skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are you seriously suggesting that there are people who believe that VLC needs to focus on anime more than usability?

Either the Anime audience is better at filing bugs and chasing the up, or the developers favoured those tasks for some reason. Perhaps the UI guy is really slow or just missing entirely.

>Where are all these anime fans demanding VLC focus less on usability and more on supporting their anime fetish?

There aren't any. It's clearly not a trade-off on developer time. For an open source project, people work on what interests them the most.

Specifically in regards to "anime fetish" - who actually cares? What difference does it make if it is an Anime crowd, people who like watching 8k raw footage, people who want to watch 3D films or whatever. What does the specific reason for a video format being worked on bring to the table, other than the fact you clearly don't like it?
The ban on misinformation is only on information regarding how you can vote, which seems reasonable since it is something that can be fairly easily fact-checked - either you can vote over mail, or you can't, there isn't an in-between. However I think it would be better if they didn't try and limit the spread of false articles - instead maybe they could put some kind of disclaimer on the post, saying "Facebook fact-checkers believe this to be false" or something like that. Then the actual distribution of the content isn't up to the fact-checkers.

Obviously Facebook can do what they want, they are a private company, but I think it is best if they treat everyone's opinion/articles equally as much as possible, so long as they are not violating the content guidelines on the website.
The idea was chased by the original palm with a phone called Veer. After the HP acquisition of Palm it was released as HP Veer and I really really liked the Pre and Veer. Too bad that stupid Leo Apotheker killed of the Phones before they even had a chance.
Demonoid, a private torrent tracker.

It had a wide range of quality files and the enforced ratio kept seeders around.
QuiteRSS

https://quiterss.org/
Crazy Eddie

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Eddie
My favorite feature was 'near' queries. One could project n-dimensional spaces to any arbitrary lower dimension with the right semantic and spatial distances.

With Altavista, the limiting factor was the searcher. And my nostalgia that over-estimates the size of their search database.
> If the core team wants to create more bitcoin they can.

If you believe this, you lack a fundamental understanding of btc.
And on that note: what.cd
The general cheap small smartphone on aliexpress are MTK chipset phones running android gingerbread (or some other ancient version). You get what you pay for, unless I’m wrong and you actually have some decent products to link.
I’d argue they’re more like electricians. All their work is hidden behind the drywall, and as long as the lamp turns on, nobody has any idea of the absolute mess of wire that was used to turn on the single lamp.

If you have great developers, there will be a single straight wire from the switch to the lamp.

The end result for the user is the same though, until the mess of wire eventually overheats and burns down your house.
It could work for some games, but in my experience the latency has been pretty noticeable; and Assassin's Creed isn't a very latency-sensitive game.

I think any kind of shooter, platformer, or fighter game would be nearly unplayable, at least on my internet connection. For RPG-type games like Assassin's Creed though it does have potential.
The answer is what you’d expect it to be if you simply applied common sense, namely, that you can’t prevail on a fraud theory if you’re committing unlawful discrimination and the false representation being relied upon can’t lawfully be relied upon in a decisionmaking process.
But it's definitely different then when I was younger and would just tear books up.

When I was 19, I finished John Grisham's The Partner in one sitting - without even getting up for food. Something like 24-30 hours non stop reading. There's no way in hell I'll be able to do that now.
I interviewed at Facebook and when I realized that the whole interview was about finding ways to make people spend as much time possible on Facebook and Instagram (which I use in moderation, I love to share a good pic of myself), I ran for dear life. Then, when they asked me how I would convince Mark that a certain experiment is needed, I ran faster. Bad vibes overall, Blade Runner was more cheerful.
Anyone who takes Softbank money probably didn't do their due dilligence on what they are like as an investor. I worked at one such company.

It sounds good - they come in and offer a huge investment at a high valuation, higher than anyone else. About time someone recognizes how valuable your company actually is!

So you take it. You make an announcement, everyone oos and aahs over your new valuation. Talent flocks to you, fuck yea. Things are going great!

Fast forward some time. You need some more investment to go chase opp X. Or maybe you burned thru cash, who knows. So you start fundraising. investors look at your numbers and say...umm...you've shown some good growth but we dont agree with Softbank's valuation. We will invest in a downround, or come back when you've posted even more growth.

Crap. You need money NOW not later. You did NOT realize that high valuation was a double edged sword. And a downround is totally out of question.

Also working with them is...challenging. Gotta love those 8am calls (latest they can do Tokyo time). They ask for metrics that kind of make sense but are different than how you run things so it is a complete waste of time. On the phone they are oh so polite, but you're never sure what they're actually thinking.

You're asking yourself why you took their money again? They have had zero strategic impact (they're a Japanese telco) and now it's making fundraising more difficult.

