skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, the fake announcement post was really fun to write:

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$150 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz!

We are extremely excited to announce our new funding from some long time friends in venture capital, Andreessen Horowitz. They lead a $150 million dollar private equity round at a $52 billion dollar valuation, which we will use to start generating revenue and take our software to the next level.

"We've scaled enough. It's time to monetize." -Richard Stallman, Founder, FSF

As part of this deal, we will begin to add per-use fees to many of the popular GNU software we maintain, such as "ls", "dd", "cat", "grep", and many more. You can check out our pricing update and documentation on Github. Supported tools now include a "--pricing" flag so you can keep track of how much you owe us. For example, you can type "gcc --pricing" to get the amount you owe from compiling all those continuous integration deployments.

"GNU is sitting on a hundred billion dollar opportunity, and I'm really excited they are capitalizing on it."
-Sam Altman, YCombinator

Thanks very much to all of our current contributers that have made this step possible. If it weren't for the hard work of you, we wouldn't be able have such an incredible position in the market and rich go-to-market strategy. As part of this fundrasing, we will be setting aside 10% of the investment to give back to the community that have made us so very, very happy.

"They got embedded in all the huge enterprise companies on the backs of volunteers! Now they can flip on the revenue stream. I really respect Richard for his cutthroat business strategy."
-Larry Ellison, Oracle

Unfortunately, some long time friends in the Linux community will not be joining us in our journey, namely the Linux kernel, so we will be using $50 million from this funding to complete the GNU Hurd kernel on an accelerated timeline so that our current users don't experience any interruption of service.

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https://diafygi.github.io/gnu-pricing/website/
Somehow I expect that the proper mindset for 'entrepreneurship' is 'stack that paper'.
Intel is buying Xilinx, the largest FPGA manufacturer... Why is everyone going DEEP?!:( I thought I could just run my javascript code in a java based browser running in a java VM running inside a VM written in Python. :(

WE NEED MORE HIGH LEVEL STUFF. Not VHDL and whatnot. Coz the hardware will always be 'fast enough', right?
Have you considered that 'context' exists.
Before I would ever change sides in that argument, I would need to see definitive proof that vulnerabilities in software I use are better for me than having those vulnerabilities fixed.

Unlike nuclear weapons, there aren't a lot of rare resources required for discovering vulnerabilities, so the approaches that help with nuclear nonproliferation will not help with digital security. All one needs is to find vulnerabilities is smart people (and maybe a lot of computing resources to brute force fuzz a lot of software). There are a lot of smart people and fast computers out there, and the ones not in the US almost certainly outnumber those that are inside the US. It seems it would be much better to defend against them and disarm entirely rather than hope to stay ahead of them.
That's what using Browserify with CommonJS modules accomplishes, and has wide adoption. ES6 also specifies a module system, but it remains to be seen how that gets used or when it becomes the norm.
Fixed the title :)
Care to mention in what field you did your bachelors and masters? You got into FPGAs though CS or through EE? I'm always curious about FPGA engineers.
I always thought Buddhism was an off-shoot of Hinduism - a kind of cleaned up version by the Buddha, who was born Hindu.
How do you imagine a business would come across a computer that did not already have a desktop license?
Thank you for comment. I have same problems with ffmpeg conversion. I'm working to correct problem.
They still make a lot of money off of Windows desktop.

In 2014 they changed how they report segment revenue, but as of 2013 the Windows division (non server) had $19 billion in sales for that fiscal year. Revenue for Windows desktop is down a bit from there (perhaps 8%-10%) according to reports throughout 2014.

The operating income on that $19 billion was $9.5 billion. Needless to say it's still a wildly profitable cash cow for Microsoft, albeit a declining business.
This would be quite funny if it had not been attempted seriously in a major Gnu project already!

Check out the SHAMELESS Ole Tange and his bizarre attempts to simultaneously force people to obey academic citations while at the same offering you the chance to throw the academic process in the bin for a mere 10000 EUR payment to him.

I wish I was joking. GNU Nagware! It literally nags you with a warning message every time you use it until you tell it you agree to cite him or pay him 10000 EUR.

I have no idea how the Gnu foundation allows this!

