skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm about to do something terrible, but it helped me immensely to understand the Big Bang. Let's pretend we have a magic box that tells us how space expands over time:

V(t)

So, t starts at '0', which we're gonna call 't0', and goes until 'now'. So V could be small, it could be big. We don't know, and it kinda doesn't matter. The reason is that the way the Big Bang works is like this:

(t - t0) * V(t)

So, when t == t0 (the beginning of time), it doesn't matter what shape space (V) has, the size of the universe (spacetime) is '0'.
To be fair SaaS destroyed the previous financial model of the software industry, which was much better for the end user imo.
Back then, software companies tried to make good, comprehensive products that respected user privacy, were meant to run locally, provide a complete solution to the problem, and were supposed to be a permanent solution. Better software meant more sales and more money. Unfortunately excessive piracy broke this model.

Sure, today's software capabilities are much more advanced, but you no longer get a physical disk that you can load on you computer and be confident it'll just keep working for years on end without any external dependencies etc.
Why? Because Communism?
I live in a urban area with a freight train line running along the back of the house, apart from any roadways or people. Trains run a few times a day, and are slow and massive.

I take my three cats for an unleashed walk along the tracks a short way. They instinctively form a hunting party around me as we walk; they treat me like the platoon commander or some such. One is the scout, the senior maintains discipline, etc.

At the first sign of a distant train, they inform me, and we go back to the yard and watch the train pass. They must consider them some kind of mighty, blind worms.

It is not quite the same as a leash-walk through the forest, but I feel very lucky to have a little pocket for the cats to reveal their outdoor personalities in this way.
Show HN: Visual Backend Development Platform
if you can elaborate, I'm interested.
I only skimmed the article, but it appears to be about the prevalence of tracking in third-party services used by app developers, not in the core distribution, what did I miss?
Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook by Jay Cummings. It's a very brisk read and lacks that heavy-handed feel you get from even looking at math books. That said, it's been edited by bajillion people (mostly students), yet it does have a decent number of non-trivial mistakes (which can be cleared up by asking a question on mathstackexchange, for example).
Do you have background sync problems with k9? I can't get mine to fetch emails while I'm not using k9, I have to open the app, go to unified inbox, and manually refresh. Background sync etc is on but disables itself.
Isn't that a false dichotomy? Large organizations can have organizing principles other than profit at all costs. The groups of people that comprise these organizations just choose not to.
Not mine, but here is a js clone.
https://basicallydan.github.io/skifree.js/
Deleted, see parent.
One must take responsibility for one’s morals. Our given set of societal/legal norms impart a certain level of responsibility. Because of the law, one must be responsible whether one likes it or not. The individual sits at the mercy of the society in which the individual exists. I suppose the only recourse for the individual is to help change society (this is slow, and requires even more responsibility) OR move to a different society.
No, that would be leaking lol!
One of the problems with leaks is that the natural management reaction to leaks is to decrease the free flow of information within the company.

When I joined Google in early 2013 it seemed like there was a lot more information and technical details shared at internal forums like TGIF than there was by the time I left in mid 2015. In fact, we used to joke that the internal go/stopleaks web page where people reported leaks was the new way to find out what was happening in the company, since TGIF had become basically a press release..
My impression is that it is not so much that management wants to stop leaks (though I'm sure they do) as it is that the vast majority of rank-and-file employees want the leaking to stop because past leaks have so very badly damaged the previously-open culture of communication within the company.

The NYT should not be my main source of information about what is going on in my workplace.
Google obviously sees China as an important growth opportunity. Perhaps their strategy is to launch a search service in China that is ‘compliant’ with local regulations and they thought they could do that in a balanced way (e.g. warning users upfront before searching) but now that the story is out of the bag and they can’t control the narrative it’s tainted their approach and the opportunity.
These data only refer to island ecosystems like Australia. And this is all nonnative species, not just cats. This is entirely irrelevant to the issue of urban and suburban cats in the United States.
Fireworks was a decent piece of software.

I think Adobe DX is supposed to be the replacement for it.
The perl6intro website shows you the essentials of what you need and the ecosystem has matured a lot since 2014 as well as many good books being published. Laurent Rosenfield has a Think Perl6 book that you can buy in paper or read online for free. If you can already code, getting proficient in basic Perl6 is easy. Becoming a master is outside my current grasp.
it's about half as expensive.
> If this is true of Google — which if you think about, has to be the case

I don't necessarily disagree with this re: google but you're not making the strongest case here
It should be required to submit software sourcecode to the Library of Congress in order to claim Copyright. That would enrich the public domain. Aside from the fact that Copyright lifespan is absurdly long.
Nor will those generations enjoy having their everyday lives turn on the religious squabbles in the Middle East. Sadly, their futures won't be run by Putin, Maduro, emirs, ayatollahs, shakes, and imams thousands of miles away with apocalyptic visions.

