skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't resist, it applies perfectly:

Firefox, the fast, stable, and lightweight alternative to Netscape.

I don't know quite where it went off the rails...
So am I... at some point for colleagues that were telling me that my mail looked bad because text (and they weren't using fixed width font), I was sending them text converted to html by a script, so it is contained in a <pre></pre> :->
RSS, Usenet newsgroups, netbooks, 4:3 CRT monitors, GNOME 2.x, non-BitTorrent file sharing networks.
PageMaker: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker

I used it to typeset nearly all of my academic work until I was forced to switch to Word by peer pressure. Adobe made a complete hash of it, and none of those files are readable anymore.
I don't think that fully explains it.

On my school's forum, people routinely ask questions which a simple Google search would have answered.

Yet typing out a question and posting it to a forum is a lot more work than searching on Google. I'd think the lazy response would be to stick to Google.
Are you sure you're not just browsing more complex sites? Modern rich web applications can use a surprisingly high amount of cpu, gpu and ram
Dutch tap water is great too. Joy to drink.
I never owned a 5, much to my regret. I switched from a 3a to a PalmPilot (which by itself deserves another entry in this list), but often wished I'd stuck with Psion.
Funny how ICQ was, what, 20 years early to the IM revolution?

Slack nowadays is a mixture of IRC and ICQ. It was wonderful to be able to talk for free (well, paying dialup minutes) with the 3 friends you might had online, plus that guy on the other side of the world who you met through an ICQ number on a website :_)
Oh heck, you remind me of my psion 5. It was brilliant, and the tiny keyboard was good enough to touch type on. Battery life in weeks. Someone bung a modern screen on that form-factor please.
For me the star ratings on IMDb often correlate with my own rating. But Metacritic and RottenTomatoes are often very skewed in a different direction and I really don't care to analyze why they conclude with such a different rating. Also with video games, Metacritic is pretty useless in my opinion - it's far better to read just a few sites I trust and they give me a better rating overview than a broad range of many bought ("100") or clueless ("20") critic reviews or user reviews.
Oh God yes. Two topics analogies should never be used for when attempting to impart understanding; QM and pointers.
As somebody who knows the person in question: Nice theory, but no. Not everybody has ulterior motives like this.
PC Outline. It's a DOS-based outliner. In 1986, my manager said "Here, you're organised. You'll like this" and he was right - I did. So much so that I bought my own copy. I still use it every day in a DOSBox DOS emulator on Windows 7 and Linux. I use it for passwords, todo and done lists, keeping track of work done for clients, functional decomposition, shopping lists and the steps for configuring and compiling the Linux kernel.
I don't like them either, but they have to do something?

If every site was ad free but behind paywall, how could hacker news even exist?
I don't think Digg Reader does search. Digg is good though, it's what I use.
Why companies still use a Mac for their headline stock image, when they don't even have the Mac app ready.

Other than that nice idea.
That was exactly my point.
My backseat quarterbacking here... I feel like these guys focused on the wrong things, the fascinating thing though is that with all the help they had, no one told them.

I would have got a marketing person in on day 1. Who needs a "back-end engineer" if you have no users using the product. I wouldn't have rewrote the app. Who cares how maintainable the app is if you have no users. I would have looked for a more realistic back-end route that can work today while I work on the bank integration (why not top up gift cards? I've paid people to write blog articles for me in Amazon Gift Cards. They're as good as cash.) basically, just keep plowing until get from zero to one. Even if one looks NOTHING like your original vision.
If I'm not mistaken he's talking about India. It's common advice (for travellers at least) to only drink bottled water in India.
Logitech Cordless Optical TrackMan

I have no idea why they made it wireless, it ate batteries like crazy, but its still the best trackball I've ever owned.

Having the ball at your middle and ring finger gave better control than the thumb driven ones.

You can still get it on places like amazon, but at a ridiculous price, 10-20 times what it originally retailed for.
The printing press, and its proliferation a few hundred years ago.

