skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess at the end of the day, that exactly my concern too.

Signal is awesome, which is why we want to use it, but then suddenly the user finds they're now inextricably tied to Google or Facebook collecting their metadata - while we know Google themselves have been compromised (technically & legally) and are forced to hand that data over. Notably, to an NSA that has lied to Congress about it's operations, without consequence, and hence is now beyond oversight and reach of regulators too.

Also that the iOS code, which appeared to be free & open, is actually not, because other projects are denied permission to use in a way that's compatible with iOS's App Store). Ironically because the libraries are under GPL. Hey, blame Apple I know, or ourselves for not reading all Apple's T&Cs before promoting Signal, but it's disappointing none-the-less (while also still being OWS's right).

From all their history, the OWS guys seem to really want and be trying to do the right things, within the constraints and trade-offs available to them. The answers aren't trivial, but something about where it's all ended up leaves a very uncomfortable feeling.
Linux memory management for servers
Downstream projects of FFmpeg such as VLC certainly have been affected [1]. The interesting thing is that most of the problems have been with audio formats - this is the first I've seen for an open source project using H.264.

The Wikipedia article is a bit misleading because although it cites the EU as an example, most software patents are allowed in the EU, including many H.264 patents. I would encourage you to fight software patents not by infringing, but by using royalty-free alternatives.

[1] https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=125032
This proves what we already know about many white folks and Obama.
> a ton of things about how limiting this OS is. ... if you're editing 3 or 4 projects with Xcode ...

I'm not an OS X fan – far from it, really – but that is not a limitation of OS X. That's a limitation of Xcode. I have launched multiple instances of the same app on OS X; via right-clicking on their icons, I think.
Liberty Reserve would have solved all your problems, but Budovsky rots in jail. And you guys go through emotional roller-coaster with banksters who got lost in their own regulations.

Another observation - you had a great idea that delivers clear value. Didn't happen. Now, by looking at your web site, you quite successfully sell some bullshit to other bullshitters who sell their shit to VCs, who sell their shit to innocent bystanders. Hell of a transition.
I know this one is not mentioned but I don't get the headphone holes you find in most packs. I've never seen anyone actually using it. My current bag had one. I tried to use it once. The hole is so small that it was almost impossible to fit the earbud Jack through it. Even a small model. Even when I managed to it had some rubber flaps that pressed so tightly on the cable I couldn't move without the risk of breaking the cable.

I just gave up in the end. I can't see how this can be useful if you can't easily pass the wires through it.

I get that you want to avoid water from coming in when not in use.

Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

Here's a pic of what I mean:

https://gabebernal.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/img_0217-e133...
Could you list them out for us, please?
Even if minimum wage was 1$ a day, companies would try to make as much as possible.

Its the same as outsourcing the drive through to a remote call center (already happening).

The difference, machines aren't subsidized by taxpayers.
Please don't rewrite titles unless they are misleading or linkbait, and especially please don't use submission titles to editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Technical debt vs. technical disappointment
Why are people downvoting this? It seems like a perfectly reasonable wish. If something like this already exists then then please share it. The replies so farention things that are similar in some ways but either aren't parametric or don't have the extensibility that @iamleppert is lining for.
Yes, and in one of their Coursera videos the nand2tetris guys sketch out how this works. But I wish they'd have included it in the course itself. Maybe it would have needed an extra chapter, but for those of us who never studied it before it's really cool stuff.
> simply emergent

There are people who model emergent systems and game theory, with the goal of influencing outcomes across a range of scenarios.
Firefox currently ships VP8 and VP9. It includes H.264 support not for concerns about it being "guaranteed free", but for web compatibility.
Windows 7 UI
At this point I honestly have no idea what people at startups are supposed to do if they suspect wrongdoing/foul play by executives. Tell your boss, who tells the CEO, who fires you. Tell an investor, who wants to protect their investment, and they fire you. Tell the CEO and they fire you. Tell the HR manager and, again, their job is to protect the CEO and the exec team so they fire you. I'm genuinely wondering what the expectation was here. I imagine if this person had expressed these concerns to Suster he would have been shushed/fired, so thats why he didn't...
Open source guy: pretty much everything I was using in 1996 is still around, but better.
Only in the most pro-nuclear estimate is that true.

