skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AutoCad is a truly amazing piece of software. It's Emacs for vectors,§ but in a world where Emacs was flush with cash and could pay a full blown development team for 30 years...oh and buy out Vim and bury its corpse out in the desert [AutoDesk bought Generic Cadd which used a system of two letter mnemonic commands in 1989 and killed it so dead in 1997 it doesn't even have an English Wikipedia entry].

§ With apologies to Stallman for comparing his baby to proprietary licensed software.
Are they plugins that you just enable in the conf file? If so, all extensions that ship with mercurial are fully supported features. They just disable parts of the cli that can be dangerous or are less commonly used.

If you are having to download 3rd party extensions, then that's a different problem.
So, how long until the record companies go after others with those patents?

I'm betting the wheels are already in motion.
It didn't last.

The tone of the place changed radically after Walker left and Bartz came in.

But, to be fair, it was probably inevitable. Once an organization get beyond a certain size it's bound to change.

Still, it can't be all bad -- I know quite a few people that have been there 20+ years now.
White House 'Outsources' K-12 CS Education to Infosys Charity
On a side note, my personal favourite is the Bender laugh... "AHEHAEHAEHAHEAHE". It denotes forced amusement with a side of cynicism. And it's brilliant.
No, I didn't change my opinion. I just clarified what I meant by "more dangerous", and IMO everything that involves javascript or access to surveillance hardware (camera, microphone, GPS, etc.) qualifies as dangerous.

My fundamental disagreement with you is that I don't think we can wait until "SSL is as seamless and inexpensive as HTTP". That will never happen unless we can pose a credible threat to the profit margins of web hosts and CAs. And sending a horde of unsatisfied customers in their general direction is one of the most effective ways to pose such a threat.
na man that just makes you sound poorly socialized
AIDS deniers are pretty sensational if you ask me.
Ya, was wondering about package install scripts.
> Logistically, the AT is pretty straightforward.

Sorry, I meant that it's difficult to find a chunk of ~6 months.

How was your adjustment back into civilization? I somehow feel that it would be a challenge to find a new job afterwards, as so many employers have a strong bias against periods which look like "unemployment."
We had some kitties delivered to our office in Brisbane, Australia by Uber.

It was adorable.
Like the invention of the dust jacket, the delicate protector.
Minimal UI for Wikipedia (Keyboard Friendly)
The JMT is actually on my list. Every summer I try to do a hike of a 1-4 weeks. Hoping to get to it soon, though it's tough to take a month off at a startup.
You're assuming that searching restaurants on yelp and then booking is a hassle. It isn't for me and for most part people I know who eat out regularly. It's almost always you go there with your friends or significant other and wait at the bar (get drinks etc) and then get the table.

To be honest, I might have booked like 3 times via Opentable in a year.

I am sure there will be a small section of people wanting to do this but I doubt you will be able to scale to make it a operational business. In addition, it is very expensive.
Free, online conference for Jekyll users this weekend
If I wanted to buy the sweetest laptop available that works well with OpenBSD 5.7, what would I buy?
> I'm not sure what you're encountering, but I have yet to meet anyone that teaches that Jesus rode a dinosaur and owned Exxon stock, or anything remotely resembling it.

I had the same reaction as the previous poster; I'm from rural Idaho, where in my experience with it, "homeschooling" is a transparent veil for "too fundamentalist for government-run schools" (which in Idaho, is terror at a very special level). I'm sure it's not that way everywhere, and I'm sure that not all rural homeschooling parents are doing so for religious reasons. But there are places like my hometown, where that is primarily the case.
These outsourcing companies and the organizations that hire them practice a kind of diversity that benefits only the 1%, which they accomplish by throwing American workers under the bus.

