skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using ST3b3059 on Windows 8.1 pro x64, 2.5Ghz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 7200RPM Platter and the ST console logs "startup time: 0.0931221", it loaded as fast as vanilla Notepad.
"Planned obsolescence"? I'm still using Macs from 2004 and 2008 just fine. They've certainly lasted longer than any PC I ever owned.
My father-in-law only uses free software. And he only watches free movies. Because I taught him about torrent when I was dating his daughter :-)
Most people are also never exposed to this stuff.

While a some readers here cringe at the FSF going on the streets and speaking to "most people" about this stuff, I highly appreciate it.

Those FSF members got out of their echo chamber - it is not a fun job, some people won't care, but that is part of what makes this a good action.
This is fantastic. I'm 54 and thus old enough to remember writing my programs one card at a time on an 026 or 029 keypunch. A DECwriter with TSO was like heaven.

Great simulation and highly evocative of that earlier time. Kudos to the creators!
Exactly.

I can, not only disable autofill in the Lastpass configuration, but also set to require password reprompt for any of my credentials. I could also individually disable autofill for any credential.

Please should first know how something works before criticizing.
This 60s Google app is very cool, and I can see how it might inspire nostalgia.

But whenever I think about how prevalent cigarette smoking used to be in those days, I feel sad that so many people smoked without fully understanding the health risks. Both of my grandfathers lived and worked in that era, and both died of lung cancer.
German court reverses itself, puts the brakes on bizarre “porn troll” case
Gmail does this too.. It intercepts the action though, lets you choose if you really want to send.
Then you disable autofill. Problem solved.
Critics: NSA agent co-chairing key crypto standards body should be removed
Never really replaced the desktop, but it is running on way more mobile devices than anything else.
Darpa Robotics Challenge Trials: What We Learned on Day 1
I agree having Paint.NET on this list, it is pretty good. I used paint shop pro 6 (yes, the one made in 1999) and switched to Paint.NET last year. It has really expanded my capabilities with regard to art for game development.

To get the most out of Paint.NET check out their plugins (http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/forum/7-plugins-publis...). It seems like there is a plugin for anything you can think of.
I don't know. It seems more like a marketing stunt than a public service. They targeted Apple who champions a lot of free software. They could have targeted Microsoft. Or better yet LodSys.
It's a bit more complicated than this. I think you start hitting on the reality towards the end but get detoured by racism in the beginning.

It's all about tribal identification. I don't mean tribes in the historical sense but more akin to Godin's idea of tribes. They're the people you identify with. It's pretty well established that people like people like themselves. This isn't really that crazy. It's easy to see that liking people like yourself isn't the same as hating people that are different, it does often mean you don't respond as warmly though.

Names, just like race, is just one marker, as you described it, that defines what tribe we belong to. We are all in the business of quickly assessing the situation and placing people into tribes mentally, probably unconsciously, as soon as we meet them and we will adjust our perception as we learn more about them, of course.

The point of these rambling paragraphs is that I don't think this is the same as racism, though it certainly can become racism when taken to the extreme. A good example is our friend groups. If we like a certain music, a certain type of game (DnD) then you're likely to end up in a friend group with a very similar set of interests.

This gets expanded to the work place in an interesting way. Lots of hip trendy employers say things like, "We wanted to build a company we loved coming to everyday". Well, in order to love being at the office every day you're going to have to like the people. Does this mean they have to be perfect matches for someone you'd place in your friend group, in your tribe? No. But it does mean they're going to have to match on some of those markers.

Companies talk about "cultural fit" when hiring, hell it's on the front page here pretty regularly. In my estimation this isn't that far from not hiring people based on race. Instead we're not hiring based on some other set of markers other than race. What we're really talking about is cultural-ism where we discriminate based on particular subcultures, and markers for those subcultures.

I won't argue fairness or anything like that but I do think it's important to explore the ideas that we discriminate against people regularly and only ascribe malice when it's down for racial reasons.

(Not that it should matter but I'm black and I run a team of about 16 people (all white) doing sales/product management/project management/ software development in the South)
My cofounder thinks we need to speak fluent Spanish. I'm not so sure. Thoughts?
My best friend and I were lucky enough to have met a business owner during our past work experience, who resides in a Latin-American country, that one day decided he would like to start a software company in his industry. So we packed our bags and relocated down south to join him. This gentleman happens to speak perfect English and the majority of his staff speaks English as well. Our company has also grown to 5 full-time employees and we all speak English. Not to mention all of our client contacts speak English and maybe a few of their employees. Even though we occasionally have to do business in Spanish (contracts, training, etc.), we have specialized contractors that perform those tasks for us or our on-staff language specialist performs the translations.

