skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the problem these days is that standard-essential patents are considered less valuable because they tend to require FRAND licensing. This is the problem companies like Motorola and Samsung ran into during the smartphone patent wars. They could not ask for injunctions or high royalties for many of their patents as they were standards-essential, and they lost a lot of leverage.

Secondly, standards setting bodies are usually a conglomerate of members from competing companies and hence a huge political bureaucratic mess, so it's not as easy to get something into the standard just for some money.
تور ارزان کیش ویژه هتل های ۵ ستاره ورود ۲۷ اردیبهشت ۹۵
"Meanwhile, the company is focusing more effort on “native” advertising products such as its BrandVoice program, which allows marketers to publish content to its site."

Sponsored stories. Now that's hitting the bottom. It's an insult to the memory of Malcolm Forbes Sr.
Torvalds on memory ordering and clever compilers (http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/memory_barriers.html):

"Compiler people tend to think that people want smart compilers. I as a compiler power-user can emphatically tell you that that isn't true. People want _reliable_ compilers, and they want compilers that can be told to just get the hell out of the way when needed."

I guess I'm largely at the same side of the argument, on the theory that atomics etc. should be used very sparingly by people who know what they're doing and spend time to hand-optimize their code and think it through semantically (and these people aren't helped by the semantics of atomics becoming more complicated for the sake of optimization opportunities), as opposed to other language mechanisms which are used all over the place by everyone, and so with these mechanisms you do gain a lot from clever optimizations. But I understand the other side of this argument...
Xp and thinkpad
The Startup That Makes Building Websites Easier Than Ever
An antitrust, where Apple would lose.
Are you refering to Excel's COM interface?
My kingdom for a backpack that will standupright! How many times I've cursed the backpack gods when I've placed my bag on the floor to get something out and if I'm not a ninja holding it in place with my feet it will tumble to the deck regardless of how much stuff is inside
Yup basically game over. Time to walk away. Easier said than done.
I agree chrome is too fast and becomes unstable
No, $1B for a company that works.
Organizing a large JavaScript application
> How likely do you think it is that a world war will break out?

0%

What has that to do with country piles? Is this what the hip young kids do nowadays, dubstep raves at the old manor?
You could also research e-ink Android tablets with USB/Bluetooth for the keyboard. (I looked at some a year ago, but I forgot their names.)
It's not clear whether this is getting sincere upvotes despite that the page is currently failing to load or ironic upvotes because the page is currently failing to load.

In any event, he's not fixing your issue yet because he has limited free time and, apparently, has issues of his own to fix.
I use it on Firefox and I hope it doesn't break
What sane person would write a presentation like this. Horrible to try and read, particularly on a phone. Whatever his message was is lost on me.
I feel the pain. I maintain a couple of slightly popular repos and the issues are sometimes overwhelming, even more when I have to debug some issue in an environment I don't own (iOS) or when the issue runs deep (PhantomJS issue => testing issue => now my issue).
If you look at the console, you can see the AJAX request fails with 500, and says it cannot connect the DB, so it's not a browser or JS issue.

This link seems to work for now.

https://archive.is/t9oKw
If Microsoft killed it, it was a slow death. Microsoft bought it in '92 and released the last version in 2005.
In the US that's true. Here in 21st century Britain I can initiate a bank transfer to another person from my phone, and they can immediately spend that money.
Sponsored content and PR pieces being paraded around as actual news along side real content has been occurring for years.

I would honestly doubt that this is an entirely new thing for Forbes and most publishers or outlets.
Andreessen Horowitz: http://a16z.com
So, there's this: http://what-if.xkcd.com/145/

But there's also TheSpiceIsLife's opening comment which says:

> ...you're increasing the surface are of the collector so the 1.366kWh / square meter still stands.

