Disney & co.) just dictate and enforce their laws totally without regard to the real world the rest of us live in.

And then the article dashes all my good feelings in the last two paragraphs. What a world...
Thanks for the answer.
Bitcoin founder's Australia home raided by Sydney police
Apologies if my comment was overly critical; I am genuinely interested in your opinion; I am just unable to dig into the meat of your argument. For example, this recent post doesn't provide any depth besides "all modern western and european design is trending towards a common style I abhor".

As a fan of european modernist design history, I see the current trends and fashions in modern interface design trending towards the modernists of the 50s and 60s, towards the old swiss/international style. As a Designer (software developer) with a strong sense of "duty to the public", a modernist at heart, I see this as a good thing; towards that fabled "Common Standard", that goal of least subjective interpretation possible. It finally seems the fashion is to aim at an unattainable goal that provides improvements all round.

I don't understand how self expression has any place in Design, especially interface design.

If that is your point :)
When you say you worked in video game reverse engineering, can you elaborate at all? That sounds incredibly interesting.
Ex-heavy Facebook user here (multiple times per hour) - I stopped checking it altogether and uninstalled the app about 3 weeks ago, just to see how I would get on. I know exactly the feelings you're talking about. After a week cold turkey I'm now back to checking much more infrequently (a couple of times a day) but it takes a huge amount of willpower to use it passively and not like / comment / post anything.

I'd delete my account altogether but I find the Messenger really useful and I manage a few pages / events on there, not to mention wanting to keep up with some distant family. It's amazing how they've managed to create this feeling of dependence.

What's also amazing is just how much more productive I've been over the past few weeks without the constant (self-inflicted) interruptions!
Holiday gifts for clients are good for your consulting business (2009)
Has anyone an idea what happened to wotsit.org?
When It Comes to VR, Content Is King
Tracking Slowdowns in Creating Child Processes
Marriage requires time, energy, empathy. It requires mental, physical, emotional and spiritual support. A successful marriage forces two people to put the success of the marriage above their individual successes. No institution that I know of forces an individual to abandon selfishness so completely. For it to work, individuality itself needs to be abandoned.

So it's not really surprising that so many talented, ambitious people have had failing marriages.
I use Gmaps in South Africa a lot. The traffic detector feature is super useful however it hass got me into some hairy situations. Just a few months back there were protesters burning tires and stoning cars on a road, so there were no cars on the road, so Google Maps took me straight through it. That was intense, no damage luckily.

Then not much after that an area in the Cape Town CBD became flooded due to heavy rains, and Gmaps directed me and a few other unsuspecting victims straight into it due to there being absolutely NO traffic.

Suppose the warnings take longer to filter through the system than the traffic updates.
How to Get Started Building a Tech Product with No Experience in Tech
And you've missed the point where lives have been ruined and people could potentially be killed as a result of this nonsense.
Because women are smarter. I notice that graph compares Computer Science ($50K-$150K/year), to Medical School ($150K--$1M), Law School ($120K--$1M), and Physical Sciences (???).

Women see the writing on the wall on High School: Med/Law School offer a clear career path to the upper middle class, while CS offers a muddy path at a middle class life.

They also see "rich" old Doctors and Lawyers. They have never seen a "rich" old programmer, because they don't exist. Programmers are washed out by 50, while Doctors are in their prime at 50.

Data: I am an 80's kid. All the smart girls knew to go to med/law school. All the nerdy guys like me wasted time learning 6502 assembly. We are all doing OK, but the women make 2 to 3 times as much as the men.
I'd actually typed out an elaborate reply, but HN told me not to post that fast.

The thing about both poor and rural locations is... they don't have the public funding or private companies for a lot of stuff we take for granted in rich urban cores. Stuff like:

* Medical clinics

* Firefighting

* Policing

* Maintenance on buildings

* Broadband internet infrastructure

* Plumbing and sewage infrastructure

* Electrical infrastructure

* Roads and bridges

It's not so much that UBI would end up paying the rural poor to satisfy their psychological need to feel useful, as it would send them money they can spend on pressing material needs that the rest of society have decided don't deserve to be filled if it doesn't benefit "evil capitalists".

I mean, come on, do you really want to object that rural electrification or sewage should starve for lack of funding? Because that's what's already happening with the lack of infrastructure funding in many places. Hell, there's a lot of rich urban areas which have let their basic infrastructure go to crap (looking at you, MBTA!) due to immature political slap-fights.