Now my cofounder thinks that we should focus our energy learning to speak fluent Spanish because "we made the choice to do business in Latin-America and no business owner who cares about their company would choose to ignore the dominant language." I make the point that the time would be better spent on improving our products and advancing our own knowledge in the areas we operate. Not that I'm advocating to ignore the dominant language as we should learn enough Spanish to get around and we have at this point. But I mean we're barely getting started, have more interest than we can manage and features that will take us years to build out. Am I way off base in my thoughts here?
Agreed Notepad2 is pretty much perfect. I have been meaning to try out Notepad2-mod for a while as I would quite like the code folding.

One thing I would like (and might change myself if I ever get around to setting up my own build of it) is for it to remember its last position. At the moment you can save the location but it is annoying and should be automatic (IMHO).
you are mistaken.

//kernel
__kernel myKernel (int val){
//...
}

//host
int val = 10;
clSetKernelArg(kernel, 0, val, sizeof(int));

similarly, for architecture/max reg count,

clBuildProgram(..., "-cl-nv-arch sm_35 -cl-nv-maxrregcount 20",...);

i'm not angry at anyone. i disagree with mozilla's decision. that is all.
This is the sort of stuff that made me decide to stop donating money to the FSF. Instead of using my money to help fund the development of new and improved GNU options that will help convince people to switch, they're wasting a whole lot of time on ineffectual campaigns like this. The goal should be to make GNU so good people will want to be using it...
I once submitted a story to a writing group, where the protagonist was an evil dictator trying to return from hell. Some liked it, some didn't - but one thing made everyone unhappy.

The consensus was I needed to change the name of the main character because "people called Tom can't be mass murderers."
No, helping hundreds of millions of people stay in touch and have fun does not make the world a better place.
I'm glad to see that he's got both of us defending him.

I'm talking about the same tptacek who I've personally butted heads with where he couldn't even accept being wrong about how to make stew (looking back, that was exactly 1 year ago to the day!)

I respect tptacek very much for his domain knowledge and expertise. He has great theories on hiring practices and cooking among others. He's one of the names I look for on HN.

But he requires lots of care and effort. I have to mentally peel back about half of his posts to remove the snark and assholery and get to the juicy bits. But those bits are usually there and usually worth the effort to get to.

That's okay, I'm a grown up and can deal with high friction in order to enjoy interacting with somebody who's truly intelligent. tptacek is just one of those types that comes with lots of smarts and lots of difficult personality and that's okay.

And for the record I'm also aware that I can be rather high friction and assholish as well, and not nearly as insightful as tptacek.
Marketing is the #1 area I did poorly in my business and this information is helpful. I look forward to more.
You're assuming that it was defensive when there really isn't anything to suggest that it was other than your own bias.
It was "that easy" for one person with screwed up priorities who happened to have a fairly visually-oriented memory at the time, i.e., me.

It's not like I recognized the date from the cover or anything. I didn't track anything down; you did all the work.

I hope I haven't hurt your feelings.
This comment on VK by id1 (Pavel) clearly states he participates in recent HN threads. I think it's fairly safe to assume he is who he is.

https://vk.com/roem?w=wall-20537665_23327

Here's an unedited Google Translate translation (I read it, and I think it conveys the message):

As I see it , there is not so much Anonymus as creators local competitor - TextSecure under Android . Telegram gathered a lot of users , and they're rightly fuss . The boys are torn between argument " either too new algorithm , why is it , if there is a proven " and your " algorithm either too old , why is it when new ." Nevertheless , trade on HN gives thousands of registrations Anglo-Saxons and tons of references .

I think the debate will be a good end to the competition announcement decoding traffic Telegram. Let's say I was ready to open all of my correspondence traffic since registration in Telegram and give $ 200,000 to anyone who will decipher it and tell you how . As a result Telegram or detect and close the loophole for special services, or - more likely - will receive another proof of the inviolability of their protocol
I have used Robocopy to move over 300TB of data round recently and not a single error. Robocopy is at UNIX level stability. Really a kick ass tool.
I fully agree with the risk that certain ideas will be overused. This leads to unnecessary complexity. I also remember the times of the GoF book and the design patterns rage.

The ideas behind those architectures require time to think through. The sooner you start, the better. Then, slowly, try adopting them. If you have a side project, then apply it over there.

It's crucially important to have a common understanding of the project within a team. The domain knowledge should come from the subject matter experts, but after that it should be a team work to decide which (if any) patterns and architecture should be applied.
Unfortunately you give the system too little credit. In Aug 2013 a Federal judge recognized bitcoin as akin to a currency (stores value, can be used for exchange of goods). It also opened the doors to allow SEC to pursue these cases[0].

Granted it was for a ponzi scheme.

