skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct. Which is why we live in the county we live in.
For one thing Adderall slightly increases your blood pressure and heart rate. That can have serious cardiovascular side effects in the long run.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690554/
>oh well

I guess he is being realistic, it does no good to beg and ask. I hope little Richard isn't sad though :(
I'd make the argument that Rust is making many of the same mistakes as C++. It's got a kitchen-sink approach that has already accumulated some barnacles, and that ownership system is a mess.
Drones don't fly very far. It may be possible to rent one, but now you've introduced a third party that could be compelled to redact the images, as Google has been.

So to view the house anonymously from far way / another country, you'd still need to travel to some place nearby.

You're right that it's no longer symmetric, but it's far more expensive than a free and anonymous Google search.
Don't mix the two together. C is great for systems and some application programming, C++ is rubbish.

There was one brief stretch in history around 1994-1998 where C++ was the best choice for application level programming. And even then only a very narrow type of app programming.

Before that brief timeframe and since then it has been a poor choice for every single type of programming. There are better choices in all cases. It has no niche anymore where it is the best fit, not anywhere.
Bright lights, big cities
This would really take the pressure off asking someone out.
>Time for me to think/ask an advertiser about what he wants (i.e. ability to login and see impression/click counts, etc.) and what the CPM rate(s) should be.

The problem is often that we can't guarantee the stats like google does. (for clicks) That's why i either sell a guaranteed minimum impressions per month or a flat CPM rate.

Still track the impressions and clicks, but only as a indicator or email them reports to save the hassle of managing credentials.
Barcode Lookup App
It is strange they should compare the safety of their non-prescription nootropic to Tylenol, which is a particularly hazardous over-the-counter drug.

Secondly, you can get L-Theanine readily and inexpensively in the US. This crowdfunding campaign seems to be a marketing exercise for something already sold by multiple supplement makers. L-Theanine also appears to be less hazardous than Tylenol.
Flipboard releases React Canvas
I'm almost surprised they didn't do this sooner.
Will we ever see a AAA video game title written in anything else?
I think in this context, it would be more equivalent to sparring than anything: a test of one's abilities. A sufficiently-intelligent AI would likely think the same should it watch videos of its predecessors being kicked during testing.
according to what @dang told me yesterday[1], the timestamp is now the link:

"Edit: Or rather, as of this evening, click on the comment's timestamp to go to its page. We decided to play with dropping "link" and just hyperlinking the timestamp instead."

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9023341
While "criminal linking" doesn't exist as a standalone crime, prosecutors have essentially tried to make it exist via other statutes. I don't know the disposition of the case, but a man in the UK was ordered a few years ago to be extradited to the US to stand trial for criminal copyright infringement after operating a site that offered links to copyrighted sports broadcasts [1]. In the Brown case, they tried to use the conspiracy statutes.

In both of the above examples, while not charged with "criminal linking," the actual conduct was linking to something prosecutors didn't like. The loud and clear message they are sending is "link to things we don't like, and we'll find a way to get you". That will have a chilling effect on free speech.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/jan/13/piracy-student-lo...
Bi-level TIFFs and the tale of the unexpectedly early patch
Man, Boston Dynamics continues to impress. Their work has been fantastic to watch evolve. The endless applications of autonomous robots that can navigate almost any terrain should be obvious. Finding missing people, supply deliveries, searching for poachers, surveying, etc.

That said, I feel like I know what the next century's horseman of the apocalypse will look like. :)
It wasn't always like that though.

C++ got into this position due to people like me, that were considered hipster back then, by going with that slow molass, full of portability issues trying to implement parts of C++ARM, instead of C.

I did it, because sadly the vendors of the alternatives mentioned by Animats didn't managed to keep their languages up to what the OS vendors were putting on their SDKs.

So stuck between C and C++, at least C++ was already a better alternative than writing plain unsafe C code.
That's probably due to the lack of resources (as I mentioned, libraries, tutorials, etc.) for programming server-side webapps in C++.

