skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RPN HP calculators: HP29C (my first one) and HP41C (did university with it).

A long time ago, some demon soul from hell decided to kill them product lines. The world never was the same, afterwards.
Getting a snapshot of your body's ability to metabolize carbohydrates is a much more granular view into metabolic health than are 'summary statistics' like A1C. Continuous glucose monitors, like those by Dexcom, are especially valuable -- you can get a detailed characterization of insulin response to food, of energy mobilization during exercise of different intensities, of general systemic stress, etc.

People are coming around on glucose in the same way that we now understand that the cardio signal (preferably using a sensitive measure like ECG, but even with crappy PPG sensors) are predictive of an enormous number of physiological and psychological phenomena.
“What I like to remind people is that Alibaba was a thief,”

Chanos says this in the last line of the article. I don't know if it's true, but we also know that Chanos isn't an unbiased reporter. He's shorting the company, so tearing them down is in his best interest.
There is a DKMS package similar to the Debian one which requires just a single command to install: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Fedora

However it is unlikely that Fedora will ship ZFS unless the license changes or is clarified by Oracle. Unlike Canonical, Red Hat is a US company making serious amounts of money ($2bn revenue last financial year).
Writing TCP vs. UDP code in Go
It is more like philosophy has problems with vagueness. It might be one of the major hobgoblins of the philosophic mindset.
The guy is responsible for a small number of low-activity projects, he's going to go over any new pull requests with a fine tooth comb
Btrfs is a different use-case.

ZFS doesn't support different sized hard drives. I could also be wrong, but ZFS doesn't expand as easily, and you can't remove drives from it.

Synology NAS just added support for Btrfs in their software
"It's not clever to hack [with social engineering] something that you can socially engineer"

vs

"It's not clever to hack something [i.e. with technical exploits] that you can socially engineer""
Ad blocking 'will cost publishers £19B by 2020'
Just a huge thank you for N1. It's fantastic!
New project lead for StackPHP wanted
> I'm not sure how open these things are at the moment, but I imagine if a device registers as a mouse, it should have limited functionality.

You should read all about "BadUSB". What you imagine is not the way that the world, in particular USB, actually works.
I still much preferred Photoshop, but PSP was a pretty great alternative. I agree that Draw didn't really compare, but WordPerfect is pretty great.
I work in a pharma company and it comes up every time a marketing person comes to a science meeting in a particular department. The short version is that it's very very hard, even if we can profile all of the changes during exercise (which we can't), you can't just use that to know what to administer to someone.
Are you located in Iran?
I've actually been happier with Inoreader than Google Reader.
Someone forgot to install a space bar to my iphone
Have you tried theoldreader.com? Not sure if search is free since I'm on their paid account, but the feeds definitely update more reliably than other readers I tried, especially with private one-subscriber feeds.
Pfizer blocks its drugs from being used in lethal injections in prisons
Copyright and Consequences: Google’s Andy Rubin Defends Android to Jury
At first I would use other tactics to get around the anti-ad blocking measures, but I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that it's not worth it anymore, and I would rather keep my ad blocking and go somewhere else.
Wifi Password Hack Tool – 2016 Edition -
I still use Paint Shop Pro 6.0 every single day. It runs flawlessly in Windows 7 if you set compatability mode on the EXE to "Windows 2000".

Version 6 was the last good version before Corel muddled up the interface and made it bloated. I can still do some things in 2 clicks that my coworker needs 5-15 clicks to get done in Photoshop. It surprises me to know some things are still so "complicated" in photoshop, just by how many clicks/steps are needed. I'm sure PSP 6 is borderline abandonware at this point, released 16 years ago in 2000! I upped the full version here (15mb): http://www.filedropper.com/psp6
Microsoft Quick-Help

Circa 1990, a DOS TSR (remember those?) that when you pressed Alt+H (I think) popped up help for the API call at the cursor (usually OS/2 or Win16).
fuckedcompany.com
Tap water in the UK varies greatly around the country. The water in Edinburgh seems pretty good, some other parts of the country taste surprisingly different.
Torvalds' argument makes for a nice quote but reality tells a different story: If people just wanted a reliable compiler they would use the oldest compiler they could find which is able to compile their code. If it is old all bugs, problems and faults are known. You know how to work around them and nothing can surprise you anymore. The performance may not be great, it may be a bit of a pain to do some things, but you know it all, so it is not great, but reliable.

