skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Maybe I'm nostalgic but I really miss the newsgroups that focused on just the messages, and could be consumed by any client, stored offline, searched, etc."

I don't see anything nostalgic about that, there's value in the benefits you list and rightfully associate to application-layer protocols.

A few months ago I stumbled upon a good article that praised them too, over today's "HTTP for everything", but I'm sadly unable to find it in my bookmarks. Anyway; more than anything, it lauded the interoperability that comes with those protocols.

I'm sending email from Thunderbird, and can reply minutes later from my iPad, and follow-up/search my archive at work from Outlook or Mail.app. Transmission merrily talks to uTorrent or Deluge or rTorrent. My windows box reads video files from a Samba share.

What now? Apps interfaces are at worst totally obscure (Skype), or at best exchange readable but undocumented JSON/XML over HTTP(S). Put differently: had email been designed & implemented today, we would hardly enjoy the same interoperability. There seems to be little interest around designing new protocols (and maybe little help coming from languages/libraries too?). IRC v3 ( http://ircv3.net/ ) comes to mind, but it's pretty niche. Anyway, I'm ranting. Can anyone complement from experience trying to do such protocol design/implementation today and the challenges associated with it?
>Is the argument there are rules and laws of the Universe we can't possibly understand or perceive (physical constants, relationships)?

No, probably not. But instead that our filter biases make us miss most of that invisible universe. Which brings us to the point, what else are we missing? We did not know of most of the universe until we invented the scientific method to overcome the biases of our own mind.

> The latter is interesting, because it's perhaps a unique perspective on mental illness and drug hallucinations / delusions (schizophrenia, LSD) but still not testable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_tunnel

A term coined by the inventor of LSD, and it seems unlikely it's a coincidence.
Where do you draw the line? Would you have the public subsidize an education in tarot reading? In duck duck goose? These are fine amusing hobbies, just as literature is a fine diversion, but the economic prospects of a skilled duck duck goose player are pretty grim, just as the economic prospects of a literature buff have become. Let people who want to explore their hobbies do so on their own dime without society suggesting to them that it's reasonable to take out a $100k loan to do so. Then they won't be wondering why they are unemployed and $100k in debt when they finish their studies.
Okay, you're right. I didn't think of that kind of situation arising, and that's awesome.
You are correct, and I did not state that a contractor needs to perform work for several clients at the same time.

Conversely however, a contractor that has for some significant time, since leaving their previous employment only had one client (which is the parent scenario) is unlikely to be viewed by US labor law as not an employee.

There are other conditions besides this one: for example the contractor gets to set their own schedule and does not take detailed instructions on their tasks from the client. Again, hard to square this with the idea that you can just wave a wand and make what would have been an employee a contractor.
So what's the purpose of a product manager in an agile environment?
How to Be Werner Herzog
I've always had this exact personal belief but have never seen any relevant studies. Are you able to share any sources? Thanks.
Student here. Can't afford "cheap" laptop RAM.
They said the same thing of physicist, biologists, geologists, chemists, etc. before, that is until they found themselves irrelevant. I suspect in time, it will happen again.
It's easier if you switch Ctrl and Caps because they n it just looks like you're just using the shift key.
What a liberal sociologist learned from spending five years in Trump's America
TL;DR: the article ends with a promo for an in-person talk by Bob Zeidman in which he will reveal the answer to this question. The question is not actually answered in the article.
Whoah! It seems like they are! http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/881...
For wireless service? That makes no sense. They would have to have regulated different laws of physics.
Pirates Plunder 4K Hateful Eight, but Did They Crack DCP?
and let's not forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Berkeley
One of the neat things (i think) is that the visual and tactile systems in our bodies seem to always agree on what is perceived 'reality'. This on the surface seems like an argument against this proposal. But of course we can easily be fooling ourselves.

I once saw some experiments where they showed people some movies where the sound was offset from the picture by some time shift, either too slow or too fast. Within a surprisingly large range the mind could easily meld the two out of sync signals together so that it appeared that they were synchronized. Of course beyond the threshold that illusion fell apart, but still was pretty interesting.

The weaving of still pictures of a movie into ... a movie is also an interesting concept.

Maybe vision and tactile works the same way? Could one influence the other?

It's amazing how well our brains are built to pretend.
John Le Carre ...
What if the energy emitted/reflected by the universe was totally in the non visible light spectrum. No one would see anything.

We would have evolved to see those wavelengths, if it was useful to do so. Like how bees can see ultraviolet markings on flowers.