Take a look at
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/src/paral...

sub bibtex {
# Returns: N/A
print join("\n",
"Academic tradition requires you to cite works you base your article on.",
"When using programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for publication",
"please cite:",
"",
"\@article{Tange2011a,",
" title = {GNU Parallel - The Command-Line Power Tool},",
" author = {O. Tange},",
" address = {Frederiksberg, Denmark},",
" journal = {;login: The USENIX Magazine},",
" month = {Feb},",
" number = {1},",
" volume = {36},",
" url = {http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel},",
" year = {2011},",
" pages = {42-47}",
" doi = {10.5281/zenodo.16303}",
"}",
"",
"(Feel free to use \\nocite{Tange2011a})",
"",
"This helps funding further development; and it won't cost you a cent.",
"If you pay 10000 EUR you should feel free to use GNU Parallel without citing.",
"",
"If you send a copy of your published article to tange\@gnu.org, it will be",
"mentioned in the release notes of next version of GNU Parallel.\n\n",
);
while(not -e $ENV{'HOME'}."/.parallel/will-cite") {
print "\nType: 'will cite' and press enter.\n> ";
my $input = <STDIN>;
if($input =~ /will cite/i) {
mkdir $ENV{'HOME'}."/.parallel";
if(open (my $fh, ">", $ENV{'HOME'}."/.parallel/will-cite")) {
close $fh;
print "\nThank you for your support. It is much appreciated. The citation\n",
"notice is now silenced. You may also use '--will-cite'.\n",
"If you use '--will-cite' in scripts you are expected to pay\n",
"the 10000 EUR, because you are making it harder to see the\n",
"citation notice.\n\n";
Farming is actually a great example. There were farmers who did fight back against farm machinery. Sabotage of tractors and equipment was an actual thing here in the US and abroad. You can even find whole groups of anti-tractor types in the American Amish country.

These days it's sabotage against GMO crops. You'll find Monsanto and other companies will place their GMO test fields in regions of the country known to be sympathetic and/or will keep them under armed guard.
Heads up: you say, "DinoPictures.org is a search engine that curates...", but your domain is dinosaurpictures.org (not dinopictures.org)
So the real requirement is probably just that the GPU and the NIC get compatible mappings, and you could probably compartmentalize them as a pair—the same as how all the legacy PCI devices behind a PCIe to PCI bridge need to dealt with as a unit for IOMMU purposes.
Oops, the correct link should be: http://www.thetattooedprof.com/archives/356
> Well, it's more...

None of these things are features of the language itself (except arguably "more modern", whatever that means). They're all byproducts of the fact that JS is the only language that runs in a browser. JavaScript has basically succeeded dramatically in spite of itself by piggybacking on the runaway success of the web/browsers.
There are many more parties interested in one's browsing history than just one's own government. There are foreign governments, advertisers, data brokers, hackers, etc. HTTPS at least reduces the attack surface.
Hacker News: http://www.hndigest.com
Yes, but with the inevitable rise of the ocean level it's worth looking into solving the problems related to artificial islands.
Piracy will come back with a vengeance. I don't know how they'll tell people who go buy their laptops that they have to pay a monthly subscription if they want to keep using it.
> These trucks can and will put people out of work.

You're saying that as if it were a bad thing.
That's true I believe. However, my point is that at least in the Christianity (specifically Catholicism) sector of this graph, it's misleading.

Specifically in the graph, different orders of priests aren't schismatic offshoots of the Catholic religion by any means.

After looking at the graph a little more closely, I also see various Catholic traditions listed as separate religions (i.e. Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Ruthenian Catholic Church, Melkite Greek Catholic Church). I understand the idea of listing these as separate from the Church, but they are in "full communion" with the Catholic Church and also shouldn't be mistaken as separate religions. We all believe the same important things, different cultures and traditions have brought their own gifts to the faith.

Catholics profess the Nicene Creed each mass and in it are the "Four Marks of the Church", something every Catholic grade schooler has to memorize at some point. One, holy, catholic, and apostolic. The word "Catholic" itself is greek for "universal".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_communion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Marks_of_the_Church#.22Cat...
What I'm amazed by is not the amount of javascript libraries (the more the better IMO) but the amount of under utilized ones. There are tons of awesome JS libraries, experiments and basically web toys out there without a real home.
A couple of criticisms:

* "Wasted" is a value judgment. Arguably anything humans do with their lives that's valuable to them isn't wasted.