The truth is that the ignorant frackers of Texas should get a Nobel Peace Prize.
The idea is to be established in the field before regulation. That way you can
lead the conversation around regulation which would, in effect, cement your continued relevance.
do you feed a dog every time it wants to eat?
There's commafeed:

https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
Well, a good one to begin with is: "whose don't work, don't deserve to eat" a line common to many on that political axis

Second to that is to "judge everybody on its own worth" – just add some imagination to see how different definitions of "worthlessness" been thrown left and right in totalitarian states.

In the end, the meat under the sauce is the same.
to me, subjective: a thing/a thought based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.

The parent was saying "personal responsibility to fight wrongs": to me, it means some people are wrong (as in they believe something that is wrong, even, if of course, they think they are right). But it is just wrong, not subjectively wrong.

And it is my duty to do something about it (either convince, educate, or even censor,...).

So I guess you are right, I don't understand your point about "But right and wrong are very subjective things and this fighting the wrongs is contributing a lot to the global mess." Because the way I read you is "stop trying to 'fight' the wrong, and the mess will be less".
I don't like fracking but can see the political, economic and (C02)environmental benefits. Puts me in an awkward position.
Check out the website, 70millionjobs.com for employment as a convicted felon.

Also, you are not legally required to disclose your former convictions, unless you are asked. It is smart to do so, though.
WinAmp 2. I still use Audacity in "classic" mode to make it feel like WinAmp.. Old habits die hard :)

Going further back, I think Symantec JustWrite was an extremely fine piece of software; I remember it being blazingly fast on the 486 monster I had at work. But my glasses may be rose-tinted :)
How many birds do they actually eat? The study I've seen has been mostly speculation as it's an incredibly hard thing to measure generally.
> I'd say it's a problem in the interaction of that specific version of python with that specific malloc. From a performance perspective we could not afford to simply force malloc to only use mmap for every small allocation (as it would thrash the TLB and/or balloon memory usage).

And other option might have been to switch to a malloc using mmap'ed size-class arenas like jemalloc or somesuch?
Our cat was indoor/outdoor that we would keep in at night due to a (justified) fear of larger predators. He lived a very long and healthy life and I definitely attribute that to him spending many of his waking hours outside engaged in hunting and patrolling behavior. I'm not sure that a leeshed walk would be a good substitute though, since a patrolling cat wants to be able to start hunting a rodent or fleeing danger at a moment's notice, and I suspect that some of the exercise is in sprinting, running up trees, and pouncing on prey. In my cat's later years he lost the boldness to stalk our entire yard by himself, but would enjoy it if we walked out there with him so he could smell everything without fear. The benefit of the walk is probably keeping the cat mentally active rather than physically.
Jubilee is enacted in the current Bankruptcy code.
The description must be sufficiently similar to something that did happen, though, for you to be confident that you recognise the incident.
Upholding an ethical morality is not the same as following the law. The law frequently does not follow the values or mores of the people themselves. And often even if it is close it lags behind in time and it is only the actions of people contrary to the law which changes it. So, I believe that your claims are unsound. Indeed it is irresponsible to follow an unjust law comma because then you will just be reinforcing injustices. See the American civil rights movement for good examples of this.
Why are they so frantic if they're on the up and up?

From the attitude, it sounds like they've gone full-on 'be evil' and are legitimately panicked that they will be found out before they can get the kind of power that would render them immune from any consequence to their actions. They must surely understand international politics, and a lot is happening right now in international politics.

I would say Facebook and Google are likely to be smack in the center of what's going wrong, and that in both cases they figured they could learn to control the monsters they unleashed, and stood to benefit.

That would justify any degree of paranoia and hysteria over leaks. There is no purpose in being this frantic over leaks if they know they've not done terrible things.
Aperture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_(software)

I would happily pay for an update that fixed outstanding bugs and ensured compatibility with future versions of macOS. It would be nice to have some new features, too, but it is basically "good enough" as it is and I dread the day I can no longer run it. I'm really not sure what I will do.

The claim that Photos was going to be a meaningful replacement for Aperture was obviously a lie at the time it was released and even nearly five years later it is still not true.

I'd have moved to Lightroom had Adobe not moved to a subscription model.
> REPL concept

the interactive REPL was introduced by Lisp around 1962 way before Lisp Machines, Smalltalk...
What do you think about India electrifying 300M more people just this year? From the latest climate change report India had a +6.3% change in their emissions in 2018 and projected to increase a lot more before it gets better. I'm mixed personally on it because with electricity that population will now have access to things like heating, cooling and the internet. India is notorious for pollution problems, so it would be interesting to see if some new innovator could be born out of having access to the electricity that they do now.

