skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that federation is critical to email's value, but isn't that true of Diaspora as well? Again, I've never used Diaspora, but why is it notifying you through email? Everyone checks their Facebook without needing email notifications.
Well there've been campaigns out there that have reached above $1 mill. It's difficult but doable, I don't know what kind of money will you need this three years, probably it's not worth the (PR) risk of failing to reach the goal quantity. On the other side it could be a way a good PR move on it's own. I'm sure there is some people at YC that are able to give an autoritative opinion.

There it's also the option of getting some scientific teams(universities, institutes) to help in a crowdsourcing way. For no money, just stock and the possibility to help with a world changing project like yours.

I know it's possible because I've got some high level volunteers (NASA, European level matematic institute, Airbus ingeneers) in contact with Dirk Ahlborn (Jumpstart) to work on the Hyperloop (they got more than 80 volunteers selected).

I don't know if having ingeneering, designers and matematician teams working remotely could be helpful to you at this moment, but it's another way to get people around the world to help, and now that you have YC backing it'll be easier.
>Linux kernel?

An effort supported by for-profit companies paying their employees to work on the codebase. No profit, No money, no Linux. It's not your gradmas Linux anymore ;)

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/whos-writing-lin...

>over 80 percent of code is contributed by people who are paid for their work.
Yes (not the OP); losing the Internet and phones in a country in a civil war could kill as many people as a meltdown.
CppCat is a tool to search for bugs in C/C++ programs
I wasn't aware of that. I know making it easy to host Supermarket privately is a goal, and already not too difficult, but this seems like an awkward solution for smaller organizations. So far I haven't seen any discussions about adding private repos: I would appreciate if you could direct me there. This is one such thread I've found: https://github.com/opscode/supermarket/issues/217

I would love to see some kind of namespacing: something that would come with organization-specific cookbooks. Really, when I said "don't belong on the main community site" I really mean "don't belong in the current global namespace."
> For-profit law schools are a capitalist dream of privatized profits and socialized losses

Oh come on now...
What makes you think I am not going to send those headers anyways - they are darn plaintext.
Now if you have to sign and verify, it's another story but then again what stop people sharing those keys.

For the record I resent ads in all their forms TV/Radio/Internet - the latter are trivially avoidable though.
Email is important, WWW is all
So because for-profit organizations donate to the kernel, it makes it non-free.
"An equation such as ∫ 3x^2 dx = x^3+C says that we add together uncountably many infinitesimals, and we get a medium-sized number."

Yelp! My buddies Riemann & Lebesgue had quite a different story on the matter...
Please don't put words in my mouth, I don't think you agree with me at all.

I think Esperanto is a fun hobby and I have fun toying with it every few years, even if I'm under no delusion that it's a practical way to, say, do international business. I do think that if it or any universal second language (French, English, Mandarin, whatever) were to suddenly become more widespread, the world would be better off.

My claim was only that the reason that it's not more widespread has nothing to do with subjective flaws in the language itself.
It's possible to be happier with less, plain and simple. What did people living with far less throughout human history do? I guess you think they were just miserable, that we've reached happiness as a society through comfort goods. I think you're just a wimpy comfort junkie with no imagination.
Here's a fun one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot
I'm increasingly seeing Reddit Gold used in a similar manner though. People are giving gold to people that post good comments or good stories.
Thanks :) Stay tuned, we have a lot more to share!
Is this open source? Can we see that somewhere?
Any way good job, thank you.
Something like Contatta? I used to work there a year or so ago, so I may be biased, but still feel it's an improvement over email and sterile CRM. I personally like how it brings several pieces together, even if it's still missing a calendar for example. It's still in open beta, but I know it's extensible too. I may sound like an ad, but there's nothing for me to gain from it now, just my opinion.
Do yourself a favor and shrink the browser width to about inches.

And learn about why newspapers are laid out in columns.
I think MAD between a small number of (mostly rational) actors was the best case scenario.

Sure, nuclear states vs. non-nuclear traditional states is the most likely use right now, but we're not that far off from non-state actors being able to make nuclear weapons. Right now the only real protection is limiting access to fissile material.
17 college review sites. 13 owned by profiteers
> I need the pro version of Unity3d to generate iOS, Android or VR games for the Oculus Rift

Not true anymore. You can generate iOS and Android versions of your game with the free version of Unity3d (although with a reduced featureset in comparison to the pro version).
Admittedly our site is light on technical details right now, but you can read more about our system here -- https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missio...
"...deputies ought to be sent to Pompey, to propose a reconciliation; as he [Caesar] did not regard what Pompey had lately asserted in the senate, that authority was acknowledged to be vested in those persons to whom ambassadors were sent, and fear implied in those that sent them. That these were the sentiments of low, weak minds: that for his part, as he had made it his study to surpass others in glory, so he was desirous of excelling them in justice and equity." http://sacred-texts.com/cla/jcsr/civ1.htm

Supreme self confidence and magnanimity were some of his good traits.
Looks awesome!