What people really want is something which is reliable and smart and fast and .. people love smart compilers/programs/whatever, only when those programs fail them they cry "why did you try in the first place? No one wants this"

There's a thin line between smart and crazy. Trying to be always on the right side is one of the hardest parts of software design.
You are assuming there is a sharp boundary between 'unambiguously a pumpkin' and 'not unambiguously a pumpkin'. By what argument do you justify that assumption?
>> but I love seeing big corporations, used to bullying their way around, finding out that their old dirty tricks don't work in the new world.

The problem with that mindset is that people tend to think it's also OK to block the little guys who self-publish, or even places that have amazing or great content who deserve the ad impressions. People always say "Yeah, I unblock my favorite sites". Unfortunately, they're just 1 guy (and who knows if they actually do it). The other 99.999% of people do not unblock their favorite sites. They just don't give a shit.

Even the rare few who may give a shit due to stronger empathy or morality will usually justify it away in their heads "Oh, I'm afraid of malware" or some other BS excuse which works to trick themselves into feeling better about blocking every ad.
I presume India, since he mentioned BSNL.
Funny, I had exactly the reciprocal experience with Fritzing, I spent 3 weeks (I know, I'm slow) developing a significant improvement in one of the most important part on a software they make money on. And one year later, the PR is still not merged.
The future of innovation is micro, not macro - genomics and biotechnology, apps and on-demand entertianment, miniaturization and nano technology, etc.

The past always seems better than the present, probably we're not good at assessing our progress, but only retrospection can we.
Sanctioned DPRK vessels resume sailing with AIS switched off to avoid detection
Legal clarity.
The Economics Debate: Jobs and Automation
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True, but there are problems with GitHub forking: namely that its often non-obvious which is the best fork to use, since too much prominence is given to the original project. Also if the maintainer doesn't even put a note on the readme "This is dead, use XXX fork" you have even more problems. Also maybe the original project was published to a package manager ... forking is one thing, but publishing and maintaining your fork on a package manager too?
I can't argue with your point of view.
'zero reasons' reminds me that language laughs with logic.
By chat clients you mean like WhatsApp for example?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-WhatsApps-server-architecture
SoftICE.
They probably added this for the ApplyHN last round and forget. In some cases it's a good idea and in some cases it's a bad idea, so perhaps it can be left as an option when creating the poll. To contact the mods, try sending an email to hn@ycombinator.com because some threads are unnoticed.
(reduce #'- (reverse (list 1 2 3)))

You can use:

(reduce (function -) (reverse (list 1 2 3)))

or

(reduce '- (reverse (list 1 2 3)))

Then

(mapcar #'string-downcase (list "Hello" "world!"))

Use:

(map 'list #'string-downcase (list "Hello" "world!"))

> Make-instance? It's called new in C# and Java which is 3 keystrokes,

Slightly advanced users type m - i complete.

If you want to call it 'new', then just add 'new'. Common Lisp is extensible.

CL-USER 32 > (defclass a () ((b :initarg :b)))
#<STANDARD-CLASS A 4020124173>

CL-USER 33 > (setf (symbol-function 'new) #'make-instance)
#<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION MAKE-INSTANCE 4100096004>

CL-USER 34 > (new 'a :b 10)
#<A 4020133143>

Hashtables, since Common Lisp is a programmable language, that syntax is user extensible. Example:

CL-USER 42 > (defparameter *h* #{(a 5) (c 6) (b 3)})
*H*

CL-USER 43 > *h*
#{(C 6) (B 3) (A 5)}
First sensible comment in a long long thread.
For anyone else: it was a game creation toolkit http://welcome.projectspark.com

Go watch the first video - imagine UE4 or Unity but way easier. Everything from world building to AI. Would have been really cool for teenagers to make stuff with, as you can get good results really quickly. You don't even need a PC or a keyboard.
I think money might be a good motivator in such circumstances. Maybe Github should think about integrating "paid requests". I think we would definitely have more open source software at better quality.
Calling ad blocking to prevent malware infection a BS excuse is ridiculous. Ads are being used to distribute malware through reputable sites, and as an average Joe user you have no feasible way to identify which sites pose a threat.

