skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discovering this kind of stuff is what makes HN so awesome! This brings back so many memories. Thanks for releasing this.

Sadly, Winamp went completely downhill from here (IMHO) and the subsequent versions never felt as minimal as this version. AIMP[0] comes pretty close and is a good enough clone of winamp if you're interested.

[0] - http://www.aimp2.us/
Every expansion has a "best class", that's for sure. Even if you try to balance everything, that's impossible to achieve; every class has dozens of spells, talents, buffs... and then, some of those spells, talents and buffs can interact with other classes (especially when in party or raid) improving or nerfing them.

In that expansion I'm sure you're talking about, paladins are somewhat better, and shamans are worse. That's normal, and it's not a problem when you play in live servers, since they are making modifications to spells and everything constantly. But when you're stuck in some version, then, you're stuck with how classes work in that version forever. That makes the population lean towards one class.

More information about FOTM here: http://wowpedia.org/Fotm
Just for your last two sentences. No. MS hasn't changed much. They noticed that after losing in mobile, they also started to lose developers as well. So they are just trying to look cute.

I will perhaps re-iterate my thoughts once Ms stop extorting Android device manufacturers for BS software patents. Until then, I am not touching anything from them.
I've been following this Leistungsschutzrecht development for a long time now and I still can't believe how ridiculous it is or that the law actual passed.

Now, after taking a step back, failing to force Google to pay for providing a service that is much more beneficial to Springer than it is to Google, Bild and Springer try to paint a picture that displays them as the victims in this issue, being bullied by big old Google. It gets more absurd by the day.

Also, this right only applies to Google - if you're DuckDuckGo or any other search engine you're still not allowed to show snippets from Springer media. So they are complaining about Google's market dominating position by strengthening it? Utterly absurd.
Falling for a Hells Angel
>That pretty much doesn't happen in any western country now, due to welfare.

You'd be surprised. Visit any western country (US, the UK, France, ...) and see it happening.

>If the desire is to prevent starvation and homelessness, transfer payments do a fine job; there's no need for intervention in the labour market or monetary system.

Not sure what those "transfer payments" are. Anything like Western Union money transfers?
Winamp lite, you will never be forgotten.
There Are No Small Changes
Direct link: https://pay.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2lda53/amd_is_...
It's not so hard to build a form and submit it automatically with JavaScript in order to get a user's browser to do a POST request to any URL you want.
I'm wondering why my petition is not there... what could be the reason ?
Are ‘Asian-Americans’ not ‘Americans’ in the first place?
I can't help but feel that the operational continuity of Home Depot after the techpocalypse isn't really what you're talking about anymore.
Show HN: A love letter to anagramatron
> and who in their right mind would bother interpreting it?

https://www.softintegration.com/

> It truly was designed to be compiled

I'm not sure - what qualities of a language make it designed for compilation?
Indeed! Thankfully, someone has compiled this data and made it easily searchable: http://www.salar.ly/
I just posted a $15 bounty to "Make it a real app" -- https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js/issues/2
The value of the product for A must be
greater than $13 or A won't buy it.

If there's a price where I will buy (value to me > price), and a price a tiny bit higher where I won't buy (value to me < price), there must be a point in between, where I am indifferent to buying (value to me == price)

For example, if I'm a trader and I know I can sell a widget on for $13 (after all costs are taken into account) and a supplier offers it to me for $13 I don't lose any money by taking the deal, but I don't make any money either. So I don't care if the transaction happens or not.
Improved Error Handling in Rust
Sure, but in the current system, how many of these facts come to the lawmakers via deep-pocketed special interest groups? How many lawmakers know what war looks like, when they vote for military action? How many have any idea of how to regulate the banking sector? How many vote only based on what their party has decided?

