skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree.

I find IMBb rating 98% accurate. No, I won't necessarily like a 8.1 move better than a 8.0 movie, but I will like it more than a 7.5 movie. And a 6.9 movie will always be crap to me.

I can think of very few movies where IMBb rating didn't agree with me at all, in either direction. And it's usually with movies that have a very social/philosophical/american message. But these are biased even more on the non-IMDb sites, like rotten tomatoes!

It might not work for everyone, but it sure works for me.
I'd tell you if I could remember. But this was 15 years ago and there were a lot of very similar-sounding companies with very similar ideas so doubt I could even pick it out of a list of names, never mind remembering it unprompted.
Yeah, I did point that out on my post. They let it languish for a good while and recently started updating it.
And seeded the crap fest that is making its way through the larger Linux ecosystem right now.

I had a N800, and i loved it. But come the N900 Nokia had done too many "pivots" too fast, fatally fragmenting the community the 770 to N810 lineage had built up. And once Elop came in and torched the platform, things were sinking fast.
Yeah, one should be able to import a part through a URL, and parametrize it ones own system.
From quick googling, there's some discussion where people are suggesting alternatives: http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/2200/5

Personally, I haven't ever used PC Outline, so I don't know its features, but from many free outliners I tried I liked the Noteliner. Unfortunately I couldn't find a replacement on Linux (and I don't have time to learn Emacs + org-mode)
No 'tisn't - https://www.arcanoae.com/

At the very worst they already have a bunch of drivers for relatively-modern hardware: https://www.arcanoae.com/shop/os2-ecs-drivers-software-packa...

However, if their promises to release a semi-modernized OS/2 actually come to fruition I'll be really happy. :D
It sound as a good news for everybody.

Buffett is know for not putting too much pressure on his investments giving them the time to grow and be profitable.

It is a strategy that worked pretty well, however a technology company is a different beast from the other companies in the Hathaway portfolio (winner takes it all/most), said so Yahoo can still an important player with the right management.
Explain me more. You fall for the propaganda without background knowledge. The statistics says otherwise. Fake money is mostly smaller notes (like 20, 50, 100 notes). Higher value notes like 1000 francs note won't get eliminated anytime soon. Criminals already use electronic money, real estate, fake companies, etc.
Reminds me of the saying:

If you think about the work, you will always have work.
If you think about the goal, you will reach the goal.
After removing tab groups I see literally zero reasons why anyone should use firefox. It's slower, more buggy copy of Opera and Chromium ;/
Audacious has a winamp-mode where you can install winamp themes and visualizations, but the codebase is not based on Winamp.
> Because it's rarely in someone's self-interest to give honest feedback, which is true for [...] almost anyone in a position to issue some type of denial. Instead, they part with something ambiguous, non-committal, and ideally flattering because it covers their butts and allows them to backpedal if necessary.

I broke up with a girl a few hours ago and this sounds so cruelly true.
Hyundai's new wearable robot turns you into a mech pilot
> If you take the idea, wireless power at a distance, and separate that from the method, via ultrasound, the idea is game-changing.

Uh. It is my understanding that free-space [0] wireless power transmission is a rather old tech. [1] You just pretty much never see it because if you want to move substantial amounts of power with a relatively small antenna, you have to keep living things a significant distance away from the transmission area, lest they cross between the Tx and Rx sides and get seriously harmed.

[0] That is, things like microwave or laser power transmission through the atmosphere rather than things like inductive charging mats and transmission rings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer#Far-fi... (Notice the mention of the microwave-powered RC helicopter in 1964.)
Macrimedia (Adobe) Fireworks

Perfect mix of a bitmap and vector editor for ui and web design. Nothing since comes close, scetch is trying but isn't there yet...
How do you start your independent analysis if by not looking at what's popular? Doing your own analysis and reading amazon reviews are not exclusive.

I find wirecutter usually accurate in facts, but I rarely agree with them on their recommendation of what is good for me. That being said, they are very explicit in why they recommend something, I just wish there were other reviewers who shared my set of interests and values in things.
750–950 The Islamic Golden Age. Most relatable to HN was the work of al-Khwarizmi who was one of the fathers of algebra and whose name rendered as Algoritmi in Latin led to the term "algorithm".
XMPP. Yeah, I know technically it still exists, but having 8 different chat clients installed on my phone is ridiculous.
He mentions 2 decades ago it being fine, so I presume not India. The advice to only drink bottled in India was common 20 years ago too.
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meh. incorrect cheap shot.

