skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of this is just a visibility issue.

We notice this same thing here on this site, where every new idea seems to get immediately piled on with negativity. The feeling is that it didn't used to be this way, and many of us old timers will remember a time when new ideas were mostly met with encouragement and constructive criticism.

But I bet if you look at the threads today and then, you might find that the absolute number of constructive, encouraging comments hasn't changed much at all. Rather, they are simply lost in a sea of negativity spouted out by the peanut gallery that seems to have washed in from other places where people dump all over tech news. We used to be conspicuously entrepreneurial here. Now we're a lot more representative of the tech world at large.

So yeah, I think that there are still plenty of people with the right entrepreneurial mindset out there. It's just getting harder to find them.
This is very useful when programming microcontrollers. Especially if you create many structs in an array. Many parallel state machines or something like that.
I picked up the asus t100, and am finding myself using that instead of my ipad. It's nice that you can run everything, and view anything, while still having a couch-friendly tablet interface for browsing and reading. It frustrates me now to use my regular laptop and not have a touch screen.

Windows 8 makes a lot more sense when you use it on a device it was designed for. Even one of the staunch anti-8 coworkers at my office had to admit the t100 was nice to use. It's also amazing how fast the bay trail atom is, yesterday i was playing mirror's edge on it :)
Being a >40 founder, not from the US in a non-tech-hub-city I'd find those conversations rather interesting ;-)
I know it's old-fashioned, but Usenet is still out there and is still good for communicating and sharing, with no one out there building a profile of your stuff and trying to make money off of it. Change your name and email address - or just use a fake address - anytime you want.

I shared that optimistic dream for the internet back in the early days, but I think we've figure out how to make money off it now and that's going to be its undoing.

Usenet is free, doesn't provide any value anyone could easily monetize, and allows interaction with other users. That's about all I want from the Internet these days anyway.
I like the Windows 8 UX pretty much. I feel very comfortable with the horizontal scroll which is, imho, totally natural and in some sense more effective than the vertical scroll we got used because of smartphones.

Perhaps we're crazy, but at Theneeds we believed in Windows 8 and we released our app [1] even before iOS and Android... let's see what happens ;)

[1] http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/theneeds/9e1d48a...
Agreed. You need founders who can turn their hand to anything, not just their primary skill.
I ran a startup back in 2005 with another founder who was primarily focussed on marketing. It was a SaaS that was heavily dependent on data which had to be manually maintained. When he said "I'm not going to sit there wasting hours of my time entering data when I could be selling" it was the beginning of the end. From then on, I couldn't trust him to help out when needed.
We folded in 2008.
Continuing Concern Over Bank of Cyprus
> Writing single multithreaded apps with low-level locking hardcoded everywhere is now quite clearly NOT the right way to build software.

It is a very opinionated view that writing multi threaded code with locking is not "the right way". Of course, using locks requires disciplined engineering but there are applications where you might want to use threads in a single process rather than multiple processes. Although it might be less common for domains where Ruby is popular.

Multiple processes and IPC is not a whole lot easier than writing multi threaded code, especially if you have nice a nice concurrency framework with channels, etc available.

> If you don't use locks, i.e. only use lock-free data structures and immutable state, then you won't care about the GIL.

Unfortunately, lock free data structures or immutability will not avoid the GIL. The GIL is used to guard internal data structures in the interpreter and it's practically held always when code is being interpreted and released only to when blocking I/O is happening (at least that's the way it works in Python).

Not being able to write multi threaded code is a weakness in CPython and CRuby and finding ways to avoid locking the GIL would make them better.
Two Dark Side Statistics Papers
I was going to get on your case about how referring to the author of the original post as "the intern" constantly seemed dismissive, but I actually can't find byline on the original post. That's crazy. There should absolutely be a byline, especially since it's written in the first person.
It's 2014, these days I'm gonna order struct members so members that logically belong together are adjacent, and spaced apart from other members!
Thanks for sharing this historical chronicle
Well.. Nothing happens if I press mine.
It might have the same delay as capslock to prevent accidental preses
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NEURAL NETWORKS
First thought - great setup, but I'm curious about the source, so to speak.
rot13 domain names are the future?
Humorously, tbbtyr.com is already taken.

I wonder about memfrob based domain names.
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Email is in my profile. Personal site (http://pitbot.net). Happy to supply links and whatnot for examples of previous work.

I work with Git usually, but mercurial is also fine. Happy with basic sysadmin stuff too.