If UBI means that people have money to spend, which they can pump through their local economy, which generates a little bit more tax revenue to improve crumbling infrastructure and address basic needs, then it's a good idea.

(Sure, we could spend the same state money on direct infrastructure spending, but that would be industrial policy, and thus horrific, evil Communism.)
And these toys were marketed almost entirely to men and boys.

That's a pretty bad correlation-is-not-causation slip there. Marketing efforts, especially in new markets tend to take the path of least resistance. If they were marketing to males, it was most likely because males were showing an early interest in those products and likely to be the quickest way to grow marketshare.

My personal experience was that I didn't need anything marketed to me. The K-Mart in my town had a couple of running new computers on an aisle where a friend walked up to them and typed:
10 PRINT "I AM THE GREATEST!"
20 GOTO 10

I was immediately fascinated and wanted one.
For one both our auditory and visual senses have limited bandwidth. Reading is done in saccades, so already at the source the information comes in sentence chunks at a time.

The opportunity for massive-parallelness is in disambiguating a huge number of possible interpretations. Before you can construct the possible candidates, you first need to have processed enough of the sentence. But since you can process new sensory input at the same time as disambiguating previous input, you can get the garden path effect. What I find interesting about the garden path effect though is that it's so artificial, so the way language is used normally seems to purposely avoid ambiguities that will trip up listeners/readers.
Spacemacs solves this by lazy loading every package possible:
https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUME...
Yes, those were the times. Using choice for menus, configuration for games that need a lot of conventional memory, putting drivers in HMA (High Memory Area) just to save those few kilobytes. Using QEMM to access XMS/EMS. Also, sound card drivers configuration was a pain. Good times :)
Anthropocryptic Thought
People are faced with any number of ways to distract themselves electronically now. That makes it hard to enforce the environment of necessity that builds traditional skills.

On the other hand, when they do show an interest in something - and you will have to be very patient about figuring out what that is - there is probably an angle to it that involves automation, and thus computing.
I never understood farming out their search engine to Bing in the first place. Google literally prints money with their adwords search business. Seems instead of attempting to innovate they just threw in the towel and gave up? I just find it hard to believe that Google is the only way you can run a successful search engine.
Ask HN: How do the bestdevs in the world rationalize selling people as products?
I really honestly do not get it. Now, not everybody needs to be Stallman, but how can people who know for a fact that more centralized control and tracking is A Bad Thing for a free and open Internet send off resumes happily to work for the big companies who only care about people-as-products?

I once read here that there was a certain amount of double-think required to work at Google, or Twitter, let's say, but honestly - are JavaScript analytics and a paycheck more important the ability to use the web ten years from now without being treated as a product or having the ability to your own data?
So now Yahoo stock is basically going to be a faux Ali Baba stock. This totally seems like a healthy thing and evidence that there is nothing at all wrong with our market system.
I already contribute to these types of project whenever I can, and I keep a close eye on the archive team.
POP4 – fun number puzzle game
Programming is an industry where taking a 3-4 year gap is career suicide, because of the constantly shifting practices and technologies.

Some women in tech notice this and move away before raising a family crashes their career. Some don't notice this and are forced to shift careers when re-entering the workforce. Both of these outcomes result in a high attrition rate for women programmers. I have no clear solution for this dilemma.
Managing Time Zones in Software Development
Finetuning is only reasonable if you are actively playing and are still stuck. It's unlikely, though, if you are an attentively playing, watching and thinking about your games.
My memory of the BBS crowd in the 1980s was that it was something of a mix but definitely skewed male. As someone else said, that's probably the natural outgrown of interest in ham radio, phone phreaking, electronics kits, etc. All of which it's probably fair to say skewed male.
Cruel death is always near, so frail a thing is man. RIP Douglas Tompkins.
Very cool technology, but I feel bad for Amsterdam cyclists who will have these silent scooters sharing their bike lanes while going at much faster speeds.
9 tools for virtual teams to stay productive [Infographic]
My one abiding memory of this situation was `dwcfgmg.sys` (Dos and Windows Configuration Manager?) which was the DOS driver for ISA plug n' play devices. I was at that nexus between the "old" world of MS-DOS games where you had to program IRQ and DMA settings for your sound card, and the "new" world of graphical environments and plug n' play.