Firefox slogan always was Take Back The Web.

and it's still kicking at it. I'm using it on android now, with NoScript and httpsEverywhere just fine.
I loved my old Treo. We were one of the first companies in this country to set up ActiveSync to get 'real time' emails on those devices. We would get all smug showing off to our clients how 'Dick Tracy' we were, getting and responding to emails while out and about! :)

I was intrigued back then to see in the PalmPilot ActiveSync settings, that you could specify what times of the day and week you wanted to 'go quiet' and disable real time syncing. I snorted in derision as I questioned why anyone would want to stop this glorious flow of emails at any time.

Nowadays, I am staggered that most modern devices do not allow you to turn off the deluge. I know that there is now a movement among some web service companies to allow users to specify 'no work time', and I really really hope that trend catches on and it becomes ubiquitous in all internet connected devices.
He bought into ibm
The HackerNew Chrome extension adds a link to a cached version under each post.
Gah, my bad.
Try the Pyra mini computer.

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
Well unless your array is more than just x-many addresses in a row, like if the array carries metadata related to length (like every language but C) or if it's a sparse array (hint sparse arrays are super common in numerical work).
I thought the blinking cursor was there to imply we needed to write the blog post ourselves.
Press space (as per some other comment there), but I agree
heh. none of those things ever got close to working. the question was about things you used and now you miss, not things you wish :)
I'm pretty sure pen and paper still exist, though :)
> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war.

Keep fighting the good fight. I still use Mutt and haven't gotten around to finding a way to handle Office365 meeting invites and such. I'm also the only one in the company that connects to Slack via an IRC client (irssi).
If he'd used HTML, the thing designed for formatting text on the internet, his site probably wouldn't have been hugged to death. I wish people wouldn't use javascript like this.
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>Everything not being 4:3 screens. I found it better for programming than everything being cinematic screens.

This! I concentrate much better on old laptop with 4:3 screen. I have one single window open, no browser, not documentation, no chat windows, no email. The laptop wouldn't even handle all programs at the same time, 512MB of RAM.
Of course, their IP doesn't have value because it's particularly clever, it has value because it's in a specification that people have to implement in order to inter-operate with everything else that's based on the same specification. Their patent could be on a trivial tweak to something that's unpatented with no benefit other than making them money in licensing fees, and as long as they can get their version into the standard...
> "Someone bung a modern screen on that form-factor please."

You may be interested in following this project:

http://hackaday.com/2016/05/01/upgrading-a-20-year-old-pda/
Ubuntu 16.04 with Gnome Flashback Compiz can be made to look almost indistinguishable from Ubuntu Gnome 10.04, desktop cube included. Very few tweaks are needed. The only missing parts are the File, Edit menus on some applications, most notably Nautilus (they're working on it) but I don't really use the Gnome applications, except Nautilus and the menus are not that useful (I setup my preferences in Unity and it remembers them). The Gnome default apps look like the vanilla featureless versions of what one actually needs. Only the general DE is good.
The thing is you can’t tell someone who work for free on their free time on a project you use for free what to do with their time. If they want to make silly JS animations on their website it’s not a problem.
He’s using a database connection to retrieve his blog post; the issue here has nothing to do with JS.
> Tab Groups

Still works, I use it on a daily basis. It's just an addon now. It will probably continue to work for a few years, they've been wanting to get rid of it since 2013 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836758) and it's still there.

But I'd be glad to hear of any alternatives!
A tiny DOS era tool called list.com

It was similar to less, but could show hex data, etc

It would eat any file for breakfast and display/page it without a hitch
Computer Concepts Impression Publisher. Basically a desktop publishing application comparable to FrameMaker, in handwritten ARM assembly language and running in 4Mb of RAM. Word still doesn't approach it's ease of use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tapestry
enjoyed gnome 3? either you waited several months with an outdated distro, or you never had to do basic things like shutdown/restart your computer, change volume, etc, etc... I know I waited months for those luxury. with the added insult of having contributed lots of accessibility code to gnome 2 settings that just got under the rug
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The Pyra looks like a shoebox - isn't there anything with a nicer form factor?
For something completely different... a brace and bit hand drill for woodworking. It's almost impossible to find new drill bits that would fit the two jaw chuck, which doesn't have enough force to clamp on to a round bit with friction only.

A cordless drill is nice but not very accurate, useful for holes and screws, not for removing waste in joinery.
You'd be surprised how many agencies are still using waterfall, especially in Asia.
No -- ANY car. Where exactly did people on HN get this idea that it should be the "admins cars"?