It feels like your second sentence

> ...[H]owever you can use reflectors in the spectrum that your solar panel operates in to increase the energy available for capture at a focal point.

plays rhetorical games by ignoring the existence of large parts of your solar collector (namely the reflectors) in order to arrive at an inflated energy density figure.
The next step is to build a chatbot to replace the professor at teaching. If someone is not going to enjoy the fruits why are you going to supply the knowledge base for a chatbot that is going to replace you?
The term "fair use" seems to only exist in the United States, but the same concept exists in more places. Such as Sweden, for instance, where it's called "skäligt bruk".

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
SmartDraw 6 - I have a VMWare Fusion image just to run it.

Later versions were disastrous

Microsoft X6 Keyboard - Fantastic keyboard with removable number pad. Not made any more
Docker is available statically linked now yes, and it works fine. Although that issue is still open, you have to use dynamically linked version if you want to use these features. Docker is not required as a trampoline any more.
Magnetic Hyperloop pod unveiled at MIT
Half the World Lives in Cities. Did We Get Here Thanks to Religion?
C/C++ language designers used to take the position that concurrency was an OS issue, not a language issue. That came unglued as processors did more and more out of order operations.

C/C++ language doesn't really understand concurrency. Even locking is iffy, because the language doesn't know what data is locked by a lock. Rust, and to a lesser extent Java, associate locks with data, which gives the compiler some info to guide what it can't optimize. C/C++ have a whole series of kludges - "volatile", "atomic", etc., which patch holes in race conditions but don't provide a coherent concurrency model. Which is why we see papers like this.
Totally agreed. Cold emailing can work wonders sometimes. Contrary to our beliefs, many people are willing to reply to emails
Central Bank of Nigeria Deny Rumors of Naira Devaluation
We already have volatile for "yes, please do this as two separate increments, don't coalesce them". And atomics give you ordering guarantees and mappings to atomic instructions. And fence methods give you full fences where needed.

So we already have all those things you might need, they just got decomposed into different aspects that can be applied separately.
So what I imagine when we talk about a single database is just some mapping of stock shares to owner. So to keep track of who owns what share, when some shares gets transferred you just update each row accordingly. (Imagine a stock with 10 total shares and X sells to Y shares #1, #2, #3, you'd just update the table and set owner=Y where share id is in (1, 2, 3))

But for such important financial data you don't want to just update your table and throw away your history. You'd like to also keep a record of what changes occurred. Maybe you'd like to audit your database, and find out the path of ownership from which a current owner obtained their shares. Maybe you'd like to make your history immutable, so as to not have headaches later on trying to validate the current state, or to discourage tampering with the database.

So now you have a datastore where the current state relies on an ever-growing stack of immutable changesets. This sounds exactly like what we talk about when we talk about blockchains. There are people who define a blockchain more strictly (e.g, The Blockchain(TM) with decentralization and crypto), but I think the author was going for the former meaning.

That is to say, you can implement a blockchain and still be using a single well-designed and well thought-out database.
Google Reader. There are no replacements that a) update fast enough, and b) allow search for free. I know, I tried all of them.

Firefox had an amazing plugin called "Ubiquity", which was basically like command line for your browser and you could write custom scripts for it. It was seriously better than anything that exists today. They stopped developing it for some reason. Tab Groups is another feature that's now abandoned, despite being superior to everything else that exists.

Forte Agent (free version) - great text Usenet reader, now abandonware.
Good sleuthing, sounds like an instance of "accidentally quadratic"[1]. It's a very easy thing to miss, especially if n is usually small.

[1] http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com
At the very least it happens in Flanders. I've seen ijs ("ice") capitalized in cursive as Ys[0] on an ice truck, for example.

Edit: from Wikipedia[1]: "It used to be common, in particular when writing in capitals, to write Y instead of IJ."

So it's an obsolete practice...

----

0. something along those lines: http://alphabetprintables.org/alphabet_printables_cursive/up...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_%28digraph%29
Twitter is horrible for having a meaningful conversation, let alone reading it.
I miss the search feature in Windows XP too. But Agent Ransack is a very good replacement and it even integrates with the file explorer. Try it!
producthunt.com ?
Android does something much like that I believe.
This[1].It was one of the best chrome store extensions which would directly take you to the relevant text while using Google Search.But it was shut down because of the drain in advertising revenue.
Thank you Google!

