skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

Vista was actually a fine release, just a bit resource intensive, had a stubborn file copying algorithms, and device driver support from third parties weren't that great at release time. Beside that Win7 is after all a Vista SP1"+", and a damn fine OS until 2020.

The worst Win OS was WinME, which was pretty unstable in comparison to older Win9x releases. I switched to Win2000 and then WinXP and never looked back.

The second worst is Win8x and Win10 though. Rough and unfinished on the UI side, and too many phone home "features" under the hood. The WinMin kernel would be great though, but Windows is heading in the wrong direction (Azure cloud, OS as a service, plans for monthly subscription). It would have been great if the plans for WinFS and Longhorn shell would have been restarted and based on Win7 shell. A C++ based Longhorn UI shell would be great for enterprise and consumer. The search experience would be what one has today with SharePoint but insanely fast and proper integrated in to the Windows environment. The cloud offerings are a joke in comparison, sadly a regression in all fronts and they have no vision as it seems. The dreams of an x64 based Phone that could run Win32 applications like Photoshop - all gone. There is so much legacy, but very uncertain future of the platform. Even in enterprise world, which applications are still native? Only Office 2010 or the remarkable unstable 2013 is what every enterprise user still uses daily, everything else in on SharePoint, SAP (Java based client) or other intranet web applications or even internet web applications. And copying files around is more of an hassle than ever before. A native WinFS and a Longhorn UI would have been so great. Sadly, it's all history. </rant End>
Thanks! I need to up the contrast on my monitor because I totally glossed over that light gray on lighter gray.
Kind of like WhatsApp except for the auto clearance.
No, it looks great! We'll simply take "Show HN" out of the title. Thanks for sharing your work with the community here.
Chill out bro... What's the worst that can happen? It's not like any of the subjects are going to retreat to the fringes of society, write Basic Income manifestos, and dedicate their lives to the violent overthowal of Capitalism.

Plus this is really well intentioned.
You don't actually need to wait until the participants in a lifelong UBI study die to draw conclusions based on their behavior. Just guaranteeing them the income will give some insight into their behavior immediately.

The only downside of all UBI experiments I personally do not like is how there is no way to model the cultural shifts involved with it, and how the children of the UBI generation will grow up and mature into society, because I imagine it will be incredibly divergent once you can ask fundamental questions about what all the schooling is for and how one should best model their life for fulfillment.
As a side note, the reality is that even if basic income were instituted nationwide, politics means that it is never actually guaranteed - it could be repealed at any time, even if unlikely. So there will always be that twinge of uncertainty, barring some sort of constitutional amendment. This isn't meant to be a rebuttal to the author's perfectly valid point, though.
Unless you have a hardware decoder
ElectroCRUD on linkedin (MySQL CRUD)
> Good god why would I care?

If you're not interested in what your friends are up to, why are you friends with them in the first place? Maybe they're really just acquaintances?

Like you said, maybe it's a difference in attitude. Still, I recommend you giving it a shot to get a better idea of what it is. I also thought it was dumb at first.
Doesn't this article feel like it was written for Yahoo's benefit? Since they have a blinded bidding process (See [1]), it seems as if this article could help drum up higher bids. Maybe Yahoo is the anonymous source that provided the "hot tip" about commodity traders on Yahoo Messenger.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-20/yahoo-bid...
It was actually a common problem back in the day.

Software would ship with shared DLL's, uninstalling an application would usually have a knock on effect.

MS-DOS was used a lot for small office servers. Whilst Windows NT4 was growing in popularity, it was an expensive option for firms. Plus it was hard to play games on NT4 due to memory protection issues.

A fable of Doom being needed to run a server in today's environment is ridiculous, however back then things were a lot less mature. The issue wasn't limited to just games. Any application with shared files was a nightmare, normally you just renamed files, rebooted, then if things worked you could delete the files.
All I can say is, follow reporters who handle topics you're interested in and it's like having your own personal news site. A messier, but more direct advance beyond RSS (which I also still use religously).
> You don't actually need to wait until the participants in a lifelong UBI study die to draw conclusions based on their behavior.

That might be true, but financing basic income for life is a rather expensive research proposition.
I'm not asking for a complicated query system, really. An upgraded version of outlook would probably do the job. Or an email to their IT department who could do it. That's what I ended up doing last time which ended up turning into a year and a half battle to prove that the numbers were releasable under FOIA.

The judge ended up telling them to JFGI [0], since not googling it was costing the city thousands in court fees. That should address your concerns. It probably didn't get me every releasable number, but I'm sure as hell not going to sue and waste another six months. It takes too long to sue, they know it, and it's a huge factor in why this is all so difficult to do.