[0] http://rt.com/usa/bitcoin-sec-shavers-texas-231/
This is one of the key reasons why long copy converts so much better than short copy. A significant proportion of prospects really want to buy your product, but have one deal-killing objection; They will read pages and pages of copy until their objection is addressed and click, you make the sale.
You've already gave us background on who Trevor Perrin is.

Could someone shed a bit more light on who Dan Harkins is? He seems to be quite arrogant and does not address Trevor Perrin's criticism very constructively. See the other two threads started by Trevor:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg03545.h... (Question regarding CFRG process)

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg03537.h... (Review of Dragonfly PAKE)
I can't help but notice that you self identify as "jsmeaton" on HN. The name you didn't like, or choose, initially.

What happens over time to change how we perceive ourselves?
I hadn't seen that - sounds like it will help. Thanks a bunch.
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Why do you believe a person asking the question is "reflexively defensive"? And what is "the problem" that the person asking is part of?

I don't think I'm the only one who can't understand what you are trying to say. Could you carefully explain your thoughts in detail, making your assumptions and values more explicit?
So, what kind of campaign do you think they should be doing? Granted, there are many other ideas (install fests, donate your old computer, etc) but these are already done, and they can't do that in front of the Apple Store.

Also, these other ideas are all based on some compromise: "Sure, go ahead and spend 2 grand on a macbook pro for you kids going to college, but at least leave the breadcrumbs for us poor folk". As much as it can help, it brings no actual progress to the ideals of the FSF. It would be more of a feel-good campaign than anything else.

If you want to promote Free Software, you need to have good alternatives to proprietary systems, but at the same time you need to fight against the mindshare that the giants have.
My favorite chapter is the Principle of Least Action: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_19.html
Tables are usually used because /some/Outlook/s clients do not respect div width.
> to get people thinking about the injustices of proprietary software-laden gifts

Apparently written by the same people who smash Google buses in Oakland. Or at least using the same style guide.
It's so obvious when papers like this are released for publicity. "Instead of reporting small problems we find we should release a paper with a scary sounding title first"
You can purchase the Michel Thomas cd's and go from there. An hour per day, even a half hour while communicating will yield good results. The journey to fluency is a long one. But if you stay in Latin America there will be great rewards from being at least conversationally fluent, which is a matter of say, 2000 words. The grammar is not that difficult and there are many cognates. Spanish starts out relatively easy compared to non-European languages but it has extraordinary subtleties. It would be ridiculous not to at least try.
Please mind that Telegram team are not native English speakers.
Every significant software company does marketing, it's difficult to persuade people to use software if they don't know it exists.
It's hard to know whether this campaign is ineffective without some numbers. Will everyone leafleted ditch all of their Apple products and switch to Linux? Of course not, but perhaps some % will visit the FSF website and try some free-software programs.
Send money from Gmail
I took the train from SF to mountain view. 50 minutes of train time with large sections of no 3G/LTE.
EDIT: You know what, I'm not going to dignify this any further, other than to say that I don't want HN to be however you think HN should be. By saying "he requires lots of care and effort," you're discouraging people like Thomas from participating, and therefore making our community worse as a result. How would you feel if you saw someone talking like that about you?
It actually get 60 net up-votes
That comment served no productive purpose toward answering the question. Even if the response were "because I hate men", the original question would stand: is it OK to ask if there are any other women on the team? Yes, of course it is.

It was plainly made to imply that the asker is being somehow unreasonable for even caring about the question at all.
Great list. I'd add one more program: Agent Ransack at http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ . It's a file search utility that is orders of magnitude better than the utility built into Windows.
I don't know anyone who lives in the city. Anyone with a family lives in the burbs off the train line, with house and rent prices increasing geometrically as you approach distance to the train stops.
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I'd make a terrible analyst because I totally would do that.
Another vote of confidence for Paint.NET from me. It's gotten to a point where I know the shortcuts by heart and can cut, resize, apply tweaks to images very very quickly and it integrates perfectly with windows.

It doesn't look horrible like GIMP. Please donate if you can, even $5 helps!
In what way is this responsive? At least the example isnt.
So, what kind of campaign do you think they should be doing?

Why not stand outside an Apple store and hand out DVDs under the motto 'here, free software for your new Mac'? Put LibreOffice, VirtualBox, Adium, and whatnot on it. Insert a flyer explaining what 'free software' means and suggest that they can donate to these projects if they like the software.

Sure, they will be running one OS X. But one step at a time is better than 99% thinking there were approached by nerd Hare Krishnas (nothing against Hinduism, it's about perception).
There's almost nothing worse than getting somebody else's fringe beliefs given to you as a gift. It's like the opposite of a gift.

Imagine if this was extended beyond software into the physical world:

- instead of a new sweater, we've given you a schedule of anti-globalism meetup events, bring a protest sign and a gas mask!

