skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That covers it pretty well!

To further elaborate, getting deep into nerdland here...

The fundamental mistake with Rebirth is the literal translation. For someone to choose Rebirth over the actual hardware, they likely do not own the hardware (for those actually bothering to read this, software doesn't sound quite like 20-year-old hardware, especially in this example). Therefore, there was little reason to mimic the odd limitations of the originals unrelated to sound or performance. The UI could have been more...I can't think of the word but "homunculus" comes to mind, that is, the knobs and interactive elements could have been larger, while retaining the visual aesthetic of the originals. The 303 could have benefitted (as with modern CPU upgrades to it) live note editing. Things like that. Maintaining weird, frustrating aspects of the originals, for the sake of appealing to people who probably never owned them, would be my #1 criticism.
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Giving the guy a break, it does look like he doesn't "get" github, as it hosts the sources(not in an easily buildable format) as a binary download. and the content of the repo is just random batch files.

And, regarding batch files, if it gets the job done (i.e. M4 autoconf scripts). What would powershell give you?
My only problem with Cygwin is that installing and updating packages is a pain since you need to use the setup program. Apart from that it works great for what I use it for - a unixy shell with ports of a few tools I like using.
I considered that, but decided the pun was more about my own disappointment than aggression.
Think third world and developing countries.
I'm sure they're aware of the conflict. My guess is that they aren't growing fast enough to justify all the money they raised, so they're eager to get more people involved, and are willing to do that even at the expense of annoying some people.

If they were smart about this (and they are very smart in general), this is something where they would have done some A/B tests with cohort analysis and discovered that they sufficiently larger growth with the dickish pages.

Not that I still don't hate them for it. I still enjoy writing and reading answers there, but they've totally killed my willingness to share answers outside of Quora.
JSON has elements too
Changing the way you find your holiday
Hopefully Wikileaks will survive so I might know the wedding parties and whatnot that this thing wiped out "accidently" in the "war on terror". Otherwise, cool technology.
Wrong. The masses of people started over food problems. The government tried to crush them, and there was a massive response from other parts of society. Spain started the same way.
I hate to be 'that guy', but this is why there are so many passionate advocates of federated identity systems where I can own my identity information in a single spot. The web services I use should be listening for a webhook when I change my address.

Unfortunately, the current standards efforts for such things are extremely fragmented. I think the best option out there is webfinger and something simple speaking PuSH-JSON
Why isn't there an easy to issue Free SSL CA?
Where is the SSL Certification Authority that is issuing SSL certificates that are trusted by all browsers without a yearly fee?

It's bad enough that startups differentiate pricing tiers with SSL, why do we make it so user un-friendly to secure their visit?
These were kicking around some time after it happened. I remember reading the first Cantor network failure messages then - they brought the tragedy home to me more than the TV images and statistics had.

They made it human - I could imagine an event, at one of the buildings I'd worked at, wiping out an entire floor - everyone in it and everything connected to it - left me cold and reading it again now I feel just the same.
If you would like to run the maybe-don't-click-on-stuff-you've-seen-before-or-are-not-interested-in tutorial press the Hacker News logo to continue.
Feds on hackernews, rad!
Google Voice app was started later than the original web-based Google Chat for iOS project. The latter was already released and in use before Google Voice app was blocked. It wasn't made as a reaction to that dispute.
And what does Linux not provide, that the common user needs? The most common use cases are covered by modern Linux desktop more than enough. When you are starting to go to more specialized use cases (gaming, publishing, etc.) then Linux will fall behind. But they are arguably not the majority. So the common reason not to give an option of Linux (or no OS) is not because Linux is really lacking in functionality, but because of either deals with MS (i.e. reduced Windows price), or because of lack of demand (i.e. the same "network effect"). But demand is hard to build if such option doesn't even exist as an option for an unaware customer. So it's a vicious cycle, which is of course well fed by MS to persist.
I see it as part of a negotiation process.

There are certain ads I'm willing to put up with. There are plenty I'm not. If a publisher is going to force dancing monkeys and video bullshit on me and not give me an option to pay for the content in cash, I will happily block their ads until they get a clue.

If this were a neighborhood business, I'd just have a pleasant discussion with the owner and we'd work something out. But since their publishing and customer service is automated out the wazoo, so is my approach to negotiating which ads show up on my screen.
As someone who has never used a pager, how did you send the text message? Special system with a keyboard? Type it out on phone keys?
Have you considered that windows is good enough for the end users and represents good value?

People don't want to make a choice or have to care about what they buy. The ISVs are quite happy to ship windows as they have reusable experience and it's just plugging things together.

The reason no market share destroying competition has appeared is that people are quite happy apart from a minority of users who are quite vocal.

consider that are more windows power users than there are mac users and Linux users combined.

