skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1650 - 1750 : The Royal Society - including Newton, Hooke, Halley, Boyle, Franklin, etc.
"stable" != "mature"
The Three Big Lies About JavaScript
Leicester City fans are bottling air and selling it on eBay
I don't think the law actually explicitly affects wifi, that's just a consequence. The concept of Störerhaftung precedes wifi by quite a bit.
Algorithms, maybe. Maple 9.05 syntax, Definitely not.
Jennings Pattern auger bits for braces...

https://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/store/dept/TD/item/MS-JB...
I use it for the history search in the address bar, it seems to remember far more history than Chrome which is really useful when I'm looking for that StackOverflow thread I read the other day.
Don't get your hopes up.
The mail environment in which you could practically run MH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System

The tool is still around, but I long ago knuckled under to rich email, and I really like imap, at home and at my provider.

But I so loved the MH environment of separate commands that ran in the terminal, and that you could easily use all the existing unix utilities because your messages were just text files.
That sounds very difficult to hide
Digg reader randomly losses state and shows me days of stuff as unread again. I also frequently have to use "mark all read" to clear out the bolded feed name, even if there are no items shown. I've also seen it stop updating a feed for days and then suddenly showing a half dozen items.

I use Digg reader because it seems better than most alternatives, but it's not as reliable and consistent as Google Reader.
Chill music is not "chill out" music, but rather the type of music that gives you a Chill down your back, a shivering sensation of pleasure.
Firebug, before FireFox 30.

Developer Tools (and the skin-of-developer-tools that is Firebug 2) are markedly inferior. From breakpoint- and file-management to the functional limitations and missing features around dom management... I miss the Firebug that died in FireFox 29.

...

Here's what I'd like DevTools to do:

* Make a breakpoints view, not one embedded into a massive list of unsorted (or sorted-by-load-date I guess?!) files that changes over time. If that can't be done (or is against the design philosophy of DevTools), letting me choose the sort order would be nice (e.g. recently-viewed files first, or files with breakpoints, etc ..... and uh, remembering those files and/or settings through refreshes would be fantastic... I miss it from Firebug 2). It's nice because after/during refreshes the breakpoint view lets you pull up the file the second it's loaded, instead of scrolling around in the file list until you find it.

* Make it a LOT more obvious when DevTools is stopped at a breakpoint.

* DevTools doesn't handle initial focus the way Firebug does. As in, when you pull up Firebug via the selection icon--oh, DevTools needs that selection icon for the toolbar--it goes straight to the dom node you selected.

* Make DevTools stop crashing. It stops working. Constantly. The console will just stop printing output, and the DOM view just stops displaying HTML, requiring a browser restart. (When this happens, if you, say, pull up the console and type "1" and hit enter, usually the console echos "1" back to you. When you're in this state, it's not echoed back, though, oddly, some script messages still pop in.)

* Make "debugger" start working again. There are some places where--for who knows what reason--both Firebug and DevTools have ignored breakpoints I've put in, and I've been able to get around it in Firebug by explicitly putting in "debugger;" into my code. You definitely know you're in deep kimchi when you need "debugger;".

Also, for one of my websites, it can't load the source. It just shows "eval" as the filenames over and over with nothing in them. Firebug 2 loads it just fine.

If I use the browser too long, the Inspector and Console tabs go blank.

Oh, and DevTools often doesn't honor my breakpoints. They "slide" down to the next line DevTools thinks it can actually stop on. Sometimes, once I restart my browser they'll work again.

For another, as a time-saver I put breakpoints on lines that /will/ be valid when I refresh (saves me from having to refresh the file twice), so it'd be grand if it simply honored the line i clicked rather than "sliding" down to the next valid one.
That's a fair point. I guess we can debate what 'mature' means.

In development since 2007, stable since 2014. ZFS, in development since 2001 (correction I erroneously listed 2005 earlier), stable since 2006 (or at least Solaris included since then). Do you consider the Solaris years or just the Linux years and then do you consider the Linux Debian/Ubuntu sanctioned years or the ZoL years?