Hope to see Vim plugin soon.
The only game demo I can currently find for UE4 in the browser is Flappy Chicken (I know they had some up earlier, but they seem to be taken down). Not really a compelling AAA demo. And their 3D games still only run about half as fast as a native C++ engine. That's very impressive, but you won't be putting out AAA games with a 50% performance hit.

And even then, unreal engine in the browser doesn't run Javascript written by developers. It compiles the C++ code into asm.js. Huge difference. Unless you can code asm.js by hand, you won't be able to do that. Here's a sample of the Flappy Chicken UE4Game-HTML5-Shipping.js file, because the code is just too long and ugly to paste.[0] Definitely not 'JS for gamedev.'

[0] http://i.imgur.com/O3w61XI.png
What about when they break in to your house at midnight, photograph and kidnap your children then threaten and entice them to spy on one another? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5AkFlAeCHE
By the way, write your plus sign (+) and lower-case letter Tee (t) so that they don't look identical!

From my experience, I'm one of the very few people who write manually in a serifed font; in particular, I write 1, l, I, and | very distinctly and use a slashed zero so as to distinguish it from the letter O. I wish more people would do this since it is still sometimes necessary to communicate on paper, and trying to interpret handwritten notes with ambiguous writing can be quite annoying.

Unquestioning faith in calculators.

The same can be said for computers too - except the problem is often worse as computers are far more complex to the point that almost no one understands them fully, and we are encouraged to accept this.
In fact it doesn't just sound like an experiment worth doing. It sounds like something that somebody somewhere might have already done.
I have a board normally running UEFI Secure Boot with no flash lock enabled at all right here on my desk - with UEFI replaced by a sane coreboot implementation (which locks down flash and SMM memory and signals unconditionally on boot).

So yes, I'm quite aware of the immense set of faults in UEFI implementations (some of which are encouraged by UEFI's design, where more layers of UEFI are added to mitigate them).

But as an attacker I wouldn't want to assume that I run into any single of the many UEFI implementation quirks and adapt my attack to everyone of them.

And I really hope for Intel that Tianocore won't become an endless stream of portable UEFI security issues - otherwise the IBVs might get second thoughts about standardizing on a single codebase.
What I wrote about Esperanto and its failure to go viral:

"There's already an existing language that fulfills so many of those criteria that it's going to be very hard to organize a new one from scratch. And the existing language already has a deep legacy of literature and culture.

That language is the world's second most widespread: Spanish.

Spanish has been destroying the dreams of Esperantists and others over the years who hope to build a more regular, orderly, and easy to learn common language based on common Indo-European roots.

Turns out that it's dang hard to design anything easier or more accessible to speakers of any European language than Spanish already is. The spelling and pronunciation are already completely regular and predictable. The grammar is straightforward and common to almost all European tongues. The vocabulary is mostly based on Latin with some Arabic variety thrown in, but it's been standardized over the centuries so that a lot of it has a simpler and more natural morphology. The sounds are a simple subset of what most languages already use.

It's a great second language: it's fairly easy, the world's second most widespread tongue, and spoken in warm countries with very friendly natives. It's not likely to provide you with many lucrative business opportunities, though. None of the world's financial capitals use it."
> are laid out in columns.

Because they can't be resized on the fly?
Still, you agree that the piece of computer music can be "interesting and worthwhile", so you already accepted it.

I don't feel like you, I don't care where the good music comes from. But I agree what we consider of quality depends quite heavily on our subjective experiences.

However, I feel similarly about theater and movies. If you want just to see a piece of storytelling, you will be more satisfied with a movie. But if acting is the part of the experience for you, then you're probably more interested in theater, where people do it live.

Actually, now that I think of it, we could compare it to live performance of musical works. Again, some people enjoy the effort of the musicians, and consider it to be a part of the work, but most don't care too much if the piece is recorded.

So perhaps this is a really old debate of whether the means or the end is more important in art.

Based on this analogy, I would predict that in the future, most people will listen to computer generated music, and music composed by actual humans will become comparatively rare.
> Those statistics were to refute grandparents assumptions about how patents are used in the real world, not to assert that litigation is a "success".

Except that they can show no such thing if by your own assertion the way they are used in the real world is primarily outside of litigation.

> Litigation is a failure, but a failure of negotiation, not of the system.

The reason negotiation fails is that the system is broken. Patents were issued that should not have been issued which makes defendants reluctant to license them but makes plaintiffs feel no less entitled to assert them.

> There's no evidence of "systemic failure" of patent litigation

This is a systemic failure:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/nov/01/smart...

That is not how the landscape looks in e.g. the pharmaceutical industry.
Surely not.

