skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To succeed you often have to get in early, which means that barrier to entry will be low and competition will be extreme. Plenty of these things didn't fail because they idea failed, but because they got beaten by another company, or a simpler or more advanced technology. I think market success is a higher bar than concept or technology success. Which probably means it is more relevant for discussions (more qualified discussion are better).

I said this in another thread. We know that self-driving cars are gong to be a thing in the future. That doesn't necessarily mean that the effort a company like Google makes today is going to be that valuable. It might be that when full autonomy is ready for mass implementation, we already had cars running around with (much cheaper) sensors for years. Since things like highway autonomy and active safety systems are lower hanging fruit. On the other hand if they gather enough patents and full autonomy explodes in 10 years, they have a good position. There's all this complexity yet most of HN is like "Google is the self-driving company".
Greplin (YC W10). It pivoted to Cue then shut down. I haven't found anything else to answer "I know I have read about that, but where?" as well.
Why not pass over management of the repository to someone else? Sounds like all sides would benefit.
You realize edit timers are a thing right?
As an interested user of your project I would be more than happy to see a sign/text on the github project page that this project is temporarily on hold/abandoned, I'm a little annoyed every time I find an interesting project with no commits in the past year and other users asking the question if the project is dead in the "issues" section but still get no answer. I know it's open source and I know you do this in your free time, but still, just let me know.

And if your looking for a maintainer to take over then also state this on your page, unfortunately the outcome and success of a new project owner will not be in your hands. It's like your child growing up. :)
How much does a translation cost
The minute Yahoo took it over I switched to diigo.com. No complaints so far.
In print, NO. You really can't interchange the two. As already said, in handwriting they may look similar, however we would never mean the actual ÿ, since it simply is something else which is used in Greek and French (and others).

There's even a section about this on wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_(digraph) subsection "technical details".
Per-call billing sounds crazy - there should never have been a time in circuit switched or packet switched networks when that would have correctly captured costs.
Audiogalaxy.
Also static types tell the machine what is supposed to happen next, and always. Dynamic types represent possibilities that have to be maintained as open until they become commitments that have to be remembered. Static types are certainties that come as orders. Dynamic typing is like being in love, Static typing is like being in the Army.

(disclaimer, I have never been in the Army or any military force and the above post is based on my imagination and watching films)
Freshmeat.
Ta-da Lists as a stand alone product. Now it's part of Basecamp.
Cedega

It allowed me to play War3 with my friends in a LAN with decent frame rate.
About the startup time: a Julia server and client could mitigate this, couldn't it?
I used to use a multi-protocol IM client with a nice history search feature. The history search was like Google Instant but actually instant.
William Gibson usually talk about how when things are new they are called with a prefix, like "electro", "cyber", "i" or "wireless". Then when it becomes commonplace it usually just sounds silly. We usually don't say "mobile phone" (unless talking about mobile vs. web/desktop) anymore, but we say things like smart-tv.
You don't even need to do this - if you need a trillion dollars then just get in your time machine once it is built, head back 25 before today and invest $1 in all the hot stocks and winning lotto number so that by today you have the trillion you need to build the time machine. Simple.
Where are Google campuses located?
> Not sure why improving this state of affairs would require a change in underlying patent laws.

The problem with this is that there will always be someone who will happily say "Sure, I'll call your patent a 'standard' if you give me a little bit of money to 'certify' it."
Chinese culture is not honest. The idea of "shareholder value" must sound disturbing for them.

Now Alibaba. Amazon and Ebay on Steroids. Maybe. Or not so much?

Parts of the company are removed/divested from the stock. This is very likely not a good thing.
In case of Alipay (Think Paypal) it is not a good thing because investors lose a very valuable asset.
In case of the delivery services, it is not a good thing because likely this is a money losing business, making look Alibaba much more profitable than it is.

“My experience with Chinese companies is that what you don’t know is generally not good news.”
I agree on that. I live in China and I don't own any Chinese stocks. You may take all this already into consideration when investing into Alibaba.