I'm a Linux user (heavy with 15 years' experience) but i don't have a problem with the current situation.
I'd just get my ideal tape out (waterproof, no residue) and strap those ads down and enjoy my free jetski time. But this comparison will always be flawed, like so many digital/real world ones are today.

I don't see running AdBlock as immoral. If I can change something in my browser to better suit my browsing experience I will, and I feel that's my right. A site can serve up content, but it's my choice as to what portion of that content I choose to view, just as people with PVRs or VCRs can choose to skip ads. Impressions are shit for revenue anyway and I don't think I've ever intentionally clicked on a banner ad so I'm not taking much away from content owners.

I skip sites that have an interstitial ad with a 5 second countdown, so I'm choosing to not ride that jetski.

And agreed on YouTube.
Paypal hacked?
whois paypal.com
It was usually one way. You'd call the number given to you by the person you wanted to contact, and it'd go to a call center staffer who would type out your message. Usually just a name and phone number.
NASA versus Commercial Space?
http://i.imgur.com/Yux7v.png
It's surprising the Secret Service would use unencrypted pagers...
Well, quite a few Unix editors might still have the necessary hacks for low-baud terminal connections, which probably help in this case, too.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
There were violent water riots in Peru last year when the government tried to privatize the water supply. Prices whent up more than 100% I think.

Thank you for sharing this Kamaal.
Oh, I voted for Obama in 2008. So I don't know what you did, but I didn't elect an unqualified individual just to stick it to the other side.

That I did in 2003, for the Governor of California. That was a mistake, and I own that.
Twitter and Etsy are running an ‘engineer exchange’
works now, cool :)
Firefox Beta for Android adds support for ARMv6 devices
Quick buy some Kindle DXs while you still can.
I am speaking more generally -- I'm not evaluating a new database for my toolchain at the moment, and to be honest, I am very shy of anything that is proprietary-only. However, I thought your ideas were interesting regardless, so I felt compelled to defend their interesting-ness.

I'm just tired of trying pierce through proprietary database literature language to sort a new database system that has Apparently Magical Properties into the multi-dimensional bin of tradeoffs. Consider the FAQ for Redis: http://redis.io/topics/faq

Or, the very short rundown in the second half of the home page of Postgres-XC http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/, although it probably could use some fine-tuning. Many of the developers, including the first one, are not native english speakers.

A good example in proprietary-land is Datomic: http://www.datomic.com/faq.html. Here's a good paragraph:

How does Datomic handle consistency, availability and scale? Because
Datomic separates the handling of transaction processing and
query/read, it can make independent choices for each
facility. Transactions favor consistency over availability, and the
loss of a transactor will require traditional failover
approaches. Queries and reads, however, are serviced by the highly
available, replicated and scalable infrastructure of DynamoDB. And,
since the data segments stored by Datomic in Dynamo are immutable,
they are always consistent. Thus, Datomic is well suited for
applications that require write consistency and read scalability.

On the other hand, I really appreciate your benchmarks to give me a ballpark idea, and think it's great that you offer them up so easily. They could probably take a less pronounced position in your literature if you find you are in need of space for other material, though.
"what does Linux not provide, that the common user needs"

Office, Outlook, most AAA games, itunes. Don't tell me that because you can run them today on your machine (well maybe) that that somehow translates to what common users have experienced over the last decade.
The Linux kernel and Android kernel have already become one again, and I suspect that the community will narrow the gap further.

Right now they mainly just share the kernel. If the GNU tool chain is included and you can compile and run linux programs, what is the difference besides some architectural changes?
You want this book: http://mishka.lockandhenner.com/blog/?cat=45
Have you considered that windows is good enough for the end users and represents good value?

Same as Linux in this day and age (if user has such option).

The reason no market share destroying competition has appeared is that people are quite happy apart from a minority of users who are quite vocal.

With this logic any kind of monopoly can be justified, but it doesn't make monopoly good per se. Artificial lack of competition is bad.

consider that are more windows power users than there are mac users and Linux users combined.

Network effect is part of the problem, but the bundling issue is just a method to feed it. So one way to break it - is to remove the bundling blocker to allow fair competition.
Slate on how Apple really invented the iPhone
It's pretty easy for a story to be on the front page for a while, get thoroughly discussed, then drop off before you see it, especially if you're, you know, hacking.
great choices, i think :)
And made starred pages too.
Google announces new Youtube app for iPhone
I think the easiest way to sift through the text is by searching for specific words or phrases.