Example:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2910327/it-outsourcing/...
What a meaningless parade of speculative bullshit. There's a science for discussions like this -- it's called corpus linguistics. There are people who have spent years of their lives trying to understand observed patterns in behavior using real data and statistical analysis. This a handful of anecdotes that even the most generative of armchair linguists would roll their eyes at.
intelligent services is where the future is. Being able to build these types of capabilities into any app anywhere will just empower developers to use the state of the art without having to implement from scratch. Pretty cool to see Microsoft getting onto this path that other companies have started down.
Probably referring to MSN Direct (2004) http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3932102/ns/technology_and_science-...
Yes, I'd agree especially considering that it's an image not text.
Yep.

Unlike other more oppressive moderation schemes (cough reddit hackernews cough), 4chan just accepts as cost of doing business that people are going to want to be shitheads.

So, you have boards specifically for people wanting to be shitheads. Over time, that becomes board culture, and often raises to a level of self-parody that they become easy to spot when they leak. Imagine, if you will, an island whose sole form of humor is hyperbolically racist, sexist, classist, or materialist. If you can contort yourself into that headspace and engage the art on its own terms, it is a never-ending source of creativity and amusement.

The best part is, if it shows up somewhere else, you can just tell them to "go back to <whatever>", and they don't get a persecution complex about it, because they're not being censored.
In Japanese, people usually end a statement with "w" as it is short for 笑う (romanized: warau) which means to laugh. It even parallels "lololol" by adding more "w"s (i.e. 偶然だｗｗｗ).
I thought this was a secret code only I knew. Now I have to conjure a different way of subliminally communicating my indisposure to chatty friends.

Also, "hehe" means "only mildly amusing, but I'm not busy so I'll keep talking". (Unless you say "hehe" after something you wrote yourself, in which case it's creepy.)

I'm 29.
A friend who spent some time in France always write MDR (mort de rire - "dying of laughter"). Before she went she was a hardcore LOLer.
My mistake. However, Mozilla is still working on it for Firefox.
Kinda weird how much of this is the opposite of what worked.
I was at UF working on another startup when GrooveShark started and was pretty familiar with how they started. One of our co-founders even did some design work for them. GrooveShark always had an awesome user experience, and I always wished their business model would be legitimized so their company can prosper and service consumers as how they should be.

I wish the best of luck to Sam and Josh. I hope they are able to take their passion onto other endeavors. Though UF has a lot of talented students, because Gainesville is a dinky city, it doesn't have the same startup resources as on the west cost. Grooveshark was able to give a lot of students the opportunity to work on something cool and bring some exposure to UF.
Awesome! What a great memorial :)

Maybe consider making the api more strongly typed?

Instead of:

response <- findTopic "tide-pods" [("gender", "male")] config

You could have:

response <- findTopic "tide-pods" [(Gender, Male)] config

Maybe make the common operations available in a strongly typed api, but allow users to use strings like this as a fallback. Then you can better guarantee "correct if it compiles".
Erlang was made for soft real-time. So it's a real thing and accord to wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing#Criteria_f...

Hard – missing a deadline is a total system failure.

Firm – infrequent deadline misses are tolerable, but may degrade the system's quality of service. The usefulness of a result is zero after its deadline.

Soft – the usefulness of a result degrades after its deadline, thereby degrading the system's quality of service.
Wow, I also stumbled upon programming through Gorillas on QBasic. I used that code as a guide to write my first game. A lot of copy-pasting that code and then modifying it just to see what the modification would do. Extremely slow learning by trial-and-error, but a lot of fun!
To quote Team America: Freedom isn't free.

While it might be a step in the right direction, bills designed to justify and extend surveillance programs (especially of its own citizens) under the pretense of terrorism and the new favorite cyber-security, nothing ever really changes.
Actually using type classes and sum types, the Gender is superfluous if you define:

data Gender = Male | Female

Would type more, but on a tablet ATM.

Not sure if this is a good idea or not, but interesting to think about.
Reminds me of this
http://www.lolwithme.org/wp-content/uploads/hahahahah.jpg
> Do you understand how compulsory licensing works? Do you really believe no indie artist has ever collected royalties on their music?

