skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article makes a few ill considered assumptions:

That USA is a democracy (and that it thus makes sense to start influencing the election process). It isn't. Not in the sense that the opinions of the people influence the policies that are caried out.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/princeton-experts-say-...

The other assumption is that Russia somehow interfered with the American election. There's no solid evidence such a thing has happened.
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/29/russia-gates-shaky-fou...

Third, he sort of assumes that our minds haven't already been "hijacked", by other means than addictive social media and apps. We'll, how can we explain, that those that are really good at affecting our countrys political decisions (the Saudi and the Israeli lobby) gets no scolding for this, while our chosen nemesis (Russia) gets lot's of scolding for something there's no evidence they've done? Couldn't this oddity be explained by old school "brain washing": propaganda. ?.
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/americas-jews-are-driv...
Social media is both 'talking to friends and family', and 'posturing in front of near-strangers'. The latter might also be a latent human thing, but overall I don't it contributes as much to wellbeing as the first.
So what happens if someone wants to call you internationally?
A short overview of social network analysis, by Steve Borgatti of Boston College, http://www.analytictech.com/mb109/slides/networks.pdf (2004)

Borgatti has free software for SNA: http://www.analytictech.com/products.htm

The math/sociology is broadly applicable, from Palantir to Facebook to humanitarian programs, https://www.rescue.org/sites/default/files/document/1263/soc... (2016)

Theory intro: http://www.mjdenny.com/workshops/SN_Theory_I.pdf (2014)
Don’t mistake common UI patterns for best practices
AI innovations have an inevitable effect on human emotions
Who Invented ‘Zero’?
Parent comment is expressing that a web of (sometimes? often?) bullshit is better than inescapable authority telling you how or what to think.

It's not a non sequitir it's just written in shorthand.

I'm not 100% sure I agree with the sentiment (choose your artisanally crafted, perfectly engineered filter bubble versus just media is crap) but it seems to me a valid opinion among the spectrum of possible opinions to have about this.
The article is very long and doesn't say anything interesting, IMHO.
Most of the processing power in modern 'cycle-perfect' emulators goes into other parts than the CPU and needs to run at a higher frequency than the emulated CPU. Usually the video hardware is the most expensive.

80's home computers are essentially lock-stepped multi-processor systems, where the CPU is just one processor, the others are (at least) the audio- and video-generator.

Especially the video generator can become expensive, since it needs at least be fast enough to generate a new line every 64 microseconds, and if the video generator has things like programmable resolution, color palette and sprites (which a lot of 8-bit home computers had), this can be quite a lot of "unpredictable" work per pixel.

Since all those 'special processors' ran synchronized per clock cycle, it is impossible or at least very hard to write efficiently multi-threaded emulators, since they would need to synchronize threads after each emulated clock cycle (it might actually be a bit easier for newer emulated systems where subsystems are often not synchronized that strictly).

Earlier emulators from the 90's often got away by skipping some of the 'cycle perfect' requirements and/or implemented some clever but complicated hacks which didn't really emulate the original hardware, that's why they could still run many games on much slower host hardware.
> It was Atwood and two other developers, which I sadly cannot remember their names at the moment who did the actual programming.

Jarrod Dixon and Geoff Dalgas.
In a “get the product" crowdfunder, as opposed to a "t-shirt and our eternal gratitude" one, them secretly being a large corporation would be my least concern.

In any case, that corporate crowdfunder could even be both at once: three low-tier engineers with an idea who got an undecided result in the internal pitch, a small budget for crowdfunding preparations and "all in" with a whole new department if that succeeds to raise n money.
Quantum Computing (2015)
As @savanaly said above, you almost expect a pop-up scam on the anti-scam website!
Your Hard Disk as an Accidental Microphone
He's a smart kid and obviously likes himself to a degree that gets a bit annoying but his achievements are quite something. I still find the presentation style pretty entertaining.
It's also illegal for them to murder people for no reason, but they get away with that pretty easily.
> The biggest (proprietary) dependency they have in this stack as far as I can tell? I'd guess it's Microsoft SQL Server.