Without it, the cost of copying information is enormous. When you can't copy stuff cheaply, you end up copying only a few things. Like what whoever is in power likes. Or whatever the accepted wisdom of the day is.

With it, you can have ideas, spread them, and get feedback from a lot of people. That goes for social ideas like liberalism, religious ideas like Protestantism, scientific ideas like gravity, and technological ideas like all the ones on HN.

You also get away from authority. If you have some new thoughts about how government should be organised, it's a lot harder to stop you telling everyone.
Not all of them. Many of them? Sure. Many people also use scripts and so on.
I had also the feeling the "benchmark" is a joke. Even if it takes some seconds to print hello, speed is only important when you run big programs with million of operations.
Unfortunately the number of people lining up to maintain neglected OSS software is not very big.
Film cameras, they certainly still exist, but very few people use them anymore. And the ones still manufactured are either marketed as jewellery, or are crazy expensive.

My 100-50 year old family photos are sharper and better than pictures taken today with phones and cheap cameras. And expensive cameras are expensive and heavy.

At first I was very happy when the so called mirrorless camera appeared, but I was just too optimistic; the good ones are more expensive than an average DSLR, and lenses are still too big. Not to mention that they are full of bullshit software that will stop working in the future and batteries last a day or less. My DSLR battery lasts weeks/months and my film cameras (the ones that need a battery, most don't) last for many years.

Laptops with 4:3 (or 5:4) screens. For large screens (over 27''), I don't care as much about the aspect ratio, but for small screens is matters a lot. I'm looking forward to the ThinkPad Retro, but it will probably be a non-interesting heavy brick. We'll see.
Graffiti on Palm handhelds. I owned the original PalmPilot and a couple of other models up to the Vx, and can still write Graffiti faster than I can type on a touch screen.

Discounting the Newton (which I tested but didn't own), there still isn't anything else that even came close in terms of practical "handwriting", and even though there's an Android keyboard that does Graffiti, ACCESS is sitting on the IP and has done nothing with it.

I'd forego a non-critical bit of my anatomy to have Graffiti on iOS with a decent stylus. Not even the MyScript keyboards come close.
I found the next version up, or rather a clone of it: the Ericsson MC218, a rebranded Psion Series 5 (the MC218 came with a little IrDA adapter for compatible Ericsson phones).

Of all places I stumbled on it at an op-shop - in ~2012, I think it was. The box looked a bit sad but the unit itself was literally new.

...and I can tell you that if you've ever read stories about how fragile they were I can confirm all of them. The entire LCD hinge assembly broke on mine after only a few months, and I had to thread wire into and around the (~1mm no. 2 plastic >.<) chassis to recreate the pivot points for the LCD to close right. Thankfully it looks completely unscathed, the battery compartment's just a bit funky.

The hardware was, in short, terrible, but the OS was amazing.

I'm convinced Symbian EPOC was built by a bunch of unbelievably optimistic, unfazeable software developers or something - C++ hadn't even been standardized yet (wow much 1998) so the EPOC SDK is a mix of scary, disastrous and hilarious... but the OS and UI design were still, in spite of this, absolutely awesome.

My favorite feature was the fact that the UI had real windows, with titlebars. And dragging the titlebars would drag the entire window - not an outline, the whole window. It was amazing. ("Look!! I have a desktop in my pocket!!")

And then there was the programming language that came built in. I mean, they crammed a fully-functional physical keyboard into the thing, so I mean, duh, you add a programming language to it cuz that's what you do when you have a real keyboard.

OPL was equal parts confusing and awesome, but, because it was so BASIC-like I started hundreds of tiny projects that I never finished. There are some pretty amazing little applications out there written in OPL, but most things were done in C++.

Probably the coolest thing I did with OPL was discover that the system was fast enough to handle full-screen haptic scrolling - my stylus was starting to get old and scratch the LCD, and using my finger would have felt weird, so I never finished it - but it was pretty awesome to know that this bytecode-interpreted language was fast enough to handle SurfaceFlinger-esque full-screen content scrolling on a 640x240 LCD.