I agree that the current ad driven free content model vs no ads ever stance of the numerous ad blocking users are a problem for content creators big and small, but I feel it is up to them to develop a sustainable business model to defeat this stand-off without alienating or antagonizing their user base.
It seems that Buffett is helping finance the offer. He might not be the part of the consortium. He may have arranged a loan for them. That would be more the style of Buffet. Selling pickaxes during a gold rush. He rarely invests directly in technology companies.

>The consortium is in the second round of bidding in the auction for Yahoo's assets, the people said. Buffett is helping finance the offer, one of the people added.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-m-a-buffett-idUSKCN0...
But that's the amazing part of the story. What happened wasn't in the interest of any of the middlemen involved! They just want to skim off their slice. The last thing they want is any whiff that the ultimate owner might not get their voting rights or might not get the money coming to them. That's the kind of thing that makes people take their business to the other middleman across the street.

The only people who really benefited from this mess were Michael Dell and the others on the other side of the buyout. And they had nothing to do with this clusterfuck.
They're dead? I just gave away my HP48 whilst cleaning house. :(
ZFS does support different sized drives, and you can add disks to a pool easily.

It does not support different sized drives in a raidz (equivalent to an mdadm array), as far as I know, but you can mix raidz and singular drives in a pool, though that is a bit silly. It also does not support adding disks to a raidz, which is equivalent to growing a raid5 or raid6 array, which is admittedly a pain in the ass.
HP still makes RPN financial calculators. I recently switched to using an HP 12C at work, after holding out for a long time. It's amazing how quick it is once you get used to RPN, and I love the solid feel of the hardware. You can pick one up for around $50.
On the other hand, involving money may make people feel even more entitled to having their issues fixed.
Yea, add in molten salt and they can almost get apoximatky PV capacity factor just even more random due to slight cloud cover being such an issue. Though, you will note 52% still needs backup power all for the low low cost of 13.5 cents per kWh vs sub 4 cents per kWh for PV. You can get PV + storage for 24/7 operation for less than 13.5 cents.

PS: Which is why most places gave up on molton salt in the first place and burning stuff is the real backup that you know actually works.
Finite state machines with Akka
It also probably cuts down on the change requests from most of the people who can't see the building themselves, which - if you publish something on-line and blog about it - would probably mean 99.9% of the requests.
Lotus Agenda
It also sounds like Git and other version control systems with hash chains.

What Bitcoin did different was adding chain selection using accumulated proof-of-work, incentivized using scarce digital tokens within the same database.
Volatile is required for working with memory which is subject to change without notice. This is required for signaling that the value may be changed by a physical peice of hardware outside of your control. It's pretty useful.
AWS Lambda for Beginners
I'm not so sure about that.

Microsoft for example is a winner in desktop space, but they don't get most of the server, nor most of the mobile. And even their desktop profits are not that great.

And Android is a winner on the marketshare front, but its profits (from all makers, Google, Samsung, etc) combined are at best equal to Apple's which has 1/3 to 1/10 the market share (depending on the country).
Sygate Personal Firewall. It had a simple interface, nothing flashy. It was possible to simply define custom firewall rules. It was a Windows program, yet it felt like it had so much control as what a Linux firewall would. It just worked and was quick. Then it got bought up by Symantec and was killed off.
No money in peer review?
finally, hopefully it makes its way to the installer (unlike the ubuntu installer...)
MS hardware was always good.