There is the question of writing laws in the appropriate legalese. In practice, at least in France, most laws come from the executive branch, and the Parliament examines them in a commission, "patches" them by adding amendments, and votes. I'm sure the legalese part could be taught or handled by specialists. Apart from that, I don't see why it would function in a worse fashion that what we currently have.
RefluxJS – A library for uni-directional dataflow inspired by ReactJS Flux
Absolutely it will (if that's what they want it to do). As I said, you've already done the cookie join, so you know what the magic userid is that the third party has in their system for that user.
Should we apply through the link, or can we send an email directly to you?
Also in Amsterdam, we at http://www.studyflow.nl/ have been using Clojure & ClojureScript for most of our new development.
A quick clarification here: joining the Universal Fund doesn't mean that we charge your credit card an amount every month and you have no idea where or who your donation is going towards. Every month, we automatically pick a patient your donation goes towards, and you get an email with the patient's story, and an update email after the patient's medical procedure.
I notice all the images show it on glass-smooth water. Makes me feel like the following is marketing spin: "...in theory access more environmentally sensitive areas where noise and wave disturbances are prohibited."

Still, kindof neat. Be fun to play with.
Rootpipe – Critical Mac OS X Vulnerability Allows Root Access Without Password
Enzymes make electricity from jet fuel without ignition
I think the inexpensiveness of our various locales may actually be causational. A quick survey of the people I'd consider bootstrapping peers is a wheres-where of "Places You Wouldn't Expect To See A Tech Company." Almost all of them are relatively low cost-of-living.

In my own experience in Gifu, the fact that ~$3k a month not only supported me but paid roughly market wages was enormously helpful. Had I started in SF or NYC or Tokyo, the need to have $120k a year in profit to have the same standard of living would have probably kept me tied to a desk at AmaGooBookSoft forever. (I can afford to live here in Tokyo these days, but man, $3k in rent is an awful lot of bingo cards.)
I think the allure of SF is its network of entrepreneurs and the natural tech ecosystem. Entrepreneurs can certainly work anywhere in the US, but you've got to admit that SF's place as a tech hub (and its proximity to SV--think investors, mentors, tech-strong univ like Stanford and Berkeley) is hard to beat.
I was a little confused by the complaints, because it worked great for me on Firefox Mobile 33 (ignoring the sloppy editing that resulted in one paragraph appearing twice, search for the phrase "blue whale").

Then I tried again on a desktop. Well, crap.

Resize your browser window until the site switches to tablet mode if you want to read it.
Can anybody tell me why wage offer and prevailing wage don't match up? Is there some kinda limit on what an immigrant can be paid?
"Make it a real app" - wouldn't it defeat the purpose though (imitating real apps using scripting languages)?
Spotify Royalty Payments Outpace iTunes in Some Markets
Running out of money is the most common way for a startup to die, so successfully living in SF on the cheap certainly mitigates that.
UI innovation in Bvckup 2 Release 71
(Posting this without the URL as I want to draw attention to the UI and not just that there's been a new release)

Bvckup's latest release[1] has many UI innovations like dialogs with slide in help[2] and drop downs that resize to make room for extra buttons[3]. Also worth reading is Alex Pankratov's post about Bvckup's hierarchical log viewer[4].

[1] https://bvckup2.com/support/forum/topic/474

[2] https://bvckup2.com/wip/r71-dev-tracking-3.gif

[3] https://bvckup2.com/wip/r71-configure-alerts.gif

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027879
This Foot-Long Box Is the Most Advanced Particle Collider in the World
Not having a toilet is nothing meaningful, it's just inconvenience.
Just had a quick look at the api, and i just love the blobstore part. Decoupling the api from the backend provider is such an obvious thing to do. Yet it seems that it's the first time i've seen it stated so clearly.
Once you've totally decoupled blobstore and relational store, it seems like cloud deployment really becomes nothing more than a matter of conf file.
You seem to be saying that race shouldn't matter. But how can we discuss this paragraph (about a neighbourhood that is different where the only reason given for that is race) without exploring what race means in that context?

