skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I understand that Linux has been a lesser priority for both companies, which is understandable. It's not going to make them the truckloads of money that the rest of their market segments will.

Actually, they are both theoretically very interested in the Linux market because of their GPGPUs. Windows is pretty much unheard of in scientific computing (in November it powered a whopping 2 of the 500 comuters in top500). AMD does offer a good range of development tools for their CPUs; I haven't worked on their GPUs, but I've heard nothing but complaints about it.
gulp is always going to be faster than grunt as long as grunt writes temporary files to disk. Using 3 plugins processing 20 files as an example: grunt will do 60 reads, 60 writes while gulp will do 20 reads, 20 writes
so.... You're ok with the "few levels for free, then pay more the rest" model?
Datazenit – Database management in the cloud. Live data visualizations, content editor, schema builder and more.

* Homepage: http://datazenit.com/

* Twitter: https://twitter.com/datazenit
http://www.quantumbiosystems.com an IC that can read DNA without any complicated chemistry and on a device that costs dollars.

It's cool not only because it could revolutionize medical research and diagnostics. But also because it gives the world a fundamental new class of sensor on which new applications will be developed for years to come.
I had the same difficulties. I commend them on a clean and unique design, but I'm not convinced it works all that well
NVidia is probably not targeting top500, so is focusing on the 99% of market.
Show HN: Zinbox a highly visual intuitive email client
I'm still working on getting QML [0] running in the browser because I think it should be the write-once run-everywhere language of modern UIs. https://github.com/guycook/HQML

[0] http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtquick/qtquick-application...
Traveling tips for getting from point a to Point b: http://hopgenie.com

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>"Blackout" implies a direct or implicit threat of violence by the government against the media, and the media either willingly or unwillingly complying to censor something they would otherwise cover.

Or you know, a soft-core version of the above.

Blackout doesn't involve violence -- just an order, implicit or explicit and some threat (which could just be "perhaps we'll call our friends at the IRS" or even "this is a matter of national security, trust us and don't play it. We'll return the favor to your media group.").

And it doesn't have to involve all the media, just the more wide-reaching networks, to control the main volume of public discussion. E.g they don't care if 20 or 30 million people see it. But they wouldn't like 350 million people watching it day and night, discussed in news and tv panels and editorials for a few days.
"Rap Genius for Code" might be an amazing pitch for avid users of Rap Genius. I wouldn't know. I don't know or care exactly what Rap Genius is, even though I remember there was a recent controversy involving Rap Genius. (It's got something to do with rap music and lyrics? Not my interest.)

If you can explain your site in words that don't require very specific domain knowledge, I think that might broaden appeal.

I think this way of pitching is dangerous for two reasons:

1. Many potential users of the product (Kurikku) will not know about the thing it's being defined in relation to (Rap Genius), and will not understand that they should check it out

2. Those that do know might make a different comparison than you. I might say "It's like Github for music!" and you will think "Oh, so you put in scores and people can collaborate -- just like with code on Github!", but I was thinking "You store your personal music library in the cloud and you can clone it to all your machines -- just like with code on Github!" While you intend the comparison to be a way to explain a lot with just a few words, in reality it might be interpreted all wrong, giving users entirely unsuitable expectations when checking it out.

So, please try to communicate clearly about the thing you have made using every day words. Good luck :)
http://www.feedeo.io
Automatically advertise your products on every search.
https://www.gangsofspace.com/en

It's an action-oriented shmup/MMO which feels a bit like EVE Online on steroids.

It is cool because all the game industry AAA developers have been pouring dozens of millions of dollars to copy World of Warcraft for more than 10 years, and they kind of forget to innovate in the MMO field. Making something different and seeing players appreciate it is hugely rewarding!

Also, making a MMO as a sole developer is extremely gratifying as a technical challenge. Doing everything from the website, payment, 3d graphics, networking engine, procedural game content, distributed servers, reporting, data analytics, server monitoring, but also marketing, making video trailers, talking to the press, going to game conventions... well... it's incredibly intense and overwhelming at times, but makes me feel very much... alive?
When stuck in a design rut, try copying something else. Where you end up will generally look nothing like the original. Sometimes you just need the push.
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Arghhh, all mobile! Ah well least its progress!
For those who want to extol the virtues of FSF, do note the following:

1) GSM is neither free(both in free beer and free to distribute) nor open-source
2) The phone that you are using, no matter how 'free' the software are, the hardware are mostly proprietary and those manufacturers aren't very FSF friendly (now getting better, but still way to go)
3) Phone manufacturers tend to add proprietary drivers/apps on top of Android, which renders the whole system not 100% free software either, so by saying iOS is closed-source, it is kind of like pot calling kettle black.
this is dumb and irresponsible,

banks have insurance up to a limit, if you are over that after 2008 you deserve it :/

now, making every clueless person rush to take money out is a sure way to create a bank crisis. even if there wouldn't be one.
Indeed, fez is not quite completely ready yet - its still in the development / experimental stage.
Ask HN: Are my expectations for a workplace unrealistic?
I'm from a westernized country in Europe and I'm having a hard time finding the right developer job for me, making me feel that the problem isn't the sameyness of the workplaces, but my unrealistic expectations towards them. Being an avid reader of HN, I see stories about places like GitHub and Automattic that talk about how great it is with remote workers and how to put an emphasis on work done rather than set hours per day. So when I go to job interviews (at startups and large firms alike) where they talk about "core hours", the importance of "having fun during those 8 hours a day" and being "a part of the team in-house" it all feels like they're stuck in an industrial age mindset.

I've worked at a handful of different companies and they fluctuate on how strict they are with work hours (one place had me on a rigid 9-to-5 schedule while another had me fill in a timesheet to prove I've spent 8 hours a day working), but they all adhere to the standard butt-in-seat-8-hours-a-day and are taken aback when I mention my interest in more autonomy. At one point when I was gauging a prospective employer's views on remote work in an interview the air got surprisingly tense as he aggressively scoffed at the idea of someone taking the job only to move to a 3rd world country to rake in the money.

I've spoken to other developers about this and we all somewhat lament the lack of freedom, but everyone just accepts it as the price to pay to be a programmer. It's a little sad that when I ask my friends how their job is the answers range from "meh" to "alright" and I find the situation somewhat stifling to our creativity and efficiency as "knowledge workers". I don't understand how at an age of ocean-crossing communication and untold abundance we are still working like factory mules.

Are my expectations unrealistic or is there an ideal I can aim for?
there is rhodecode.com, It's very nice product and I use it on a daily basis.
> play through tutorials or the first 2 levels

That usually irks me. The free bundle should have enough to get me hooked. Few (possibly) really good games only gave me the most basic of levels for free without any of the complexity the rest of the game had. So obviously, it wasn't enough to get me to buy the rest.

Dont get me wrong, i LOVE this model. Give me free levels, make me love it. Promise me far cooler stuff awaits me beyond the pay wall (offer a video trailer) and i'd love to pay for the rest.

One great example i ran into (and yes i am probably mentioning this like the third time here) is BADLAND. I am honestly not a dev of it :P but am in love with their model!
I Had this idea ages ago, but waited too long to start building it.

search for recipes based on the ingredients you have:
http://chowdown.co
Great thread!
I agree with all but will point out that a benefit to a framework or any extensible tool is community contributions and opting out to native means that you don't get that benefit. That being said, when javascript ES6 modules land it'll be much easier to reuse code and dependency on big libraries would be unnecessary, meanwhile you can use Browserify or Component that have a lot of community contributions with minimum dependencies on big frameworks or libraries
Saying that Make is a horribly implemented Shell dialect clearly seems like a misrepresentation of Make to me.

Make is a non-procedural way to describe the dependencies of your build process. You describe what you want as a result rather than the steps that the interpreter should follow.

It's possible to like or dislike this approach but it's clearly qualitatively different from Shell scripting.
Tree based todo list + time tracker + productivity log + deadlines + work reports

Its main feature is to help you organize projects with 1000s of details in them

Note: it is usable at the moment, but it is not ready

http://todo.yt/
All the problems with HTML and CSS in one title. All hail the "modern GUI development"!
open-source software makes it hard for commercial software vendors to comete
http://sdk.tradingmotion.com a high-level API for developing automatic trading systems, with open source examples.

It is cool because it aims to democratize algorithmic trading development using a geek approach.
Algos are integrated with our marketplace http://isystems.com where clients all around the world use them on real accounts for a monthly fee.
not for me, connected from leguin.freenode.net
But it's not the only charge carrier. To put things in better context, classical electromagnetism actually predates knowledge about the structure of atoms. The charges in its model are very much hypothetical particles, and that's why it only really works at macroscopic scales. Turns out that's actually enough for a lot of things :).
uhh... how is this different from 23andMe and all that stuff? (not skeptical, just curious)
> This is a tangential question, but how do front-end people feel about the constant change in the field?

I deliberately hang back on investing time in something unless it's immediately, drastically simpler than what's there now.

- My 47-line Gruntfile became a 23-line gulpfile, and I understood it better, so I learnt gulp.

- I don't see any huge advantage in using browserify, just syntactic difference, so I'm sticking to RequireJS right now.