Not to the linked previous article from Bronte capital (their blog is actually in my RSS feed and very good):
http://fortune.com/2015/09/18/alibaba-faking-numbers-hedge-f...

He has a look on some reported numbers from Alibaba. And while mathematically possible, I would again take them into carefully consideration of your investment.

I use Alibaba. Its good. Most of the stuff is fake but they have good and cheap things. But knowing the Chinese and seeing this red herrings, I would pass.

Here is another Blog post about another Alibaba competitor (competitor to Alibabas TMart) JD that speaks very positively about the competitor:
https://oraclefromomaha.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/jd-com-a-mu...

But in the end, both are Chinese companies.
RedEye IR controller.

Made by a company called ThinkFlood that unfortunately has since gone out of business, it was a rack mount box (I had/have the pro) that operates as a centralized, multi-room, IR+Serial+Relay controller. Really simple to get started with, but, amazingly powerful with a built-in Lua scripting engine and an API to remotely control things. Apps on iOS/Android and a fully-featured web interface.

It has been about 2 years and I've still not found anything that I like more than this box to automate my home theatre (I'm still using it).
I prefer BookmarkOS https://bookmarkos.com
End of anonymity: Identification of random passengers
Turbo Vision. It was the most sophisticated text mode UI ever created, with a stunning love to the little details (at least in Turbo Pascal 7).

Today it would still make sense for server applications, but the C++ port was rather horrible and nobody is still using Pascal :(
iGoogle
No, only abstract mathematical algorithms cannot be patented. Compression is a concrete application of mathematical algorithms.
Trends in angel investing
Apple Macs of course!
I would watch it.

So, essentially the egghead.io for Infrastructure/DevOps.
If you made it cheaper than egghead.io I would sign up.
Opera Android: empty page with blinking cursor. That could be a reason for not fixing issues, the blank page syndrome :-) but I guess there is some technical problem going on.
i agree. it's quite cathartic to think back on all the information i've lost over the years, vague memories of past events that mainly live on through their consequences on my life and personality.

although some things, especially technical knowledge, are great to archive/store for later retrieval. i just don't feel the same for personal things. i think it's healthy to forget, especially in the information age where being able to do so is practically a luxury.
A few things:

Everything not being 4:3 screens. I found it better for programming than everything being cinematic screens.

Back when monitor manufacturers were racing to make better / higher resolution monitors, instead of just leaving it at 1080p / 4k / whatever the current standard good enough for movies is.

The GMail interface before it started auto-converting the textarea to HTML when edited externally.

Console gaming when it Just Worked. Nowadays when I pop in a game it's update this and update that, long loading times etc.

E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war.
This was my thought too... why use ultrasound when you can use induction? Was there some perceived advantage to sound?
Companies should not be able to legally use the words "buy" or "purchase" for anything that can have license or access revoked or does not allow transfer of ownership.
This is the app used by the photographer:

http://findface.ru/login
Capital flight in the tech sector is imminent once again. If the finance sector has a leverage point it's capital. I guess someone could try to distrupt a part of the industry, but I don't see how they would avoid the inevitability of being acquired.
Borland stuff.

Some websites (author died, they faded away/are not the bleeding edge any more etc.). A good example would be the old Searchlores website (http://search.lores.eu/indexo.htm)...apparently the original domain is now owned by some marketing company. Yikes.
Don't worry too much, I always enjoy little gotcha's like this. It's like your brain has to think twice to understand the meaning, but in the end it does. It's really fun and colourful to read half modified phrases and that's how language evolves.
It is still quite stable for me, I can run a single chrome session for months on my desktop.

But, thank god that desktop has 32GB ram and a fast, QC i7 because damn is it bloated and slow!