They've tested running the code atop PostgreSQL as well, plus running SQL Server on Linux. They're pretty flexible folks. Microsoft makes it attractive to stay on their stack, though.
The old LoadUI (load testing tool) was written in JavaFX, you can still see the old screenshots in the documentation:
https://www.loadui.org/working-with-loadui/projects.html

Also, there's LoadFX (a logging viewer) which was part of the rage post against Electron last week: https://github.com/renatoathaydes/LogFX

And Gluon keeps a list of sample apps:

http://gluonhq.com/developers/samples/
If we can change our sex, why can't we change our race?
Sazzy response. Way to ignore the problem.
I am a real person. I was presuming people read the article. I am 51 and caught the tail end of old TV and newsreel culture. People read more of far less but were mostly denied any access to contextual data. When I arrived in DC tons of people "front ran" releases of government data sets only available on tape. I had to go to Library of Congress to read paywalled academic papers. Many aspects of modern Net lives are far superior and more efficient. Social ennui and deception were alive and well long before the Net. I studied philosophy of language so these considerations are my Petri dishes of endless fascination. I am not a bot. I can answer real questions just fine.
I have to agree that it is much more likely the code was not written well or idiomatically if there were performance problems. Still, I'd be very surprised that the problems actually were there.

And I actually test my clojurscript lines that I write in a JVM repl! Semantics between the two languages are virtually identical, I can test out my ideas for the JS target in a Java environment. Perhaps the OP has a different definition of "semantics".
Ask HN: Do your kids refer to scrolling in the “reverse” way?
The other day my 5yo was sitting by my side as I controlled the KB and mouse on a random google image search. She wanted me to scroll the view to see more images and so she said: "Daddy, go up"

And I said: "Do you mean down?"

She said: "No i mean up.. like this" - [proceeding to stick out her finger in the air and making an upwards motion as if manipulating a touch screen]

I said: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh i see now. :-)"

Have you also witnessed touch-screen era kids exhibit this sort of scroll direction ambiguity as well?

Sorry for the "trivial Sunday question" =)
I think the overall tone today is much more sympathetic than that surrounding the crack panic of the 90s, especially when the legal and political environments are compared (3 strike laws v complaints about Narcan expense seem to constitute the political extremes). However, I agree that the disturbing undercurrent of contempt for certain demographics is certainly quite prominent in the public discussion.
Glad to hear you like it! What do you mean by output for video? As for video listing, Lua doesn't provide a cross-platform way to do this, but I might have hacks for Unix/Windows that parse the output of dir/ls commands. Interested? Can't promise I find it though.
Organizations still consist of people. An organization that forces it's employees to work with a tool that has a very historically charged name, one which perhaps even degrades the people working, is gonna have much more trouble than the one which threw out the tool because of the name, at least that's my opinion. Imagine a british company asking it's division, in what was a former colony, to work with a tool called colony. You could be a fully technical person who has no regard for how certain words were used historically and just understand them by definition and without the historical context, but then you shouldn't be in a position making managerial decisions which affect your international workforce.
Maybe it would be a good idea if some western states have access to a kind of backdoor into Tor/I2P/Freenet/etc. How many pedo/drug/etc. illegal sites are still there and will be there in the future where the owners know proper opsec. I get the point that journalists/political dissidents want some anonymous communication channel, but do we have to tolerate shit like this? Maybe tor without the hidden services would be morally less contemptible?

I suppose its likely that the NSA controls/monitors a sufficient amount of tor nodes to make this already be the case anyhow.
Download+WebAnimator+Plus+2.3.7+incl+Crack
What Is Bitcoin, and How Does It Work?
Borg Backup 1.1.0 released
I'm a big fan of FRC, but a lot of those techniques are about "special-case" UIs, the way you see them in Web UIs or "multimedia" applications, not pleasing form and widget layouts. That's a bit of an intermediate step between just spewing forth UI elements and constructing fluid animated, mirrored list displays. And sadly often neglected, especially if your tools don't take care of it automatically (layout engines, Interface Builder etc.). Java and Tcl didn't have to look that bad, but sadly they often do.

