skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably depends on what you mean by "animation". One of the very first animations was a hula girl programmed on the AN/FSQ-7 console (part of the SAGE interception system). It was also interactive. She would dance to music played through the console's buzzer when you used the switches. If you used the light gun on her navel, her skirt would fall off.

Operators report seeing it in use around 1960. No pictures are known to exist,but I would guess that it switches between a couple fixed poses rather than being a full animation.

Bit of risque fun for the all-male crews of the time, but it also served as a diagnostic program. Similarly (but much later) SpaceWars would be used as a diagnostic program by DEC technicians. Those type of simple games exercise a variety of subsystems pretty well.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/the-ne...

Apparently William Fetter was working on wireframe graphics in 1960. It seems that by 1968 they had moved on to art too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phVN_HS5Fy8
Yes, it is, but it takes someone who knows what they are doing to abstract the hardware for the user.

You can build a better OpenGL on top of Vulkan, but until someone writes one OpenGL for average developers makes more sense.
"Targetting software" (as in, software that actually points a weapon at a target) most likely isn't something that Palantir is involved in.

However, data mining for target leads (e.g. through cell phone, financial, social network + other data) would be much more up their alley.
Memory safety costs 10% in execution speed and takes 50% more effort to develop, a fair trade-off anyone can take on behalf of their customers. Shortcomings of C are offset by many eyeballs law and the security life-cycle processes so much so that we can afford to safely abandon most organized auditing as well as any defensive coding.
One of the main reason for this is that hospital staff, especially doctors and nurses, tend to be atrociously bad at technology.

I remember that med students were early adopters of ePocrates in the Palm PDA era. I think it's more that they are atrociously bad at technology, unless it's particularly useful to them.

inability to remember passwords slowed people down

It would slow people down a lot. Someone needs to sell some sort of zero effort authentication technology for hospitals. (One where a supervising nurse could quickly auth the chief of surgery, because that sort of guy is going to forget his token/device.)
The menu is not the dinner. The username is not the user. Who do you think you really are, hnmcs?
> Teachers and administrators know who the bullies are, they just don't do anything at all to stop them,

You can't stop them, not even teachers and administrators. Bullying is psychologically tormenting as much as physical. Even the "physical" can't be stopped... punished afterward, but the deterrence effect is minimal and by that time the damage is already done anyway. Next year it will be a different bully that hasn't had the deterrence effect kick in.

And the psychological? How are you supposed to stop gossiping or name-calling or any of the other forms? You could turn schools into prisons (haha, like they aren't already) and not stop that.

This isn't difficult to understand. If we fail to understand it, that's because we don't want to understand it.

You take every kid aged 5 to 18, drop them in an institutional building for 40 hours a week supervised by minimum wage workers who couldn't hack a real major, miseducate and propagandize to them... and you get bullying in there. It's not a function of any single one of these factors accept perhaps classroom size and school population size... but it's still a result.

The only way to prevent it would be to do away with public education. If each child was supervised by an adult, or ratios were tiny (say 3 kids per adult), you wouldn't much have this. But that ratio is impossible with a public school system.

And since you want the system, you can't do anything about the bullying. So we pretend that bullying is a problem solvable with half-assed non-solutions like this.
Which stock market is off 20%? When I look at the Dow or S & P , I see a roughly 10-12% decline from its peak value. And after 2 days of up 2%, suddenly there's a headline saying "the bulls are back."
Creating partitions automatically in PostgreSQL
Startups are companies designed to grow fast.

I would disagree with this terminology. I posit that a "startup" is a company designed to grow big. How fast it gets there is an implementation detail. Many startups aim for fast growth, but not all do. To me, the distinction between "the corner laundromat" and a slow-growing startup is that the startup still intends to be a Really Big Company.
> So it's not surprising at all that they've chosen to focus on Metal instead of implementing Vulcan.

That's not the real reason, unless Apple will claim that they can't plan things right. They knew Vulkan was coming, so they could allocate their resources to it from the beginning. But they decided to push for Metal instead.

The history you linked to is missing important events prior to that. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11112078

TL;DR: Vulkan wasn't born out of nothing. Things started with Mantle. Apple didn't want to share effort in both directions joining the open API (which ended up in Vulkan), and made their Metal for themselves only, using the same Mantle as the source.
Why did they call it vk_cpp.h and not vulkan.hpp? Why???
hard to believe they have all this satellite pointing back at us and they can track anyone anywhere seemingly but they can't find a giant several hundred ton airplane? Either that or we underestimate just how large the body of oceans are.

And likely more scary is the fact that once a nuclear submarine submerges, nobody knows where it is. We can't even find this plane. A moving submarine beneath the vast body of ocean even more so.