I remember switching to chrome years ago because it was so much faster than Safari, and, yes, while I'm 100% sure Chrome is just a bloated slow mess now, I can't really pinpoint any time when it happened.
Google and Lenovo – The First Smartphone Based on Project Tango – APPlite
Chrome's still fast, but other browsers caught up, and more importantly web developers took advantage of the increase in performance and started getting away with writing more bloated websites, resulting in much of the speed gains being nullified.

Just try to use Chrome or Firefox to browse relatively lightweight websites (e.g. GNU.org), they're amazingly fast compared to what browsers used to be like before Chrome came out.
Because you have been making some silly JS-animation on your blog instead?
And it was built like a tank. My kids must have dropped mine a hundred times - it is covered in dings and scratches and still it works.
The most popular replacement, and the one I personally use, is Feedly. http://feedly.com/
To use your analogy, if investing is "gambling" then investing in Chinese companies is gambling against a rigged system. Buyers beware.
Lazarus Form Recovery.

I suppose it still "exists" in that you can download it from the Chrome store, but all traces of its development have been wiped and it'll eventually die away.
HTML5 Accessibility
Same on Chrome/Win10.
Heh, looks like HackerNews hugs hard these days :-)
Nokia N9.

The "more linuxy" Nokia Android competitor that was released late and dead on arrival (in terms of ecosystem), but was still years ahead of Android in many ways and fundamentally better in others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3rgAV1a2kg
http://www.theverge.com/2011/10/22/2506376/nokia-n9-review
I think audacious is based on winamp code.
aptitude install audacious
Archive.is is bing?
You missed the point. Sure, there is a risk of inflation, but you can act immediately for your own good if there a slight warnings on the horizon. You can't do anything if it's out of reach like in recent history as the banks closed all ATMs like they did in Cyprus and Greece. But I wrote about daily usage of money, and not be limited or tracked in any way, like you are with non-cash money.

About ownership, you missed the point, London is a bad example, as it's very expensive own a house there - we know that. But outside of that bubble, a house on the country side is still affordable but new regulations and taxes may get a burden. As well as several products come with licenses and software which limits its usage making it virtually more like renting a service instead of owing the product and being able to do what you want with it - like the mentioned Windows 10 with its tracking/spying/hardware-dongle, John Deer tractors and Tesla S with its user account dongle which prevents third party service, after market and selling your own stuff, etc. Or electric cars where the car manufacturer owns the battery, and you can only rent it. Or autonomous cars that you may only lease and not be able to buy and own yourself in near future, as some CEOs mentioned.
Student Arrested After Using $2 Dollar Bill to Buy Lunch at School
Show:Bubblehunt – Curated web search
Google Wave.

Only kidding. ;)
DabbleDB was a truly unique take on a refactorable, easy-to-use webapp database. It was aqui-hired by Twitter and shut down a few years ago.

I feel like AirTable is a worthy spiritual successor today.
Crossties. It was a relational desktop for Windows 3.1 which could replace progman and allow you to set up associations with projects, contacts, etc -- for example, opening up someone's contact info would pull up the documents you were working on for them, etc. 20 years later, we still really don't have anything that can provide that sort of context on the desktop, or even worse, we don't have those kinds of relationships available for our phones.
Not really, it's just compliance with the license that a piece of software is offered with. Things are no less silly in the world of open source. You are bound to honor the license of the open source software that you use. For instance, if your app links to a GPL library, you are bound to offer your code under the GPL too. However if it links to a BSD-licensed library that does the exact same thing, you don't have to.
I replaced some inefficient code with some better O(n log n) code. Make n large and you'll get to 200x. Which was kind of my point, without making sure you've held every else the same, saying I rewrote X in Y and got Z improvement doesn't always say that much.
No, but parent archived the page from Bings cache.
I love the WTF potential of this one:

Another interesting optimization is to use potentially shared memory locations (on the stack, heap and globals) as scratch storage, if the compiler can prove that they are not accessed in other threads concurrently. [..] For example the following transformation could occur:

// Some code, but no synchronization.
*p = 1; // Can be on stack, heap or global.