Please realize that paving the way for others to obtain this data is a huge part of the end goal. In some ways, I'm trying to fix the potholes of FOIA.

[0] "Next, DoIT and its counsel conducted online research on each remaining responsive phone number — in other words,they "googled" each number to determine whether that number was publically listed, and, if so, to whom it belonged."

Edit:
Cleaned up (a couple times).
A Valuable Lesson, and Whither Hadoop?
I know if I was given $30,000 a year for free with the understanding that it would entirely stop after five years, I would try my damnedest to not let it affect my lifestyle, essentially treat it as an early retirement fund source, and invest it. Perhaps most people wouldn't plan as I would, but I would imagine that the cut off would have a significant effect on at least some of the participants.

I don't necessarily agree that the study is unethical; the participants, one assumes, are told of the cut-off before the start. I do think that the outcomes might be less valid.
Programmatic Progressiveness
There was a separate goto utility in early UNIX. Pretty sure you can still find the source code if you look. Meanwhile, it's mentioned here: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/
Yeah, I know that worker bees are always the last to know the big picture, but someone somewhere had to make the "X" violate Demeter. Now, there's an argument to be made that the close button is only for the notification that something is going to happen, but come on. Obviously they didn't focus group this.
Is there a confirmed analysis of this? Just curious because I'm sure Amazon probably has an army of excel analyst warlocks (and chief warlocks) + a board to answer to...
For a valid experiment, the term should be a control variable on subjects:

- 0 years (ie no income, as per current)

- 1 year

- 5 years

- 15 years

- life

For example, it's possible subjects knowing they will get zero or one year of BI could have better outcomes than ones who know they have a lifetime of BI. Or not.
Interesting. I'd be futher amused if someone wrote a Django backend using spreadsheets.
According to rather old Rockbox benchmarks, their implementation of ALAC requires 3-4x the clockspeed as FLAC: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CodecPerformanceComparison

On a positive note, Apple later released a reference ALAC implementation under the Apache 2.0 license, which includes a patent grant, so the damage is mostly limited to consumer annoyance.
I'll share our story and current situation:

We bootstrapped with time (evenings & weekends) until we had enough revenue to keep the lights on, at which point we quit our full-time jobs and pursued it 100%. We're in our fifth year now and we closed 2015 with $2M in revenue. Excluding compensation, our operating costs (servers, professional services, supplies, t&e, taxes, etc) are about $125k.

While things are great, growth has also slowed due to sheer bandwidth available from only 3 people. We've definitely struggled with hiring. When a new employee's salary directly comes out of your own compensation, you tend to become very particular about people pulling their weight, so we've churned through 10 people so far. I've had a very difficult time competing for top talent.

At this point I think the networking and advice would be the most valuable thing a VC could bring to the table, as we have an abundance of cash and technically a very easy business to scale. Just need capable people who like to be well-compensated.
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_cc....
I guess Compuware, Detroit / Dynatrace.

Or Riverbed.

Having several similar products ... you know what it means: https://thomabravo.com/portfolio/all/current/
They only share the name.
You have that backwards. If you don't believe that some races are inferior then there are no reasons for things like affirmative action.
Not sure myself, but were they using the line of credit to demonstrate solvency?
The problem is the reliance on midi but it shouldnt be hard to build a credible house music generator even with midi byt relying in midi music data for training wont get you something that sounds like a jimi hendrix. But doing automated dance music makes sense.
Lyft driver shot
There was a in-depth article from Vanity Fair from 2012, "Microsoft’s Lost Decade" which tries to put together what happened.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-lo...

Some excerpts:

By 2002 the by-product of bureaucracy—brutal corporate politics—had reared its head at Microsoft. And, current and former executives said, each year the intensity and destructiveness of the game playing grew worse as employees struggled to beat out their co-workers for promotions, bonuses, or just survival.

...

Then, in June 2004, Steve Jobs announced that Apple was releasing its new operating system, called “Tiger.” And inside Microsoft, jaws dropped. Tiger did much of what was planned for Longhorn—except that it worked.

E-mails flew around Microsoft, expressing dismay about the quality of Tiger. To executives’ disbelief, it contained functional equivalents of Avalon and WinFS.

“It was fucking amazing,” wrote Lenn Pryor, part of the Longhorn team. “It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.”

Vic Gundotra, another member of the group, tried out Tiger. “Their Avalon competitor (core video, core image) was hot,” he wrote. “I have the cool widgets (dashboard) running on my MAC right now with all the effects [Jobs] showed on stage. I’ve had no crashes in 5 hours.”

...