So as you say, even with 8MB in XMS (or sometimes EMS, depending on the game I think, using EMM 386), the 640k boundary was an issue and I too had the joys of paring down my `autoexec.bat` and `config.sys`

But no `dwcfgmg.sys` and my "plug n' play" soundcard wouldn't work. It was a small driver, but the games of the day seemed to demand the entire 640k at startup or they just wouldn't work :(

So often it was no sound, or no game at all. Oh what I would've given to trade that for manual soundcard configuration.
Honest question: what has been Yahoo's core business for the last 15 years?
Sometimes companies have one business that's doing quite well and another that's a real stinker. Shareholders may want to own the good business separately and let the market value that without the drag and risk of having the stinker weighing down on it. In the end the stinker is either dismantled, taken into bankruptcy or sold off.

In Yahoo's case it's a bit unique in that the only thing they really have that the market likes is their holdings in other companies. Essentially Yahoo is like a mutual fund that made some good investments but the fund managers are blowing it by running a poorly performing lemonade stand on the side. A lot of the investors just want the holdings and then are happy to let the stinker, Yahoo's original business, just go away. At the moment the market assigns the core business a negative valuation so it's beyond a stinker, it's an anti-company offsetting the value of investment holdings elsewhere under the corporation. It's a real mess.
My experience in Singapore is that Google Maps trumps Apple Maps on finding points of interest. However with driving directions Apple is a lot easier to follow. Apple tends to alert at better points before turn and also give more precise information about the turn. Example would be the number of the exit from the express way.
So I've resorted to finding the address in Google and then using Apple for the directions.
Indeed, not yet! Private repo support would require authenticating with GitHub, which makes the project a bit more complex.

I definitely plan to add this if there's enough interest. There should be a link to a mailing list to be notified when that rolls around (http://eepurl.com/bILhR1).

Thanks for checking it out anyway! : )
> Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition is considered a top-notch programming environment... and it's free.

Free but closed-source. Kids should also learn the value and power of Freedom.
DragonFly BSD 4.4 Released
Yes. Last paragraph of the page, link after Update:

-> http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-wom...
"Great, let's use the screen to do nothing but show that it is a bunch of pixels"

But it does that.

I'm not sure you follow my point - I would rather things on my screen did not waste those pixels pretending to be something they are not, in order to convince me that I can kind-of using it like that thing.

Here is an example:

Many web designers disguise hyperlinks on their page. They change the colour, remove the underline, add a 3d border to make it look like a button. Some go even further; some use a form button and add a click handler which fires of a page change when clicked.

My point is that a hyperlink is what it is. Why deliberately shatter the intrinsic understanding of how the web page works by purposefully destroying all that knowledge and then forcing the user to construct new understanding? Why can't a hyperlink be blue underlined text?

The answer to this question is usually "because it does not fit with the style or aesthetic of the page". And there-in lies the problem; the purpose of the page is not aesthetics.
Like many ambitious wiki-based projects, this site seems to suffer from lack of focus. Look at these pages:

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Dendrochronology

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Quantum_computer

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/TLD_.mobi

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Endianness

How is any of these things a file format? Because the definition of a file format in the FAQ (<http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/FAQ:File_Format>) is so broad that it can be made to encompass basically everything. The manifesto that started this site is a rambling sermon that doesn't clarify anything in this respect: it just repeats "let's solve the problem" without even properly defining what the problem is.

There are also other issues. The classification scheme is often Procrustean and confused. Error messages were until recently mixed up with error detection codes, which conflates two different meanings of "error". Similarly FUSE shares a category with HFS+, even though the former is an API, and the latter a disk format; distinct things which just happen to share the name of "file system". The pages are rather short and consist mostly of lists of links. Given the above-mentioned lack of clearly defined scope, I suspect many pages seem to be created about topics just because they're in the news and/or just to have a place to put a link to a "neat" blog post: see for example <http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Facebook#Links>.

Last but not least, the whole site is rather ugly, and the logo is awfully non-descriptive of what it's supposed to contain; what am I supposed to do with this thumb, stick it up my arse?

It's a shame, really, because documenting file formats is a hard and valuable endeavour. But I don't think these people are going to do a good job of it.
Not to be nitpicky, but you probably want to review how you typed those numbers. The second is smaller than the first, and the commas are not grouping the zeroes in groups of three.
I suppose you mean either 10^5 or 10^6, but I'm not sure which.
I cannot stand this argument, it holds no water. Or rather as much water as the famous FSM graph linking number of pirates to global warming.

I was interested in computers since early teens, without even seeing one in person, just reading in magazines. I've got a real opportunity to spend some time with them only in university, and the same applies to my classmates. So no one was given computer as a gift/toy, no one saw any ads for them. Guess who got interested in programming and who did not.