Becomes:

// ...
*p = RAX; // Spill temporary value.
// ...
RAX = *p; // Restore temporary value.
// ...
*p = 1;

Since we write to p and there is no synchronization operations, other threads do not read/write p without exercising undefined behavior. We can therefore use it as scratch storage.
NCD - Norton Change Directory. Using OSX now.
(If it's not clear you need to navigate the presentation with both left/right and down keys)

You know what? This is getting pathological. It seems keywords are added to ensure serialization/atomicity, then compilers find a way to optimize it away/make it useless, then another thing "now it's the right way" gets added. Rinse, repeat

And most things that are added have some quirks and people trying to play it smart
Are we talking about the same Gibson that had some scare mongering web page, then capitalized on that by selling magic make-my-computer-faster software? That's some blast from the past.
I think that problem is mitigated by Amazon's algorithm matching you with things that are more likely for you to either really like or use on a regular basis, which leads to updated reviews. I've had some 5 star Vine reviews turn into 1 or 3 star ones after 2-3 months... and even some reverting back to 4-5 stars after a year or so.

> The other issue is that psychology studies show that being given something ingratiates a person to the giver, which also greatly taints the Vine program.

I agree with this. Another problem which the author mentioned is the lack of a review standard. One person's 5 star rating is not equivalent to another person's.
Just try to interview as a front end engineer these days. Someone at Airbnb laughed at me because I used a for loop instead of lodash on an array. He said "wow, you write it old school."

Why write fast code when you can write triple transpiled bloats bullshit vis a vis Babel, flow and jsx.
Which causes the page to be empty on mid-level management's Macbook pro running Safari?
He misses another way to get bugs fixed in open source software: Pay a developer to fix them. However that does raise the problem that it's hard to find a competent developer to do piecework (easy to find an incompetent developer of course). All the good open source developers are employed.
China's tech culture is so intense that people sleep and bathe in their office
Whitespace Steganography
Read this again with the voice as Nick Offerman
Hello friends!
We published the first time in February and now we have a modified version in which we have fixed a lot of errors :)

What now:
- you can search for any information on the Internet
- you can create your own search, simply adding interesting sites in the profile
- you can add your sites on the bubbles, to quickly find them
+ many bug fixes and improvements

What will happen soon:
- Subscriptions system (you can subscribe to Techcrunch, Foursquare, interesting people, and other accounts) that will form your search among the most interesting (service, people, companies, topics ..)
- improved indexing system
- we are also working on a neural network, which will determine how the intranet (bubble) is the most relevant to the user query

If it is not clear how we work :)
1. You are authorized through a social network
2. Create your own search by adding in profile interesting resources
3. Done!

Your profile - it is intranet with interesting to you resources. If there sites with relevant search results - we show your profile and results. That is, when searching people see your offers is relevant for the request. We ourselves determine the relevance, you simply create a list of interesting and useful websites.

Some of our ideas can also be seen on the link:
https://medium.com/@bubblehunt

We are looking forward to the ideas and suggestions!

Have a nice day and sorry for my english :)
Vlad
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> Long-term exercise is known to reduce serum levels of growth stimulating hormones. In contrast, the endocrine effects of acute endurance exercise include increased levels of mitogenic factors such as GH and IGF-1.

Two points:

1. how to best understand "long-term exercise" vs "acute endurance exercise" in lay terms here roughly?

2. how mitogenic is growth hormone vs IGF-1? Raised GH seems to raise IGF-1 "usually", but for example during fasts for more than a day or couple of days, GH weirdly seems to go up very drastically while of course IGF-1, insulin, mTOR, leptin all trend ever-lower