I'm fine with mature since included in the default installer on Ubuntu/Redhat/Oracle/SUSE/etc... for my definition of btrfs maturity.
It's a bit like the vi/emacs debate, it'll run and run :)

I prefer mechanical keyboards - my old IBM Model M that is wearing better than I am, or on new keyboards, Cherry MX Blues. I've no doubt that colours my laptop preferences. TP keyboards tried to duplicate that feel. Lenovo have slowly backed down the IBM "clicky" feel of the keyboard so a t22 or t43p feels quite a bit more clicky than a W520.

@masseyset says the new keyboard has better spacing. What he means is the key spacing is precisely identical (I saw many reviews claimed larger spacing, or that the keyboard was bigger, it's objectively untrue) but the key tops, being flat rather than sculpted, are larger so feel like a different spacing.

Being chicklet, the key travel is a fraction 1/2, 1/3? of the old TP keyboard. This is the bit I hate with chicklet keyboards along with their actuation point. 6 or 8 years of Macbook as main machine and I never got past that dislike. Devoid of feel and travel. I ended up with a Matias Tactile Pro for any time I wanted to do anything significant, so only needed to use the dead calculator keyboard when travelling.

The Thinkpad chicklet keyboard is way ahead of a Mac or anyone else's chicklet keyboard, and they brought back a fair bit of the clicky feel they'd slowly been losing (at least on my friend's W540). As chicklets go, it's very good. It'll never have the travel of the old 7 row TP keyboard, so I will never like it.

I could probably live with the new TP chicklet as the weighting is back to good. The lack of travel and scattering the pgup/home block randomly around the whole keyboard to save 50c and the extra 1/2 row is unforgivable.

I think that covers my biases. Oh, I lean towards vi. :)
Ask HN: Stack fallacy in  tech startups
What are the best techniques for startups and tech companies to avoid getting trapped into stack fallacy?
#PEANUTBUTTERCHallENGE
I very much doubt it. They'd be cutting off massive markets where internet connectivity isn't consistently good (most of the world). Sure, Nintendo are struggling to find their place in the home console market right now but they're more conservative when it comes to changing the distribution/sales model.
While I largely agree with you, not all ads need to be clicked in order to be considered effective by the advertiser. Look at a Coca-Cola billboard, for instance. There's no action item to call this number TODAY, etc. Just brand reinforcement... And that's valuable to many companies.
The Self-Fulfilling Prophesy
On that particular point of memory orders, this is true.

But on other points about how compiler optimize the simple alternative (-O0) is the binary to be painfully slow, while you still have a dozen of flag to make the binary both fast and safe, but the safe flags are not activated by default. The unsafe mode is activated by default when you compile with -O2. How is this useful? It is just crazy.
Check out Connections, Burke's shows are all about this.

There was also the backstory for Alpha Centauri. Firaxis' sci-fi Civilization where the landing of the space ship goes anything but smooth.
I am pretty lax with my LinkedIn account. How could knowledge about educational history harm me?
Linus was speaking in context of kernel development. See below and happy trails:

https://lwn.net/Articles/586838/

https://lwn.net/Articles/586957/ [edit: meat here]
Ubiquity was ppioneered by Aza Raskin (son of Jess Rasking, designer the original Mac interface). I always had the feeling that uqiquity never was a Mozilla project per say, it was more his personal project that he happened to do inside Mozilla. Perhaps he left or got promoted and the project stopped. I am only guessing.
Writely. Worked very well to write together. Then Google bought and integrated into its ecology and changed its name to Google Docs. If you do not like the Google monopoly, like me, and do not like their collaboration with the NSA and the US foreign policy, Google Docs is no option. Writely should have stayed independent. Shame on their founders and the VCs.
Pdf/A and xml based formats in theory.
And in general use open source software.
In practice use the Odf format because I support that and it does what you want. And don't use pdf/A because too many implementations are pretending they produce pdf/A while they don't.
Not sure if it's down to how hard the water is in each area, but here (NW England), a fairly soft water area, you never notice the chlorination. You notice the chlorine quite a bit in London, along with the free limestone in every glass.
You'd have to be crazy to do that. If you use LI, everything on your profile should ideally be strictly limited to a "need to know" basis— in other words, only what is necessary to make a connection that will potentially lead to a job. After all, who puts their entire educational and work history on their CV except new grads? (For young people, exposure vectors would be reduced because of lack of experience).
theoldreader is maybe not as fast as Google Reader but it replaced it for me perfectly. Love the third party integration (greader for Android) and its handling.
I don't do any updates on mobile unless I have a reason (apps usually degrade over time)... but I do do my Ubuntu updates.
re: Ecco Pro outliner