Carbon emissions is probably going to be the defining challenge of this century and its looking more and more like climate policies are not palatable to the general population. As with other problems in the past we really need to innovate our way out of the problem with advances in fusion, renewables and new durable battery tech.

All this fear about climate change makes me want to go back to school and study materials science and do whatever I can to advance tech to steer us off this cliff.
So it's the end of time in a sense?
Picasa (desktop app). It hit a sweet spot for me - linux compatible, very easy to do the majority of simple edits (crop, rotate, colour tweaks), and a few other nice features.

The only significant failing was that it couldn't handle removable media at all well.

Shotwell is the best I've found so far, but it's not quite the right feature balance for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotwell_(software)
IRIX

The desktop experience was fantastic for its time.
What are those other issues?
It's really not about simply violating privacy. It's about the actions one takes after one violates all the privacy ever.

Big data is power. Facebook and Google know that. Everyone else had better learn. These reactions telegraph that Google and Facebook have been eagerly making use of the power they've gained, and it's obviously backfired… or, the first things they've tried to do have been totally evil and reprehensible, and successful.
>I get that there's probably been a fair bit of empty tanker capacity over the past few decades going back the other way, but I wonder what's so special about US oil that merits taking it all the way to the Persian Gulf. Surely our military didn't need that much for its operations in the neighborhood?

West Texas Intermediate is the lightest, sweetest crude on earth. Most refineries are built to handle medium density/sulfur, so everyone else has to buy it to mix with theirs.

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1792854eec3801b00a6ba6...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas_Intermediate
Reminded me of this: https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2017/03/reforming-crimina...
See parent.
You might enjoy LiveCode from https://livecode.com (GPL version at https://livecode.org), it is like hypercard for the 21st century
Perl6's use of sigils seems excessive to me but I do like sigils for variables. It acts like a namespace between similarly named constructs. I know for instance WebClient is a class and $WebClient contains an instance of it. I also like how it makes it easy for syntax highlighters to identify variables from classes and keywords.
I've been walking my dog in very busy parts of Seattle for hours almost every day for the last 7 months, and have encountered hundreds of other dogs... and exactly ONE cat the whole time. It was a beautiful bengal cat on a leash. In any case, around here, people very rarely walk their cats. I always wondered why.
I don't get the given/when part of this comment at all? given/when is exactly like C's switch/case, except the names are better and it's at least an order of magnitude more powerful.

It's 100% not added verbosity in any way. Added complexity, sure, but it's a pretty straightforward application of some of the main ideas of the language, usable in the standard C-language-family way out of the box, and powerful and flexible when you understand it.
morals != laws. Re-read and you will see no association made in the grammar. Words tend to reflect back the ideas and beliefs of the reader.
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
An email whose domain you don't own is an email that you'll one day lose. (Think rs@aol.com).

Any particular reason you don't wish to use your own domain? As I said you can keep up redirects if you just can't change emails yet.
The assumption that leaking, in the OPs second example, is always for personal gain is incorrect. There is always risk involved in some manner and there are plenty of historical examples wherein people will put an exceptional amount of personal sacrifice on the line. Sacrifice can easily outstrip any gains realized by the greater good than for the individual. I, personally, don't believe conflating them is accurate. Maybe it's convent if you're the large organization or government that is in the crosshairs.
Would you care to explain what 'CNS' is?
Of course, this is classic authoritarian behaviour manipulation by the management. Stop people doing the just and correct thing by punishing everybody, so that the rank and file start to believe thatthe question of leaking should be seen in terms of their own working conditions. And they start to watch other people and turn against whistleblowing because it makes their own lives less interesting at work. This makes for more peer-to-peer surveillance in the interests of the authorities. The workers themselves start to align themselves hegemonically with the authorities, quite possibly against their and their society's interests.
Old flight sim dogfighting game called Flying Circus.
Emagic Logic on Windows.

All features added on Mac since it's cancellation on PC.
When I started working at Google 14 years ago its most striking feature was the contrast between its external secrecy and its internal transparency. Essentially all engineering information was accessible to all engineers. Obviously the company has grown a lot since then, and there are numerous legal constraints on its internal transparency (contracts, national laws, commercial sensitivity, etc) but it is still has a culture of internal openness unusual for a company of its size. Many rank-and-file employees, myself included, would like to preserve that internal openness even though we may oppose recent leadership decisions regarding Maven, China, and sexual harassment, or support stronger government regulation of privacy. Hence employees' ambivalence about leaking: it has helped shine a light on important issues, but it risks important future decisions being made in secret.
Hearing "net exporter" made me wonder: is there some inefficiency, at a company or state level, in how we'll both export and import the same commodity? Why does this occur?