[1]:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-scroll/gkcfk...
SystemTap is dtrace for linux, at least in intent (implementation and details differ)
I agree too, getting rid of mostly everything I owned, regularly cleaning my hard drive and bookmarks is the best way. The less stuff that clings onto you the better.
Reveal Codes from WordPerfect. I am just typing text now, thanks god, but if I needed to format it, just a few years ago I needed to, I am so, so lost.
I do think it's seasonal, however not connected to GSoC. Many of the major contributors are (or were) students (Julia seems to be detrimental to people finishing their PhDs, except in the case of Jeff Bezanson, where in some sense he crowdsourced a lot of the research, as Julia was the topic of his thesis ;-) ) Many who aren't students are professors. Definite drop off when people are taking classes, exams, teaching, etc.
> and eliminated entire cash notes like the 500 EURO note

Good fucking riddance. It just was a gift to criminals.
Lenovo destroyed the Thinkpad legacy.

I gave up on them a few years ago when they dropped the 7 row keyboard. The 7 row keyboard was leagues ahead of any other laptop keyboard, ever. The replacement keyboard is awful. I hate the loss of web forward/back keys too. I hate chicklet keys. I hate pgup/dn placed as though I'll almost never use them. I still prefer the trackpoint over any touchpad.

I'd buy a retro Thinkpad, like you link, in a second. I'd Hackintosh or Linux it. Barring miracles, my next laptop will be a Mac.

A friend has a W540. It's horrible. Worst sound output of any machine I came across, horrible chicklet keyboard, and cracks in the keyboard surround that's design fault but Lenovo won't fix. All the once handy TP utilities are Adobe Air bloatware that take 5s+ to even open.

After 20 years he says it's his last TP.
Why I haven't read your blog post yet: Won't show anything without javascript → meh, close that tab.
Logging in via Google allows Forbes to "manage users’ Google contacts".

What possible good could come of that?
> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war.

I am still fighting, and the war is not over.
>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. [...] About ownership, you missed the point, London is a bad example, as it's very expensive own a house there

I think you are missing the point, because you're not seeing the connection between these symptoms.

Property in London is so expensive because our culture values ownership more than ever and because property is used as a store of value by those who already see the warning signs on the horizon (in various countries around the world).

I do agree to some extent with your tracking concerns when it comes to electronic payments. But we have to realize that tracking is not an inherent flaw/feature of electronic payments. It is the result of laws and regulations created by the governments we elected.

The point you are making about software licenses has very little to do with a shift away from ownership in my view. We never owned software, even when it was distributed on floppy disks. We never owned music even when it was distributed on vinyl. Tracking and onerous usage restrictions are a feature of the networked nature of modern software and of the distribution channels we use. Ownership rights that make these things possible have always been in place.
Wow, looks like a big deal. I've been reading through https://github.com/plasma-umass/browsix/blob/master/doc/repo... which is a really nice article, but I'd recommend you to tell a bit more on what this level of indirection brings.

You mention Bluetooth for example in the beginning which is an example of hardware that is yet not supported from the browser.

Applications beyond what can currently be done in a UNIX shell would be good. You already have thought long about it. I feel you can tell us much more about possibilities!!!
Come check us out at https://massdrop.com
The Vultures' Vultures: How a New Hedge-Fund Strategy Is Corrupting Washington
even in the most optimistic of views, we're all dying some time before the heat death, that's for sure, unless we alter the laws of physics or move to an other universe
For libc functions (man 3) it will emulate if the syscall doesn't work. If you are making a system call directly (man 2) it is up to your code to do a fallback, more or less.
Waze before the acquisition.
IMO.im

Back in the days, when the service unified different messengers in a single web interface, also providing a handy history search.
We've forgotten how hard of a problem RAM used to be, and how far into the Rube Goldberg we went to solve it.