Yes, I do understand how licensing works. The RIAA collects royalties on all music, whether or not the artist is signed to one of their labels[0].

Then, the artist has to register with the RIAA (technically, SoundExchange) to get paid, and if the RIAA is in a good mood, they may decide to pay the artist. Or they may decide to keep some or all of the money they collected on behalf of the artist[1].

Again, this applies not just to artists who are signed to a major label, but to independent artists who have no association with the RIAA whatsoever.

Meanwhile, the RIAA files lawsuits on the grounds that the artists (read: the RIAA) is losing money due to filesharing, and when they receive a settlement, they pay literally none of that money to the artists they claimed were harmed, and instead spend that money on... more lawsuits[2].

[0] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/04/24/327063/-Is-the-RIAA...

[1] http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/05/08/soundex...

[2] http://consumerist.com/2008/03/17/riaa-pockets-filesharing-s...
You seem to have joined two ideas together.

I know quite a few companies that have remote employees (but always in the same country)

I only know of one that has hired a remote employee in a different country. Most companies don't want the hassle. It is not only taxes, but for example a US company is open a really expecting a fast turn around time from a country that has a national holiday.

Plus it takes substantially more time to find qualified people on the other side of the world. Many of the remote workers I know used to work at headquarters for a couple years and THEN moved. It much less risk.
The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OS (2014)
Would you be ok with telling us whether best practices have been followed for storing passwords and other sensitive user information? I ask because all the information has now been turned over to people (RIAA etc?) who I don't trust my data with.

Also, you and your team made a great app; I was among the early users. When something is good you tell everyone. When something is really, really good, you don't tell people for a while. :) It was that good.
In my own experience joints clicking is strongly related to chronic dehydration (abbusive gren teas/strong coffee drinking) coupled with physical activity.

When I avoid coffeinated drinks and related excessive water loss but continuing some active physical exercise the effect is almost disappear. It is "lubrication" issue.)
Probably pivot or add another service that compliment its existing one.

I've heard they're beta testing package delivering over at reddit iirc.

An example would be Netflix, they had cheap license for old tv shows and dvd rentals. Now that production studios have squeezing Netflix in licensing deal with higher prices, they've pivot to becoming HBO like, with a smaller selection of tv shows and movies license.
Not to be a negative HN'er, but this just feels like something people in SF/SV will go crazy about, but will not resonate/scale outside of SF/SV. It's not solving a problem significant enough for the cost. The small subset of people that would pay for this, probably have more efficient means of achieving the same end result (personal assistant, virtual assistant, etc).
Being featured on Product Hunt, what we did right and what we’d change
There are only a handful of shelters on the PCT and water is more scarce than the AT. These are a couple of reasons I tell people that the PCT is logistically more difficult than the AT, while the AT is physically more difficult than the PCT.

Due to the pace required to complete the PCT, camping locations are generally located by time rather than location. That is, towards the end of the day, you just keep walking until you find a comfortable place to set up camp.
Git Immersion (http://gitimmersion.com/) is great for getting up to speed as a beginner.
Sure I can help with server costs. I can eliminate them by pointing you to: https://pages.github.com/
Can someone explain to me (and others) a potential usecase for this ?
Sorry you experienced that! We just discovered a bug that didn't persist the offer to the end in a minority of cases, and it's now been fixed. And thanks for your feedback about our prices. Our price at launch is actually derived from other services in the reservations space (ie Table8, TableSaavy), but we're always evaluating our price point.
TrueCraft, An Open Source Implementation of Minecraft 1.7.3
I generally start by hiring a contractor, seeing how they work out and if it does work out well they move into a full time remote position. For the other stuff I talk to my accountant, no clue.
I love reading posts from the past like this, ironic how things actually played out for Apple. Interestingly a few of the points actually happened, specifically; point #7, point #12, point #14 and more interestingly "39. Build a laptop that weighs 2 pounds." - kind of fitting that this played out for Apple focusing on thinner and lighter products than competitor offerings.