You need to do a lot of low level programming to target the custom sound and graphics chips those machines had available.

Not to mention that with 512 KB, every byte counted.

I cannot speak much for the Atari ST, as I was on the Amiga side of the bench.

The operating system was originally coded in Assembly and BCPL, with later versions having some C code as well(mostly K&R still).

Assembly and special game programming languages like AMOS, were the main programming languages for game developers on Amiga.

C was just another business programming language like C#, Java, Ruby and many others are today.

Mostly used for standard desktop software, or for doing the UNIX university projects at home.

Young developers take C's ubiquity for granted nowadays, but there was a time, when it was just yet another programming language.
Because softwares are not the only one to use cycles.

For example, in the GB, some memory space is only adressable during a few cycles, and so you have to optimize your code when you wish to update the video ram. If you miss the window, too bad.
No, Go is the Go of today and Java is the Java of today. I do belive Go has future, though.
> On the web GameBoy Online is probably the best of the available JavaScript based emulators out there.

That's true, but I'm really trying to shake it off! And looking for contributors, should you be interested :)

[1] https://github.com/arcanis/virt.js
Pennsylvania German language
After reading it, I would say it is really written badly, but the author's point seems to be that most of Esperanto's structure was basically designed at random, with no particular goals in mind, other than looking superficially similar to other European languages. His substantive objections are as follows:

* the language has an excessive number of phonemes

me: On this point I disagree strongly. A language with more phonemes can form shorter words and convey information faster. that's just basic math (43^9 >> 16^9)

* the vocabulary is too large to be practical and has dubious links to other languages. specifically, Basic English requires far fewer (>10x fewer!) words for competence and is more recognizeable due to worldwide borrowing.

me: Here I agree. The amount of memorization required is quite large and borrowing words doesn't make up for it. Interlingua took a better path, but it targeted the only continent that doesn't need it.

* synthesis mechanisms are irregular and insufficiently general. in particular, esperanto's semantic structure and word synthesis fail to allow the speaker to compensate for missing vocabulary by using compound words or overly general words with attached descriptors

[I don't understand this sort of thing, but it sounds serious]

* the alphabet is needlessly complex. it uses symbols people do not recognize and cannot type in favor of ASCII digraphs with wide recognition.

me: Also, it does not accord significant importance to the way that an orange bikeshed would clearly clash with the trees in the background.

Okay, fine, I agree. This is just putting the nail in the coffin at this point.

* the noun-to-verb-to-adjective declension is not compatible with the structure of meaning, and so cannot be extended in a consistent, predictable way. that is to say, the variety of possible verbs is such that it is basically undecidable what noun should correspond to a given verb in the general case, and vice versa.

me: I don't know this but as far as I can tell he's right. For example, what is the "verb" associated with "electron"?

* the language is inherently sexist.

me: This is not a trivial criticism.

So there are some substantial criticisms in the article, methinks. And you can't discount the impact of difficulty on network effects: if one person has too much trouble learning Esperanto, they're not going to pass it on to their friends, who will not pass it on to their friends.

I wonder if a language designed to be usable with as small a core as possible -- something the author suggests -- could have a substantially better chance of catching on? Perhaps if it were also good at borrowing words from other languages ("extensible"), and grew in the right community for a little while...
I have registered an account last week or so without any codes beyond captcha. It surprised me, too, because for quite a while you needed a mobile.

Maybe the requirement is based on some heuristics? IP address, country, other info provided by the user, and so on?
Lesson: do what you say you are going to do.
Except fuel flow sensors ;)
1. Maybe she wrote the page.

2. One can be the foremost academic expert on something pop cultural and be embarassingly,stupidly,obviously wrong about things that actual fans/participants know.

I summon gwern! Tell us of how badly wrong academics get Neon Genesis: Evangrlion wrong, gwern.
The hallucinations might be a form of dreaming ?
Webmail was the first and continues to be the most successful implementation of cloud. Ever.

I don't see cloud designs of now working on top of standards like email does. No wonder data tends to get stuck in silos these days.
in addition to RAM caching. these boxes should be capable of pushing lots of bits.
You know, this post may cause problems though.

There is something called photographic memory...
Chase plane filming falcon 9 reentry
I will file bugs for you
You're just talking about two different things. The purpose of the commerce clause is to allow the federal government to preempt protectionist state laws, but that doesn't exempt the federal regulations from having to be reasonable and not impede competition or entrepreneurship.

Allow me to make an important distinction. Environmental regulations can be expensive, because you might have to pay more for energy if you can't burn dirty fuels. Environmental regulations can be expensive, because a small business may need to hire a team of lawyers they can't afford, or fulfill bureaucratic requirements that make no logical sense. The first cost may be inevitable if we want to be able to breathe clean air. The second cost is totally inexcusable and is to be exterminated whenever discovered.
Green Arabia
"... An effort supported by for-profit companies paying their employees to work on the codebase. No profit, No money, no Linux ..."