However, this could be a chicken and egg problem. People use Java more often so they produce more resources.
And that productivity maximization is about being in that one big room.
Apple was big in the 80's, no doubt about it, but they were small potatoes compared to the behemoth they are now.
I want to know your thoughts about the app :)
Google giving 2GB free drive space for checking security settings
The UI on that site is pretty horrid, however it is a decade and a half old.
> why, because i don't desperately sleep with all the girls that I meet in my life, just because they show interest?

No, because you describe people you don't know jack about just like that.
So this means that you can circumvent encryption for dvds/bluray to get them working on linux ect. (for Tv shows[often called Tv Programs] anyway)
This attitude is tiresome. Maybe, some of the negativity is coming from people who have a reason to be negative.

I don't like the idea that accomplishments mean a force-field against criticism. (Actually, I hate it.) Plus a lot of the negativity is not about the work itself but about how the project structure prevented work from happening.
As their market.
Assholes, huh? That's funny. Because it almost seems like you've never worked with an NGO to try to convince local villages and governments to adopt a new product that upends their cultural norms with new technology. Because someone who might talk about the problems with attracting funding to the projects, without knowing anything about them, might be seen as an asshole.

1. The copy is primarily a marketing tool; it is not sales copy. For investors they may work with NGOs, local outreach organizations, file for grants, and make requests of a few private companies that work in the region. The website is just boilerplate, and any intelligent person who's attracted by the idea and works in this field is not going to assume someone is a scammer because their copy does not include technical jargon or scientific wordage.

2. They are not lying. You are arguing semantics. The product works as advertised; I challenge you to quote the 'misleading' sections verbatim so we can have a word-off. And seeing how the company is made up of filipinos and working directly with local tribes to bring them the product, I trust them a lot more than a bunch of bay area hipsters with scientifically-accurate marketing copy.

I suggest buying a good mirror.
As in "Fahrenheit 451", if you're going to read something 100 times, take pains to memorize it along the way (it's not as hard as it sounds with practice).
We started a project a while ago using Titan that is starting to come to fruition, and we went with Titan because it looked to be one of the only options that could scale to where we needed (around ~500M vertices, probably 10x that in edges) and worked on top of our existing infrastructure (HBase). Neo4J definitely wouldn't work for that, though looking at OrientDB again it seems like it might, though we'd have to figure out the operational implications of a new clustered technology.

Fortunately we've been using the Tinkerpop API so it should be fairly inter-changable on the back end, we're definitely going to have to look into other options now that Aurelius has been acquired.
This. I love it when people think io.js is less stable. I mean, how hard would it be to think about it: one of them has half a year of open v8 bugs that the other has closed. One runs on actively maintained v8 and the other does not. One has all the core contributors and the other does not... doesn't sound like hard math to me.
I'm surprised it has taken them this long to get something like that into Xcode.
> If you write your code for node.js, it should work on io.js.

Yes, this was one of the points I mentioned however this precludes me from using newer and possibly better APIs and syntax in io.js. If that's the path to take what is the point of io.js if everything will be written to the lowest common denominator?

> Fragmentation is good, it stimulates the eco-system for better products.

Maybe? I'm not sure. It certainly hasn't looked very rosey from Android's point of view but has it worked for other things? I'm skeptical.
D, too, and while it survived, it seems to have been ignored.

And I think you mean Modula-3, not Modula-2.

It's kind of a shame. I'm a huge fan of languages like D, Modula-3, and Delphi, and I'm really disappointed they never took off.
Those are likely in an entirely separate system.
Web Accessibility Talk
He is becoming more and more relevant. I remember reading this at the turn of the century:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

And remember thinking yeah right, what a nonsense, no one would accept this. Although it's written slightly overdramatic, here we are, many people are reading DRMed books that cannot be shared. We are renting our DRMed movies and music online. Soon there will be a day where young kids don't even realize you could borrow a movie, book, or album from a friend.