I'm based in the UK.
Pure JS OCR via Emscripten
Isn't this necessary to roll out IPV6 anyway?
You can use Slate to get exactly that: https://github.com/jigish/slate
Forget investors, early users are the real risk takers
Any tips on entry points for coding that you've found worked well or badly?

For example - a few years back I saw several young folk move over into coding by poking away at their MySpace pages to make them do "cool" things. For those people it seemed to be the same sort of starting point as the '10 PRINT "HELLO'; 20 GOTO 10;' type stuff did for mine.
I'm not sure that Obama will waste political capital on this.

If there were a decision to excuse his actions, it would be a pardon at the end of his term...
U.F.O. LIKE OBJECT VIDEO TAPED FLYING OVER JAPANESE CITY
I've been thinking about open sourcing this: http://www.doerhub.com/for/whichvc but as the primary hacker on DoerHub I haven't found the time to clean up the code.

Technically, most of the code I wrote before my startup is source-visible, since my former employer doesn't obfuscate JS. If you dig into the CNN js files you will see the SearchProcessor, CSI Manager, ads js, custom local storage libraries, and other stuff I wrote or contributed to that also repeats on NBA.com, CNN Money, etc (I was a part of the front-end core-developer team and wrote library-agnostic custom js libraries). However, I founded my company and started writing code on it the day after I quit my employer, because it had very tight IP ownership of everything generated while employed (we asked for an opportunity to open-source some of our stuff, but it wasn't approved by the time I left).

If DoerHub is successful I believe it will help worthwhile open-source projects get a lot more support and exposure. I think I can add more value by amplifying the amplifiers in the short run.
> It's all market + legal now.

And investing in re-schooling people to the new system and applications (Office suite would be probably the most notable one).
Can we place a moratorium on using the word feminist?

Note that I am only tangentially talking about your comment. I started reading your comment and as soon as the word feminist appeared, my instant reaction was "oh, one of those guys". (Of course, after reading the entire comment, my reaction turned out to be wrong.)

So my gut feeling now seems to have an instantaneous "if somebody on HN uses the word feminist, he belongs into category X".

IMO, that is because the "average HN user" uses the word feminist in about as nuanced a manner as the "average American" uses the word socialist. These are words that have actual, definable meanings but are used as arbitrarily redefinable derogatory strawman terms by so many people, that they become emotionally loaded.

This is not helping the conversation.
The risk with saying "Yes, if.." is that a lot of managers (or clients or whatever) stop listening after the word "Yes".

With "No, unless ...", it's a different story. Then success is dependant on the conditions mentioned and they're much more likely to do their part in making sure those conditions are met. If you said "Yes, if" they'll often just remember you promised you could do it and leave it at that.
> A naïve program may accidentally split a UTF-16 surrogate pair, but that same program is just as liable to accidentally split a decomposed character sequence in UTF-8. You have to deal with those issues regardless of encoding.

The point is that using UTF-8 makes these issues more obvious. Most programmers these days think to test with non-ascii characters. Fewer think to test with astral characters.
Fast start up times, except for the issue where Mavericks takes ages to reconnect to WiFi from sleep - it's quicker to turn Wifi off and then on, than wait for Mavericks to wake the network adapter and reconnect
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I noticed that, by default, you don't make the doerhub.com profiles public. Somebody has to explicitly choose to do so.

I'd be interested in understanding what pushed you in that direction. It would seem like it might slow down growth?
Fn and Backspace are at opposite corners of the keyboard, requiring a two-handed chording. I guess any situation where you want to combine Delete with mouse use.
RSSOwl 2.2.1
Signed up. Looks promising... and perhaps easier than reading a book.
> It's already better than the windows desktop (xubuntu anyway, not unity, however).

Disaggree. Unity is by far superior to the Windows Desktop. It's the most productive DE on a notebook I know (OS X included)
this kind of stuff is far beyond basic computer literacy
I'm running Kubuntu with KDE, but fullscreen flash videos are also very bugged, how did you fix them?
How we turned our side project into a full-time job
What makes online content viral?
Ever so slightly disappointed at the complete lack of mention of Steins;Gate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steins;Gate) in the paper. Interesting read all the same :)
> have a 3.5 that has print statement

Yeah, because THAT is clearly what's blocking Python 3 adoption, with "from __future__ import print_function" being there since 2.6.