This takes me back to the days leading up the new release of the first iPhone. Everyone was predicting that an Apple phone would fail, that Apple should stick to what they know and in a short amount of time they proved everyone wrong and became the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.
Excellent! Congrats to the team.

Glad to see postgres 9.4 in packages, and more improvements to libressl.

Anybody got an opinion on a decent openbsd vps?
Some people have never heard of a DHT, and think that "blockchain" is a workable primitive instead of a high-level tool. It's like immediately jumping to "let's create a table for that in Postgres" instead of first considering whether the problem could be solved with a dictionary.

Also, if people are looking for something to use as a primitive, I'd much rather they look at Freenet. :)
First Liger, now Grooveshark. I only have a semester left but a large portion of the Gainesville I know and love has vanished pretty quickly in the last month :(
As part of the settlement agreement with the major record companies,
we have agreed to cease operations immediately, wipe
clean all of the record companies’ copyrighted works and
hand over ownership of this website, our mobile apps and
intellectual property, including our patents and copyrights.

Yeah Grooveshark was really getting in the way of me paying for that album ($10) and song ($1.something) I paid for in the last couple of days.

Oh and that $1 song? I bought it because I heard it on one of those videos-that-is-really-just-a-still-frame-so-they-can-share-the-music for the song. Also, what is Grooveshark again? I've heard of it, but I don't think I've ever used it.

My experiences can't be atypical, can they? Was it really a threat worth shutting down and all of the legal expenses? This just hurts me because literally in the last couple of days I watched an unlicensed copy of a song, liked it, and then bought it because I could and I wanted better quality sound. The (different) album was a similar pipeline--A link on Reddit directed me to the song (in the form of a YouTube video) and I then ended up buying the album.

I can't be the only one.
Alas, I'm not so formal as to do anything so beautiful as literate programming. This is perhaps just slightly higher quality than your usual physicist spaghetti code. It runs, it works, and it's reproducible.

I can't figure out if the non-free "No License" option on GitHub is truly non-free. The GitHub terms of use grant the right to view and "to fork" without any clear definition of what "forking" means in that context. Is that "fork so you can see what it looks like" or "fork so you can use it and incorporate it into your own analysis without sharing"?

If it's the former, I'll just throw it up on GitHub unlicensed or with an "all rights reserved" tag, as making the guts of the code visible is my highest priority. I'd be very happy to table for later the actual issue of selecting a license (and appending it to the header of files in >5 different interoperating computer languages).

Thanks!
Here comes Tesla's 'missing piece' battery announcement
Status of the iOS 8.2 Jailbreak
This attitude of "oh, the only reason it's popular is because people want to feel superior for learning something hard" is poisonous to productive discussion. If you're going to be cynical about it, at least favor the "OMG Linus Torvalds maed it" explanation over the one that requires active assholery on the part of Git users. Better yet, try assuming that most people are making a reasonable effort to be rational based on their limited knowledge. But what you did right there, please don't do that.
Livestream is here: http://www.teslamotors.com/livestream
That's already over $2100 for a little over one week's worth of meals.
Don't forget "lolololololol", which is different in meaning from all those you listed. (Specifically it is a form of sardonic laughter, as in "did you hear that Trump is running for president again?" "wtf no again?? / lololololol".)
I felt reading this is what life for a CEO must be like. To be continually bombarded with 101 ways to do the job. 80%+ are wrong, from people who absolutely believe at the time they are correct.
My dictionary defines illegal as “contrary to or forbidden by law”. If you're distributing material without permission it's still illegal even if you stick your fingers in your ears while loudly shouting “na na na I can't hear you!”
You sound like a great parent.
A wonderful wonderful wonderful wonderful man.
Single page: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/apple_pr.html
1) It's not a constant expression, it's a function call.

2) The compiler does not know if there are collateral effects or not.

3) Ocaml is strict eval - no memoisation

Therefore this would be an unsafe optimisation if the compiler tried to perform it, which could lead to unintended behavioural changes.