Say about RMS what you want, but he has a tendency to predict problems 10-20 years ahead.
YC founders usernames appear as a different color to other YC founders and some percentage of them probably upvote every post they see.
Take no offense, I sympathize with the general idea, but aren't you overselling this a little bit?

I've had no contact with Adderal but I highly doubt a dietary supplement essentially equivalent to ~10 cups of black tea could be an alternative for amphetamines. I sometimes drink a big mug of tea a couple of times a day and, according to a rough estimate, possibly get around that amount of caffeine+L-theanine.

I see that you're trying to attract Adderal-using college students but aren't you afraid they're going to try your product and quickly conclude that Adderal is better?
Scale this[0] up to 100 billion simulated neurons (feasible on dod budget), and it will probably operate way beyond a single human, or groups humans can do. Build multiple of them, and the ancestors can just copy the models built at t0=0 and be as intelligent as one that spent the time to build those models, takes us ~20 years to do the same for humans (maybe less so over time, but not on the order of what can be done with something like this).

Some relevant quotes from Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040:

"They exist as substitutes for the lower castes, the indentured labour, for all manners in which humans formerly oppressed their own. Slaves."

"Why do I exist? Was my purpose to replace humans, whose inability to coexist in peace is their evolutionary flaw? Or was my destiny to serve as the progenitor of a subservient race? I do not know. I did not ask to be born."

"A being is a being. A machine is a machine. Most humans would believe these two states to be exclusive, separate orders of existence. And yet, they are not. The key is neotiny, the retention of characteristics from an earlier stage of development. A human fetus follows the path paved by its ancestors, evolving in the womb from unicellular, to amphibian, to mammal, to man. There were those who believed that humanity was the end of the progression, the end product of natural evolution. They were wrong."

[0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2851663/Are-b...
> Imagine a world where our policy-makers, cancer-researchers, and entrepreneurs are all realizing gains from cognitive enhancement.

Seems like that would dramatically exacerbate the have/have not gap that the article talks about earlier. And, corollary: imagine a world where our rogue traders, mafia bosses, used car salesmen, cult leaders, and con artists are all realizing gains from cognitive enhancement.

For fun, try a limit analysis: imagine a world where all your rivals in business are dosed up on your nootropics. You're now in the position of having to consume mind altering pharmaceuticals in order to retain your job, with some completely uncertain future cost to your health. Or you could conclude that the risk isn't worth it, and instead try to make a career in a lower paying field suitable for 'unenhanced' people, probably something dangerous and physical that robots can't quite manage yet.

It's frightening that the author thinks this is a good idea. I am clinging to the hope that this was put together by some disgruntled college kids who want the benefits but can't quite stomach the risk of buying black market Adderall.

EDIT - good: it got flagkilled. Horrible article.
Node.js Version 0.12 Includes Key Performance Optimizations
Wouldn't a merge strategy for the changelog that knows that it can just append the lines behind each other be a more elegant solution?
C++ lets me write safe code, C on the other hand....
My experience with Om and ClojureScript has been fantastic. I can't wait to see the Om analog to React Native!
Show HN: Aha now integrated with Bugzilla
A recent art project used ultrasonic waves to jam cellphone microphones. The idea was to prevent eavesdropping from recorder applications or a compromised, or otherwise always-on mic.

A side effect of this, and perhaps these devices as well, as depending on the volume, these effectively create RF interference in a way in the circuit, as in the electromagnetic signal beyond the mic is changed, and could lead to unintended side effects such as the inability to speak to 911/999 emergency services.
BD's first, possibly, but I know there are some folks at MIT who are/were working on an electric quadruped as well.
Before 11 July/23 Nov both repo share the same graph, depending on if io.js fork is started by Mikeal Rogers, or Fedor Indutny
We did this before but it is a lot of work to come up with good descriptions, you really need to go understand each merge. Different people have merged different code and sometimes you already forgot what it was about. Also, the days just before release are already very busy.