Maybe Treeline[0] (a favorite of mine) or BasKet[1] (not sure if a windows version exists) suit your needs. They're both open source and more responsive than onenote.

[0] http://treeline.bellz.org/

[1] http://basket.kde.org/
UK accused of trying to undermine EU air pollution targets
There are lots of things I could do that would be less work but would come across as "being an asshole" to many students. A smart chatbot would be less work, more helpful, and a better experience for the students.

Most technology is fundamentally about accommodating laziness. There's nothing "nowadays" about it.
Not yet.

The earliest a child has been prematurely born, and survived, is 21 weeks after conception.

We have had embryos survive without a womb in a lab for 14 days (this is currently limited by federal law).

Thus, we really 'only' have a 19 week gap to bridge. Not saying this is not a major challenge, but I believe this is worth of direct research.
I have hacker news and the /r/programming /r/cpp also /r/netsec subreddits, That's all.
Just because something is no longer supported upstream does not mean that the distributions won't support it anymore.

As far as I can tell it is more likely the package maintainers will backport fixes to their old version in those cases.
The Chromium team's blog post about this suggests that > 99% of HTTP/2 connections are _already_ negotiated with ALPN [1]. I imagine all of the CDNs and other large providers already use ALPN, so this mostly affects the long tail of small sites. It seems like the claims in the above blog post are overblown.

1 - http://blog.chromium.org/2016/02/transitioning-from-spdy-to-...
that'd be tragic indeed. :(
Do you mean - just open websites that are displeased with your ad-blocker in your secondary browser? Nice idea.

Or, instead of two different browsers, you can use xraru [1] to ad-hoc launch as many independent ephemeral "incognito" sessions with the same browser as you like. This way, next to enhanced privacy, you also get as a bonus some protection from malicious websites stealing your cookies/local files/etc...

[1] https://github.com/teran-mckinney/raru
I haven't. That looks quite close, but still fairly flat.

The mouseman had the left mouse button perhaps an inch higher than the right. Net effect is your hand, wrist and forearm settled at a 30-45 degree angle, pretty close to the natural rest position. That;s the bit I miss - it was really comfortable for long use.
So in your version of the argument, you are begging the question. If you still don't see it, do this: go back to the pile of sand problem, apply this procedure, and tell us all what is unambiguously the least number of grains of sand in a heap of sand.
True, the v1 used internal API directly. They ported it to a newer API that is also used by Developer Tools.

Though even today, I prefer Firebug as I really like the good UI and it has several features that are nowhere to be found in neither Developer Tools in Firefox nor DevTools in Chrome nor F12 in IE11.

E.g. the "DOM" tab that let's one to view the DOM state - it's like working with Smalltalk/Squeak and its object browser window.
Have a link to the specific PR?
This is essentially the idea behind The Wirecutter.
Oh absolutely, and that's the way it is with the 3DS. But keep in mind that Nintendo home consoles have always been the favoured split-screen multiplayer - they're the consoles you play when your friends come round (and they work equally well for solo gamers). Consequently, forced online patches aren't really as obvious as they are on Xbox or Playstation.

On the 3DS, the only forced patches that affect me are OS patches that I'm required to install in order to access the eShop.

The mixed physical/digital distribution model for the 3DS is my favourite of all models right now. You can buy a cartridge, requiring no installation or online activation (which you can readily loan or sell later on), or you can download games from the eShop which, once activated, doesn't require any online call home. Ever. You can transfer games between consoles (e.g. during an upgrade) by going online and initiating a license transfer.