I wonder if it's possible to develop xray vision that sees through the earth's ocean.
> given that most people don't try to include as many ingredients in a dish as possible just for the sake thereof

You would think so, but my experience says differently when it comes to being a vegetarian.

Take an random "average" (i.e. off the top of my head) US meal: some sort of noodles with a beef-based sauce, green beans, and biscuits. But the green beans have ham in them, and the biscuits are made with lard (I spent some time in the South, where ham is a seasoning and not a meat, it shows).

You'd think "well, gee, if we just make the green beans w/o ham, and the biscuits without lard, we can serve portobello mushrooms or a second vegetable or a vegetarian sauce on the noodles and the vegetarians will be happy!". And for me, at least, you'd be right, and I suspect in general.

But instead, what happens is that they make a second, distinct meal, into which they throw as many vegetarian things as they can find. Say, green peppers stuffed with quinoa, tomatoes, and artichoke bits. Or a kale salad with cooked eggplant and red peppers. etc.

When they order pizza, they get pepperoni for the meat eaters, but they get the olive/green pepper/onion/spinach/tomato chunks/mushroom for the vegetarians. Why not just cheese? The cheese pizza almost always runs out at gatherings I've been at that were lucky enough to have it as an option. (Note: I'm not addressing the vegans here, because I'm not a vegan so I have no real experience, and it's much harder to do "like the meat eater version, but vegan")

Okay, "as many vegetarian things as they can find" is hyperbole. But I'm faced with, instead of getting the same thing the meat eaters get, minus meat, is a conglomeration of things, at least one of which I'm likely not to like.

I think it's because people think simple vegetable options are "boring", and they need to spice it up. (and rather than use actual spices to do so, they try for variety in the same dish) That's my theory, anyway.

Hope that addressed your question...I sort of rant-vented a bit. I'll also add that I don't generally expect people to accommodate my desires, I just find it sad when they try and mess it up.
The story of the biggest rocket ever designed and it's creator, Bob Truax
Meh. I'll stick with CUDA
Gravitational waves, read all about it
That practically triggers PTSD from some of my experiences with similar types of people.

I know in start-ups making revenue is a bit of a dirty word but that's what the business is ultimately supposed to do anyway! Why the hell not build to support the revenue model(s) early so you can turn them on and test them as soon as possible? better to test your bets early before you're laying off hundreds of people because your guesses ended up being wrong.
http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/ess-news-and-events/news-head...

"Our results contribute to a growing body of evidence showing that changes in growth of woody deciduous plants following the reintroduction of wolves cannot be explained by the trophic cascade model alone"
That's exactly what the company here is doing.
A CORS version is planned!
And yes, you can use the sample endpoint in your pages.
We've banned those accounts. It's better to flag such comments than to respond to them.

In case anyone is wondering, the way to flag a comment (if you have more than 30 karma) is by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag' at the top.
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I've head a lot of bad luck with Western Digital hard drives lately. Nice to see some data back that up. I didn't know HGST existed, though.
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You're leaving out all of the companies between the two extreme poles that you just set down. What about a small, 5% gross margin software "startup" that takes on small investments with decent YoY growth that never makes TC news. Or a chain of coffee shops that experiences huge growth and raises high-visibility funding rounds, such as Philz Coffee? What is Palantir?

Companies that are designed to grow fast by swapping profitability for free, user-attracting features will not do well in the current investing environment. That is the point of the article. The investor is looking for less risky, less high-growth oriented companies - aka slow startups.

While you may not agree with my call to revisit terminology, it is poor form to insinuate that I am an idiot whose goal is to derail conversations by torching old terms. The hostility is unnecessary.
Conversely WD, particularly their RED drives, have gone to shit. Whatever HGST is doing they must be doing it in spite of WD management.
Even criminals tend to have some moral standards. They are not all complete sociopaths.

I've met a lot of "techie-trash" who even outwardly portray themselves as sociopathic, as if that made them seem smart and cool. Hell, I've been meeting people like that since the 90's! (They are a very slim minority of the tech populace, but their lack of self-awareness makes them tend to be very visible.)
I may be misinformed, but I believe the seed of the US' anti-Iran stance comes from Iran attempting to not allow exploitation of Iran by the British empire, our ally and mother, and then after, only because the country of Israel was born and we know their history with each other...

It's an empire-cock-blocking hate we have with Iran.
Yep http://i.imgur.com/nwMgL4o.jpg
>Imagine if the NSA was staffed only with residents of NYC

Bad analogy. Israel aggressively imports tech/engineering/science talent from the global Jewish diaspora.
>but advancing the text with spacebar would be just peachy.