The 2014 IEA report gives two numbers, 413 GWe (low nuclear) and 1092 GWe (high nuclear) estimates for 2050. Compared with today's 377 GWe.

And they've been revising those numbers downward each of the past several years since Fukushima.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and...
Or stop buying cow's body parts.
In this case the text on the wall wart didn't match the text on the one I got with my MBP, so I'd consider it unlikely to be genuine.
I've worked on a few laser based wireless power systems and I don't see it easily becoming safe enough for consumer use at power levels that are useful. For industrial/military use, the only thing keeping them from being off the shelf is their high cost and maintenance requirements (oddball cooling system requirements and very clean optics).

If you want to charge your phone on the order of 1w/hr, it's possible, any more power than that, consumers can't maintain equipment good enough for it to work. The main limiting factor for the power level is keeping things clean and scratch free enough. If you figure that out, it is worth more than wireless power system is (and I can I buy a few?).

One of the systems I worked on could deliver 1kW at 100m, and even something as small as a 0.5% reflection could set your clothes on fire if you were close to the reflection. 1KW is less power than what you can draw from most standard consumer wall outlets.
US Trade Deficit Doubled, Jobs Lost Under Trade Deal That Was Template for TPP
You really shouldn't fire someone after just 90 days. Maybe you should try moving the person into a different role/team before firing. Or at least give them some more time. 90 days is way too little time to pick up new skills and domain knowledge.
While VP9 encoding hardware is still rare, hardware VP8 encoding on Android is pretty common due to Hangouts and the Chromecast using it.
To what end? Not enough information for speculation. One of the nice things about HN discussions is that generally folks who comment have some line of reasoning that leads to their opinion. Unless someone was actually working at uBeam and a confidante of Perry, what ever they speculate is useless. And if they are an employee and confidante, what ever they say will no doubt lead to at least the end of their position and at worst legal action.

And the really relevant point is that uBeam hasn't, according to its current press, pivoted into anything other than its stated mission. So debating why not is like debating why you didn't ask out someone back when you were in high school and now has turned out to be someone you didn't expect. Kind of a waste of time :-)
I'll add a personal annoyance as well: any backpacks that are completely black on the inside (especially top-loaders). These bags are so concerned with looking tacti-cool that they forget that it's impossible to see/find anything in them.
>Send some money to a nearly empty account with Venmo and then try to spend that money, and it becomes clear that Venmo's immediacy is an illusion.

Regular bank accounts work that way too, when you deposit a check.
I've been using julia for a little more than two years now. I've been subscribed to all the mailing lists and regularly read the github issues. Not all of them, but a fair share. I've never, ever seen any behavior by any of the core devs that one could even remotely describe as toxic, rude or anything like that. The community is actually really helpful and supportive.

I have seen this point about a toxic dev been made before in some blog post. Back then I followed the story up because it seemed so at odds with my experience with the core devs. It took a bit of googling and following links, but in the end, in my mind, there was simply nothing to the whole story. The supposedly rude behavior was not at all rude, imho.

I don't really know where these allegations come from, but I find this kind of "I've heard second hand that there is a toxic dev" inappropriate. If someone has a problem with someone, make it explicit, post the email that you dislike, so that others can judge themselves. But these vague accusations are not helpful, and at least from my point of view entirely at odds with how I have perceived the behavior of the core devs over the last two years.

I should say that I'm not part of the MIT crowd. I've never met or talked with any of the core devs and don't know them beyond reading their emails on mailing lists and sporadic interactions on github.
The xBase family of languages/development environments. They are still around - Harbour (open-source multi-platform Clipper implementation) and Ashton-Tate dBase which changed many hands and is now dBase LLC.

