skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried Echochrome[1]? From the images, it seems like a pretty version of the latter. Does it have more to it?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echochrome
ShadowDOM is a key new web technology - hope Apple will get it one day - even MS is considering adding ShadowDOM to IE http://status.modern.ie/shadowdomunprefixed
> if it weren't for the longs peak shambles, we might not need Mantle/Metal.

Given than Mantle is being used in AMD/Windows (in preference to Direct3D - no OpenGL to be seen) it doesn't seem fair to blame only OpenGL.
This is still very (very) much in dispute.

You will find serious scientific evidence on both sides arguing for and against, but since three beers floors me the next day and completely destroys my ability to think clearly, where MDMA refreshes and revitalizes pretty much every mental and sensory organ, I'll just go with my own findings on the matter :)

This is the article I always like to post whenever the discussion comes up:

"Pure MDMA can be 'safe' for adults", says BC's top health official
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pure-ecstasy-...

...And this video from 60 Minutes ("Ecstasy Rising") pretty much describing the demonization of MDMA as an elaborate government frame-up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNpFqJcJcps&feature=kp
He did not own the majority of S.DICE and he lost 550 BTC (>10% of his holdings) when MtGox fell apart, he's certainly well off but he is far from 8 figure rich.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yx2t5/erik_voorhee...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yv6ph/some_words_f...
EU law makes a distinction between service emails and emails with a commercial message.

A recall message (we've noticed a problem with a widget you have) is perfectly legal, while a message like "since you're an avid user of our widget we present you widget v2" isn't.
Meet Drop kitchen scale and their CEO Ben Harris in today's interview.
Two additional reads on the subject I found useful:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8116/some-thoughts-on-apples-m...

https://ilikecode.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/what-impact-ios-m...
Yes, that's definitely possible. You can switch out the cert with a newer one from another site and it would work just fine.
This is a little bit of a straw man. As Jack Dongarra will happily tell you, an iPad can outperform some of the supercomputers from the beginning of the Top500 benchmark. You don't get to be a supercomputer today by beating supercomputers from two decades ago, that's not how technology works. I'm taking umbrage at the linkbait title because I'm a grumpy old man, not because I don't think this project isn't cool (and admirable!)
Metal isn't on Mac. They ditching Mac too?
Because the HN search system is an external service that has no authentication features.
MMO in Go/JavaScript, Conway's Life as Area Attack
Not sure if that was meant as sarcasm, but I'll take it as a real question..!

Being a mediocre Objective C programmer myself, I really like the look of Swift. The difficulty of programming for iOS (or any platform) is partly the language syntax and partly the library/frameworks. I think Swift will help greatly with the language, but there is still a lot to learn as far as the UI kit and such. Swift doesn't really change the fundamental way the libraries work - the syntax is just cleaner (as a matter of opinion, I suppose).

In addition to looking a lot more familiar and certain functions being much more readable, apparently using Swift will be safer in regards to memory issues too, which is comforting for people like me who are not guru-level with managing memory. I'm personally looking forward to using it starting this week.
Unless the actual god really hates horseshoes.
Which, realistically, is what Apple needs. The iOS platform is becoming one of the de-facto big players in the portable console market. Console-level APIs are a logical extension.

Insert speculation about Apple TV as Wii competitor here.
Why is it always the articles that tell you how to do things in production that take multiple seconds to load and/or throw database errors?
"It is very hard to figure out what happened exactly" - This is exactly the reason why I am very skeptical about all these articles. Growing up in China, I first learned about this on Wikipedia back in the days when it was not blocked. I was furious about it back then. The fact that I had to learn this from Wikipedia for the first time just made it even worse. I tried a lot to collect more information about this. Most of the stuff I found was pointing fingers at the government and military. Being young and naive, I full-heartedly trust every single piece of it.

Now I live in Canada and have stayed outside of the Chinese censorship for almost 6 years now. My opinion have changed quite a lot. I used to believe the idea of communism brainwashing, but now I have a feeling that this sort of brainwashing and censorship goes both ways. Remember the famous tank man? It's one of the important icon of this event and was marked as a symbol of the Chinese government's oppression and brutality. That image/video was widely spread in the western medias. The majority of the public believe he was rolled over by the tank, because you know, Chinese government are evil. The full video was posted earlier on Reddit. Many was shocked to find out that the tank tried to drive around him and eventually stopped until the tank man was pulled away by someone else. Why the mainstream media never showed the full video to the public? Because it contradicted with the brutal image of Chinese government/military that they were trying to portrait to the public. Propaganda is a funny thing. Bearing stereotype and ignorance, both side will hold a strong belief that they are right.