Things We Actually Did:

Mercury delay lines were tubes full of mercury we sent vibrations through. Those vibrations would reflect around and get detected and read out later. This wasn't, technically, random-access, but it was memory.

Williams-Kilburn tubes were CRTs with long-persistence phosphor, the exact opposite of what display CRTs used, and metal plates on the front to allow the contents of memory to be read out. You could have two identical CRTs, one with the plate to use as RAM and one built into the display panel so the operators could see the contents of RAM in real time.

Core memory was tiny little ceramic ferrite doughnuts woven into complicated metal grids which would change how they were magnetized in response to a sufficient current; their state could be read back out non-destructively, and core was, in fact, nonvolatile. The core modules were woven by hand by women working with microscopes and very steady hands.

Being able to make usable amounts of memory out of components we can just etch into silicon was an amazing advance. Nothing short of revolutionary, really; computers as we know them would be flatly impossible without cheap, plentiful RAM.
The abstract of the paper[0] clearly says

> We combined optical light curves provided by the Kepler Space Telescope–K2 extended mission and thermal infrared data provided by the Herschel Space Observatory.

Kepler hasn't been staring at the same patch of stars for a while now[1]

[0] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/151/5/11...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(spacecraft)#Second_Lig...
Actually, for the sort of low-level bit twiddling code that I frequently do, 1-based indexing complicates the code greatly.
I also need to pass structures that contain indices back and forth to C, so the 1-based indices cause extra overhead to constantly add or subtract the size of the element. I find that it's the largest cause of bugs in my code (which is why I really want Gallium working!)
Have you tried Digg's RSS reader? I've been using it a bit lately, and like it well enough.

http://digg.com/reader.
The author has addressed very valid issues, but I strongly disagree with his objective theme of "Giving up"

I don't think the Julia team should be blamed for anything.
I have not heard of the project receiving any support from large companies as Python, Golang and Rust do.

For this reason, I find it very unfair to compare Julia to these languages. FYI Julia has not even reached version 1.0 yet!

The language just needs support, and the author is not helping out.
I could honestly believe that is Airbnb's slogan. But I'm sad to believe they treated an interview candidate like that.

I hope you were able to use that tool to leverage a better job elsewhere and that he/she is no longer interviewing people at Airbnb.
It had a non-rapacious future.
Jasc Paint Shop Pro. This tool had the useful half of Illustrator's features and the useful half of Photoshop's, it was blazing fast, and it combined them in a single program so you could mix vector and raster layers. This made it absolutely perfect for web-targeted graphics work. It was the first software I legally bought because it was so good and still affordable (a fraction of the price of Adobe's stuff - something like $200 if i recall correctly).

Corel bought it and turned it into a bloated mess of a photo management tool. IMO they should've just killed Draw and rebranded Paint Shop Pro as the new Draw, it was that much better.
There is VeraCrypt, a fork of TrueCrypt 7.1a. It still works at least on Windows and OS X (I didn't check GNU/Linux).

https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/
There is an awesome FreePascal [1]. Along with TurboPascal-like console IDE called FPIDE, it has Delphi-like GUI IDE - Lazarus. And it very actively developed, cross-platform and supports modern technologies.

[1] http://www.freepascal.org/

[2] http://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Google's UK NHS deal does not have regulatory approval
Ive had performance issues with UIColour and NSColour in the past as well, specifically to do with colour space conversion in my case.
As I mentioned already - Lazarus + FreePascal for the 1st one.
list, a DOS text file browser by Vernon D. Buerg. Anyone know where I can get a copy?
6 Indonesian Startups in Google’s Launchpad Accelerator
Sabre C aka Centerline C and later Centreline ObjectCenter (C++). Best C debugging environment I've ever used. I ported the X11R3 server to some custom h/w using it.
I use Clementine, which comes close, but on OS X it freezes on me relatively often.

(https://www.clementine-player.org/ - it's a fork of Amarok 1.4, just in case you did not know about it)
> "just plain filtered" ... "needs added filtration"..