What did your 36MHz ARM7TDMI-based gadgets do?
Asobo Studio: Lessons from the Frontline of HoloLens Development
Someone has to write a script that archives pages automatically when they appear on HN.
XTree Gold anyone???
Breakfast Backtrack: Maybe Skipping the Morning Meal Isn't So Bad
XTree Gold anyone?
So the Bing cache is good and the article worth reading

This is however the money shot:

>> how many parts of your company’s product are coupled to the lifestyle and priorities of some lone, unpaid package maintainer? It’s something I have to think about too – in my day-job I build software on top of many FOSS libraries, many of which are probably maintained by people in similar circumstances to my own.

Given that my day job builds on (last count) 953 npm packages, most of which are probably different authors, not to mention servers, backend etc etc, I do really worry we are finding OSS backwards.

Good luck to the OP and his young family. And perhaps GitHub can set up a "pay me a days freelance rates work for issues fixed" feature
Web pages without javascript. Even now I try to use the web without it as much as I can. So smooth and nice everything is.
Good old PalmOS handhelds, such as Palm Treo 650 or Palm Centro. I still use Centro these days, but there is nothing on the market to replace it with.
I index from -N:N so that 0 is in the centre of my computational boxes.
Genes don't encode all the necessary information for growing up. There are time windows for activation of high level functions. (Cats get blind if their time window for visual learning is not used). So you need to take into account the time window and the other interactions before trying to speed up intelligence.
Artisanat du bâtiment: une reprise de l’activité saluée par Emmanuelle Cosse
Well, mysql is dead and I have no chance to fix it right now because my son is crawling all over me and demanding my atttention.

working cached copy: https://archive.is/t9oKw

Sorry about my poor devops skills, everyone.
I dislike such posts.

Since mostly an issue is nothing but.
Even if it won't get fixed (directly).

Also some people in Open Source are akward. They tell me that they have limited resources in their project and they can't fix it or won't fix it or whatever. They don't even think that I could try to fix my own issue. They better start a conversation that they have too less people and that this particular issue will be closed. They don't even care if you've done some open source contributions already (even minor one's) on another project / language.

It's like some people just don't want your help, even if they told you.
File servers. Everywhere I've worked for the past 5 years makes you use a cloud "solution" like DropBox or Google Drive. Those things are find for individual use, but a nightmare to work with in a team. "I'll share that doc with you." "I can't access it - can you give me permissions?" "OK what's your email address..." etc. I sure do miss the days when a) there was a common root directory that everyone could see and b) the issue of permissions wasn't crowd sourced to people who don't understand permissions systems.
I remember using it for hand-editing mpeg files. (Using probably Animation Shop Pro), but it was a really wonderful tool.
Kotlinz
+1 for Google reader. Never found anything like it.
The web went off the rails, not Firefox! Or better, webdevelopers went off the rails. Or even better, their managers. No no no, probably their CEOs! Or... ehm...
No better way to ruin children's motivation to do something for its own sake, than paying them for chores. Nothing personal, but I'm glad thjs project flopped. So many children are better off without external monetary motivators. Those will lead to disaster in their lives and 9-5 jobs they hate.
Regarding that last one, there's still Usenet, eMule, and DC++ to consider. Many anime fansubbing groups use XDCC to distribute releases.
Social-networkingmediasites
Great piece of software. Few modern editors are as fast. None have ever done smooth scrolling since.
Very true. Lenovo destroyed thinkpad legacy and it's on its way to destroying Motorola's legacy. The leaked renders of moto g4 and x4 look mighty awful.
Once google shut down federated XMPP for gmail accounts and started pushing Hangouts, that was pretty much the end of the service for me.
Ethiopia Finally Has a National Payment System
I tried to live on 600 calories a day. Here’s what I learned about dieting
Isn't that why Github has forking? If people recognize that you'll accept more updates to your fork than the original, then maybe your will become the defacto proper one. If not, at least you fixed it for yourself and all your friends who trust you.

If you don't like that you'll then have to include the original author's future changes in yours, then, well, you're doing just what he was - not wanting to spend time managing other people's things.
The issue is the callback, it introduces significant overhead because it is a new context with its own scope on a per callback basis.
Writing, with a pen.