Always wondered whether the bodybuilders tried to raise GH for its own sake primarily or just in order to initiate the cascade of other "growth & proliferation" pathways..
SideKick!
https://theoldreader.com
The site comes with an obnoxious "enter your email" overlay that won't go away and messes up scrolling when you block it. They do accept @washpost.com addresses though, so...
Agreed. Is there a maintained list of posts about startup failures/learned lessons?
Thought the blank page was the point he was trying to make in that a blank canvas, editor, notebook, etc is daunting when you first get started and you can easily find excuses to keep putting it off. But apparently there's a technical issue here. Or is that intentional?
The BeBox
Google Reader, Google Notebook, Google My Track, Delicious
And Firefox android. Am I supposed to disable my JavaScript/trackers blocking plugins? It's not worth the risk. I only do that when booking cheap flights.
AMP Audio May 2016 Update – “we are now forced to wind down the company”
I was pretty confused to be given a cursor on a web page with no content just a basic layout. Oh well.
don't we have a moral obligation to improve our children as much as possible? the universe is tough enough without holding ourselves back from something that may be possible.
Problem with that (for me) is that I use that for radius all the time, as in r * sin( a * t )
Yes! «Rent now!» Sounds a lot catchier...
norton commander & pctools
* IBM ThinkPad T41p/60.

Lenovo T410/X210 where still somewhat fine. But these newer ultrabooks nowadays have less powerful specs than 5 year old notebooks. The Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon isn't bad, but a far cry given it's ultrabook less powerful specs than an 5 year old high end notebook. And these shitty keyboard nowadays, give me back the old keyboard layout like grouped F1-F12 key, better placed Home/PgUp/PgDn/End keys, etc. And an 9 cell battery that stand out on the back side - I want back my 15 hour battery life.

Please please produce the retro Thinkpad, as shown on the Lenovo blog - I want to buy one with high end specs, if it is available in 4:3 even better: http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-time-machine/

* HP EliteBook 2560p.

Those newer EliteBook 820 have cheap plastic and a very crappy hinge with such a small angle. And the very thick edge around the display looks like the designer has gone completely mad. And the specs are lower than a 5 year old notebook. Bring back the older quality in a smaller form factor, or just offer the older device with up-to-date high end hardware.

* Microsoft IntelliMouse and Comfort Mouse 6000

Very good computer mice. (yes I am aware the later had a hardware bug with the middle mouse click but who cares). Their newer keyboard and mouses are all wireless and all with crappy design - designer gone mad. Very sad story. It get's harder and harder to find a suitable good traditional standard quality mouse and keyboard these days, that were so common 15 years ago (and cheap as well). Not everyone needs a gaming device (expensive and last only like 2 years) nor would like to use ultra cheaply made crap for small hands only. The normal products aren't available anymore as it seems.

I hope it doesn't sound too negative, sadly some devices aren't available in a quality we used to have available in mainstream. On the other side, a lot of other things I haven't mentioned got a lot better than what was available some years ago - but it isn't the topic in this discussion.
It's making an ajax request for the blog post and that page is returning a 500 error because of a Database connection issue (assumed because of higher traffic).

http://www.michaelbromley.co.uk/api/wp-json/posts/529
Error establishing a database connection
For reference: Systems with dedicated VP8/VP9 support

http://wiki.webmproject.org/hardware/socs
Yes you're coding
I wouldn't mind being the man pet of a god-woman. She would probably have really good food and neat stuff to talk about.
Julia aside, Keno, kudos for being an absolute class act and replying to everything so politely.

For what it's worth, my impression of Julia has been overwhelmingly positive, and all the developers I've interacted with have been polite and friendly. I haven't made the switch from Python because:

- I prefer the Python syntax

- I like Python libraries (I know about PyCall, and it rocks)

- The increased speed of Julia doesn't really add much given numba/theano and so forth

However, I really like:

- Optional static typing for sanity checking

- Can write fast functions directly in julia - which is handy when passing callbacks or doing numerical routines like integration (although this requires timholy's fast lambda package)
Wasn't this open sourced?
> BSNL Tariffs

They have the unlimited thing now right, where you can make calls at night and they're free?

> Tap water

Are you talking about India or the US?
The presentation is unreadable as it jumps all over the place and requires you to press keys to navigate.