It's a great balance.

My one gripe is region locking. I hope that goes away (and rumours indicate it might). I waited a year for Fire Emblem Fates to come over from Japan and then it hits the US months before we get it in Europe..
Just politically it doesn't make any sense to me to believe the change will have that effect.

Why would after such a long time the CDU suddenly drop the pro-Störerhaftung position? It seems much more likely that SPD and CDU have reached a compromise that eliminates the Störerhaftung only partially.

I expect the outcome will just create legal uncertainty. So that there won't be any positive effect.
If you're on windows try foobar2000 [0]
On linux try moc.[1] The latter might be too restricted for your needs but personally I absolutely love its simple interface.

[0] http://www.foobar2000.org/

[1] https://moc.daper.net/
Patent lawsuits per capita today probably exceed that.
https://play.freeciv.org
The problem is "in production" you can do a lot of things which ironically don't work for smaller users, because "in production" you specifically optimize and assume hardware and applications will crash in catastrophic ways pretty much all the time and you code quite differently (i.e. it is totally reasonable to ask applications to be distributed and deal with it).
Avoiding Amazon? (2015)
My fairly current ASUS notebook has that keyboard design, and I think it's fairly standard for their current 13" keyboards, at least.
Very wise decision from Uber, I live in Algeria (just beside morroco), and most people have no credit cards and are not able to pay for such service as Uber.
I have an HP15C and an HP12C on my android, from HP. Maybe they offer your calculators.
upvoted you but imo (+1, -1) respectively.
Just seems a bit absurd to me the amount of effort put into an idea that can be replicated in your own home by putting money in a jar for the kid and then when it's full enough to buy skyrim or whatever put the money in your pocket and order it off amazon for them.

Get to engage with your child on a person to person basis too… not parent via an app and servers.

Not to mention I really don't understand where all the investor money went with no product to show for it. Seen as the payment part never got fully fleshed out we're left with a several thousand dollar todo list...
Why is NLP these days equivalent of Natural English Language Processing? There are much more languages in the world.
How to Confuse a Traveling Mathematician
> The actual engineers working on the project (including the one in this "spat") at some point realize the actual limitations of what is possible physics wise

Assuming they finished high school, that point would be the first day on their job.
It's a "happy accident" for the content industry, though. Can't figure out who fileshared your mp3? Just sue the person running the public WiFi.

There have been several attempts to sue Freifunk (basically a public mesh WiFi using tunnelled connections) participants this way too, luckily so far that hasn't resulted in a single "victory" yet.
That's a silly position. You could have said "I disconnected from the internet, and haven't suffered in any way since, and have definitely benefited from not having constant spammy job offers".

You just don't know what you missed.
* initial memory footprint is lower

* faster start up time

* cleaner global scope
Anyone here has info on this outfit? http://us.viadeo.com/en/
Depending on their attitude, I don't think you should necessarily treat a lowball offer as an insult. The problem isn't that the user is offering (say) $10 for the work, but that not enough users offer $10 for the work.
Weird. I've never experienced that. Might be worth contacting their support.
> Note that I am not a parent

Does that really matter? Starting to get a bit fed up with this concept that parents are somehow blessed with esoteric wisdom that people without children can't possibly grasp.

It's a fairly simple concept and surely even a childless person can understand where and why this went wrong. It's not as hard to imagine life with children as parents seem to believe.
200000 years ago?
The invention of language.
I agree. The important advance in the first half of the 20th century was understanding how atoms work, and that knowledge lead directly to semiconductors, the nuclear industry, and laid the foundation for modern chemistry, materials science and all the analytical technologies than enable chemistry, physics etc (i.e. x-ray analytical techniques, mass spectrometers).

Something that I did not know until recently was that the "mineralogy" of steel was not understood until the 20th century. If you do not understand the phases comprising a material, it is difficult to relate bulk material properties to bulk composition.
I still use a Dell FP2007 20" 1600x1200 monitor [1] as a second monitor. I remember making sure the serial numbers matched the IPS version too. I've been using it full time for 8 years and it still runs flawlessly.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Ultrasharp-1600x1200-Monitor-Heig...
KDE 3.5
Maybe the author is not a coder?