They were one of the fastest environments to build business software in till the early 90s. Then Client/Server and Windows happened. Visual Basic and Delphi occupied the niche with support for SQL based databases. xBase tried playing catch-up but by the time they caught up clunkily to GUI programming, the effort was wasted and the Web came around.

This is how xBase was loved:

This isn't a question or a bug or a complaint. This is just to say
that using your prg files from Foxapp, modifying the startup,
creating a database, compiling and debugging I created an
beautiful working application in 45 minutes today, including the
time it took for the client to explain what they wanted in the
database. The client was duly impressed, and I marvelled at just
how much 2.0 had made programming fun and had increased my
potential income. I am now taking on programming jobs that would
have been painful in the past, and find that I can afford to do
some pro bono work knowing that with Foxpro 2.0 and my
distribution package I can whip up a quick database for the church
or the school or anybody who just can't afford custom programming.

I've been hacking PCs since I bought an Apple at Homebrew Computer
Club in Palo Alto from a couple of kids who were building them in
a garage. (In those days they were talking about marketing them as
a multilevel, like Amway). I've played with a lot of software,
ranging from user-hostile to stuff that curls up on your lap and
talks dirty in your ear.

But Foxpro 2.0 is something special. What you folks have created
is an elegant solution. When you finaly go public, may you all
cash out as rich as Bill Gates.

Please thank all the Fox folks for me.

Charles

-- "Letter from a FoxPro admirer". FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software, Kerry Nietz.
Python data visualization: Comparing 7 tools
> Which just sort of makes me bitter you fail to acknowledge the problems.

I'm perfectly happy to acknowledge that there have been conflicts in the community. However, I maintain that the overwhelming majority of interactions in the community are immensely positive. Please do also consider that there may be parts of the story that you are not seeing in the public issues. I do hope you will consider giving the community a second chance. You have quite clearly identified some of the major technical challenges we face and we'd love to hear any ideas you have to address them.
Couldn't you just piggyback another service like PayPal to process the payments? The PayPal student debit Mastercard is/was available to anyone over the age of 13. Then when you specify the chore and amount, the app sends the amount to the kids' account and therefore the card.

The card doesn't seem to exist any more, but it sounds almost exactly like what this app does (without the todo list functionality). It's linked to a parents' account so they can provide cash for fuel/going out and can keep track of the kids' expenses.

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/paypal-targets-students-parents-...
Oh, yeah there it was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11686096
Ah, that certainly makes sense. The article was a hoot, BTW - speaking as both a philosophy geek and food geek.
Anecdote that is tangentially related...

We upgraded my wife to iPhone 6. When we're driving around, she likes to listen to music on YouTube (don't ask). So we plugged in the charge/data cord to the car's USB port. The phone charged, and the car's system display said 'reading files', but no audio would play. Instead, after 'reading files' it displayed, 'no song'.

We tried a variety of different approaches, including playing YouTube on my iPhone 6 and plugging it in to the car. It worked. My daughter's iPhone 6 worked. My wife's would not.

So I made an appointment at the Genius Bar. We told the story. Their conclusion was 'bad USB chip' in the iPhone and they replaced it as a warranty issue.

We took the new iPhone out to the car, and my wife excitedly plugged it in...

No luck.

Finally, I looked at the phone again and launched iTunes, which, of course, was empty. She does not have a music collection. Then the coin dropped... 'no song'. You don't suppose.....

Yes. In order to get any other media to play through the USB from her phone, she had to have at least one song in iTunes. I loaded 'Year of the Cat' and sure enough, YouTube now played.

I am reminded of that anecdote because some time later, 'Year of the Cat' was mysteriously deleted.
Turbo Pascal

It had an awesome IDE, debugger, and help.
A much lower-brow version of the same joke, from the movie Dumb and Dumber:

Lloyd: I'll bet you twenty dollars I can get you gambling before the day is out!