It seems almost insulting that after years of relative stalling, now that Python 3 is really taking off (Django, Numpy ...) some people feel suddenly lazy about it.
Quite interesting with the methods used, alas the conclusion:

> Unfortunately, as of this writing, no prescient tweets or emails were received. Given the additional
exposure that the public listing of this manuscript gains, we will continue to search, on occasion, for
active tweets and emails involving potential time travel.
Thanks. I've yet to find forms I love in anything, but not tried Reactive's take yet :)
Obama appears not to have had a clear picture of the issues back in August when he delivered a speech solidifying his administrations views on the issue. The president suggested that if Mr. Snowden had wanted to avoid criminal charges he could have simply told his superiors about the abuses.

However, whistle blower protections do not apply to contractors, only to intelligence employees, rendering its protections useless to Mr. Snowden. And the New York Times Editorial board agrees:

>"In retrospect, Mr. Snowden was clearly justified in believing that the only way to blow the whistle on this kind of intelligence-gathering was to expose it to the public and let the resulting furor do the work his superiors would not."
This is depressing. I can imagine if I was living in 1964, all these predictions would look very reasonable to come true in 50 years. That's a long time considering it took only 10 years to go to moon from pretty much nothing. Little would I know that world would quickly change so that (1) governments focuses on defense cutting down on science and space (2) corporations focuses on increasing profits and shareholder value cutting down on risky technological bets.

World has produced lot more in terms of GDP than in 60s but our investment in science, research and technology bets haven't gone up in proportion. Looking forward to trends for next 50 years this only seem to getting worse. Governments are pretty much either bankrupt or would spend most of its resources for retirees or defense. Corporations would get even more vicious due to never ending expectation of that 10% increase in revenue each quarter. Most of these produces of human being would ultimately benefit few people to get even more rich instead of advancing science and technology. Those advances would eventually come through but the pace of it has been slown down so much that what is possible in 50 years would now be achieved in 200 years.
And no John Titor!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
Unfortunately on Angellist it always shows the companies location, all of our positions are remote-only :)
PDF of paper in case it wasn't obvious:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.7128v1.pdf
It is only a simple feature if you don't care about DOS against the user account and do not have an adversary with a large botnet.
Well he certainly would not do it before the 2014 elections and unless a rift occurs within his party I do not expect it when he leaves office. The only safe time would be right after the 2014 elections.

Yet why would he? Snowden caused him grief and this is a President who doesn't seem to give one wit about public opinion. Oh sure they float trial balloons but only to deflect.

I would prefer to see a major European country step forward and offer his citizenship and protection. That or push through the UN a resolution protecting people like him
Then I'm a "No, because" type of person. The thing is tough that most often it's not because I don't think things are possible but that I make assumptions based on who I'm talking to. For example, if I'm talking to my boss I know what costs his willing to take, so if he has an idea and I know hes not willing to pay for it, then I can just say no directly instead of getting a doomed project on my neck.

And to be honest, most projects actually go way out of time and budget. The realist would have said no, because the scope was not realistic. Now if you wilfully or just by ignorance accept the terms and scope thinking you can always stretch other peoples time and budget, that's in my book immoral, but then again, those people will end up getting the jobs i decline.
Well great. Now time travelers can't make prescient tweets because if they do it will reveal them.
You have an unintended doge in your first line: "so quality hardware".
I thought this kind of stuff goes to http://vixra.org/
Of course the search didn't find anything. They already know what will be (was?) looked for...
Absolutely! I especially loved this part:

>> "His leaks revealed that James Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, lied to Congress when testifying in March that the N.S.A. was not collecting data on millions of Americans. (There has been no discussion of punishment for that lie.)"
RTFA, particularly the second paragraph.
I don't know, it seems to me that such an "emotion scanner" is a long way off.

Today we still don't understand pain, the most basic neurological response, very much at all. Millions of people suffer from fibromyalgia, chronic pain whose exact cause is unknown. We don't even know if fibromyalgia is primarily of mental origin. If we can't measure pain and trace its origins, how are we ever going to get a quantifiable, actionable answer to "how do you feel"?

Maybe there will be a breakthrough that will solve these problems in one swoop -- sort of like the emergence of digital computing solved humanity's communications challenges almost as a convenient byproduct.
Design and Creativity Are Not The Same
Looks like an Ig Nobel prize winner to me.