Longhorn was doomed. A few months later, Allchin brought together the Longhorn team and made the announcement: Microsoft couldn’t complete Windows Vista in time to hit the latest planned release date. In fact, the company couldn’t foresee any launch date. So a decision had been made at the most senior reaches of Microsoft: after three years of work, throw everything out and start over. It was decided, at least for now, to drop or modify many of the original objectives; no more using C#, abandon WinFS, and revise Avalon.

Apple was already in the market with those features; Microsoft was basically giving up in its effort to figure out how to make them work.
iC Consult | Munich | Onsite, Remote | Full-Time

We are a security consultancy, specialising in identity and access management solutions and integrations. If you've got some security background, know your way around a linux box, have some coding/architecture experience, and are not too shy to go meet a client from time to time, we would most probably like to talk to you :)

Fluent German is a must. Readiness to travel is optional (and I mean it. You don't have to if you don't want to.). If you've got experience with anything IAM related (be it open source or proprietary) including but not limited to OAuth, SCIM, OIDC, even just plain LDAP, that's an advantage for you.

If interested, drop an email to Georgi (that's me) with a reference to HN. My email is kehaiov at ic-consult dot com.
Show HN: Markdown Notes – A classical text editor for Markdown
The FBI was founded by a man who believed in secretive abuses of power. There will always be those who believe it is their purpose to protect us from ourselves. What those in power don't get is that all suffering can't be eliminated without creating a whole new level of suffering at lower levels of society as a result. Or do they?
NASA’s Hubble Finds Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected
ok

by definition of timeline correct, by UX of timeline no. it doesn't show you what it is without you explicitly diving into that story
Sure there is. I've seen them. They wear back suits, black sunglasses, and drive big black oil guzzling SUVs that move in tight groups travelling at the exact same speed. I've also seen their leader too: http://bit.ly/1Y5Irgs (whom is shown reading this thread).
Hugo on S3 with Lambda to generate posts.
New way on how to cutdown on your email overload
I agree. I currently take a drug which has theoretical pathways that could cause significantly elevated cancer risk over the course of your lifetime. Research hasn't shown any significantly increased risk over 10 or 20 years but we don't have data from studies for longer periods in which it could significantly elevate cancer rates.

Ultimately, shorter term studies are an approximation. They're the best you can do. We can't do a life long study on this drug before making it available but we can draw information from shorter studies. Similarly, we can't do a life long basic income experiment, there's not the money out there, but we can study the shorter approximation and do it with more people and draw conclusions from that. All experiments entail compromise. The fact that neither of these bodies of science can have the ideal experiment is not a flaw but just part of doing science.
Oh, totally different. No money on trees.
> very particular about people pulling their weight, so we've churned through 10 people so far. I've had a very difficult time competing for top talent.

"we're going to invite you for a fifth round of interviews to make sure you're someone in line with our vision and understands our mission"
What are you talking about? I open Snapchat and it's literally two timelines, a private one and a public one. They are in order and timestamped. By definition and by UX. It is perhaps a quintessential example of a timeline of content.
FWIW: You appropriately articulated how I meant 'universally adopted'.

Nit:

"Use it for the majority of platforms [and/or for the majority of applications]?"
I would rather look at 500 people for one year than 50 people for 10 years. It is really important to understand how people's lives are affected and whether the positive outcomes that have been seen in the third world are replicated in modern economies. And here by "people" I mean a wide variety of personality types. Hmmm maybe it would be better to have a pool of people for 1 year of support and another for 2 years of support. Then you could also get an idea of how perceived duration of the support changes their reaction to it.
I believe he meant to write `lsof -i`
Pretty everything in that list is cross-platform, except, well, Everything
Arrests for Social Media Posts Surge in London
Leaving aside the feasibility of providing indefinite basic income as part of the study, it doesn't necessarily follow that the results would take longer to achieve. The author's point, I think, is that people would behave differently if they were confident that the income would last forever, compared to only lasting 5 years. It's entirely possible that you could still get useful data within those first five years though. (And almost certainly more useful than in the time-limited case, because you wouldn't have to account for behavioural differences.)
What bothers me:

- Line numbering is a little too close to code

- There seem to be two kind of fonts for code, some render bigger than the other on two different devices

- Texboxes are too narrow and as a result the code wraps around a lot.

Maybe this due to my settings. The result might be different in the PDF.
Spy agency accidentally shared Canadians’ data with allies for years
Comments that disparage YC companies are often quickly hidden or buried as well.
ffmpeg should encode it if it was built with --enable-libopus. May be you are using one without it?

Firefox supports Opus everywhere. Chrome I think should too, since it's needed for WebRTC.