Fun times. If I see a company take SB money I assume they are declining (or soon will) or greedy / short sighted. Or there is the rare actual strategic benefit sure. But most times there is none.

So why did we work take the money? Sounds like they wanted to avoid going public. But I wonder if they did their homework on this one.
Yes, Boundary is agent-based.

I visited their office in SF when they were 2 guys. :)

We used Boundary at Netflix to monitor Cassandra clusters - you can see mentions of that on Slideshare.

VividCortex takes the Boundary concept a step farther for databases.

RackPing.com currently has non-agent visualization tools for SREs now, but will also have a Boundary-style agent shortly. (Disclaimer: affiliated with them.)
Microprose studios.
Accountable replications at RS Open Science: A model for scientific publishing
This is a very generous use of the word "business".
The best part is, you don't even need to use the 50c to actually find out who paid. You can just make up a name :D

New SaaS idea: verify that the parent comment is actually finding it out for you for a fee (for obviously less than 49c)
This was so unbelievable even by 2010s standard. Gotta thank Jay.
As seen in “Homeland”
>The iPhone SE was perfect for me.

I’ve been stockpiling them until support ends or something actually better comes out. While some additional band support would be nice I don’t find the SE to have any dealbreakers yet.
Again, nested depth limit but: I could have told the cashier "I only want a coke and a burger please" revealing my true intent. In that case, the cashier would have sold me what I wanted, for more money. Since I concealed my true intent from the cashier and said "I want a combo meal please" I deprived McDonalds of this profit.

Now if you tell me that I violated some written United contract, that I had to explicitly agree to when purchasing a multi-leg ticket, that's another matter. But I will still argue that that contract is not enforceable. And to my knowledge, they do not have a clearly visible contract with an opt in in this specific case.

My point is that the burden is on the airline to prevent such loopholes by revisiting their pricing schemes, rather than attempting to bully its passengers (also for Streisand effect reasons).
Commodore International
Presuming you don't go with Arecont cameras, what cameras are you considering? HikVision seem to hit a sweet spot but not sure of they call home --although being CC makes it matter less.
I really wish RethinkDB the company with all founders and engineers would have survived. Their documentation, polish, and web admin interface was heads and shoulders above.

The concept of changefeeds at the database level was super powerful. ReQL was nice to work with and using a ORM such as thinky[1] was a pleasure.

If only (I know it's not easy) they could have inked some enterprise deals and focused on the business and generating revenue.

[1] https://github.com/neumino/thinky
Canv.as by m00t from 4chan, it was really fun remixing stuff and a lot of it was very wholesome and light hearted.

MP3.com, as there was a lot of strange unsigned music on there. I lost my archive when CD backups failed, such a shame. I had so much good stuff.

Geocities, but I think I miss more the web as it was before it got mainstream, back when it was weird and you had to hack up some HTML to make a 'personal website', and kids would put comments in saying I WORKED REALLY HARD ON THIS PLZ DO NOT COPY :)

Though there's a lot of great stuff now, Youtube is amazing.
Hi Todd!

Our recent work implements a subset of GraphBLAS operations for GPU and compares them to Gunrock in breadth-first-search [1]. Our implementation of a subset of GraphBLAS is comparable to Gunrock performance for power law graphs, but are worse for mesh graphs. Gunrock uses a different load-balancer in Advance for those graphs and the load-balancer we use in the analogous operation (matrix-vector multiplication) isn't as optimized for mesh graphs. We definitely want to collect data in more applications than just BFS, so we're working on that now.

The code is open-source, so feel free to check it out! [2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03327.pdf

[2] https://github.com/owensgroup/push-pull
Social Signals and Antisocial Essences: The Function of Evil Laughter
> demise of RSS started the day Google Reader was killed

Maybe killing Reader was a means to an ends.
I miss the social features of the original del.icio.us. Pinboard is okay, but it's much harder to find other people to follow.
I had one of those, they were very satisfying. I've been considering trying out a Blackberry that has Android at some point...
Oink as well
is there a list any where of these kind of internet novelty's and the speculation on their income?

i think it would be really interesting to see how often these come up and if there is an ideal interval between these to grab maximum attention/profit.

like
http://milliondollarhomepage.com/
twitch plays pokemon
etc..
I also do not recall Altavista ever banning me with a CAPTCHA for "searching too hard".
Rdio. No other streaming service has come close to the UX perfection of Rdio.
Well presumably if they are alumni then they were given a high enough rating to get in so the numbers are skewed. Unless this is alumni from other universities.
RethinkDB was forked by some members of the community as RebirthDB and now it is being merged back to the original repository. Lot's of exciting stuff is going on on that front and those guys need help pushing the newest release.
LucasArts and the best adventure games ever made, like Monkey Island and Grim Fandango.
I wonder if they plan to do another event like this later. Learning SQL is always helpful.
Finally, a block chain startup I understand.
Douglas Adams:

> I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

> 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

> 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

> 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Seconded. Paul loved IMSAIs, and the Living Computer Museum is a national treasure. Check out their work around Maze War
Me too, do you think you could use it at all in production now or would you not touch it?