- After reading about ractive and how simple it was (have an object, have a mustache template, you have bindings) I started using it in place of Angular.
this is such a great idea!

it would be great to be able to choose a series of events (e.g. d-day or the Beatles tour in 1967) and see the progression of events across a map in the order they happened.

or to get a cross section of all the events that happened on a given date around the world or in a chosen area.

edit: after exploring further I realise some of this is already possible. again, a great idea!
Some people may reuse NickServ passwords for other more important things. Those passwords are just sent over plaintext.
In 9.1 and higher, the writable cte's give you multi-row upserts. It isn't particularly simple though.
I assume that it does not analyze your genome for risk to cancer etc.
(awesome)
They tend to be 'perfect mirrors' though. I have heard stories about flash and android games being de-compiled to "mirror" the code and visual/sound assets as well. AFAIK it's called "respectful borrowing".
https://github.com/Lazin/Akumuli - embedded time-series database. I'm trying to achieve very high write throughput - about 1M updates per second. The key idea here is to store data in large sorted files and search them with interpolation search with fall-back to binary search in some cases. I expect this method to be much more efficient than b-tree or LSM-tree for time-series data.
Is this really different from arcade games, where when you lose all your lives you can stick some more money in before the timer runs out and continue where you were killed?

Having said that, I do think this concept ruins games. Personally I never play 'free to play'. I prefer ad supported ones, where if you like the game you can then pay a one off price to get rid of the adverts, or ones where you can pay to get more levels (and remove adverts).
http://gameofworlds.net a voxel video game with custom everything.

It's cool because you can change everything, even program terrain and blocks distribution over the world.
I worked at Red Hat for about 8 years. Red Hat pays at the top of the range for pretty much every position within the company. Engineers were starting at either high 5 or low/mid 6 figures, depending on experience and skill. Some made even more, and managers got paid more.

It was a really great place to work. I can't speak for now, although I'm sure it hasn't changed much, but back then, the corporate culture was excellent, very transparent and excellent communication on all levels. The company really is built on, and lives by its ideals. I loved every minute of working there. If you want to work on Open Source, definitely the company to work at.
https://www.getlikemind.com — it's a social network for meeting new, interesting people (no dating); today we roll out first stage of our web client, being also the Android and Windows Phone client ;)
clicking on the screenshot does nothing :( latest chrome on windows
Neo4j [...] Gets A Visual Overhaul
By this I assume you mean "inherits primary key/foreign keys properly?"

The problem I think is that this is likely to force some significant redesign of indexes. It isn't a trivial problem to solve.
Is there really 17 million lines of code for the linux kernel?

(from the chart at bottom)
tl; dr: "Grow a pair [...] honesty suppression [...] sheeple"
> Members of these organizations which are captured are allowed to be held as POWs until hostilities are formally ended.

Members of these organizations are are not held as POWs. They are held and classified as unlawful combatants. There has not been (and will not be) any formal end to hostilities like history has known. Instead, we've seen agreements that say occupations are ending and troops are being withdrawn, but nothing that states hostilities are formally ended and peace is obtained like most people expect to be in place. This has a lot to do with not bothering to be in declared states of war any longer, because that opens states up to massive legal consequences and responsibilities that states, particularly the US over the last 50 years, are particularly interested in avoiding.

> What else is the US supposed to do? These men didn't necessarily commit crimes - prisoners of war are simply fighting for their country or side.

Charge them with crimes and provide evidence of their guilt or release them. Many detainees have not been "simply fighting for their country or side", which is why they are not POWs. They have been classified as unlawful combatants, removing their legal protections and dooming them to permanent incarceration.

> Try them? You're not really supposed to charge prisoners of war with a crime. I mean I guess that you can, but why?

You absolutely are supposed to charge POWs with a crime or immediately repatriate them upon conclusion of hostilities. But, again, these are not POWs. The US has gone to great pains to deny that protection, opting instead for a policy that affords them what we are supposed to accept as POW privileges in place of, you know, the rule of and fidelity to law. And because there are no official peace agreements that will ever be made for a war that was never declared, there is little chance we will ever see these prisoners released at the conclusion of hostilities--because there are no conclusions. There are only ceremonial conclusions accompanied by agreements to withdraw troops--which does not translate into a legal requirement to repatriate Gitmo's captives.
If you wanted to find a friend for someone would you keep trying to introduce them to same stupid ugly person, while saying: "Look! He/she is wearing make-up this time!".
A Cambrian moment [pdf]
> It's not a child's fault when they make an error

You realise that many alcoholics start drinking when they're children?
Still heavily under development:
http://charsheets.herokuapp.com/

Pathfinder d&d based character sheet manager. I got annoyed with the static and excel based offerings out there so I created my own. Currently I view it as near fully featured and want to make it work with more traffic than Heroku can support, but I have no idea how (web-hosting for these types of sites seems expensive as all heck).