From the actual article: "Besa has a unique way of putting users who apply to be a hitman-for-hire to the test by asking them to perform a criminal task. That task generally involves activity such as stealing and crashing a car, setting it on fire along with a unique personal message – all while being filmed for evidence."

And from the posting on the admin's board, as quoted right after this in the article:

>You need to get some hooded jacked, and set fire to a car. Select a car from any place you want, make sure is somehow in a place to avoid the fire extent to other places, we don’t want to burn the hole city down.
Http://www.joinjune.com - gets you paid to hear offers.
It's available on Android
> They're not trying to shake you down.

... yes, that's exactly what they are doing?
How Elon Musk exposed billions in questionable Pentagon spending
It's a thread about a rail engineering project so I was assuming the crowd was interested by those stuff...
It sounds to me like you're describing Affinity Designer - you might want to check it out if you haven't already. It's relatively very cheap and one of the few pieces of software that I use daily that I am very happy paying the list price for!

I vaguely remember having Jasc installed as a kid and it was indeed great!
Haha, imposing your plain text will on the HTMLers. I love it.
Why should it? Mailing cash is totally fine.

There are a couple of other red flags though.
4:3 screens: yes, but on laptops. Given an equally wide laptop 4:3 gives much more space to work on. I wonder if there would be space for large touchpads but the Thinkpad/stick fans won't care. My personal sweetspot on laptops was 16:10.

For standalone monitors, nobody was making screens as wide (in cm) as the ones we have now, at a reasonable price. You could have two 4:3 monitors side by side which is 8:3 or 16:6, worse than 16:9 for the same width.

I add: 15" laptops without numberpads (Macs don't count, I don't like OSX and their keyboards and the buttonless touchpad)
If it's got say 300+ reviews it's not like people are going to read all 300+ to figure out how many of them are fake.
>It would almost seem like they were betting half the farm on Java. I find it fascinating how fast Java was alienated from the mac given its initial deep embed.

In those days (2000-2001) Java was the most hyped language on the planet, thanks to SUNs marketing efforts (and huge cash influx from the dot-com era and need for big servers).

That's what motivated Apple.

But the reality was, few developers ever cared to produce Mac apps in Java, and fewer users like those when they did appear. Despite the deep integration (which was mostly some hooks to native APIs), it was always an alien looking step-child on the platform.
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Wrong. Phoenix was produced as a small, light, extensible replacement for the perceived bloat of Netscape. it started as an experimental project.

See the announcement by Eich & Hyatt announcing Firefox would be the focus, not Communicator: http://www-archive.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-02-Apr-2003.h...

"Firefox is simply smaller, faster, and better -- especially better not because it has every conflicting feature wanted by each segment of the Mozilla community, but because it has a strong "add-on" extension mechanism"

"Take Back the Web" came a year or two later as I recall.
Nah, 'paviva is right. Unnecessary tests are a problem, and you can put them in the same bag as hypochondria and WebMD abuse in terms of things where our brain's heuristics and cutting corners in evaluating probabilities start to work against us.

> compared to the other health issues of society, like overwork, junk food, sedentary life styles etc...

You can always find bigger issues. But given that there are startups and big companies that try to solve the issues you mentioned with spurious, half-assed, unscientific pseudo-tests (yay "wearables", yay "Internet of Things"!), it's even more worrying, because suddenly testing abuse may get coupled with the problems above.
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HyperCard lives on quite nicely in LiveCode [http://livecode.com/]. I loved HyperCard soooo much!
Harvard Students Are Working Hard to Find Solutions to Climate Change
The Microsoft IntelliMouse was so good. This was something I realized at the time and hoarded them. I now have a wonderful stash of that mouse.
Malls in China are starting to hollow-out because people are buying almost everything online. Increasingly, you go to malls for the expensive stuff that can be easily faked as well as for restaurants. So if Alibaba isn't recording a lot of profit, that's because it's engineering ways to put money in useful places, not because it doesn't have customers.
>This also helped killing the Java role on the desktop and together with Microsoft, started the industry cycle to move back into AOT compiled languages.

Well, it's not like Java ever did much to win the Desktop. Swing was a horrible over-engineered mess, performance was crap until GC improved and CPUs caught on in the mid-late 00s, and the desktop saw mostly neglect from SUN.

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

And have all OS X userland apps being written in Java? Probably Apple would have been dead.