"scared"

2001-09-11 09:46:48 Skytel [002384252] D ALPHA on. The White House has been evacuated. I'm scared do you know what's going on? Robin

2001-09-11 09:49:14 Skytel [007558008] C ALPHA Michelle.Becker@moody.edu|Call me babe if you can I'm so scared!| Michelle Solar Becker Department Manager, Donor Communications Moody Bible Institute 820 N.

2001-09-11 10:13:10 Arch [0910241] A ALPHA ||i'm home there is lots of smoke outside of my window i can't see anything or use my phone i'm really scared please get help HHeller,IBSG-Cisco|144

2001-09-11 10:38:59 Arch [0949322] C ALPHA jebritt|I AM VERY SCARED ANNE ... PLEASE COME HOME NOW CALL ME

"love you"

2001-09-11 09:23:40 Arch [1008791] B ALPHA 08-GETTING REALLY NERVOUS. PLS CALL TO LET ME KNOW YOU'RE SAFE. I LOVE YOU.

2001-09-11 09:28:48 Arch [0939758] D ALPHA 58-THANK GOD YOU ARE SAFE. PLEASE CALL ME. I LOVE YOU, TERRY.

2001-09-11 09:32:37 Skytel [005062181] B ALPHA PLEASE CALL ME AND LET ME KNOW YOUR OK, I AM AT HOME. I LOVE YOU. SUNSHINE 908 806 6384
Not to hijack this thread...but as a non-believer in conspiracies, I was recently discussing with someone about whether or not the towers fell at 9.8m/s.

The claim is that it was 'measured', and determined that both towers fell at close to that rate.

The implication being that a 'non-intentional' demolition of the towers could not have caused them to fall at close to the standard rate of bodies in free fall.

I would love to hear some thoughts on this theory.
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Can you please try out aboutmybrowser.com now? There was an issue that we fixed a while back. Thanks!
All fine for me http://whois.domaintools.com/paypal.com
Only, because I send something over an unsecure channel, does not give anybody the right to repost it publicly for the whole wide world to see. Even, if (as a coincidence) something as awful happens, as 9/11.

Sorry, but I have to agree with the parent post. Your argument could also be:

> Then maybe it's not a good idea to send them unencrypted over the air.

Even, if the channel is insecure, people used it, believing, that the private messages they sent, were/are/will be private.

I am living in Germany and I really would hate to see, if every postcard ever sent would be there for the whole wide world to see.

Yes: Unencrypted, unsecure, open, readable as a channel, but non the less protected by privacy-law.
I guess the problem I have with everything you are saying is that you still seem to be implying that somehow the wool is being pulled over our eyes.

On the contrary, PS is an improvement in your eyes. A better anology would be night-vision goggles. You can "see" a lot better with PS. In the same way you can "see" better with amplified starlight.

The last paragraph sort of says: "You are either wrong or trivially true. If you are trivially true, I agree with you."

If, on the other hand, you are not implying that the wool is being pulled over our eyes and are only stating that the Proudin-Gorsky images have been rendered in a a modern style rather than in a Technicolor or Kodachrome style or in the style that you would have seen if you were to have seen Proudkin-Gorsky project them with his lanterns, then point taken.

Again, your premise is wrong. The information content is higher. As established above. So, this breaks down the next part of your argument, too: that PS is like film. Again, film is what I put into the starlight scope. What comes out has amplified latent information.

This leaves what I'm saying as something else altogether and hopefully at once clearer and more agreeable. Lets call this the "enhanced information hypothesis". This is how you get your HD.

So where does that leave us? I think two things follow. One, it explains why people react to these images and remark about their information content and their contemporary feel. Contemporary images have more (color) information in them, and the structure of this information is often unique. But, because its unique (to the present) it is incongrous with the past. The way I would put this is it may help us visualize the past. But I'm not sure it brings us any closer to the past. That is, in sense of shared experience with the people of the past. They would have had a cool thing with their "lanterns". But we are sort of looking at another ball game.

Again, There are gradations, etc to this way of putting it. Nothing is absolute. But I think its directionally correct. Its important enough to take note of, and not to dismiss. It also steers well clear of making any leaps onto further implications about XYZ (veracity, accuracy, etc) which are at once imprecise and unncessary; not relevant to my points but areas of concern you have expressed.
Google Launches Native YouTube App for iPhone
Arguably, the majority of PC users don't care about heavy gaming. While gamers are an important factor, they aren't the blocker for any OEM to provide an option of Linux preinstalled. There are lot's of people who use their computers merely for browsing, reading e-mails and some minimal document editing and multimedia like audio/video. Many don't even use desktop office applications, using some web services for that. And Libre Office or Calligra are decent options as well. The age of immature office options on the Linux desktop is gone.