LinkedIn is incredibly useful due to recruiters hitting up us coders a few times a week selling us on some new and better job then the one you have currently. It's how you can give yourself a huge raise with each new job or contract job you decide to pursue & land.

I often wonder if those in other fields outside of coding experience a similar flood of opportunities or not?
I believe on Ubuntu 16.04 ZFS is not using dkms. You'd want to check, because I'm not currently running it, but that's what I have been told.
That's still more than six months away though.
Yes, pinboard. I fought the delicious UI but still used it. pinboard is painless.
Delphi was awesome for rapid GUI development! It was so easy to get reasonable nice programs in a short amount of time. I really really miss it.
Large scale public wifi generally doesn't have passwords, that clearly doesn't scale, they have fancy enterprise auth things or captive portals. Shared password only works for small places like coffee shops.

Anecdotes: 1: on London Underground, my phone authenticates using the SIM somehow (it still shows a captive portal screen, just with an ad, yay). 2: in the Turkish lounge in Istanbul airport, the shared password was clearly a marketing channel, InvestInTK2016 or some such. It struck me as pretty clever.

> if your business is using public unlicensed spectrum then you should be required to let the public in

"Unlicensed" isn't really "unlicensed", as much as specifically licensed for anyone to do with as they please. But to take your idea just one step further, once you've opened up all wifi for the general publics consumption (what a renaissance for wired networking!), would people using it be allowed to use it for private gain? Why is it wrong to use unlicensed spectrum for private gain, but not to use a service provided over the same spectrum for private gain? Also, as a business, under this doctrine, are you allowed to enable wifi access to a closed non-internet LAN, with only locked-down non-public servers on it?
I remember reading an interesting theory about that quote - Newton coming off as kind of a jerk in other contexts, this quote, the theory goes, was a veiled sarcasm towards Robert Hooke, his to-be archnemesis later in life who was also short of stature.

It seems, however, that this theory is not very well supported except for the general impression one might get reading about his behaviour in other situations - Newton doesn't seem to be the humble type.

http://www.isaacnewton.org.uk/essays/Giants
Newzbin + sabnzbd
Piracy has never been so easy
How? As long as you agree that the first item on the list has a property that the last one doesn't, some item must have that property while the item after doesn't. Switching to unambiguously a pumpkin just changes the property in question. Switching to unambiguously unambiguously a pumpkin still doesn't solve it, as long as you agree the first item has that property.
The original 1989 ANSI C specification stated, in "4.11.2.1 The memcpy function":

If copying takes place between objects that overlap, the behavior is undefined.

So it has been this way in C since the first official standard. I don't have a first edition K&R so I can't see what that said, though.
If they were that rational, they wouldn't have started the original project in the first place.
The Impressumpflicht that is applied to websites now, is based on a law from 1530[1]

[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressumspflicht#Geschichte
Where is the jump? There was a lot of computation preceding his dream, how is that different from deduction?
The only Java Cocoa app I can remember using regularly is the FTP client Cyberduck.

Looks like Cyberduck is still written in Java using the Cocoa bridge:

https://trac.cyberduck.io/browser/trunk/osx/src/main/java/ch...
DOJ Denies Gag Orders Against Tech Companies
Just switch back to firing squads and hangings, crises over.
Damn, I was hoping to try it at some point.
They still make a 35S which is what I use. I have four 32sii still sealed in the clamshell.
foobar2000 and Winamp are completely different types of programs. The former was more or less just a simple music player while the latter is highly configurable.

btw, foobar2000 runs perfectly fine under Wine.
Short answer would be availability of tagged data, in turn dependent on historical research, which is a laggy history of who's been funding the research.

This is changing, thankfully; check out e.g. the European Language Resources Association's catalogues,
http://catalog.elra.info/
or any of the very incomplete list on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_corpora
or in fact the various international Wikipediae themselves!

As for this particular project being English only ... itch to scratch probably ;-)
The Strictness Principle: Restrict the Scope by Default
Stop Using JavaScript (2013)