I am by no means saying Chinese government is innocent. They pretty evil imo. I am just trying to say is that it is very hard to figure out what really happened now that both sides are extremely biased and ignorant towards the other end. I personally believe there were students killed and injured during the military intervention, but I am strongly skeptical against the massacre claim as there was no solid evidence so far. The truth probably lies somewhere in between the stories.
I'm not expecting them to filter me out. I'm just causing them to have to spend a little time on something that won't bear fruit.
Get the competition where you want them, while you move to higher ground.
Diaper rash is not alway a fungal infection (and could potentially be a bacteria infection in addition to/instead of a fungal infection). It is usually a contact dermatitis and a fungal infection is only a secondary infection.
we use a lot of python on the windows platform - especially the win32 and multiprocessing modules. Would love a variant of micropython on windows that can support them.

There a large number of embedded Windows CE devices that run in retail.
This is so senseless i dont know how to respond. It is like saying legal guns will increase the crime rate because they can kill. Companies compete to get specialists (look at how many perks average startup or google offers). Low skilled jobs? Who cares about them.
> Rails newbie (~3 months)

Don't know if you have seen http://railscasts.com yet. But it really helped me.
World's Smallest Oscilloscopes Create New Possibilities
I'm curious what the 300,000 lines of code removed in Blink were, and the corresponding but smaller removal of code in WebKit.
There is something almost poetic in this. The perils of accidental infrastructural intercourse.
The blasphemy law from the article actually sounds a lot closer hate speech laws progressives are trying to implement.

> "Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any class of [citizens of India]...
>One personal comment: Based on the above comment, you appear young. I suggest you periodically to look inwards and read books in your language.

This sounds very condescending...
> It was only by adding vanguardism that it was rescued from ending up in the ash heap of history ...

Vanguardism mostly distracted people with the (historically) brief ascendance of Leninism, which was most influential in states which lacked the prerequisites Marx identified for transition from capitalism to socialism on the way to acheiving the communist end state while the developed capitalist societies to which Marx's theories applied continued to change in the direction Marx predicted.

> And that vanguardism opresses, and if given half a chance, slaughters those who don't get with the program. Here's the latest major US example: http://www2.epa.gov/carbon-pollution-standards/clean-power-p....

I'm failing to see how:

(1) That has anything to do with "vanguardism", or

(2) that has anything to do with oppressing or slaughtering anyone.

(3) where the "necessarily skyrocket" quote comes from (its not from the linked page, doesn't seem to be from any linked documents, and doesn't seem accurate in any case, since there is nothing inherent in the proposed rule that requires any costs to be born by rate payers -- although, of course, state plans could result in that.)
A failure is something which doesn't succeed in achieving its goals. We often approximate this by looking at how widely used something is. For an API, this measure seems reasonable.

It has nothing to do with your views on vendor lock-in.

Direct3D also causes lock-in. That doesn't make it a failure.
This probably isn't quite what you were asking, but for DNS hosting, I'm enjoying PointDNS[1]. They give you unlimited records for one domain, which is all I've used to this point. But their rates seem quite reasonable, so I'd be happy to pay them when I have the need.

Biggest downside is that they don't support many advanced DNS features such as Anycast, GeoDNS, and DNSSEC.

[1] https://pointhq.com/
Yes: 3 or 4 icons(w/ labels) at bottom with "more..." If necessary. Like all the apple apps.

The hamburger is just a cop-out so you don't have to think very hard about your app design.
I think we could push this at least all the way back to 1991 and QuickTime
This is blog spam; direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU
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Wait for a better valuation--

You identified marketing as an area where you need the most help. Suggest engaging an independent marketing specialist or agency on a contract/interim basis.
> You see the problem with that particular problem child is that enough LSD to dose every man woman and child on earth could be produced in a single lab and held within a coffee cup which makes it uniquely dangerous as a weapon of mass oppression if it were to fall into the wrong hands. Also the fact that you can't easily test a substance for LSD increases the liklihood of individuals being exposed who did not wish to be exposed.

How the hell would you use LSD in that way "for oppression" or "as a weapon"? The main effect seems to be to cause uncontrollable giddiness and happiness.

The British Military actually tried to use LSD as a weapon. This was the result when they tested it against soldiers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX7m4fqTLKU

Needless to say, the "weapon" potential was quickly dismissed.

Edit: Here's a US equivalent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUQNqIIGN88

In short, LSD causes people to disregard authority, act chaotically and unpredictably, lose their ability to follow orders.

It's also highly volatile so likely to backfire on the people administering it, causing them to get high too.

From more direct experience, I can also say that LSD causes you to re-examine fundamental beliefs in quite an intense way. Not at all what you want to use on a population you want to control. In fact, if you were a dictator trying to retain control of an oppressed population, you should probably do everything in your power to avoid mass use of LSD in that population.
Jeez... I know "James L." Even met with him in person. He's a nice enough guy but I'm not a fan of the organization he works for which is one of the worst offenders when it comes to spamming engineers.
@djrogers

"It is absolutely horrifying that you would compare the violent rioting, looting, arson, rape, and general mayhem of the '92 LA riots with the peaceful demonstration in Tiananmen Square."