Yeah, that's the first thing I configure on a new installation of FBReader. That should really be default.
> Apple had to remain the jerks they are and not support Vulcan natively

Thats a rather immature view of the technology world that smacks of the tired old tribal warfare notions that only internet forums believe in.

Apple had a technical problem of slow, bloated and battery-draining OpenGL API and they solved it using Metal more than 18 months ago, when no other viable alternative was on the horizon. Are they jerks because they didn't saddle their users with a technically inferior solution for even longer?

Khronos has let OpenGL evolve into a byzantine beast of an API with GPU vendors effectively segmenting it into multiple complicated variants of best practices (like AZDO and others). Vulkan was announced more than two years ago, but unless you were in a select inner circle of developers, there was no actionable information available, until today.

In the meantime, major commercial engines already have official support for Metal (or Unity will have it soon). Popular games like World of Warcraft already have betas using Metal. I can download free IDE, documentation, sample profiling and debugging tools for developing Metal applications.

Sad truth is that Kronos and the Vulkan group took too long to evolve OpenGL and to give developers any actionable specifications for Vulkan.
When the market takes off again, I'm sure you'll see the flip-side posts from VCs, explaining how startups need to push for higher valuation and better terms, proving you wrong 8-).
Important terms need to be well-defined before you can have any sort of intelligent conversation about them.

But the term "startup" isn't well-defined. Just go back through the history of the (many) debates on this very point here on HN. Sure, you could just declare pg the ultimate arbiter of all things startup, and use his definition; but there still isn't really industry-wide agreement on it.

I would argue that "startup" by itself just doesn't convey enough information and that it needs additional qualifiers to be useful. "VC funded startup" vs "bootstrapped startup" or "retail startup" vs. "tech startup", etc.

Words exist, let's not be scared to use as many as we need to be precise.
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Fair enough, I think it results in the same categorization in the end.
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You might try two things, just as ideas -- even just try it on a few and see if it changes responses any. Or send these to people who never got back to you the first time.

1. In your cover letter quickly describe one/two thing(s) that you have done that is relevant and might open a dialog for further discussion. Or peak someones interest at least.

2. Try reformatting your resume to be less about chronological order and more about skill set and tasks you have done. Use bullet points for libraries, API's etc to help bulk it up and make it obvious what you have worked with. Just don't ever lie.

Option #2 is what people with only a little or people with a lot of experience generally use because chronology puts an age on our head. Personally, I have seen that many people immediately calculate my age after seeing that I have been in industry for quite a while. Sometimes it is funny to watch/hear, other times it is just sad as you literally can watch their attitude flip, same goes for when you are young too. It is just human nature to some degree.
Yahoo’s New Research Model – Yahoo Research
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11101863
It's not free though so every company with data makes decisions about what is worth saving. Sure the costs are always falling but you have to pay (at best) today's prices to store today's data.
Part of the problem is that HIPAA must be easy for small private practices as well as massive hospitals to follow.

We're at the point where some company could sell a comprehensive software package for small practices that includes disaster recovery.
> Can people tell me why they start projects in ... C still?

Okay. Based on my current project (Porting AVS out of shit-tier Microsoft C++). I want a region of memory in which I can treat as a bitmap and set pixels at given location to given colours. I know of no other language that gives me this block of memory to draw into. That's probably because I don't know enough. Most languages seem to tout how immutable things are. That's a big word for many people and it just means "does not change".

If other languages want my attention then maybe they need more than a "Hello, World!" and some string processing. Show me your malloc equivalent and see if I can go from there.
Go 1.5 uses its own pure-Go DNS resolver.
Ok, we took out the bit about an IQ question and replaced it with other subtitle. If Gowers says someone is a giant in modern mathematics, that's no clickbait.
HN is not a magical land where people do not leave moronic comments. Between users flagging comments and dang a lot of comments get killed. If you would like to see what HN would look like without some level of moderation turn on show-dead in your preferences. The anti-semetic idiots will be at the bottom of the page.
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The hard question is not to exend this series up but to extend it down by only one entry. That's the real hardest IQ question ever.
That's an interesting cycle.

I had one of the IBM Deskstar (aka. Deathstar for the high failure rate). IBM sold the HDD business to Hitachi, who sold it to WD.