Outlook is a rather heavy monstrosity. There are better e-mail clients out there, including those on Linux.
Sounds like the author confused knowledgable with intelligence. Intelligent in my opinion is knowledge applied well, not knowledgable people who make common mistakes that anyone can make under a multitude of contexts
EA open-sourced their EASTL game-optimized container library back in 2007, including intrusive lists. Here is a detailed introduction:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...

And a github repository that is still maintained:

https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL
There's nothing wrong with being a monopoly in the sense that you simply won by having the best product. Where monopolies needs tempering is when they use their power in one market to displace competitors in another market - such as Google accused of doing by giving prominence to search results from their own properties over competing ones.
Telcos at crossroads in data boom era
http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=charles+kuralt...

that is from 1968
Collection of resources for responsive designs.
If you'd like to see a uk legal rebuttal of much of this then you can't go far wrong be reading this http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2012/09/...
It's not just Reason and Rebirth. Everyone has been following this type of design for over a decade. Eventually I just gave up. Even the best software in the recording industry is hopelessly designed to resemble a physical piece of gear and to be clicked with a mouse. It is mind-numbingly stupid.

At one point Digidesign had this lower end product called a 001. ProTools is of course an image of a recording console on the screen. On their second iteration of this product, the 002 I think it was, they released an actual pseudo-console with some tactile knobs. For a moment I thought maybe they were getting a clue. But I don't think things have changed much. Recording engineers are still pointing and clicking. It is close to impossible to automate. (Of course they think they are automating, but they haven't got any idea what true automation really is.)

Either no one at these companies understands how to use a command line and parsed configuration files or, less likely, they do know but they do not believe their customers could ever learn.

I concluded I am better off using snd(1) than waiting for the recording industry to figure out how computers work (i.e. to become proficient in the ways of UNIX). At least the guys in the lab at Stanford have got it right. You can even use Scheme.
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can you please expand on this? everybody says C-CORP for a startup for flexibility, investor trust and so on. OTOH, C-CORPs are costlier and more complex. but you're an INC and "real" startups as DBAs! if you make blog post on this that would be great.
a 'non-intentional' demolition of the towers could not have caused them to fall at close to the standard rate of bodies in free fall.

Before you even bother with the claim you are curious about, I suggest you substantiate this particular piece.
Senator Dodd gave a very impassioned and long speech on the floor arguing against that retroactive immunity.

It didn't involve identical issues as his efforts for the MPAA, but it is a pretty radical change in sentiments nonetheless.

If we can be unpleasantly surprised, it would be nice to be pleasantly surprised every now and then, too.
Well, believer or non-believer, there are many loose ends in the official theory, and there are many documentary films that are proving a bunch of facts that boldly indicate that this was a planned inside job.

Just think, wouldn't those who run the world spend just several hundred lives and two buildings to gain a so profitable war on terror, the Patriot Act, and a new permanent enemy (the terrorists!) to keep the people in terror and pull more and more of their rights to "protect them".
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I have busybox and bash on my android phone, how is it not the same at all? That's why they call it GNU/Linux. Linux is the kernel, and GNU a set of tools and libraries. Right now Android has the Linux part, and the GNU part is increasingly available.
Isro's 100th mission: PSLV-C21 puts 2 foreign satellites in orbit
Thanks, but I said in "lay" ("lag" due to stupid iPhone AC) terms...

I dont really get how your response answers my question.

Can you really dumb it down for me; explain like I am 5 how this will result in practical applications in the next (N) years.

thanks
No mention of whether women were allowed to attend.
Well...the theory goes that if an intentional demolotion can only cause a building to fall close-ish to the 9.8m/s, then a 'non-intentional' collapse surely must be slower.
http://www.startssl.com/

They've been doing it for years. So long as you get the intermediate CA cert installed on the server, their free certs seem to work fine in as near as practical "all browsers".
That doesn't even make sense. What does gravity care for intent?
Why I secretly recorded my life
> If Rodrigo wants to hit deadlines all he needs to do is increase his estimates. It's usually easier to teach someone how to game the managerial system than it is to teach someone to code.

This is what so many developers don't seem to understand. This isn't "gaming the system". This is just giving better estimates which leads to better (or at least less annoying) management because they won't be breathing down your neck when you're far from done.

If you don't do this, you're not a cool hacker who doesn't care about management stuff and politics, you're just an idiot. Unless you are a masochists, in that case, enjoy your self-imposed agony....
Just to repeat something I mentioned in the comments on Dan Shipper's, there is actually evidence that self-set public goals can make it less likely you complete the goal.

(the theory being roughly that just stating it publicly feels like making progress, so you're less likely to actually make progress.)

See http://sivers.org/zipit for some background info.

There's been more research but I don't have the references to hand ATM.
> A system is set up to accomplish something other than its own continued existence

Well, it could be, but it doesn't have to be.
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