Or, well, one could just use JGoodies ;)
A lot of the time they invest in companies which they then downsize, or buy back stocks in order to push up the stock price. Namely the opposite of investing in productive capacity and hiring more people, they are hollowing out companies for a quick profit. See economist Michael Hudson's writings for more.
The Sunk Cost Fallacy and How to Overcome It
We don't have civilization today. We have a consumption machine that has gone of the rails trapping everyone from CEOs, Generals, Judges, Politicians to Janitors in mindless superficial activity. We have more in common with an ant colony than whatever civilization ideal anyone ever imagined.
I live in Beijing and there, for the few I know (because I never shop elsewhere), clothes in Muji are good quality, simple functional design, and relatively cheap.
New NASA Study Shows Moon Once Had an Atmosphere
Using unpkg.com as an example they redirect from the root URL of a package to the latest version. For instance https://unpkg.com/mithril will redirect to https://unpkg.com/mithril@1.1.4/mithril.js

For example if adding a URL on https://flems.io it will store the xhr.responseURL to take advantage of this to pin the version. I would guess guess Scrimba does something similar?
It's an ongoing process and it's been happening for decades (propoganda, brain-washing). The population is always learning and always presents with threats to be countered. The internet was one such potential threat. It was potentially a democratic, free and open source of information. Now it's controlled by a few companies.
Maye it is "unique" but then just because it is the simplest design possible. T-shirts are just T-shirts with nothing special, even no "tickets" (the shitty piece of cloth with all the useless warning signs that hurts the skin and serve no purpose).
How to avoid unwanted wakeups when killing lots of processes
Future of news: bracing for next wave of technology
Maybe they meant that you do not need "permission" from a language to use a preprocessor, and so can use one anyway.
Debunked: Apple slows down older iPhones to encourage upgrades
AWT wasn't native either - it just had one ugly appearance and couldn't be themed. I seem to recall it kind of resembled Sun's CDE (Common Desktop Environment) so it would have look sort of at home on Solaris.
There’s this thing called the slippery slope. The reason backdoors are bad is because: once one government shows they can get a backdoor, every other government will want one. The FBI wanted a backdoor for iPhones while completely disregarding the fact that if Apple added one, what’s to stop China from demanding one, too?
One thing to consider is people lived like this for ages and ages. So our brains are evolved to cope with that kind of living. A lot of the Kahnemann/Tversky type biases that people exhibit is because their ancestors lived in an environment similar to the bush people.

Take people out, and all sorts of things happen. People get addicted to sugar, heroin, Facebook. You get unhealthy due to lack of exercise. You feel weird socially because you weren't wired to interact in the modern way (fast, tenuous, no strings). You grow up feeling awkward because you can't contribute from the age where you can talk, and you have to sit in front of a blackboard for years before you get let near anything. Your natural allies, your relatives, are not so near you as you'd like. You don't even have that many because you can't have a family until you're quite old.

I can see why there's this paradox that nothing seems to change how happy people are.
I hope that over time they, or partners, or others, will develop open source alternatives to these IP blocks. So that we can gradually increase the level of openness
They (or, rather, the software they connect to) are holding me back from precisely that. If there was no social media, the novel I’m writing would have been done a year ago.
Ideologically driven reasearch in which conclusions are assumed or asserted rather than proven empirically has a poor track record for truth discovery.

The Kelloggs' theories of nutition are fairly hit or miss. Corporatising the institution they created has not helped.
Apple being an US company?
Using Helvetica doesn't magically increase readability.
The majority of investors don't buy any of those things. The first time a share is sold, the company gets some money to spend on things - money to invest in the business in the hopes of creating new wealth. After that, the shares are being passed around. The company isn't seeing any more investment.
http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/12/01/yardbirds-effective-u...
One way might be to update the feed exactly once a day, so people do not compulsively check for changes. Like daily newspapers.
From my amateur language nerd viewpoint, it's a crime for any newly designed statically typed language to lack tagged unions with exhaustiveness checking. Talk about an easy win for correctness!
I have the "up, no UP" vs "down" discussion with a work colleague amongst others. (Relative ages ~50 and ~25, so not just kids. Now get off my lawn, etc...)