And yet we perceive solid things, as if they were solid. But again they are not. We just feel electro-magnetic force.

That's what "solid" actually means if you reduce it far enough.
Theranos reacted to the suicide of its chief scientist is unbelievably cold
Very true. Google Groups are not something I look forward to using most times.
Have upu considered Google Photos? It meets pretty much all of your criteria with machine vision help there to help search and tag too. I'm invested in the Apple ecosystem and have all my pictures in iCloud, but have recently set Google Photos to sync all my 37K photos for free (if you allow compression) and am very happy with its features.

I did this because our home laptop died and we are now tablet and phone only in the house other than work computers. So my Mac/time Capsule/Backblaze backup strategy was thwarted. I didn't trust iCloud to be the only canonical copy of my photos, so now I'm using Google Photos as a cloud backup for the cloud.
The question is answered here: http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/say-what-/4442498/.... The answer is no, except for the system calls.
This two months old is all suspense and doesn't answer the question.

You can read the promised report here, though:
http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/say-what-/4442498/...
If I don't write tasks in a TODO list I get anxious I'll forget about it forever. Even if I don't plan on doing a task anytime soon I like to jot it down so I have the freedom to forget about it.
I never use Gmane, but I'm happy to see that projects like this find people to keep them going.
How do you know an intelligence service didn't create this system, and turn it loose only to be watching and listening the whole time?
The about page on gmane.org has been updated, the new owner is hosting company Yomura (Delimiter)

http://gmane.org/about/
Apparently Raft runs on streams.
https://github.com/RaftLib/RaftLib/wiki -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaftLib

imho you could stand to distinguish it more clearly from the Raft consensus protocol
And it's old, the actual even took place a month ago and the results were a boring no:http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/say-what-/4442498/....
Reminds me Antitrust (film).

Oh, and if system calls were copied, MS should be reminded that they supported Oracle's claim that APIs should be copyrightable... Sitting on two chairs much?
Krebs warns of cyber criminal mind shift
Learn LaTeX and then come back here. Or better yet, learn LaTeX, write some documents, wait 10 years, then come back after revisiting those documents.

I think I first started learning LaTeX in 2007 or 2008. I began writing HTML around 1995. IMO, anything resembling a "document" that you expect to be useful longer than a year or two should be written in LaTeX, or at least something based directly on TeX. Alternatively, just use plain text. Anything else just doesn't have a comparable shelf-life.

Whether it was intended to render to screen or print is totally irrelevant. If anything, stay away from screen-oriented formats because there hasn't been a standard "screen" format like, ever, with the possible exception of TTY geometries.

And output format isn't even the half of the relevant qualities to worry about when it comes to shelf-life. TeX is basically written in Pascal. TeX is a standard as well as its own future-proof implementation, permitting pixel-perfect reproduction across decades. I expect direct ports of TeX to Web Assembly not long after the standard sees adoption.

Of course, TeX is not the same thing as PDF; not even remotely. But TeX is oriented toward the world of hard copies, and I hardly see that as a fault. But even if so, it's de minimis in the grand scheme of things.
Like I said, you can waste it, amd lots of people do. Some people go through their entire lives and learn nothing. I'm sure you can appreciate that reading about a rose is not the same as smelling and seeing and holding a rose, though.
This is an instructive lesson.

"Free education" they say. "It will solve problems" they say. "Education will be better" they say.

No, it won't. Free education -- or subsidized loans -- puts a disconnect between education and its cost.

If the person paying is not the person deciding, a poor decision will be made. It's just like how HSAs prompt people to think about what they're spending their money on.

ITT would not exist but for government spending. Sure, some will beat the dead horse of more regulation. But the real answer is STOP SUBSIDIZING. Stop subsidizing education, stop subsidizing mortgages, stop subsidizing GM, stop blowing decisions sideways by removing the universal language of cost from the discussion.
My memory of Altavista was that it was great for discovery of obscure but interesting sites. Sure, you might have to go through 10 pages of results to find one, but the experience was one of serendipitous discovery. It's lack of precision (in favor of recall, making it seem less winner-take-all, SEO-optimized) seemed to correlate strongly with the notion of "surfing" the web. (And the use of the phrase "web surfing" likely declined as Google, and later, the app economy, rose.)
Louis Slobodkin's Spaceship Under the Apple Tree series. (Sadly out of print!)
To be specific, I was not conplaining about the article. It is an interesting subject. I was providing context for those reading the popularized article which tends to oversell these things. but whatevs
> if someone hacks my CI servers because they don't have access to anything other than dummy data.