I was looking forward to trying out FoundationDB before Apple shut it down.
Can confirm, its happening in Canada too. When I was a child, the car windshield used to get covered with bugs, but its not happening anymore. Drastic change. Even driving up north, where you would expect very little human induced influence. Where have all the bugs gone? even windows has fewer
Lisp - oh what it could have been. It had such potential, but then it got broken. I find it fascinating that those who are dedicated to the proselytisation of Lisp don't see the brokenness of the language. For them, all of the broken things are the features of the language.

Scheme was one attempt to fix some of those flaws.

In latter times, we see the development of Kernel to fix other flaws.

So many second class citizens, so many exceptions to the rule.

I am going through the source code for Maxima CAS (written in Lisp) and in so many ways, it's a mess. I am not at all disparaging those who have been involved in writing the Maxima CAS system and its source. They have done an incredible job and what they have achieved is remarkable.

However, like any software system of any complexity in any language, it has lots of areas that are difficult to maintain, let alone advance. In that regard, Lisp has not been as an advantageous language as it could have been.

Lisp (as in Common Lisp and its add-ons) is not a simple language and it is not a consistent language (see CLHS - Common Lisp Hyper Spec docs).

When I first came across it in the latter 1970's, I thought "wow". But its flaws quickly came to the fore.

So, there is no way that it would ever be God's own programming language. Especially since, God doesn't need to program, that's just for us very limited mortals.
but you're never sure what they're actually thinking.

You remind me of an anecdote about an American working in Asia. They were constantly frustrated with communication difficulties. One day, they felt they finally were on the same page with a coworker and they said "We are thinking along parallel lines." to express this. Coworker agrees.

Later, the problems came back. They referred back to that conversation. Their Asian coworker says "Yes. Parallel lines never meet."
It would have been amazing if instead of having Google Plus be an entirely separate thing, they had added Google Plus's sharing and discussion features onto Google Reader and grown from that as a base. Something like that could very well still be a thriving product today.
As someone that's very familiar with App Academy - this is incredible.
Most of science is bridging gaps. Between a person ans a phenomonon, then between others persons.

It should be told every semester or so that if you wish to understand something, don't stop until you found something that match your own idiosyncrasies.
I’m sorry to say that you’d lose.

Law school is expensive, but I’d recommend attending if you’d like to better understand beyond what I’ve already said here.
Rdio. I’ll just leave it simply at that.
Thnx redhale! Helpful insight!
I'd love to know that too. I came up with http://www.ipaidthemost.com/ forever ago, and have yet to come across the right algorithm for how to get traction for it.
Egalitarian means equality between classes, implying that class based hierarchy still exists.

Not really something to aspire to IMO.
When was the last time you actually tried this? Because the reality doesn't match your description at all.

First off, you have to put a pretty decent amount of pressure on it to trigger the 3D touch behavior instead of the long press behavior.

Secondly, when you do trigger 3D touch, it goes into "peek" mode, and you have to keep pressing, and in fact press even harder, before it will "pop" and actually navigate to the image. In the "peek" mode simply swiping up will give you the Save Image action.

And if you're the Hulk and every single touch is a force touch, well, even gripping as hard as I can, it still forces the "peek" mode for a second or two before "popping".
Not sure where you are in the world, but if you / the disks can make it to Melbourne, I'd recommend reaching out to https://mess.foundation/. If they don't have direct access to one, they will almost certainly be able to help you track down someone who does.
Down voted. I love the double standard on Hacker News. Beautifully transparent, super-class of readers, who can downvote.
I feel the same way re: GCloud...AWS/Azure seem the be the best route. Thanks abledon!
I’m firing up a Kickstarter for Who’ll Pay $1.01.
> even though they could not vote and had no representation in both the state and federal legal system.

That wasn't actually always true. In many places there were no race requirements for suffrage and if you were a "free negro" who met the other then-qualifications (male, land owner, etc.) then you could vote. Of course, hardly any black men of the time did, not least because they didn't even have citizenship.

This is how we, unlike most other countries, ended up with birthright citizenship after the civil war. It was another compromise. The former slaves don't get citizenship but their children do.

And the issue with counting non-citizens is still true today -- the census still counts non-citizens and federal representation is apportioned based on the census, so the states with large non-citizen populations get representation disproportionate to their number of eligible voters.
At least the Saudis are now diversifying into western markets with their capital. Which they are quickly learning comes with some social and moral constraints that have been largely invisible in the diplomatic/political world.