Depends whether you fix on the movement of the text relative to the viewport or something else.
Time for class action.
Is there a special term for opaque algorithms with no human customer service contact info or practical alternative? An algorithmic incarnation of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" and "Office Space".
Excellent. There were a few exceptionally aware and pertinant commentators in the early-, and even pre-computer age.

Alvin Toffler's Future Shock also has several quite striking observations.
Self-discipline scales poorly, particularly against a highly capitalised and motivated enemy.
What Did I Learn After Going Eighteen Months Without Rails
A Pre-History of Slashdot on Its 20th Birthday
The platforms have already been taken over by finely tuned marketing, no need for large companies to get involved.

In fact, large companies might bring some refreshing linguistic restraint into the game, as I would expect them to be much more cautious of claiming "best/first/only in the world" about products that are clearly not. I rarely see a product kickstarter that does not look like exactly how a highly polished parody of product kickstarters would. At least with a big company, you would know that they put more into the product than into the campaign.

What is currently ruining the platforms (well, at least ruining kickstarter) are campaigns were this is clearly reversed, e.g. campaigns trying to do a moneygrab with something as commoditized as USB power banks.
That doesn’t change the need for bundlers like webpack, at least not until we have http2 everywhere.
XCryptos – Smart Crypto Currencies
Reasonable article BUT TOO MUCH ALL CAPS.
If a member of my team needed a pay rise (i.e. if they were expecting a child)

Wow, isn't that massively discriminatory? Raises and contributions should be merit- or contribution-based, no more and no less.
In that case I just use voice over ip or a messaging app.
Sez who?
A couple of years ago, I made the same exercise and, when benchmarking several real-world languages, I got similar results. On a slowish Intel CPU (from my memory):

DFA-based decoder: ~400 MB/s
Naive decoder with ASCII: ~1.2 GB/s
Naive decoder with with most Western languages: ~1.0 GB/s
Naive decoder with with Russian, Chinese, Japanese: ~800 MB/s

Branch prediction of modern CPUs is so good that it's hard to beat the naive if-else chain with real-world data. Interestingly, I got the worst performance with heavily accented Eastern European languages like Czech where performance dropped to 600-700 MB/s.
Oh sure they increase, but, not at a plainly obvious rate, it depends on the tissue and the like. But the majority of that mass is not cells.
I think, fundamentally, this ability of people to get information from outside the traditional news media may be the whole reason the press are so alarmed. Previously, the press had huge sway over what people thought and that certainly hasn't been good for democracy over here in the UK (I'm not sure the last time a party managed to gain power here without Murdoch's backing). You don't see so much concern about that, or about mainstream publications repeating fake news, or journalists starting and spreading bullshit on social media - even though an awful lot of the successful viral fakes I've seen on Twitter lately were started and/or spread by reputable journalists. Their criticism is aimed squarely at the new technology undermining their established power base.
"Bad roads act as filters... bad roads bring good people, good roads bring bad people"

-- Joseph Wood Krutch
Wow, so you auto-pin, that's great!
I personally don't necessarily agree with the 'significantly', but I do agree that some of the concerns raised, however poorly and entitled, are valid.
I may well be too old-fashioned, but I tend to make some distinctions between different kind of scams (not necessarily online).

The victim may well be a poor innocent (possibly elderly or kids) not-the-sharpiest-knife-in-the drawer, as it happens (example) for those scam calls promising they will fix your computer that has a virus or similar, or solicitng for an unpaid (non-existing) invoice but a large part of the scams are based on the victim having some form of "greed" or "lust" or however the will to do something that would not be entirely legal or morally acceptable.