"I was living in Los Angeles during the riots"

did you live in Beijing during the Tiananmen event?
There are some kinds of plans that greatly benefit from exact schedules, but those are fewer than you'd think.

When the agreed time for a meeting is arbitrary, it shouldn't really matter that the meeting is re-scheduled. It only causes problems if you have so many tasks in your agenda that you can't change the arbitrarily assigned time for the meeting - but if you're in that situation, perhaps your schedule is already too busy?

What would happen if you became ill? Or if bad weather made it impossible to arrive to the meeting? If you find valid the answer of "well, in that case some meetings can be re-scheduled or cancelled", then why would you not find that acceptable for all your planned tasks in normal circumstances as well?
(Early) thoughts on Swift, Apple’s new programming language
James Randi says the PhDs are easiest to deceive. Not only are they unaccustomed to being outsmarted, but they have a lot of personal identity caught up in not being misled.

(Also in politics, where more education is correlated with more partisan viewpoints.)
Cisco purchase of CIA-funded company may fuel distrust abroad
I love this visual approach for testing and debugging frontend interactions.
Note that:

1. Only full-time students will win the contest.
2. This contest is tied to a commercial version of APL.
FCC Comment Page Buckles To Its Knees After John Oliver Asks Everyone To Comment
Lets set 40 hours as max and 10 hours as min. Now it is flexible enough.
Partly it's what I'm used to, but I've yet to find anything "easier" for the large amount of mathematics I typeset. There is a lot of notation and very little graphics or difficult formatting.
The main reasons I sometimes consider quitting are:

1. Too much fiddling with things by the mods (eg, changing post titles and the like). I find this to be more harmful than helpful, and I think we'd be better served with a more hands-off, laissez-faire approach.

2. The overall tone of the site has drifted towards a more collectivist / socialist / left'ish-wing worldview... to much anti-business, anti-capitalist sentiment which I don't enjoy.

3. Too much general news that you could get at cnn.com or msnbc.com or whatever. I liked the site better when there was more of a focus on startups, entrepreneurship, and deep technical topics. Of course, that's not to say that we don't still get some of that stuff, but the weighting towards those topics seems to have lessened, and I - for one - don't consider that a Good Thing.

OTOH, HN is still (mostly) better than Slashdot, and the comments here are mostly of a higher quality than most other "news aggregator" type sites. Just not as much better as they used to be, IMO.
I linked to the reddit discussion because I found it better than the link to techdirt. Especially the call to action.
Meta: What does this have to do with hacking? This thread is a perfect breeding grounds for xenophobia and religion bashing. Those are both things we do not need here.
Ok, what would you recommend then as a solution if I want to focus on posts in a specific topic and still wanted to "upvote" them?
I don't think you actually know what anti-competitive means.
Yeah, totally understandable.
If you couldn't figure out what hamburger menus are after reading part of the article (presumes my including seeing the 3 images of such at the top) then you just weren't trying.
> Do not focus on improving virality unless your overall retention is stable

The same logic applies to monetization as well - there's (usually) no sense trying to improve your monetization if your retention sucks.
I have started using Hover and I love them. Right now I am splitting my domains between hover and https://iwantmyname.com/
This one is easier, and actually loads:

https://www.dearfcc.org/
Node dependency scanner
There were some pretty religious people taking part in the Manhattan project...
IOS development leaves the developing world behind
because wordpress! ugh!!
Can you provide a source for your assertion that few people knew about these? These are ingrained in the popular culture.

"Can't we all get along?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sONfxPCTU0
"four dead in Ohio": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvg4n8Txgdc
Perhaps Japanese internment is less well known, but I feel like I see it referenced at least once every 8 months or so.
Also, have a rap song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BJjo0BCbGo&feature=kp
There really did used to be more tech discussion (code tips, tech stack discussions etc.) and ShowHN/AskHN posts. But those have either been overwhelmed by more general topics on the front page, or in the case of the HN posts, purposely pushed off quicker than normal posts (which I think is a tragedy).*

Agreed. The Show:HN posts are some of the best and most important posts of all, but they disappear so quickly now... it really is sad.
The author's comments resonated with me, and I think some people in this thread are drawing the wrong conclusions about what it means to let go of difficult people. A difficult person, to me, is different from a person who challenges me. A person who challenges me gets me fueled up and confident, whereas a difficult person makes me want to shut down and flee the scene.