Harry: No!

Lloyd: I'll give you three to one odds.

Harry: No.

Lloyd: Five to one.

Harry: No.

Lloyd: Ten to one?

Harry: You're on!

Lloyd: I'm gonna get ya!

Harry: Nu uh!

Lloyd: I don't know how but I'm gonna get ya.
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You got it! Thanks for the tip. I just found my way over there and the whole thing is 100x better than I expected to find. Not an ad in sight and not even a message asking for donations. I'm thirsty for more now!
> If you take their code and compile it yourself, you are on the hook for fees of users

I'm sorry, how is using the source which needs compilation different from using the binary provided?
20 Years of Flight Data: Real-Time Interactivity
All 1.1B Taxi Rides on Redshift
> as long as you use their pre-built binaries.

That's so fucking stupid.
fwiw i switched from Google Reader to https://bazqux.com/ - The UX is very similar, has no problem dealing with a lot of feeds and is fast enough to keep up with my ~1000 item/day habit.
The Lisp Machine.
Pre-seed investors look to fund smart people with startup ideas
Some factoids about current Manila traffic:

1) Uber has made traffic 30% worse than usual because it's cheaper than taxis, thus more pax

2) Jeepneys are no longer painted with murals because it costs $5,000 extra

3) Traffic is bad in some areas, but not that bad on highways from say the airport to Manila Bay or QC
Maybe you can go back in time and kill your grandfather
Into the Bewilderness
That's neat. Lets test the rest then. Full claim was a computer needed logic cells, RAM, ROM/flash, and analog components (eg I/O & power-related). Still only need a NAND gate? ;)
I remember those days.

As I also remember Apple sales people coming to CERN doing a presentation trying to sell us the idea that since Mac OS X was built on NeXT and BSD, it was also an UNIX that could be used by the researchers.

In the early days of MacOS X, Apple wasn't sure that the Mac OS developer community would enjoy using Objective-C, so they bet the farm on both languages.

As it became clear that the majority of the developers were quite happy to using Objective-C, they just slowly killed the Objective-C - Java bridge, and then eventually gave the JVM code to Oracle.

This also helped killing the Java role on the desktop and together with Microsoft, started the industry cycle to move back into AOT compiled languages.

I wonder how it would have turned out if they had killed Objective-C instead.

On the other had, I also sometimes wonder how a Mac OS X based on BeOS ( C++ )would be.
Not necessarily. Microsoft kept trying to make a walled garden around the web. They might have had a lot of users, but the web fought back and luckily today we have 'world wide web', not a totally isolated Microsoft Web, Google Web, Apple Web, Firefox Web etc.

I hated the days when you constantly had to switch web browsers to get pages to render. I'm glad it's rare now, because we didn't give up on the hope of open systems.

Mark might have lost the battle to have HTTP/2 encrypted by default, but at least when Let's Encrypt came out, it still worked in all browsers.

Would we have been better to just give up and have lots of walled gardens instead? I don't think so. I'm glad we have WWW.

Personally I don't think XMPP failed because being open made it slow to adapt. I think we're mostly stuck because ICQ, AOL & MSN just got there first.

I don't envy being in Moxie & OWS's position of figuring out how to make this work. I'll add opinion and some of it harsh, though I'll reserve criticism until I've built something as awesomely globally deployed as Signal.
How is this the government's fault? Mostly this seems to be awkward financial machinery built by the industry.
Effect of Acute Exercise on Prostate Cancer Cell Growth (2013)
Softice
Having worked both retail and food service jobs, this sucks. A store manager may hope (and communicate to their teams) that their weekly payroll hours won't be cut, but the powers that be will make that cut whether or not it's needed. I've been on the receiving end, watching every part-timer moved to 12 hours a week and the remaining staff stretched thin for months. The GM got a new Camaro with their bonus. I ate frozen corn dogs in bulk.