The finance and tech world doesn't need to compromise for some vague fragile security arrangement in the middle east. But regardless money is money and it will find an immoral taker at some point. The best we can do is keep the pressure on companies to hold their investors accountable.

That said, I'm not a fan of bringing the fanatical political tribalism, which is very popular in the US at the moment, into the tech/business world.
My wife still rues the loss of Grooveshark. She’s never recovered. I don’t blame her. All other streaming services suck horribly.
Atari ST & Commodore Amiga
Casually live coding any idiom even if the language didn't really support it. Definitely worth your time.
To be fair it wouldn’t be the first time a lifestyle luxury phone brand took off (see Vertu or Porsche Design). Palm does still have mindshare in the older crowd so that could be leveraged. The issue is the new logo bears no resemblance.

Alternatively, if they keep the price down it can be a viable second phone when traveling light (provided batt life doesn’t suck).

Personally I think their pitch on the site sucks and the product will be a flop since there’s no way in hell they’ll get software and hardware build quality perfect at launch. It might inspire xiaomi or another more experienced Chinese manufacturer to make a better comparable product.
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the Xtranormal website where you could script cartoon movies of anything for free.
Remember how stats used to say the average american spends 5 hours per day watching television?

Now they do that with The Internet.

Before telly that it was radio and newspapers. Before even that it was books.

The more things change the more they stay the same. Is it possible humans simply aren’t meant to be totally productive always on all the time and that we crave time wasting on a fundamental level?
Does anyone know his stance on cryonics? He seems like the kind of person that would have some sort of plan in place to see the future.
USD is already a mostly electronic currency. I’ve done some reading, and I have yet to come across a compelling advantage for cryptocurrency cum currency for the purposes of legitimate transactions.
This is exactly what a business is: offering people something they want in exchange for money.

If parent had said this was a sustainable or reliable business model, that'd be a different story.
Lisp is a powerful language that allows one to mix multiple logical levels within a program (especially through it's homoiconicity).

Shrdlu is perhaps the most classic illustration of Lisp's power[1], A classic program from 1968-70 that allowed natural language communication about a micro world. It was written in a version of Lisp even more free-form than today. When I looked at the source code a while back, it's parsing of natural language involved a wide-variety of on-the-fly fix-ups and such to take into account the multiple irregularities of human language.

The thing about Lisp's power is it allows the production of complex program quickly but doesn't particularly have a standard way of gluing these programs together. The other classic Lisp work, The Bipolar Lisp Programmer[2], describes how Lisp has multiple partial implementations of important libraries and programs simply because it allows a certain type of personality to by themselves produce something that's remarkably good but doesn't encourage any particular group effort.

Lisp is certainly evidence that "language matters" but not evidence that Lisp is where one should stop.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU

[2] http://marktarver.com/bipolar.html
I agree that it is not up for debate. They did not lose any information. The google announcement here https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-s... says that they looked for leakages and We found no evidence that any developer was aware of this bug, or abusing the API, and we found no evidence that any Profile data was misused.

The difference is between data being exposed and data being leaked. The difference is quite critical.
I have a lot of love for Sidecar. When I first moved up to SF, 'ridesharing' was truly in its infancy as Uber was still Black-car/Taxi only and Lyft was still a part of Zimride. Uber might have taken most of the market while Lyft might have won as the 'not-Uber' but, having had all three in the early days, it really stood out to me how much Sidecar was innovating ahead of the other two product-wise, only to be immediately copied thereafter and eventually driven out of business. Off the top of my head, they were the first to debut real time price quotes, line/pool service, some kind of delivery integration, and if I am not mistaken was the original 'rideshare' wherein a regular person could pick up passengers. Might be a few more I'm missing. I've always held the belief that they had the best product team of them all in the early days.
If you don't believe in God, why speak so spitefully about him?
Apple recently open sourced FoundationDB https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/
This is one of my biggest concerns - The cost of gpu's with repeated training, etc. That's an interesting approach to use multiple clouds; I had not thought of that. So thank you for that insight. Cheers sir.
Is he still on réversible computations ?
It turns out the demo/warez group of the same name, which I'd guess far more users here have probably heard of, did get its name from the synthesiser:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight_(group)

The group and its members also have an interesting history.
* Psygnosis

* Amiga

* dumb TVs

* Blackberry OS

* Zune

* Bryce

* WordPerfect

* Gopher
If it is a Pyramid scheme. Bronte capital doubts this and they give, as always, decent reasons.
Impossibility is a defense to a breach of contract. And let’s not be silly; United’s not going to go after you for unintentional breach due to illness. Come on, use some common sense.
Quick and clever way to nab some card numbers.
Additional question, is there some sort of copyright on this list? Maybe someone can just pay and post it somewhere.