Besides it's not like they killed Java among protests from developers -- the majority of developers and users "were quite happy to using Objective-C" as you said.
A person that thinks compilers should optimize atomics?
I'm using both Firefox and Opera on mg laptop and they don't feel any different regarding speed or crashes.
I know about FreePascal, I even used it quite a lot in the early 2000s. Unfortunately, the Pascal ship has sailed for me ;).

I could've also mentioned Turbo C(++), which was almost equally nice.
500 € Notes are a gift to criminals because they allow large amounts of money to be smuggled easily - e.g. to a country where no questions are asked when you deposit large amounts of money with your fake company.
Java-everywhere wasn't about a single platform with Java being everywhere, it was about Java being on every platform.
> Maintenance and working on other people's code is now solved if it's the same code you would write yourself.

Easier perhaps, but certainly not solved. I often have trouble maintaining and working on code I wrote.
Mileage may vary but recruiters fill a networking gap and are useful to outsiders for getting a foot in the door.
I use Newsblur now, and it is really good.
I was looking for the most important metric in the article - how many jobs have you filled so far?

I have limited bandwidth for free-time coding, and anything has to compete with my own side projects and "list of things I need to learn/revise to keep head above water in notoriously mercurial industry".

If I were to invest time in Starfighter, I'd need to know that, assuming I do my part and finish the game with a reasonable score, that a) it will land me an interview and b) it will do sufficient pre-vetting of my skills so that the interviewer doesn't need to throw whiteboard curveballs. If I saw some kind of metric on job placement I might think it's worth spending time on. Otherwise my time would be better invested in improving my Github profile and resume and building my network.
>Based on adoption rates I would say Java applets were very successful.

How successful exactly? Crappy banking sites aside, you could, even in 2000 or 2005, surf the whole web with Java disabled and not have any problem.

That was less true if you disabled Flash.
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Watch hackers break into the US power grid
The lack of C toolchain management yields some errors when trying to cross compile between OSX and linux (both directions).

See https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs/issues/462 and https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs/issues/463

Been able to cross compile between these systems using rustup, anyone ?
> 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.

Are you aware that C11/C++11 -- the language standards that added atomics -- also defined a coherent memory model?
Check out the wonderful ZTreeWin - http://www.ztree.com/
Fair enough. They used the word "partnered" so I went with that.
Amen to that. It cannot get more misleading than that.

Using the word "buy" instead of "borrow" is done willfully to mislead the consumer as they know that the consumer would otherwise be less likely to enter into the transaction. Buying implies that you have the power of having ownership to a non-exclusive single copy of the work wherein the ownership lies in the ability to command over that ownership (by, for example, giving it to somebody else).
I'm constantly amazed how many not well-known things were invented back then that sound like something that came only recently, for example sending photos over the wire - some time ago I saw a video [1] about wirephoto [2] that blew my mind a little, I would never guess that the first photograph sent over the wire was in as early as 1921!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LetlcmqZFyA
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirephoto
I had 2 T41p laptops. They were great while they worked but they had a problem with the Nvidia chips which caused the chip to die at some point. You could reflow the board in the oven (did that twice) and it would give it a few more months of life but then would die again taking the laptop with it. Otherwise it was a great machine.
Well Diophantus had already done most of this work for the foundations of Algebra 500 years before.

Besides that, not much during that time compared to the industrial revolution to call it the most innovative era.
seems to me most of that can be traced back to the electric generator/motor. Without it, the rest of them becomes impractical or impossible.
Presumably if you plug a keyboard or mouse in and it starts reading /secret, somebody will notice and generally you can deny the device the ability to do that technical means. I'll be honest, 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.

That said, your point is largely on the money that, were're taking great faith that your computing device is secure. But at the same time, I'd put more stock into a device that handles my super secret key and attempts to make reading it and tampering impossible / unfeasible from the devices I plug it into.

Thusly, it's perfectly resonable to care more about your yubikey than your mouse, from a security perspective.
Upgrading a 20 Year Old PDA
You're living it.
I second this. I tried an awefull lot of feed readers when Google announced the end of Reader, and Newsblur is by far the most usable one, and it is actually pretty good. I would stay on Newsblur rather than returning to Google Reader would it come back to life.
What a blast from the past. I loved PSP!
Interestingly it took decades after that to roll out most of the things you listed. Meanwhile newer inventions like the mobile phone were rolled out faster and more globally, even to places where the inventions you listed still haven't reached.
> In the beginning, there was multirust

Well, in the beginning, there was rustup, but a different rustup that didn't manage side-by-side installs :P