(personally, I don't agree in any context, race matters in pretty much every context in the world because discrimination based on race is present in every context, and to ignore it only allows that discrimination to continue)
Good points. I'd only suggest living with co-founders if you know them well enough and can jive on a regular schedule. I mean, if you get sick of your co-founder, maybe he/she wasn't a match in the first place?

As for the time preparing the meal (from researching recipes to cleaning up), I'd say it can take less than 1.5 hrs per day total. Imagine buying in bulk, cooking a large, delicious stew that can last a couple days (just warm up the meals in a microwave), and voila. Time and money saved.
> I copied this approach in my first implementation, but found that much better results could be achieved with a breeding population of genes.

Ohhh, interesting, thanks for posting this! I just started playing around with this myself a few days ago in Javascript (it has no UI so no link yet, but I uploaded some samples [0]), and it also uses the original simple approach. I wondered about an "actual" gene pool and cross-breeding, but shyed away from the additional effort for uncertain benefit... so this helps, greatly :)

One thing I intend to try is to get the fittest (in terms of likeness to target image), and then calculate the fitness of the other genomes by taking the difference (in terms of variables that determine the shapes) to that "champion". I see you take the two most fittest as is, maybe this could be useful for picking the second one?

Also, when the Mona Lisa thing was posted on HN, someone suggested marking areas of the target image as "more important", to maybe make facial features etc. more recognizable. I'll also see if making such a mask automatically, e.g. influenced by contrast, helps any.

[0] http://imgur.com/a/4duom
Dont worry, whats done is done. You now need to move on. You should use your remaining time to document your work to make your leave as trouble free as possible and reduce the chance of the company trying to contact you in the future.
Quintessential Player is also very pleasant and for Linux there are plenty of players that are compatible with winamp skins and presets.
TL;DR: how to avoid paying more money to developers using 10 simple tricks.
Malicious Software Campaign Targets Apple Users in China
Wow. This article is incredibly beautiful. I can't think of any other word but beautiful to describe it.

Nostalgia is a wonderful thing, especially in technology because the industry moves so fast that all the effort seems ephemeral. But it's there. It's there in old floppys, CDs, hard disk and memories. Remember that 33 kbps modem you used to connect your Windows 95 to the Internet and that weird sound it made? Well someone invested their time in building that and probably they had an incredibly good time doing that.

This article also resonated with me because of its recurring, underlying theme of sharing. The open source community is a living, breathing example of that the inherent, unstoppable need for humans to share isn't going away. Capitalism has its way of affecting thinking and motives of many passionate people (admittedly, including me), but I'm glad there are people who value and celebrate sharing.

Thanks for this article. Really felt very happy reading it! Sharing with my entire team.
Oh, I downloaded Mindscope a week or so ago (maybe you posted it on r/productivity?) but hadn't time to open it. Did now, it's really neat!

Add org file "support" (org files can have links to other files, they are from org-mode in emacs) and I'd use it more than email :D

Edit: oh, found an org-opml editing mode! I'll play a little more with it and then quite likely unlock the full version :)
I have a printed Lisp Machine Manual from 1981. It's always Lisp, never LISP. Also: Zetalisp.

Only the frontpage says:

LISP

CHINE

NUAL
Cool project! What were the best use cases you had in mind for this?
Covestor Using the Follower Model in Public Equities
i would say that running out of money is the only way for a startup to die. I haven't heard of a company earning loads of money closing down (except when being bought out or something).
H1-B workers can only be paid at or above prevailing wages in the area per Department of Labor stats. This is set in the law as to avoid displacing US workers.
`cat ~/.ssh/id_?sa | ...`