So, I personally find difficult to call "victims" someone that thought they could get a zillion dollars "helping" a poor Nigerian Prince (or his widow) to collect the fortune he accumulated offshore or those that are blackmailed because they showed nude (or worse) on a webcam believing that on the other side there was a nice looking girl.

This said, the data in the "form" for sextortion/blackmail "victims" here:

https://www.scamsurvivors.com/blackmail/form/form.html

is IMHO something that noone, including and especially a "victim" of an online scam should even think of filling and sending to anyone (if not - if it is the case - Law enforcement officials).

"Wayne May" is asking for exactly the same data that would make a scammer/blackmailer happy:

1) Name

2) Date of birth

3) Location

4) E-mail address

...

5) Link to (eventually uploaded) compromising video

Most probably "Wayne May" and his helping volunteers are in good faith and have the best of the intentions, and this data will never leak, but it is a huge, huge risk.
This will only get worse as jobs get replaced by ais and robots, which will be owned by the wealthiest people as well.

The darkest timeline is one in which the wealthy decide that the vast number of humans are unnecessary surplus to be eliminated, as the wealthy retreat into secure enclaves guarded by robot armies, leaving the rest to serve as slaves or to starve and die.
I'm not sure what I feel more, amusement or hopelessness, when I read yet another article on this topic, get to the bottom and see those icons lined up across the screen: facebook, twitter, google, pinterest, etc, etc, etc
I agree. The Precision 5510 I have at work (basically an XPS 15) is definitely not a MacBook Pro. I adore how you can still upgrade the ram, replace the hard drive, and use standard m.2 SSDs, but the chassis is not that rigid, and the screen might be better on paper, but I find it very annoying to use.

The trackpad is terrible!! You can't click it if you're holding the laptop because the chassis flexes too much!

The keyboard is fantastic though! It's just like my MacBook Air's keyboard! Just the right amount of travel and give. I'll give them props for that.
SMath Studio is an application not a library.
Why the fuck would any party in a business transaction voluntarily pay more if they have no reason to believe that is necessary.

Umm, because it WAS necessary. Just one party didn't update their pricing until after the market moved against them. "No reason to believe" is pure nonsense; it's management's full-time job to be on top of that, and they failed.
> A package manager for a package manager

It's not, it's a package manager for a package registry.

> that shows the overengineering of the JS ecosystem

Nope.

> Facebook could improve npm but they would not profit too much from it so yarn

Explain? 1. I don't see how Facebook profits from Yarn. 2. The npm cli is hard to contribute to, the npm team themselves admit that, so it's fairly obvious to me why it made more sense to build a new client at the time, given the design goals of Yarn.
Right, calling save on a NSManagedObjectContext often throws c++ exceptions.
The basic problem is that society needed 'sex offenders' to enforce marriage contracts and if you look at the church of social justice still does. Its the conditional powerfull third party that stabilizes a asymmetric powerbalance between the sexes. All that public rage is completely disconnected from the victims and entirely triggered by just the existence of the culprits.
if you're taking 2009 as a reference point, you have to wonder whether Bitcoin is the CDO market, or the banks investing in those markets.

Both failed, only one was bailed out.
I don't know that, but if it wasn't breaking at all then why would they be upgrading solution than never failed?

Apollo 13 whole computer system had less power than the phone in your pocket; yet that was perfectly enough to run the vehicle. Crazy times...
Last year I went on a 2 week long entrepreneur-ish conference on a cruise ship. Due to satellite internet limitations, my phone/laptop usage was limited to 1-2hrs per day, usually in the evenings. Rest of the time I spent mingling, joining workshops, talks, or just having fun on the boat.
Now mind you, I'm not a particularly social person. Being around people so much was very much out of my comfort zone, but it still felt great! I felt productive and relaxed at the same time, probably because I was able to focus on a single thing at the time, and wasn't being constantly distracted by notifications on my phone or emails and Slack conversations on my laptop. It was sort of a detox from the constant information bombardment of the digital age.

I really need to do that again.