> Although these negative results do not disprove time travel, given the great reach of the Internet, this search is perhaps the most comprehensive to date.
I want to make it a go to place for people to establish and grow their identity as doers - to nurture their pursuits and benefit when they help others (If you are great at something you can mentor and invest/contribute open source in that field. The social capital you generate from doing that should come back to you as help in areas you are trying to grow in). Not everyone is comfortable putting that out there (especially non-hackers) and if they do, having real relationships with the other users on the site first helps. I would rather sacrifice short-term growth to build a product that really rocks and is spread by users in the mid-to-long term.
Bradley, we're also changing busy to be persistent across devices and sessions in the next few weeks, I think this will help your situation.
Unless you mean in the sense of removing passwords and similar, you don't need to clean up code for it to be worth open-sourcing.
Firmware vulnerability allows man-in-the-middle attack using SD Memory cards
> Please don't compare gay rights to feminism. It's insulting to GLBT people.

Bullshit, speaking as a queer man.

Some feminists, a minority, have treated trans people very poorly. Quite a few gay and lesbian activists have done the same. Gay/lesbian activists have denied the existence of bisexuals, transwomen have feuded with transmen, African-American activists have treated feminists and GLBT activists poorly and vice versa... Look, some people in every group are closed-minded assholes. That doesn't give us an excuse to dismiss an entire group.

Equal rights and equal treatment for women, black folks, Hispanics, gay men, lesbians, transfolks, and every other minority are all in the same boat together. If someone thinks we're not, fuck 'em--and that goes for you just as much as it goes for bigoted feminists.
I prefer an unfractioned internet
Apple isn't "upselling" you. They're simply charging you for more RAM, and only more RAM, if you want to buy more RAM. They aren't forcing you to upgrade anything else (this actually would count as an upsell); the RAM can be upgraded independently at the time of purchase.

Furthermore, if you want a really thin laptop and you want them to cut weight from the design and you want the design to be extremely tough (and most of us do), one thing you run out of space for pretty quickly is multiple RAM sockets.

I'm frankly ok with paying for the 16 GB now or never.
The really nice thing about this is that the dispatching to the optimized version is done at runtime, via GCC adding the necessary stubs at compile time. No extra dispatching/CPU detection logic in the application is needed to take advantage of advanced CPU features. Very cool.
Yes, this. I'm the original poster of this thread, I'm a man, and I consider myself a feminist. It doesn't just mean women who burn bras and join lesbian communes.
Isn't the issue here that they are describing the methods through which they are trying to determine time travel. In effect, telling anyone in the future exactly what not to do.

Let's also assume that somebody had a reason to travel into the past, say to kill Hitler. Our timeline would record that an Austrian artist was murdered in the 1920s. We would not consider this historically significant.

I think time travel is inherently very difficult to detect. Even if a time traveller 'dropped' tech. This tech would be recoverable by popping back in time and recovering it.
Maybe the idea of shareholders and companies will vanish completely. I'm talking about the time when(if) working will not be required from the human being. When automation will be so widespread, that even occasional work from those who want to do something will be enough to sustain the system. Anyone would have access to any food they want. Anyone can go anywhere. There will be millions of free empty houses all around the world waiting for someone to check in (and all your stuff, or furniture you want will be there in couple of hours). So, there's plenty resources for everyone and nobody have to work. I wonder if it's possible and what will happen then.
TBH I find the "rural Bulgaria" bit to be far more interesting :-) Did you have any exposure to Soviet computers? Like their clone of the Sinclair Spectrum say? Did you learn trinary in school? Do you say "reverse Polish notation" or know it by a different name?
Nope, mine uses electricity to radiate microwaves.
You might like Clearly? I've found it pretty useful, especially for Wikipedia articles with big, complex tables.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkii...
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Retraining people to use LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) from Office 2007 is cheaper than training them to use Office 2013; the interfaces are almost identical. The municipality of Munich has proved this conclusively with their big roll out.

The only true bugbear is porting Excel spreadsheets with VBA macros.
Office is now easy to use on linux thanks to wine and crossover.

Everything else works pretty much the same anyhow. There's a minor learning curve for learning how to install software. That's about it.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

I challenge anyone to honestly make the claim that a copyright that lasts 100 years after death aids the progress of science and useful arts.
On the other hand, I for one would happily throw such brittle, unportable code under the bus in the name of automatically reduce cache line missing.

About the only safe usage of structure memory layout that I can think of is offsetof, and even then, I think you could make offsetof's behaviour definable in the ABI to make it deterministic.
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