The only way to fix this properly would be to add an effects system in some sense, at least a way to mark pure/impure functions.
"Normal schools can’t personalize the curriculum and so deal poorly with asynchronous learners."

Couldn't agree more! Universities tend to be much worse in this aspect.
An amazing man. Amazing pianist, and just awesome person.
I've used them and assumed they had sorted the licensing issues.

I don't necessarily agree with the licensing model the music and film industries are using, but I'm surprised that, being so visible, they were able to keep going for so long without running into trouble.
Excellent band to see live if you haven't yet :-)
It's interesting that OpenBSd's xhci driver is new, while Linux has had an xhci driver for several years...
brew tap aspnet/dnx
brew update
brew install dnvm
dnvm upgrade

From https://github.com/aspnet/Home/blob/dev/README.md#os-x

There are some hello world examples in the repo listed above as well.
If you'd like, you can develop with the recently announced Visual Studio Code, announced ~yesterday.

I think this is still Mono, but full MSFT support of *Nix is said to be underway.
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When I hear statements like 2 million lines of code, I ask myself whether this is actual code that a team of developers wrote or if they're counting the lines in third party packages and frameworks they are using. LOC is not an accurate measurement of the quality of a software application. Interestingly it seems that it is written in the Ada programming language as well (a favourite amongst mission critical software applications and military purposes): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_%28programming_language%29
I read his paper, "Conception, Evolution, and Application of Functional Programming Languages," and used it for work on a project while getting my master's degree.

If you're interested in functional programming, I highly recommend it. It explains many of the things that you've heard about FP, and it very well written.
Fummny comments for social media
Intra-query parallelism for starters.
tl;dr "101. Don't worry. You'll survive. It's Netscape we should really worry about."
Plenty of items on the list are involved with what happened. Like 'keep a retail presence', 'distinguish your looks' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#/media/File:Nafija55.jpg came out the next year), 'focus on customer support', 'break new ground, don't CYA', 'improve your marketing', 'simplify product names', even 'buy a song' (hello U2).

Notable exceptions are 'apologise', 'build software the business community cares about', and, of course, #1 'abandon hardware'.

These are all items on the first page, because I haven't clicked the second one yet.
But.. they have access to libraries with computers... More seriously, most of the world doesn't have easy access to libraries like US or some other developed countries while they do have access to decent internet.
The article didn't mention it, but the "classic tale" of a founder and a Ferrari happened to Eagle Computer in 1983.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Computer#Eagle_PCs_and_I...
New Facebook trick working in 2015 and 2016
I've completed both the AT and PCT on thru-hikes.

The PCT is logistically more difficult than the AT. The AT is physically more difficult than the PCT. Both are long distance hikes where, once initial physical issue have been conquered, become more of a mental challenge than physical challenge.

The PCT seems to be more hostile to feet than the AT. Lots of hikers have a difficult time figuring out the right combination of miles, shoes, socks, and so on during the Southern California part of the PCT. Blisters are very common. The AT's ups and downs can be more hazardous to ankles and knees. Hiking poles are common and useful on both.

Resupply options on the PCT are less frequent than the AT leading to longer sections between resupply than on the AT. There are only three or four shelters on the PCT so camping locations must be thought out in advance (i.e. consulting maps to identify level ground) or discovered en-route. You have to be prepared to dry-camp as stopping for the day at the last water source will cut into your daily miles too much.

Weather can be challenging on either trail but the 'season' for hiking is much longer on the AT than the PCT. PCT hikers can't spent lots of time in town if they want to finish before the snow arrives in Washington.

I'm happy to answer any more specific questions.
I love the instant feedback when completing a valid query, but as suggested, it can get in the way when trying to compose a filter. Perhaps use a `tickbox` to toggle the automatic table data update?

Another thing, the invalid / incomplete query alert gets in the way of looking at the last data row. Perhaps you can find a better location to show this alerts?