...but we all use unbruteforcable passphrases, right?
I'm using the lite version, which is indistinguishable from the classic Winamp. It's been my default music player ever since MP3 came out :)
One thing that helps me is using ultra-fine felt-tip pens. They have a touch more friction than ballpoint pens. Obviously, they aren't magic, but when I revisit my notes a week later (I use a combo of org mode and notecards to plan my work), I can actually read them.
General purpose note taking. It's basically a pastebin on an infinite canvas.
It's not so much about it being Asian, but the Outer Sunset is about as far away you can get from "the action" and still be in San Francisco. Also, it's colder and foggier than points east.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Outer+Sunset,+San+Francisc...
Show HN: Swish YOU'LL GO CRAZY
CSS tips and tricks #16 – Mastering CSS child selectors
Indeed, there is discussion of encrypted memory on the controller in Risc-V at http://lowrisc.org
Well, this is about userspace access to nvram, with the nvram mapped as memory. It just so happens that cache management is one of the hard parts of doing that, so that's what these new instructions are for.
Is this the first time there's been a credible attack against non-jailbroken phones?
I find mDNS very useful for our development VMs: http://bens.me.uk/2013/multicast-dns-and-development-virtual...

Instead of hacking your /etc/hosts file, just let the VM publish relevant DNS entries using mDNS.
Learn either rails, python or front end stuff (angular, sass, html), git is a must.

Apply for jobs on:
https://weworkremotely.com/
https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote
http://nomadjobs.io/
$4K a month. Unlimited vacations.
Wine and X are open source; that's all you need.
UK graduate wins James Dyson Award for incubator design
For goodness sake, keep writing these type of articles! I am now digging into "Memory management in C programs" and I hope the rest of the articles are as good as these two.
Germany/Netherlands - REMOTE - Apply at http://nlcollect-bv.workable.com/jobs/7652

ClubCollect has created a service for sports clubs and other organizations to make invoicing of club members a breeze. Invoicing, reminding, online payments: everything is processed via ClubCollect.

Since we're entering the German market we're looking for a developer who is proficient in German (speaking & writing). Reason: ability to discuss API interfaces with German developers of external accounting systems and perfecting the localization of ClubCollect.

We're a small team (just eight people), we love remote working but we also like to get together for beers and a great dinner.

ClubCollect is built in Ruby (+ Ruby on Rails) and JavaScript (+ jQuery).

We value simplicity, creative solutions, and the ability to get things done.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to all areas of our code base.

- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience (proven ability matters more to us than degrees)
- Fluent in at least one dynamically-typed, object-oriented language (e.g. Ruby, Python)
- Several years experience with a modern web framework such as Rails or Django

@recruiters: please don't contact us, we're not interested.
I could not disagree more. SW is great for several stuff. For example business logic, API creation and consumption and stuff like that. SEO is only a minor benefit from switching to that technology. I would totally recommend to follow the work on json-ld and schema.org and you will see that it is not what you have heard.
I would only agree that SW is still a difficult concept to understand and start using for any developer and needs more effort on that direction.
People are replacable. I've worked in countless companies where a tech lead or an important person that seemingly keeps the whole ship floating leaves, and the company is ALWAYS fine after.

This urgent project might have done better without you. The company might royally fuck it up. You shouldn't feel guilty for leaving a company, because a company certainly won't feel guilty if they had to get rid of you.

Like others have said, these are the sort of conversations that are best had face-to-face. There are countless reasons as to why they've not emailed back, but personally I wouldn't dwell on it. I'm sure they'll be fine, and I'm sure you will be too.
FF3, my favorite game. And HIMEM.SYS heh, we'd get along.
And the page 18 of the document is even scarier: the name of the program is not even displayed -- the (bad) logic was obviously "normal users wouldn't know the difference."
> Price discrimination in theory should not drive customers anywhere but rather make them indifferent to their choice of supplier.

I think you need to take a step back and think about that in the context of the article.

If people get a worse price based on their OS/browser/tracking cookies and they know, they will feel cheated. Are you OK with a higher price, because you are on your mobile? Does switching the browser reframe your mind so that your "I am willing to pay price X" changes?