Wut?
My network is administered by the building, both at home and at work, so I wouldn't be able to change router config.
Logitech Mouseman+

(http://2a.zol-img.com.cn/product/117_500x2000/44/cepKXmRt1Cs...)

Best ergonomic mouse ever made. Fitted my hand perfectly. The extreme slant looks terrible but works far better than every handed mouse I've used in the 20 years since. There was a matching trackball if you preferred that.

Unlike every modern Logitech mouse made it did not break after a short life. It was thrown away because it was old school marble instead of laser. Lasted years in great condition.

Use that design with modern sensor, sell me one for £150, I'd buy it.
Fixed a bug in my project yesterday that broke it for iPad1 users. There’s still quite a few of you out there.
1870-1920. Electric light, automobiles, aircraft, radio, paved roads. Railroads everywhere in the developed world. Electric mass transit (trolleys, subways) in major cities. Tractors and combine harvesters on farms. Refrigeration. X-rays.

In computing, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording company (later IBM) produced the first printing tabulator, the beginning of commercial data processing.

Those 50 years held the greatest lifestyle changes in history.
But Java is still as free as it was when SUNW was still a ticker symbol. Oracle hasn't done anything to kill OpenJDK and start charging for new versions or anything like that.

I feel that this demonization of Oracle and the concomitant sanctification of Google in this fight between two profit driven corporations is somewhat misguided.
John Oliver on “Scientific Studies”
Lotus Magellan
The Psion Series 3 handhelds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3

A (tiny, but) usable, physical keyboard on a device that lasted _ages_, fit into a suit pocket and was eminently practical. The age of the PDA is long gone (heck, I'm typing this on an iPad mini), but we still haven't caught up with some of its best bits.
The point is that they're not fundamentally interconnected. The current line of thinking among transgendered people is that their sex is not appropriate for their gender, regardless of what the chromosomes say. I.e., their genital profile and secondary sex characteristics ("ovaries and testicles") do not exhibit the same sexual mode as their identity ("brain and pituitary", though in many cases likely just "brain").
The best part of this: The native for loop is what lodash uses. It's the fastest way to do it.
Run­keeper tra­cks users when the app is not in use
I saw someone using a 5mx on a train a month ago. It was still fully functional and he was perfectly happy with his 96MB CompactFlash card.
What's wrong with your tap water? Don't they have the same safety standards to meet?

UK tap water is great (Well, outside of Greater London where it's basically limestone slurry). I've never bought bottled or filtered aside from the brief time I was in London.

At least two brands of UK bottled water were bottling northern tap water and selling it. Business idea I wish I had thought of!
I guess it hurt quite a bit to find out that their content was not important enough to make users turn off their Adblocker.

I wonder if they fired the arrogant prick who suggested to block all users who have Adblock.

Maybe I am a bad person 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.
If you use <space> it'll go to the next slide, whether down or to the side.
It's reveal.js, a pox on the already poxy world of presentations.
Picasa and Google Notes
Thanks for the suggestion about WePay. Sent them an email requesting more information.
Buffet buying a stake in a technology company. Never thought I'd see the day.
I did more friends and family free PC support because of Kazaa crapware than any other cause.

Ended up as "if Kazaa is installed, you're on your own, no matter what happens".
I had to read the email twice to understand it. It's absolutely hard to read.

At a minimum, each sentence is doing too much.
IKR!, I liked to share any song (specially from local bands) with friends, and groups to discover new bands, etc
Syser claimed to be that replacement. But in fact it's too old, unstable and nobody using it. Now everyone is using WinDbg for kernel/drivers debugging. It has terrible command syntax, but with PyKD extension and some customisation it's usable. See those slides[1] on how to do that. Also, there is another way to work with WinDbg protocol - using radare2[2]. Beware this support is in early development and may be unstable. But, unlike original WinDbg, it is cross-platform tool without external dependencies and completely free and open source.

[1] https://www.botconf.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014-2.1-W...

[2] https://github.com/radare/radare2/blob/master/doc/windbg