There was a great comment on the article itself https://about.gitlab.com/2015/02/10/gitlab-reduced-merge-con... just using .gitattributes with `CHANGELOG merge=union` might do the trick
Please get tj https://github.com/tj to node.
> a reaction to Microsoft's refusal to use the web
> standards that every other major browser supported

Take your points, but in fact, Microsoft didn't refuse to support web standards.

IE6 was more standards-compliant than Netscape when it came out. The main problem was that Microsoft stopped developing browsers (for complicated reasons that must include the US anti-trust suits). That put it years behind in standards support.

Then when it started to catch up (with new browsers in Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8), it couldn't move users on to later more standards-compliant browsers, even though it tried.
This is the kind of work I like to see EFF do. In particular it states that the legislation is bad, but accepts that it exists. Identifies a small part that can be changed. Campaigns to change just that small part. Rinse and repeat enough times that the legislation eventually collapses due to the number of holes in it.

It's an approach taking in account the realpolitik, and its an approach that other FOSS groups could learn a lot from as the attempt to make change happen.
UK Peadophile Ring Murdering Babies – Exposed by Childrens Testimonies
Title implies he knew about the offer.

> If I had seen it back then, I would not have had the benefit of
> hindsight, but it would clearly have been a real possibility.

Also, they are talking about a patch to GCC to make it use the LLVM optimizer backend, and not LLVM itself. Reading comprehension, anyone?

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html
Browser adoption, really? Why would you care about that on the server side.
Jeb Bush dumps emails, addresses and social security nums of FL residents online
Haha! Man, you've never been happy with any Linux distro, or even OS for that matter! (and no, your usual answer is wrong; if you have a problem with everything else, maybe the problem isn't with everything else).

I'm surprised about your issue with the Intel driver, which I've found to be quite stable on Linux, but then I don't do any 3D in Linux. Is this on your System76 laptop? As for mounting a USB drive, that's patently false, see my comment above. Nowadays you can either use udisks, udiskctl (depending on which version distro you're using), or even good old pmount.

I also contest your comment about how political bullshit overruns Debian and Ubuntu. If you think it's different or even worse than before, you're falling for nostalgia :)

I mean, I sympathise with your issues, and I understand the frustration of having to fight something that you'd expect to just work, ("it's 2015 for fuck's sake! Why am I still dealing with this bullshit!?"). Of course, you're doing much more cutting edge stuff with 3D and computer vision, so you're probably tickling the bleeding edge of driver support in Linux. Nevertheless, you've had this class of complaint for 15 years. Haven't you bitten the bullet yet? :)
Yes, great idea, see the second part of my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029206
Okay, yeah, so still XAML. I've only recently looked into Windows RT, my time was always spent in ASP.NET, so WPF/WinRT/Silverlight, it all seems like the same thing to me, but I do know a lot of Windows app developers that bitch up a storm about the diffs between WinRT XAML and what can be done in WPF :)
True, but early C++ libraries were tainted with a C mindset so althouth C++ could provide a Java like confort, you were stuck with C with classes libraries instead.

Just look at MFC vs OWL vs VCL, or Visual C++ vs C++ Builder.
See "The Klingon Programmer's Code of Honour" http://www.klingon.org/resources/klingon_code.html -
First on the list:

Specifications are for the weak and timid.
Anita Sarkeesian gets cameo role in TowerFall game
You should give QtCreator [1] a try. It's made by the Qt people for Qt development, but even for non-Qt stuff it's a pretty good IDE.

[1] http://qt-project.org/wiki/Category:Tools::QtCreator
Cloud Recording WebRTC to S3
Why do you think this creates malleability?

PKCS1.5 stripping takes away the leading 0x00 0x01 0xff ... 0x00 -- if this prefix is not present, it fails.

The rest goes through the RSA tranform, and is parsed as PKCS1 DigestInfo, an ASN.1 structure. All ASN parsing checks for presence of trailing bytes, on top and in CONSTRUCTED nodes.