Is this the result of a lack of market makers who will hold the oil (maybe the cost of storage is too high), so it's shipped to wherever needs it at that exact point?
civilizations have been squabbling with middle and far east for thousands of years, under different reasons. It has nothing to do with oil - someone will always try to find another reason to get those barbaric tribes on the righteous path, democracy, freedom, or whatever the new term will be.
It's probably too late to innovate out (it might be too late to do anything). The recent UN report says we need to cut global net emissions by 50% by 2030 (11 years from now) in order to have a chance of staving off the most catastrophic effects.

Is 11 years enough time to invent, deploy, and scale any or all of those technologies?

There certainly isn't enough time for you to go back to school, learn what you'd need to learn, and make a meaningful contribution.
Because business is interested only in maximizing profit and government is (supposed to be) interested in protecting the rights of its citizens.
Cali 14 years ago, county zoning office.
That is one awesome thing to do with cats. Do you let them outside without you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(word_processor)

Sprint was a powerful, capable word processor. It was lightning fast and darn near impossible to lose files.

Alas, it lost out to WordPerfect and was quickly dropped by Borland.
If we're talking games;

Dungeon Keeper
it appears to be the same thing in your comment, because you say that because there is a law people have a responsibility. And that responsibility to the law becomes a moral responsibility according to the way I have read what you say that makes sense as a response to the original comment. If you would like to explain it some another way then please do!
Numega Soft-ICE.
Google Desktop Search and the plugins.
> that will never give you any problems, ever

Here's a bug I've found in Intel GPU drivers on Windows 10: https://stackoverflow.com/q/43399487/126995

AFAIK not fixed to this day.
By 2013 TGIF was a virtually information-free internal propaganda session compared to what it had been.
Basically the same country, just more left leaning.
Isn't Wordpress 5 kinda focusing on this? The drag-and-drop way of designing your webpage, similar to something like Wix...
Adam Curtis is amazing. If you don't know his work, I would highly recommend checking it out [0].

[0] https://thoughtmaybe.com/by/adam-curtis/
Engelbart’s keyboard is discussed in this chapter on chorded keyboard boards:

http://www.billbuxton.com/input06.ChordKeyboards.pdf
>The NYT should not be my main source of information about what is going on in my workplace.

...and I assume your position is, by implication, that no-one outside of Google has any business knowing what is going on inside it by any means, even as it sucks up unprecedented levels of information about their own lives.
sidekick - the TSR app for DOS
Fascinating, though the factoid about being the lightest and sweetest appears to be a bit off the mark:

https://rentar.com/best-crude-oil-world-crude-oils-better-ot... (end of the article)
WISP Industry Projected to Nearly Double in Five Years [pdf] (2017)
first of all, I don't think it's terribly inhumane to keep a cat inside.

that said, averages never tell the full story. an urban environment with cars and many feral cats is a dangerous place for a pet. a rural environment that doesn't happen to have many predators is probably not that bad. also being outdoors is much more dangerous for very young and very old cats.
Word 5.1 for the Mac but multiplatform. AbiWord is close.
Part of the goal of the GDPR is to turn massive stores of user data from a corporate asset into a legal liability. If we can get internet companies to treat user data the way brick-and-mortar companies treat hazardous chemicals--occasionally necessary for some industrial process, but best avoided where possible, and always treated with respect--then that would be a big win for society IMO.
Interestingly the US military is investing heavily in solar, if only because it reduces the logistics tail of deployed units and reduces the overall attack surface (less resupply needed, fewer transports to be attacked) [0].

US military use of oil has also fallen compared with a few years ago because of reduced ground combat tempo in Afghanistan / Iraq.

They are still a massive oil user though, so a long way to go.

[0] https://www.energydigital.com/renewable-energy/us-military-w...
AFAIK they will generally only do it if the account is inactive. Were you actively using the twitter handle?
Go modules are not ready yet
https://ski.ihoc.net/

That's the "most official" page for the product. No source, but updated for 32bit/64bit environments.
Top U.S. general urges Google to work with military
Every vet or health source I’ve heard suggests keeping cats indoors. They live dramatically better lives indoors than outdoors. It’s also better for the environment as cats are prolific killers. They leave a broad and deep negative impact on local ecosystems. Outdoor cats suffer more and more dangerous diseases than their indoor counterparts- per a conversation I had with a vet. Letting cats outdoors is the abuse.
that's great, but on average outdoor cats really do live much shorter lives. [0]

[0] https://pets.webmd.com/cats/features/should-you-have-an-indo...