Anywho, it was also a way for me to learn flask, bootstrap and knockout.
Ask HN: What else besides writing code or managing people?
Hey HN, long time lurker, hoping this awesome community can help me (and others like me) figure out the next step in my (thier) career(s).

I spent 2006-2012 on three self funded ventures that didn't come to fruition, which left me tapped for spending ability, several maxed credit cards, and a job in Seattle thats not advancing me career-wise.

I am starting to feel a slip in my creativity, which I think is attributed to some drop in self confidence / depression / anxiety that's been creeping up.

I'm in love with business strategy, project ideas / planning, budgeting, and architecting. I love prototyping, but that leaves me with a gap in mastery of any specific technology.

I'm starting to panic that I'm running out of time to "get my shit together."

I have a potential opportunity to work with an incubator vetting applicant's technology. I'd take that job in a heartbeat, but they are not running yet (probably 1yr+ away)

I would love to take my experience in business, engineering, and product / project management, and find a position where I am helping a growing company with a full pipeline of projects get focused and prioritized.

I'm concerned that as I get older it's harder to find an engineering job. I get bored where it's building and fixing things all day. Management-wise I struggle with giving critical feedback to people as their "boss".

My uncle used to be a manufacturing / process consultant. He had a constant flow of new challenges and companies to work with. This sounds highly interesting to me when applied to tech, but I have no idea where to start.

So, I'm interested to see the discussion about what those of us who are life long hackers (with a ton of varied experiences) can do besides keep writing code or moving into people management. And some advice on how to start down such a path.

Thoughts?
Speed is the reason. If you have gruntfiles that rely on a lot of compilation you know the pain of 5 or 6 second build times, with Gulp it's like a half a second.
images won't scale up to fit

img { width: 100%; }

multi-column text is barely implemented

columns: 3 [1]

Google is ripping it out

No, they’re not. You’re thinking of CSS Regions?

the box model is borked by default

It’s different to what you’re expecting by default, and you can flip it to your required behaviour with a single switch.

it's non-trivial to determine the layering of UI elements

Fixed z-index? And if you’re concerned about different stacking contexts, they solve a problem in themselves.

[1] If you don’t care about IE8+9 http://caniuse.com/#feat=multicolumn
what ! I just started using Grunt in a project .

on a side note: I realized some time ago that I really can't be using the latest thing always ( at least with JS ).
+1. I have spent more time reading about grunt than I have spent investigating + converting to + using gulp in production.
There must be a reason why people volunteer to do something. People wouldn't volunteer unless they thought it's good for them too. If it makes harder for someone to compete - great. Compete better.
Thanks - as you say, if you search for a thing you will see the events with lines between them showing the progression of events in chronological order.

You can use the time bar on the top to alter the date range, and there are "favourite" era's selectable at the drop down down the bottom.
This has happened in Australia in the past, in capital cities. You can get reported for watering your garden on the wrong days.
Smarter NPC. Not an actual game yet, but i started out trying to create a generic AI system for NPC, because i really want to play games like that. So i decided to contribute to this dream by making an open-source AI module for NPC to help game developers create amazing games.

My idea is to make a Goal-based system. Each NPC would have a set of goals, and would weigh in available actions as to how closer it would take them to their goals. I decided to start of with something simple like "maximize gold" so the NPC would take actions that resulted in most gold increase. i figured if i did it right, the NPC would themsleves figure out paths in action-trees that would let them make more gold. for example, figuring out that making wooden stuff out of logs is more profitable than selling raw wood. Or that if you can afford it, hiring people to make the wooden stuff (like a business/company) is more profitable overall than doing it yourself (cuz of multi-threading, opportunity cost, overall path weight, etc).

So it would be cool to see NPC picking out roles themselves, forming in-game societies and behavin in line with their goals. heck maybe someone can make a game that would involve using people's goals to influence them
For what I see, future is bright on AMD side for those features. I don't follow the news closely, but phoronix reports on the subject have change from a long string of steady bad support and performance to a seemingly constant progress since last year.
I am helping people to realize that life could be much more than this meaningless competition for so-called "success" fueled by greed, pride and exhibitionist consumption.)

I am high altitude trekking instructor and cultural guide for Himalayan region (Tibet, Nepal, North India). I provide no-nonsense introduction to Buddhist and Hindu philosophy, ancient, "primitive" ritual-based religions, tribal culture and traditions.

I am helping ex-addicts, like myself, to almost undo the accumulated damage and to rebuild themselves from within, by educating them in Eastern tradition of self-knowledge (our nature without religious nonsense).

I am also advocating "old-school" understanding-based approach to programming, as opposed to copy-paste-based modern coding.
It wasn't Yahoo Mail that was hacked