Is the work done bespoke or in support of some company objective? Is the work done critical for support or done for PR reasons?

The increasing size of the Linux kernel is due to
the incorporation of significant new features,
including a file system optimized for solid-state
drives and support for the 64-bit ARM microprocessors
(your link)

It is ludicrous to suggest that corporate largesse alone is responsible for the Linux kernel. Without the non for profit work, I'd dare say you'd be working on/with your enhanced MS-2014 Pro Servers software or some BSD variant on a VT100 terminal.

OpenSSL is another example of open source that is widely used. A lot of companies use it, make money off it yet few contributed resources. A lot of companies also got burned when a critical bug was discovered (re-discovered) [0][1] the Heartbleed bug... did the NSA exploit this?. [1]

The real reason for-profit companies have to give back code, the GNU GPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html

[0] "Neel Mehta of Google's security team reported Heartbleed on April 1, 2014" ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed#Discovery

[1] Kim Zetter, Wired 'Has the NSA Been Using the Heartbleed Bug as an Internet Peephole?' http://www.wired.com/2014/04/nsa-heartbleed/
Google to remove exact targeting from Adwords
Stop Writing Dystopian Sci-Fi – It’s Making Us All Fear Technology
I think the title would have been better if it had said musical instruments. My first thought was that this was about measuring instruments of some kind. Oh well.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to put words in your mouth.
I was just trying to underline the fact that if you put "CP/M compatible" in the ad for your product you'd get exactly the same response from most people, i.e. "uh, what?"

And probably the same response after you patiently explained them what CP/M (or Esperanto) was: "Why the hell should I care about that? Give me something that works with Windows (or Mandarin) so I can work with a sizeable portion of the rest of the world !!!"...
World Peace? Only 11 countries in the world are actually free from conflict
Recently moved to UE4 too. Used to do Unity.

I moved because I was originally a C++ developer. Had code lying around I could use easily.
I'm not sure what you would classify as being a big team but you can definitely pay for dedicated support (and source code) should your organisation want to. Of course that comes at a cost significantly more than a couple of pro licenses.
Spanish is a beautiful language, I speak some myself, it's probably better than Esperanto or the more European-focused Interlingua, but... consider the number of forms of a regular verb:

(lavar (present lavo lavas lava lavamos lavan) (past lavé lavaste lavó lavámos lavarón) (imperfect lavaba lavabas lavabamos lavaban) (future lavaré lavarás lavará lavaramos lavarán) (conditional lavaría lavarías lavaríamos lavarían) (present-subjunctive lave laves lavemos laven) (gerund lavando) (participle lavado))

And that's ignoring the twenty or so irregular verbs and roughly ten "irregular" patterns (e.g. querer). It's a lot simpler than French or Italian, to be sure, or Latin, for that matter, but it could be a lot easier.
And this is my favorite part about being a cofounder.
`run` creates a container from an image and tries to start it. If it doesn't start you have a stopped container in `docker ps -a`. If it does start, you have a started container in `docker ps`. You could stop a started container if you wanted, and later start it again without having to use `run` all over again.

Sometimes running fails to start the container because there's a problem. You'll then have a stopped container.
How a Polish student's website became an Isis propaganda tool
The Limits of Moore's Law Limits
Yes, indeed:

Caesar paid no further attention to him. He went to Pergamon, took the pirates out of prison and crucified the lot of them, just as he had often told them he would do when he was on the island and they imagined that he was joking.

And that's nothing compared to the way he behaved in Gaul. What you call magnanimity is pragmatism: he had learned from Sulla, and wanted to avoid massive purges, so he treated his Roman opponents much better than they would have if the situation had been reverted.

His successor, in turn, learned the lessons of Caesar's assassination and went back to the time-proven method of slaughtering the political opposition on a large scale.
Create Captain America Shield in CSS
A Quantum Computing Milestone
Premier League warns about posting goal videos online
The author of the article, Paul Campos, has a blog where he regularly talks about the law school scam in much more general terms than just the for-profit schools. He probably circumscribed the article for space considerations at The Atlantic's request.

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/author/paul-campos
> Publishers, be honest with us, and slowly, you may regain our trust.

But only for a while. How long do you think it would take until some publishers would accept extra payments to attach a more "favourable" sign to an article? I would give it less than 6 months. (In other words: maximum of two fiscal quarters.)

The next logical step would be to accept payments to withdraw the sponsorship banner altogether, followed by outright extortion to keep the banner away. (Only it wouldn't be called extortion. It would be sold as tiered pricing.)

That is how much trust I have in the online publishing industry these days. And I fear I am not cynical enough.
Great find, tjbarbour.