I never do it anymore, but it worked great until I got a PC, a Psion 5, and especially after my first Macbook. Since then I barely write with a pen, and if I do it's cramped.
OK that's a no-go then of course.
No, this is not the type of representation that is done by word2vec. These older bilexical preference models work as follows:

- Take a huge corpus.

- Parse the corpus using your parser.

- Extract head-dependent strengths according to some metric (e.g. pointwise mutual information) from the machine annotated data. These association strengths are used as an auxiliary distribution. The machine annotated data may contain erroneous analyses, but they are typically outnumbered by correct analyses[1].

- In parse disambiguation, the head-dependent strength is added as another feature (the strength is the feature value).

This idea precedes word2vec for quite some time and is also different, both in the training procedure (word2vec uses raw unannotated data, bilexical preference models use machine-annotation data) as well as the result of training (distributed word representations vs. head-dependent association strengths).

Although it's a different method, they can capture the same thing as word embeddings plus a non-linear classifier: which heads typically take which dependents. However, in contrast to word embeddings, they are effective in a linear classifier because the auxiliary distribution itself consists of combinatory features (head-dependents).

[1] E.g. consider freer word order languages. In Dutch, SVO is the preferred word order, but OVS is also permitted. A parser without such an auxiliary distribution might analyse the object as a subject in an OVS sentence. However, since SVO is much more frequent than OVS, it will learn the correct associations on a large machine-annotated corpus.
Tangent: Looking forward to the resurgence of static page generators.
SWIFT announced that a second bank was a victim of cyber heist
I miss Google Talk with the lightweight client for Windows.
It was snappy and it just worked.
Fun fact: http://apple.com/hypercard redirects to that page.
The golden quarter..

https://aeon.co/essays/has-progress-in-science-and-technolog...
The rude behavior definitely exists, I can point out a number of examples if you send me your e-mail address (you can look me up, @ScottPJones on GitHub, easily enough). I've seen that that sort of disrespectful behavior tends to spread in the community, unfortunately, when nobody dares call out one person for their comments and actions, because of their position.
Norton Utilities 8.0 and Norton Commander.

I loved the DiskEditor which enabled me to recover lost files by manipulating the FAT table, hack byte codes to bypass copy protection in the days when copy protection was done by reading in bad sectors in floppy disks.

Norton Commander for the ease of use to navigate file system in DOS days. I use TotalCommander now which is the best $40 I ever spent.
No, it's impossible.

Engineering is not simply about having fantasies. A fair bit of what you do as a technologist is rule out things that simply are illogical. Perpetual motion machines, a way to calculate whether a program will halt, acausal filters, and so on.

For instance, it's impossible to construct a windmill that is 70% efficient. I learned that last week, so now I know not to think too much about it, other than noticing any refutation of Betz' Law.

There are many things that are hard but cannot be ruled out, like sending probes to Alpha Centauri. It's fair to spend energy thinking about those ideas, but to do that we need to stop thinking about things that are ruled out.
You wrote about the housing bubble, I wrote about cash money. You wrote about theoretical licenses, I wrote about that you practically own something.

Example: I buy a DVD, I can play the DVD as many times I want until it physically breaks. I some states it's also allowed by law to create a backup copy in case it breaks. And while you are allowed by law to do things, it's not possible with new paradigm like used in Win10, John Deer traktor or Tesla S car - so even if you are by law allowed to do things like sell your own stuff, you simply can't do that with such dongled stuff that also tracks you all the time as extra bonus.

And it's not about electronic cash per se, it's about centralized systems. I am unsure about Bitcoin but it sounds at least better than a system controlled by the state. Anyway cash money is still the way to go. It's like electronic voting, at the moment there is no realistic way to build a system that is secure and also don't record who voted what and making it easier to mass-manipulate votings - that's why still many states disallow electronic voting or reverted back to voting on paper. Of course many lobbyists from voting machine manufacturers would say the opposite.
Great post-mortem thanks for sharing.