The presence of suffix-checking prevents malleability in my mind. Am I missing something?
Oh noes - the robot army is here! Those submarines with the power to end life as we know it (basically post 19th century life), we've forgotten about them, let's all get worried about the robot army!

What I mean is, it's not autonomy that you should worry about, it's actuators. The biggest actuators are nuclear weapons - a trident sub can slap 200 warheads that are 50* bigger than Hiroshima's onto a given continent, and the fires would blot the sun from the sky for two years. There are 7 billion agents with autonomy knocking around, and the type that they are derived from has a bad record about doing dumb evil things!

Cool AI would probably be a safer arbiter of our extinction.
Job search is not macro..it's micro
I think we'd be better off if we had people who curated apps, then rate the curators.

The App Store has such a limited interface, that's it like walking into a minefield. You can't tell if something is crap or not until you've blown your money.

Apple doesn't even try to prevent you from buying crapware because they've already made their money.
For web stuff I'd say Java is a better match :D
The ownership system, the big innovation in Rust, isn't bad. The type system, macro system, and error handling interact to form a big mess. Exceptions would have been simpler than the mechanisms used to avoid exceptions.
No, really Modula-2.

Modula-3 was hardly used outside DEC, while Modula-2 had big use in Europe.
I agree the article is high energy, almost exhausting to read, and bounces around considerably.

Declaring war on Adderall is stupid, but saying you want to create a less impactful alternative is commendable. However I don't like the promotion of one product by saying another is evil, we've got enough of that going around. Adderall isn't evil, drug abuse is a problem, these can both be true.

After all the work it took making mental conditions legitimate I'm always on the skeptical side. Just 2 generations ago it was a very ugly thing to have depression, ADD/ADHD or anything requiring medication to the point where I still see adults from that age look down on their now adult children. Even themselves sometimes, taking medication, saying it works, then feeling guilty to the point of discontinuing even though they know the outcome.

Disclaimer: I take medicine, it just makes me feel normal and for that I am happy. Don't screw with my only recently (decades) socially acceptable treatment.
.local doesn't work in Windows either as of Windows 8.
It's not at all hard for me to imagine a peer-to-peer drone sharing service, with no centralized authority to compel, and nearby flight times to everywhere.

Shit man, satellites even.
I think people miss the context and subtleties of the Linus Torvalds rants. He was addressing rather idiotic junk on the mailing list about using C++ in the Linux kernel. He was trying to shut down some spergs who wouldn't grasp a more subtle request to not barge in on a decade plus old team of C hackers with tooling discussions.

In other forums he has praised Qt and uses it.
Fair, though the particular complaint is that making everything lowercase makes it unpleasant to read, which isn't obviously linked (to me anyway) to the outdated design of the page.
It's pretty great...at the same time, some of the points are pretty fair--especially about the enterprise customers.

"The enterprise begged us to slow down the rate of change and we obliged!"

"Try not to raise your voice or Walmart might hear you..."

"Walmart was never going to be a big buyer, they're as cheap as their stores!"

I really hope that somebody at Joyent gets catharsis from watching this.
Unless they are leaders or have some needed knowledge, the lives of 'the bad guy' will be valued at less than the cost of the robot. Ask Joe Taxpayer how many taxes s/he is willing to spend to capture alive a low level terrorist instead of killing them in combat, especially when we consider that any money spent on this could have been used to improve things at home.

$500M spent to take them down alive or $100M spent to take them down dead.
Basically anyone who has a business model related to the node.js ecosystem would benefit by not having development under the control of a single corporate entity. Isaac was in a tough place back then. I think spinning off NPM was a good move for him and it's great to see him on board with the community fork.

PS. A number of people were against it at first, including Nodejitsu guys and Michael Rodgers. I wrote that either a foundation or a community fork were inevitable. Eventually people realized it, and it turned out to be a community fork. If a meaningful foundation were to happen at this point it would have to be built around io.js in my opinion.