Their joystick offerings (Sidewinder) were top-notch, for example.
Altwork’s objective is to redefine how your computer work with you
btrfs supports a bunch of features that ZoL does not which are useful especially on smaller systems.

among others: the ability to resize/change raid layout in place, reflink copies, on-demand deduplication.
That's fine. It's the other type that people are asking you not to do: didn't ship on time, packaging damaged, delivery person left it in the wrong place, the wrong item was sent, etc.
We're also consuming differently: information is algorithmically curated (see Facebook News Feed, recent feed changes on Twitter/Instagram, etc.) Previously it was possible to see everything, the raw data so to say, now only a subset remains.
Indeed. I just read the source at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jfbastien/no-sane-compiler...
The thing is, if you also block ads and aren't going to pay them money (or give them something else of value, as discussed here), Forbes are probably happy that you don't go to their site. A visitor that generates no revenue is just a drain on resources.
Well, on Mac CMD+` doesn't cycle through full screen windows.

I tend to open a lot of tabs, so it was convenient to have an easy way to group them by topic or environment without closing up my windows manager with multiple FF windows.

If you think about it, tabs themselves are just an effort to avoid multiple browser windows.
A/UX Commando

"A/UX includes a utility called Commando (similar to a tool of the same name included with Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) to assist users with entering Unix commands. Opening a Unix executable file from the Finder opens a dialog box that allows the user to choose command-line options for the program using standard controls such as radio buttons and check boxes, and display the resulting command line argument for the user before executing the command or program."
The actual project logs in time order are at https://hackaday.io/project/4042/logs
The Lenovo keyboards aren't bad? I actually like them. Well aside from the bottom left key being FN instead of Ctrl...that part is retarded.

The trackpads on them are beyond redemption though. How that made it past well any kind of user testing is beyond me.
I am in awe at the incredible string of bullshit alternative history books this guy has produced. Just look at it: http://www.amazon.com/Graham-Hancock/e/B004561L0S/ref=dp_byl...

They seem to be quite well written, too!
What about it? We're talking about the historical rise (and fall) of Sun's/Oracle's Java technology.

Android uses its own runtime, its own platform APIs, they just borrowed the syntax and basic libraries and added their own (non standard) implementation below, plus their own platform APIs, unique to Android.

It's nothing like SWT/Swing, J2EE, or the "compile once, run everywhere" Java of yore.
>> Society might need death, but I still want to live forever.

I've never understood people who say they'd like to live forever. It just doesn't make any sense to me. The oddest thing is to listen to someone who talks about how it is - not probably or hopefully - going to happen in their lifetime. I once had an acquaintance who spoke of it so seriously that it was religious; he honestly believed (possibly still does) that he will not die.

You have the ones who are so absolutely terrified of death that they desperately grip onto the concept of immortality; a science fiction replacement for an afterlife or reincarnation they do not believe in. (Tangent: Why do so many people reject the idea of open casket funerals. Death is just too horrible to even observe, let alone having to reconcile that it will one day happen to them? "Think of the children" is a common argument, which is bullshit; perhaps such a large number of adults are so fearful exactly because they were never exposed to it.)

You have people who use the idea as a fantasy that someday they will do all the things they want to do, but don't have the time, money, or motivation to do today. This category is depressing, because I don't understand how someone can believe that an extended future would magically fix whatever is holding them back right now.

Then there are those who treat our species like a special little snowflake in the universe. That somehow being sentient with a consciousness is intrinsically deserving of cheating death - self-righteousness at the species level. That science can solve any problem, and not only will it be possible, but that it unequivocally should be done. "I think, therefore I am, and should forever be".

tldr; Death is, at least presently, inevitable. Get over it.
Yeah, turning up for an internship and telling the manager I did not have a phone and he'd have to email me and wait like everyone else was fun. No internet at home either so I'd go to the local library to catch up. It was the most carefree period of my life. Sadly circumstances changed and I changed with it. A few years later, I faced down immense pressure from co-workers to get on whatsapp. Caved after sometime but regretted it near immediately and deleted whatsapp when I quit the job.