And all your source code?
> He's incredibly ageist and cynical about man's abilities to do great things. Definitely a curmudgeon, but mixed in with some good quotes and advice.

You are just a curmudgeonist!
I completely believe in the value of education for its own sake, but why does a liberal arts education need to be 4 years long? Couldn't we have a system where a student spends one intensive year focusing on liberal arts, and the rest of the time at university can be devoted to job training?
Its a shame the article "wont go into details" because it is only the details that are interesting. The rest is known. Tim Patersons wikipedia page mentions he had access to CP/M source and copied at least the "API" for compatibility purposes. Considering this is low level assembler, for 2 fairly small, mininmal operating systems, basically handling interrupts and interacting with the bios etc, even if Paterson didn't have access to the source, (but may have had e.g. read the same books as Kildall) two operating systems will have similarities, especially if they share an API. There are only a couple of ways to set up an interrupt handler, or call a bios function.
Sure i get all that.

You still have to wonder why the brain created color to differentiate wavelengths. If we could not see and were speculating on how you could discern wavelengths, maybe you would guess that there would be some sort of frequency pattern that differentiated. But no... color? What is color, really? I'm not sure i even know the answer to that.
Not limited to the US.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2074077.stm
Yeah, there is a lot of bullshit around psychedelics, and it's totally possible to take them and just have fun, but if you're interested in the way the mind works and how we piece together reality from our perceptions, there is a lot to work with there. I think where people go wrong is in thinking that drug experiences show you some truth that's hidden from you in normal life. It really just shows you how ill equipped your brain is to understand reality, or how ill-conceived the idea of 'reality' really is.
Well, ok, but...

“The Zika epidemic has been very explosive, more explosive than we can account for by just mosquitoes and the level of Zika virus in human blood. Some other factor may be at play ... it could be some other bodily fluid – saliva, or urine or tears.”
I really liked this book in my teens. I am not sure I would enjoy it now, a couple decades later. The ageism is part of it. His examples of mathematicians doing their best work when they were young are a little silly: who knows what great work Riemann and Galois and Ramanujan would have done had they lived longer...
Seconded. Being able to just read the articles from any browser was one of the great things about gmane.
For some reason, I expect everything on HN to be free...
So, more fluff and unproven conspiracy theories? We're talking about tiny OSes with the same interrupts for some very basic hardware, how are you not going to get some similar code?
Given that we've had the source to both CP\M

http://www.cpm.z80.de/source.html

and MS-DOS v1.1

https://github.com/BlastarIndia/msdos

available for some time, and given that there's sort of always been bad blood between DR and Microsoft, I'm going to go with 'no' being the answer here. DR would be suing. Hell, if I were Microsoft's legal team and if the answer isn't 'no' I'd be crafting up a scary letter involving libel.
What is the Nash Equilibrium and why does it matter?
This guy has some amazing videos on the basics of quantum computing and QCL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO6TsdwxcwM

I wish he had the people and support to help make animations and present the formulas in the correct notations. It starts to make sense though.

I want to get into quantum computing, especially since IBM has one you can play with on-line (your program queues up like old fashion punch cards):

https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/

..but to really use it, you need to know how these super weird quantum gates work. From what I can tell with QCL, everything a quantum computer can do, we can do with traditional computers. It's just that simulating 100 qbits takes an ungodly amount of memory and processing power. Quantum computers can't replace traditional computers, they're for a very specific problem space that can be defined with these quantum gate concepts.
I heard that story but that it was Einstein at the IAS campus.
There was a similar project done for the NYC subway system done 6 years ago: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=69...
Interestingly, Yomura Holdings have almost no presence on the Internet at all. Indeed, almost the only reference to them is on forums where people ask who they are. Very odd …
Clay Shirky "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable"

William Deresiewicz "Solitude and Leadership"

The Last Psychiatrist: "How to Create: Motivation for 2010"

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2014/10/08/sick-of-the-giants-and-t...

Alex Smith Gives Commencement Speech at Utah
That's pretty cryptic... Ok, what do you mean? I'm dense.
Over the years, I've tried many digital to-do lists, including one I wrote myself. Today, I just use a notebook.

The trick that I made work is to have two to-do lists: daily and quarterly.

For daily, it's simple. I have a variation of the Bullet Journal [1], but interleaved with meeting notes, ideas, etc.

But many ideas are bigger than what you can accomplish/benchmark on a daily basis. For those, I have two pages per quarter that I fill with "quarterly goals". I try to keep the list under 20-30 items and keep them high-level. Every week, I look at the same two pages and make sure that I am making progress toward them. If not, I go back to my daily notes and see if I worked on the right stuff the previous week. This is a variation on the idea that I stole from Aaron Levie [2].