Safari obviously doesn't, as I said, Apple can't stand free codecs.
not at all, if anything it's been the opposite (lack of vetting): we find someone that looks good on paper and interviews well, so we roll the dice and hire them. Then end up having to let them go in a few months when they can't hack it.
Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis for all its streams, I believe. But I guess that doesn't really count when it's heavily DRM encumbered and delivered by unfree software.
A comment from me from below:

"What is the new becomes the old in no time at all. Something will, and realistically has to, fill the void of high level domestic security. And unless the people that make up it are fundamentally different, or unless the structure itself and its system of rewards and punishments are different, we will only repeat history.

Laws and education are our only hope. Right now these two things are time consuming and are full of hardship so much so that the average person has a hard time taking on responsibility in these domains in their daily lives. If we could lesson these burdens for the average person in these areas then I think, I know, that we are really on to something."

If we could limit the burden for people like you then it would be a huge net positive. If we all figure out that basic income is our best bet then I am all for it. I remain skeptical though and think that there are better options in the medium and long term.
Are you actually complaining about an increased societal focus and push for women's success at work? What exactly is "too career focused", and what would you rather see from assemblies of people who are trying to bolster women's place at work -- or would you simply rather not see such assemblies at all?
You forgot to build ffmpeg with --enable-libopus. ffmpeg has its own reimplemented decoder, but relies on libopus for encoding.
interesting point, you're advocating making the maternity leave transferable somehow?
At least leave us humans some of the joys in life - art being one of them. Automate the bland stuff so we have more time to idle away our days mucking around with an instrument or paints or clay.
what do you think about example projects, if they finish it then you've done some of the screening already

the criticism of this being that some people call this free work
25 years of mistakes of designers when creating a website
They could have stuck with the .mp4 extension, but they were attempting to reduce the potential for confusion. It's a file extension, once we embrace the fact that it is just a hint (and can be a lie), it doesn't really matter so much.

The MPEG-4 format was based on the QuickTime format, so it shouldn't be any surprise that Apple prefers to go with an MPEG-4 format even when an acceptable alternative is available. The reality is that Apple doesn't support very many alternatives to MPEG-4 formats, and they probably wouldn't support MP3 if it weren't for the fact that they wouldn't have been able to take a significant position in the market for digital media players without MP3 playback. The same will probably never be the case for Ogg or FLAC.
> > > When you have more than a handful of friends that you're trying to keep
in touch with, are you really going to ask every single one of them what
they're up to each day?

> > Good god why would I care?

> If you're not interested in what your friends are up to, why are you friends with them in the first place? Maybe they're really just acquaintances?

if I would care about what every single friend of mine is doing each day, it would be difficult to live a life for myself.
Congratulations Alaina!
So, serious question that I have not seen addressed anywhere...will there be some form of IRB or IRB like level of this study where external, un-conflicted, qualified individuals will monitor and review the study progress at certain points to ensure no harm comes to participants? This is not just common practice but often legally required in human subjects research funded by the US government.

[to explicitly note, I am curious about this element only and my question is not a critique or comment on the experiment]
Do you guys allow working remote?
What is the desired outcome of the experiment? Why is YC doing it and where does the money come from? These and other basic questions make me suspicious of the whole thing. It doesn't seen sustainable for YC to be giving away money without expecting anything in return. I don't want to read too much into it but my suspicion is that this is part of an effort to lobby governments. If that's so, won't the researchers be motivated to make it appear successful?
iPad or other tablet with facetime or skype. Open a chat session, ask parents to point camera at laptop screen. Then guide them thru steps (click on this, click on that etc). Bit more time (and patience) intensive but has the side effect of making parents/relatives more familiar with doing new things on the computer as well as satisfaction of some level of self sufficiency :) . Only useful for this type of remote support use cases only though.
Basic income can succeed on a small level definitely but it can never succeed on a national or even city or state level. The reason is simple economics: inflation.

When money comes so easily it will drive up prices. If it's done on a spot level it won't make an impact but once you increase the size of the population that received this free money, it will just drive up prices.

For example look at there mortgage interest deduction. It's purpose was to make home ownership cheaper but what it ends up doing is causing house prices inflation, at least in areas like the bay area. The deduction gets factored into the financial engineering required to figure out how much you can afford to pay for a house, which causes there prices top rise.

The same thing will happen when people get free money every month. Just like how rent prices increased around face book when they offered a subsidy if they lived within 3 miles of HQ, the same type of increase will happen if a larger enough population gets this free money.
Have you tried inoreader? I use it pretty much just like I used Google Reader.
exactly, this is entrepreneurial MVP (minimum viable policy) at its finest. It is not intended to take a purely rigorous, scientific, experimental, and deconvolved approach. It is intended to be a trial to learn something to move the project forward.
What part of the country are you in? I ask in relation to the competition for talent and salaries.