Did you try a model where your app would be a great vehicle to sell (yet another) credit card to parents plus additional cards to their kids? In that model transfer transactions would be internal to one company and maybe they would already have an API to interact.

In my country risk investment or VCs are nonexistent so every time I think about funding one of my ideas a possible option is to use a big business where they serve as the distribution channel while the app serves to drive sales. In telcos for instance, apps could be a selling point in corporate sales; say a job tracker that helps a telco nail a contract with a contractor firm.
did the same with nytimes years ago.

HN wasn't even a thing. but every slashdot article pointing to it, I ignored and looked over the comments if anybody pasted the behind login/paywall text.
orkut.com
The way i see it, the vanishing of the physcial keyboard marks the shift of mobile tech from production to entertainment. This because using all the face of the device for screen allows for better video and photo viewing.
Automatically created variables from ids in JS? (2015)
> you pretty much have to manually anchor pointers before calling code which knows nothing of the GC.

Which I'd still consider trivial...
FAR manager is norton commander-style tool for modern windows, it's quite useful in some use cases.
you speak like sponsored messages are a new thing.

also remember that every newspaper in the world started with money from political parties and/or unions.
College student here. I wish I could relate. My CS course exams in which you must write code..with a pen..on paper made me hate writing even more.
Android: Exploiting CVE-2016-2060 on Qualcomm Devices
Unethical Research: How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
Great story and great tip. Thank you for sharing.
I use it for productivity :) On a blank A4 page there are no notifications, popups, battery issues, constraints of input fields.

I find it really useful to have the project outline beside my monitor. It's joy to physically cross out todo items :)
I am very happy with Feedbin but I know what you mean – and Feedbin of course cannot be free. I am nevertheless glad that alternatives sprang up, the first weeks after the end of Google Reader were difficult.
Just wanted to provide some bits about the MPEG-LA AVC patent portfolio licensing (which includes H.264 enc/dec). I went through this process for work and it's pretty painless. The licensors are very responsive will help you find a solution. They're not trying to shake you down.

(I'm not familiar with Vysor but whatever you do, stay away from libvlc if you're looking for a decoder/encoder. That stuff is not kosher in most countries. ffmpeg is a gray area too.)

Some highlights from a few years ago (may differ slightly now but unlikely):

* No licensing fee

* Free for private/personal, non-commercial usage (e.g. non-monetized YouTube, cat videos)

* < 100,000 units = no royalties! (Unit defined as encoder or decoder)

* > 100,000 units = 0.20c/unit

The process is simple, you ping them, they FedEx you a stack of easy to read papers, sign it, and mail it back.

[IANAL so obvious use-common-sense boilerplate goes here.]
> Yes, in tech it's pretty safe to take English as the lingua franca here.

Another thing, that was not mentioned in the article, is that the government of Estonia seems to be doing a better job of managing the country than the governments of most other European countries. Estonia seems to have relatively little bureaucracy and relatively low taxes.

For example, I currently live in Norway. If I wanted to start a new company, it seems that it would be better for me to move to Estonia and start it there, rather than do it here in Norway. I wonder how feasible that would be to do, though, without me speaking Estonian? Other than talking to tech people, can you live in Estonia and get by with only English?
Turntable.fm... all those college late nights.
As the decoder was software based, preparing a switch to VP9 or AV1 may be a strategic move.
While over at Android there already is.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.access_com...
New business model tool for entrepreneurs
Eventually, yes.
Fujaba (without eclipse) - From UML to Java and Back Again

KPT Bryce (Kai Krause)

Apple Newton handwriting recognition

Apple ResEdit

ICQ

Usenet
https://incubator.apache.org/wave/
NASA Invests in Next Stage of Visionary Technology Development
Reminds me of cs.rin.ru [1]

[1] http://cs.rin.ru/forum
You're confusing copyright with patents here.
Software patents on formats can't be avoided just by switching the implementation.
Coverr.me – discover music covers
If it's India they have a problem of arsenic contamination of groundwater, plus bacterial contamination of surface water.