I've also worked at a company making those same self service retail widgets and have stepped into customer stores and noticed less cashiers on deck after that-thing-I helped-code is installed. That altruistic guilt helped me leave that industry for greener pastures.

But, I have serious anxiety and love fast food. I can't count how many times I've wished for a touchscreen kiosk to place my order. Even "no sorry, that #1 should be large size" is hard for me to say and I get what feels like an inordinate amount of incorrect orders which adds to a guilt cycle where I beat myself up for not speaking up. From an accessibility standpoint, this will make things easier for me and countless other people.
Messaging Apps Most Used in the Middle East Will Shock You
It is all a matter of what the compiler does, array accesses should generate the same Assembly instructions.

I have used quite a few languages whose base index could be 0, 1 or whatever I choosed. Even enumerations.
Digg Reader is decent.

https://digg.com/reader
Microsoft My Phone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Phone

It would even backup my SMSes and let me search through them in an online interface. But then MS decided to shut it down within few months of me buying a phone because of this particular feature.

Well, MS does it often.
This is so true. Honest feedback is so rare yet so useful I'm surprised there aren't more people in the business of selling it. The number of people who could use a good business coach, therapist, etc. far exceeds the number of people actually making use of one.
Consequently, when those people do music, they have to accept that something called an octave has seven notes, and inverting an interval is based on the "rule of nine", thanks to the way they defined intervals as one based.
I don't have an electron microscope and I wouldn't know what to look for.

I see your point that we do need to implicitly trust the company at some level, but what's upsetting is we want to encourage the widest possible audience to be able to "look in" and with closed-source change they've stepped backwards by decreasing the number of people who can casually [or pointedly] audit their devices and software.

It is more closed to me now.

Honestly I thought they were a company that cared more about providing the security we need rather than making a profit off intellectual property. I thought they understood the niche community they were providing for.

I can't [implicitly] trust this - not after having had better in the past.
1. Delphi and its community
2. OptiPerl http://www.xarka.com/optiperl/features.html

Though both are still available, not in use.
Making Your Product a First Class Citizen (2013)
Borland's Turbo C and Pascal
Is this open source? Can you please point me to the schedular code?
I thought mathematical algorithms couldn't be patented, which is what a compression algorithm is, no?
SML# version 3.0.1 has been released
> software people who get really upset about layers they can't verify implemented on top of layers they can't verify sound pretty silly. Either you verify from the bottom or you can't verify at all.

You are kidding, right? Right?

Because, in principle, what you have said amounts to, "Open-source doesn't matter. Closed-source is just as good. Security by obscurity is valid and sensible." Or by real-world analogy, "I'm not a locksmith, so there's no point in having locks on my doors."

So, please tell me you are kidding...
Whenever I've withdrawn money from a bank in person I've gotten nice clean bills, fwiw
How secure is my network?
The fourth estate is really dead.
Would be a perfect way to introduce kids to cryptocurrency. No need to deal with regulatory agencies. The "points" (btc/ether) are actually worth something (whether more or less in the future).

kid marks they've completed task, parent xfer bits to kids wallet. Kid can now buy games at newegg or gift cards from tons of stores through Gyft.

the smart kids (like my oldest daughter) roll the dice and Alex p. Keaton it for long term savings that has decent potential to multiply in value.

I do this with my kids already, but with no app..just verbal "do this and I'll pay you $0.25 in bitcoin" an app with actual chore list they can work through and automate fund transfers would be awesome.

If you're a rich VC make sure you PM me to partner up. There's only one way to successfully monetize this, and I'm the only one who knows it.

Small target market but growing every day...the power of "frictionless transfer of value outside the insanely regulated walled garden of fiat banking and high finance"
I'm a physician. This is the thing most people don't get about tests. It's tiring to see these startups with their flawed agenda.