For me, the tactile/tangible nature of paper note-taking, as well as its flexibility in formatting, has been incredibly useful.

[1] http://bulletjournal.com/

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/3021586/most-productive-people-b...
I'm very easily distracted - lifelong ADD. If he'd barked he'd have stayed at home. Apart from the distraction it'd reflect on me the owner. It's pretty easy to train most breeds to stay quiet, though some of the small terrier types seem hardwired to bark. I'm not a fan of constantly yapping things.

Obviously I can't know if anyone was quietly against, but the woman who said she was wary because of breed was a quick convert. If she hadn't been he'd have stayed home and spend the day on the sofa - as he had in my previous job.
Looks quite nice but it's sloooow on my android device (note 5 using AC with a gigabit line). Takes about 5-6 seconds on average compared to less than one in a web browser.

That being said, the hn interface is poor on mobile.
Wow, then I was really lucky to have gotten dengue the last time I was in the country, 12 years ago. At the time I remember reading that there was little chance of it spreading back to the States where those mosquitoes don't exist, so I shouldn't be surprised that progress on a vaccine to cover all the strains remains slow. For better and for worse, Zika does not have that same challenge.
I wonder what the effects of chemically-induced pseudowisdom are. Real wisdom, after all, is both physiological and mental, a product of experience as well as of neurochemistry. What might be the ill-effects of feeling that one has gained wisdom when in fact one has only altered one's brain chemistry?
1) Get nuclear fusion working.
2) Make 'Project Orion' style spacecraft a reality.

Nah, see. They solve all the problems!

To do lists don't solve all the problems, but they might be a step in the right direction.

Similarly, entering the issues into JIRA might not fix them, but it makes getting the issues fixed more likely.
I hear good things about parkour. Never tried it myself though.
Probably just a simple analog oscillator. You know for that extra warm sound that record player listeners love.
What is color, really? I'm not sure i even know the answer to that.

Color is the classic quale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia), so if you did have a convincing answer to that you could be famous :)
A followup article gives the result: code not copied but APIs used.

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/zeidman-consulting-...

Whether APIs can be protected is the core of long legal feud between Oracle-Sun and Google over Java APIs used in Android.
Yitang Zhang, not Zheng.
When people watch scary movies, why is it they are more likely to have a nightmare afterwards?

Our brain chemistry is exceedingly complex. Also, our emotional state primes our brain with other chemicals. Fear can produce a rush of adrenilne, for example.

So yes, thinking about it 'correctly' changes your brain. Your brain is a chemical reaction, so adding another thought modifying chemical is likely to have different results based on the chemicals already there.
Also Democritus:

"By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void."

or:

"We know nothing accurately in reality, but [only] as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon [the body] and impinge upon it."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Democritus
Where will DevOps be in 10yrs time?
Lm2, a Linked List Storage Library
Is that true? Yellow/Orange/Red are perceived as 'danger' colors. Is that just a made up association in our brains, or do we see yellow/orange/red more readily? If you flashed a bright orange billboard in front of a chimpanzee, would you get a different reaction than if you flashed one that was dark blue?
Well, if real wisdom requires experience then the harm you are talking about is probably slightly less harmful than the pseudo-wisdom one feels when reading another persons experience in a book. After all reading a book doesn't give us an experience, its all "just" chemistry too..
- The callback hell is easily avoidable with promises, and promises usually interoperate with callbacks using the node callback convention very well.

- If you seek to solve the type safety problem of JavaScript, CoffeeScript is absolutely the worst possible choice. CoffeeScript is to JavaScript what stenography is to typing. TypeScript might be a better choice.

- npm is not the problem, the npm package ecosystem is.

- Scaling is not painful. You can scale horizontally as long as you are not doing something dumb like blocking your event loop.

I think you didn't address the real problems node has.
This is the vital missing piece, not the complete solution. For the rest, use the standard tools of online anonymity (Tor, Tails and so on).
A lot of people would haved bailed during the dot.crash of 2000. Amazon lost was high flyer and lost over 80% of peak value. Who knew it would become atop ten most valuable company.
Man, I hate sites which only display the first paragraph of the article when JavaScript is disabled. Why do that? It makes it look as though every article is just a passing note.

… and when I re-opened the tab to make some comments on the article itself (which I quite liked) after reading the comments here, it told me I'd reach my limit. Well, never mind. It's a good article; shame it's so hard to read.