I bet not, it is still the same person behind the browser. And humans being humans most will be infuriated to learn they are trapped in a game with intransparent rules.
The salinity of blood (1/4 saltwater) is not coincidental, vertebrates just took the ocean with them when they left it.
Wine Is Not an Emulator, though - you'd still need some kind of layer translating the x86 binary to JS.
Ask HN: Where can I find recently rebranded startups?
I'm about to put out a new product from an internal startup in a bit org.

But I'm not sure where to look for inspiration on current startup websdesign/webapp trends.

Is there a site that exists like http://startup-videos.com/ but for brands?

At the moment producthunt.co seems the best but it's certainly a mixed bag in terms of execution.
And the reality is that languages are not compiled or interpreted, but there are implementation of language compilers or interpreters. The C language isn't "compiled", but there are some implementations of C compilers, and some implementations of C interpreters.

Another good example, is an old language, "BASIC", which a lot of people used the interpreted version, but, as early as 1987, I used a BASIC compiler which provided as much as a 100x increase in performance over the common interpreter that came with my system.

Python is another great example - lots of Python interpreters out there, but Cython lets you compile your python code to machine code.
ive been a subscriber of their email newsletter for a while now. (Only noticed emails in last few weeks though). but everytime i see one, i always open it, one of the few engaging newsletters.

(i'm not interviewing for any position, just think its decent content and well laid out).
I can't find some companies on there I know have done it too.
Pity it only mentions iOS apps and not the ones I use on Android. I use two apps and they read radically different values (unless I am reading them wrong - that might be the case).
Something that I really enjoyed doing as a child was typing around on an old Sharp PC-1401 [0] calculator. To be honest, I completely forgot about that "machine" until I read this article. Heck, I didn't even google for it in 15-20 years.

The amazing thing about it was, that I had BASIC and so I taught (with the help of my dad) myself to write easy games on it (you know: Guess the number and such).
I just right _now_ discovered that the thing has an RS-232 interface and you could use PEEK, POKE and CALL. Oh my, the missed opportunities; But hey I was just to young at that time.

I think I know what I'll do, when I get home for christmas: Grab that PC 1401 and try out the RS-232 to see what's possible. Good times.

[0] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_PC-1401
I read him as saying that in a conversation about race, why is it ok to pretend that one race is "normal people".
My one quibble with the article is that calling Reading a suburb of London is quite misleading. I understand (North?) Americans use the word differently to Europeans on the whole, but Reading is a Medieval town with a net commuter flow inwards - it's the local hub of economic activity, and is the largest town (it hasn't got city status) in the UK.

For context, in terms of its economy, size, distance from London etc, it's not much different to calling Oxford <edit>or Windsor</edit> a suburb of London.
In short, it s because you seem to assume that the description of the neighborhood given was also the reason why it is cheaper. (It isn't, the reason is because its way the away from the center of town with almost nothing but residential areas).

Generally stereotypes as a concept are considered inherently pejorative in the USA.

Secondly, your inference that people are avoiding the neighborhood is because of the local population. People aren't avoiding the area, the neighborhood is mostly staying the same. Large numbers of people moving into a neighborhood is the exception to the norm. Particularly in San Francisco where there are protections on existing residents such as rent control.

Thirdly, in the USA we would view asian-american as a cultural description, or nationality description, rather than as a racial description. When someone says 'asian grocery store' they don't typically mean 'because asian people shop there,' but a place where foods sold in asia are more available. This point of view would be particularly so in the bay area worldview. In the USA, it is generally considered offensive/patronizing to compliment people based on their race for any reason. People want to be recognized for their abilities on an individual level, or because of some meritocratic reason.

I could go on, but the other reasons are more or less permutations of the above.
Route 53 Update – Private DNS and More
Similar, but not quite. I want something where I can retrieve it by sneaker net and it is basically under my control.
Luxembourg: how tiny state rubber-stamped tax avoidance on industrial scale
Since Google et al will always get exceptions from publishers, the Leistungsschutzrecht will primarily hurt small companies and start-ups through its newly embedded legal uncertainty.

Little business without a lobby in Germany..