There's a great skit on Inside Amy Schumer that describes these people amazingly. Amy and a date are at a sandwich shop near Ground Zero in Manhattan, and her date makes conversation by talking about his experience on 9/11. Amy, however, is completely disinterested and keeps derailing the conversation because she becomes obsessive about whether or not she should ask the employees to put mayo on her sandwich, then further disrupts the conversation by yelling to the employees and throwing a fit when they end up forgetting to put mayo on the sandwich. [1]

I feel like we all have these people in our lives that we stay close to out of guilt, politeness, etc. My mom calls them vampires; they're people who'll cling to you and suck the energy right out of you.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34LEhJDfxE
Draper is great in general for keeping display logic away from controllers and views (as per mistakes 1 and 2).
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Here are some of those peaceful people you were talking about in Beijing - a soldier bloodied by the peaceful crowds beating, a soldier beaten to death by the peaceful crowd, a tank set on fire by the peaceful crowd etc. Glad they were peaceful and not violent criminals like in Los Angeles.

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bi...
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bi...
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/china060412/s_t29_...
> "it's on the front page therefore it has merit"

I didn't say that. Why the quotes?
The Mac is not a gaming platform, while iOS certainly is.
The most disappointing part of this entire story is

Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai tried to broker a
solution by calling upon Edamaruku to apologise and on
Catholic groups to drop their case in return.

The Cardinal should have upheld the freedom on expression of Edamaruku rather than giving in to the fundamentalists. Instead, he tried to conjure up a political solution.
Much! I'm surprised to see this very ancient post resurfaced here. But this is definitely one of the way in which it's changed for the better since 2010.
Why Apple's New Font Won't Work On Your Desktop
Small town America doesn't try to murder you for discrediting religion.
Looking through Emscripten output
I might be way off here but the idea that metal et al have anything to do with enabling ray tracing seems absurd. The cards still are hardware optimized for triangle rasterization, the api doesn't change that.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wp-cache
Capitalism if done wrong can be just as shitty.
Great !!!
Great collection. English isn't my mother tongue, hence this helps me for sure.
What history textbooks did you read growing up? I've been trying to collect history textbooks from other countries.
This 2009 article you posted is actually the exact same piece as the 1990 article that the op posted, except with a few different opening paragraphs.
Vendors should just publish specs for GPUs and make them normal compiler targets. Drivers should just arbitrate access from user space.
I did quit for real. I had been in the top 10 for a long time. Eventually it got better (in some ways anyway) and I started sniffing around again.
It was just pointed out to me that micropython starts an order of magnitude faster than both python2 and python3:

$ time ./micropython -c 'print(1)'
1
./micropython -c 'print(1)' 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.002 total

$ time ./python2 -c 'print(1)'
1
python2 -c 'print(1)' 0.01s user 0.00s system 52% cpu 0.019 total

$ time ./python3 -c 'print(1)'
1
python3 -c 'print(1)' 0.03s user 0.00s system 85% cpu 0.035 total
throwaway2719's main point also seems to be that for some people, sex is not just fun and games, but entails some sort of emotional closeness. If your position is that you should just go have fun sex as you wish, then that seems completely fine as long as your partners are on board.

Conversely, the logical extension is that you should be on board with your partners freely having fun sex, with whomever they desire.
The article doesn't mention the neurotoxicity issue at all.

The fact that you enjoy taking it doesn't mean that it is not a neurotoxin, just as the fact that I enjoy a martini doesn't mean that alcohol is not carcinogenic.

Again, not my area of expertise, but I think it's notable that a neuroscientist with a rational attitude toward drugs who recounts his own positive experiences with MDMA says that he wouldn't take it now specifically because of what he claims is conclusive evidence that it kills nerve cells.
I actually experienced this attitude twice recently and I couldn't really figure out why it put me off so much before reading this thread.

First situation was someone was supposed to come in for an interview but didn't show and then emailed 15 minutes after the scheduled start time saying she had a family emergency and got flustered on the way to the office and decided she needed to take care of other things instead of come to the interview. We have no idea what happened, but the other members of my team immediately concluded that she had blown her chance and we wouldn't be asking her back in because she wasn't "professional".

The second time was arguing about that situation where if I had meetings and a family emergency came up the last thing on my mind would be canceling the meetings when the other people in the conversation said the first thing they would do is cancel the meetings.

It's an interesting juxtaposition to be sure.
Some details here:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/16/google-has-already-removed-...

As I understand it, Google and Apple did things like sandboxing in different ways for Chrome and Safari, and so there was a lot of code in both projects that could be ripped out once the alternate way of doing things didn't need to be supported any more.
> Bangladeshi
No it is not. I saw the profile of the person and based on that, this advice is ok, since we both appear from same country.
Just a couple of days ago I re-read the first of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories. The closing is apropos:

"[...] But, as a matter of fact, another part of my trade, too, made me sure you weren’t a priest.”

“What?” asked the thief, almost gaping.

“You attacked reason,” said Father Brown. “It’s bad theology.”