- instead of a basket of summer sausages, we've given you tickets to a screening of the latest undercover livestock mistreatment movie screening!

- instead of a new TV we donated to the local Tea Party organization!

- instead of a new puppy, we've made a donation in your name to the Animal Liberation Front!

- instead of tickets to Hawaii we decided to donate the money to a carbon offset program, here's the receipt!

- instead of a new BB-gun, we got you an NRA membership!
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> So get the city to

If getting your municipal government to act on your behalf was so simple, do you really think they would be resorting to smashing windows? You're so blind, dude.
For python development, I'd also add Python(x,y) and/or Anaconda distributions for windows. They're binary installers that give you cpython interpreters + the kitchen sink when it comes to third party libraries and development tools.

Also, I have to disagree with the author about recommending µTorrent. It's become more and more adware ridden with each new update. Deluge is pretty good though.
The give and take of giving
First rule: When you write text and introduce an acronym (e.g. DDD), please define what it means to the readers. This is an article with multiple acronyms but no definitions for them.
I think you are both right. Learning spanish will be good for business but at the same time will take a long time and could be a distraction. Perhaps don't make it a requirement but offer to pay for spanish lessons for yourself and staff to encourage this.

My father had a friend from college who moved to Spain in the early 80's and married. I went to visit him a few years ago when I made a trip to Madrid and I ask how he learned the language since I never successfully did. His response was basically that he had no choice if he did not want to get screwed in business and he did much better after becoming fluent.
Thanks for bringing Michel Thomas to my attention. I had never heard of him before but a quick Google search has got me interested. I actually picked up Rosetta Stone and use it regularly. Although, I'm learning more from just attempting to have conversation. We make out pretty well but definitely can't say anything outside the present tense. And that's where my buddy is going with all this.
The risks were pretty much fully understood in the '70s
The Tortoise and The Hare: Loops in Linked Lists
That's funny. One of the reasons I buy Apple products is because I want to get away from the FSF and GNU. Now that I have a job and earn good money, I'd rather pay for Apple Care and have Apple fix my broken computer while I do something more worthwhile with my time than sitting in the basement trying to debug "Free Software".
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942145
Microsoft Security Essentials misses 39% of malware in Dennis test
My favorite tool on the list is Everything search, which instantly finds all files. It has completely changed the way I use the file system, to the point where I will rarely even open the Windows Explorer.
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This is available in recent versions of Chrome and Firefox, on the form of Transferable objects: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Transferabl...
I'm sorry! It's fixed now, thanks!
Ok, thanks.

Here's another comment of his further down:

Я помню первый обзор о ВКонтакте на Хабрахабре, кажется, в 2006 году. Эксперты делились комментариями вроде "кто они такие", "еще одна соцсеть не нужна" и "на php пишут только нубы". Неудивительно, что HackerNews, построенный примерно тех же принципах (карма, ранжирование), создает чувство deja vu.

Тем не менее, будет здорово, если там объявятся не только любители поговорить, но и те, кто реально прочитает документацию к MTProto.

Which roughly translates to:

I remember the first reviews of VK back in 2006. The experts were saying "who are they?", "we don't need another social network", "only noobs write in php". It is not surprising that HN is built on the exact same principles (karma, rankings), brings up a deja vu.

However, it would be great if someone who actually read the MTProto docs can show up, and not just those who like to talk.
How would you compare git-shell for someone developing actively on windows.
Ask HN: Using a side project at my day job
I've been working on a side project for a while. My current main job is looking to add this ability into their application, and it seems obvious that we could use some the work that I've already done. It's not directly related to what my company does, it's something that most applications could use.

I'm not interested in charging anyone for anything, but I would like to retain the IP rights to my software. My employment contract is relatively lenient in this regard - anything done on my own time, with my own equipment, unrelated to our business I still have rights to.

Some questions I have:

1. What do I need to watch out for from an IP perspective? If using this means that I spend some work time working on it, would getting something in writing acknowledging that this is my IP be enough?

2. Has anyone done anything like this in the past? How was it receieved by your employer? I don't want to give the impression that I'm planning on quitting and making this a business anytime soon, but I don't want to close that door by giving away what I've worked on for months.
You might also want to check out the FSI Language Courses [0]. The "Basic" course is probably the one you want. Good luck!

[0] http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Spanish
Besides the cost issue, would you install software from a DVD someone just handed you in the street?
I like how your response to criticism is to ignore it, and say how great your product is in the third person.
Even though I barely touch windows these days, when I do, I invariably use "everything" (http://www.voidtools.com/) to find where everything is. So fast, so minimalistic. It's like locate on crack (because it shows you stuff as you type and it automatically updatedb's).
Does anyone know of a list similar in scale and scope for Mac users?