These days I feel the advantages of a smartphone outweigh the downsides. Still hate phone companies though and hope they get disrupted out of existence.
It's just that the thing described in this article finally happened: "TLDR: It’s going in contrib, as a source only dkms module."
Never used search before, but it seems to work on a free account.
I work in the BI space and Cubes is exactly ROLAP.
An interesting thought, but the author doesn't offer enough specifics . The 'experience stack' didn't make any sense to me.

..into a status box, add metadata such as your location and select from a hierarchy of emotions for how you feel

He means list of emotions? Its not a hierarchy.

This is why I don't read TechCrunch. The quality has really gone downhill. It just seems like a place to pitch the latest ephemeral start-up or app.
In Korean...

DPRK = the Democratic People's Republic of Korea = North Korea
Oraclepocalypse? Aren't their lawyers busy with Google?: http://fortune.com/2016/05/13/google-oracle-java-email/

Here's another post about GPL violations related to combining ZFS and Linux:
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/

Quote from that:

"Is The Analysis Different With Source-Only Distribution?

We cannot close discussion without considering one final unique aspect to this situation. CDDLv1 does allow for free redistribution of ZFS source code. We can also therefore consider the requirements when distributing Linux and ZFS in source code form only.

Pure distribution of source with no binaries is undeniably different. When distributing source code and no binaries, requirements in those sections of GPLv2 and CDDLv1 that cover modification and/or binary (or “Executable”, as CDDLv1 calls it) distribution do not activate. Therefore, the analysis is simpler, and we find no specific clause in either license that prohibits source-only redistribution of Linux and ZFS, even on the same distribution media.

Nevertheless, there may be arguments for contributory and/or indirect copyright infringement in many jurisdictions. We present no specific analysis ourselves on the efficacy of a contributory infringement claim regarding source-only distributions of ZFS and Linux. However, in our GPL litigation experience, we have noticed that judges are savvy at sniffing out attempts to circumvent legal requirements, and they are skeptical about attempts to exploit loopholes. Furthermore, we cannot predict Oracle's view — given its past willingness to enforce copyleft licenses, and Oracle's recent attempts to adjudicate the limits of copyright in Court. Downstream users should consider carefully before engaging in even source-only distribution.

We note that Debian's decision to place source-only ZFS in a relegated area of their archive called contrib, is an innovative solution. Debian fortunately had a long-standing policy that contrib was specifically designed for source code that, while licensed under an acceptable license for Debian's Free Software Guidelines, also has a default use that can cause licensing problems for downstream Debian users. Therefore, Debian communicates clearly to their users that this code is problematic by keeping it out of their main archive. Furthermore, Debian does not distribute any binary form of zfs.ko.

(Full disclosure: Conservancy has a services agreement with Debian in which Conservancy occasionally gives its opinions, in a non-legal capacity, to Debian on topics of Free Software licensing, and gave Debian advice on this matter under that agreement. Conservancy is not Debian's legal counsel.)"
Browsers without bloat.
Woz's 6502 disassembler built into the Apple ][ monitor ROM.

http://www.applefritter.com/files/Apple1WozDrDobbsDisasm.pdf

This early Apple ][ ad actually mentions it:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L3axV02_CrE/UijSowMHAfI/AAAAAAAAV5...

Check out pretty APPLE COMPUTER CO logo designed by Ronald Wayne, on this APPLE-I OPERATION MANUAL:

http://simonowen.com/sam/apple1emu/a1man.pdf

I think I'll print that out and stick it on the back of my MacBook Pro!

Newton --- "A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought --- Alone."

http://www.perfectlyintune.com/page34/page35/page35.html
Should be marked [2013]
Probably because there is way too much information. If you have 500 friends and you saw everything, your news feed would be like rush hour.
I agree. Another proof is that the people like the -O3 optimization mode, when the -O0 optimization mode provides the same functionality with less compiling time (with the side effect of more run time).
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