And now, Deskstars are as reliable as they come.
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http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/528cf418eab8ea305c9...
R, the master troll of statistical languages (2012)
Show HN: GrabDuck-Bookmarks with full text Search
On a related note, now's probably a good time to remind people of pg's famous "How Not To Die" essay, which is at least tangentially related to the topic at hand.

http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
As well as the plot of the Hunger Games.
Anyone offering a GUI solution that can export to an RSS feed like Kimono did? I know RSS is old but I have no clue how to display the other formats in wordpress. Thanks!
Just something I've noticed - Looks like generating schema from an example doesn't support multiple value types. Eg. when the first object's value is string and the next one's is null, it saves it as a string field in the schema and throws an error for the example.
>> The deadly virus

>> “changed the code” (the scare quotes bit)

>> to invent a “vaccine”

>> the secret formula... fell into the hands of Russia and Iran

>> increasingly stronger versions of the virus

>> the most deadly version of the virus

Is anyone else not wild about the manner in which "cyber" articles get written? I feel like non-technical readers are left mildly concerned that they're going to come down with a case of the stuxnet and die, or that now that Russia and Iran have a copy of stuxnet we're all doomed.

Most of the language regarding the virus seemed more appropriate for an actual bioweapon. It'd be nice if there were a bit more focus on educating the public than scaring them.
Hallo

We just want to drop in to let you know about our new view of idea Bookmarks with a full text search.

We are small team of developers and have a lot of experience with a search engine. This experience we decided to apply in our project GrabDuck (further GD).

The main our idea is to make the process of working with Bookmarks easy and simply. So in GD you don’t find the folders or categories in general meaning.

Everything what you should do:

1 Send url to the GD
2 Ask GD what you need

So it would be great to hear all suggestions and feedback.
So many teasered demos, but no video to look at...
What? Have you ever had a job? You must be 12 or work at google. because everywhere i've been, tech depts are treated like redheaded lepers and designers and managers get all the glory.
Long Now is doing something like this but with a nickle disk instead of stainless and etching and electroforming instead of engraving. It allows much smaller features vs engraving. They're engraving 13000 pages about 1500 languages onto a small 3inch disk.

http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/
The DNS code in resolv/ is not formatted according to GNU coding style - you can tell by the sane placement of braces.

It's a fork of an ancient version of BIND.

Starting with version 2.2, the resolver in the GNU C Library comes
from BIND 8.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=resolv/READ...
Seriously - ads already? Use "Show HN" to show something you made something that people can love. Commercialization can follow later.
An awesome documentary[0] related to how people move and use public spaces. "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" William H Whyte. citylab actually linked this a while ago [1], but the version embedded in that page has since been removed.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjxXTsHgc8g

[1] http://www.citylab.com/design/2011/10/social-life-public-spa...
If anyone wants to try this on FreeBSD there is an update to the port (I'm the port maintainer) here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207236

afl-analyze is new. Afl in the ports tree doesn't have it yet.
Right. IQ is generally supposed to measure reasoning and problem solving abilities. While some knowledge is a prerequisite, this "test" would simply be testing your familiarity with a particular set of knowledge.

Of course, if you taught students this knowledge first, then having them figure it out is a good test of problem solving ability.
The science was done right, but the media management wasn't.
American Revolutionary War

Which led to the perpetuation of slavery for another 90 years (which the British were in the process of abolishing throughout their holdings), among other "issues."
I think the US is a bigger ally to Israel than vice versa. But even allies spy on each other. The US certainly does it to Germany.

I think Israel's history and geo-political position makes them much more skiddish than other countries. A significant portion of their society was formed from holocaust survivors. And then it fought a series of wars against it's neighbors. A significance loss could be disastrous for them.

There is some reason for them to be suspicious of America. During The 1973 war, the US told them not to preemptively attack, which may have cost them dearly (it's not clear if Americas advice was the reason they didn't). The US considered not re-arming the Israeli's during that war when they needed supplies and weapons.

But they also have little to offer the United States. If a Warsaw/NATO war happened in the 1950-80s it would have been Europeans dying by the millions too. Israel is never going to a key ally to the US.
If you want to read more about the two different Stuxnet attacks, I highly recommend Ralph Langner's 2013 write-up "To Kill A Centrifuge"

http://www.langner.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/To-kill... (36 page PDF)

Langner was the first researcher (outside of those who were involved in its creation) to discover Stuxnet.
>If you are in Silicon Valley and your customers are mostly well-paid consumers with no free time, or other venture-backed startups, well, I’d be worried.

That's the most beautifully I've heard this thought articulated. I constantly hear people in SV talk publically talk about how they're living years in the future due to getting services from startups that haven't yet hit other markets. These people are very wealthy and very short on free time; they incorrectly assume the rest of the world is as well. The reason Uber became so successful was because it became cheaper than a cab in most major markets with world class service. You have to really dig deep to justify most other on demand startups having the ability to jump the shark and it's because they don't have a plebeian offering.
Astute catch! We're actually tracking this issue internally already. We'll be beefing up that generator to aggregate multiple values for the same property, when it's an array of objects. Look for that in an update in the next 2 weeks.
>Why?

Gold lost on sunken ships!