* Creating narratives that provide context and serve a starting/exploration point for value judgments seems to be something humans just do (the astute might even notice the author of the comment I'm replying to is hardly immune). Religion isn't that different from the rest of the liberal arts in that respect, though the way people inhabit it arguably is (and everyone inhabits one narrative/cosmology or another).

* Given those things, it looks like you might be confusing religion with a kind of folk cosmology (as that's the easiest explanation for a flat judgment of religion as a waste of time).
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According to the key, they are listed as "adherent branches".

Schisms are shown by ovoids with white fill and appear to make some sense.

I guess the chart is trying to show practices that have a lot of adherents, not just a diagram of religions. Much of the problem is probably just using the word "branch", which isn't a great description of what is shown.
The Hungry Cat That Has Soul
So, what did you put in place? GNU Octave?
Virtual Machines and Windows Server.
rogerhoward makes some excellent points.

Some other things, assuming for the sake of discussion that this writeup is accurate:

1. It damages the relationship of the jackboot community and the administration: the SEALs were deployed to hit Bin Laden, and were told that this would be done without fanfare. Instead, within hours, the White House and company are bragging about the whole operation. This is not how proper clandestine things are done, one imagines.

2. It damages the relationship of the jackboots in particular and the administration: having to suffer the indignity of signing what is a effectively an NDA for premeditated murder--and then watching two folks get away with breaching it because it supports the new, official story--cannot have been easy for the folks involved in the raid.

3. It damages the State department's credibility (hah) with Pakistan. We agreed that steps would be taken to reinforce the government's position with its people, and that we wouldn't implicate them--they would save face. Instead, we put up a flimsy half-baked cover story, and decide not to go with one that leads to lots of easy questions, which will never have answers that are either convenient or satisfying. Look how Gates reacted during the thing--was not happy.

4. It damages the relation of the government and its people. As seen through the FOIA requests, it's pretty obvious that several parts of the story don't really jive. So, it's obvious that there is either bad record keeping in place, or a coverup of some sort. Not in the dramatic sense, mind you, but just minor misalignments of documented reality with official story.

~

The problem isn't that they had the guy whacked--it's that they perhaps did such a thoroughly and unneeded job of lying about it afterwards.

If you want to see how this sort of thing should be done, look at the Israelis.
Great app, I am going to make it my default alarm for a few days to test. 2 suggestions:

- wouldn't it be great to have the option to start reading automatically, instead of having to slide up? I couldn't find this option. By not doing so, I am afraid I am just going to snooze, like I do with my current alarm clock

- Would be nice to have some basic interactions for the News channel: say "yes" to read the article into details, instead of just reading the titles. Or maybe read the article by default?
I don't think the structure of the response would be the dictating factor for a "poorly designed RESTful architecture". This response format no longer makes things RESTful because it lumps together so many different models. This format is more suited for command/presenter pattern (orchestration).
>- of course, you can totally ignore the "modern Windows" side of the coin for now, except that's where Windows is headed

It seems to me that they are backing off metro/"modern Windows" more and more. 8.1 made boot to Desktop the default, they are bringing back the start menu in 10 and Metro apps will run in windows in 10.
There arguably weren't any real enemies to the Republic, other than the folks who saw an opportunity to use fear to repeal our rights.
Yes, working with Amazon on it.
Yes, I recall reading a few articles about that. I wasn't clear, however, whether if you can meet the criteria for the "exceptions" if there could be another law somewhere that you could still get hit with. If I am serious about this gig, I'd really have to lawyer up since my legal knowledge is only going to get me in trouble :-)
CD PhD?
Couldn't see it linked anywhere yet, but the original OpenMap version is at

http://funki.com.ua/ru/portfolio/lab/world-religions-tree/
> The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance

Well, duh. The ISI officers and generals needed to be able to claim that and if the US people wanted their co-operation they needed to provide plausible deniability.

I am confused as to why this is presented as remotely surprising.
See my footnote at the start of this thread. And please stop progressive-splaining to me.
Activists Turn Tables on Political Surveillance Hawks
How efficiently OpenCl used the FPGA ?

And BTW, i remember reading some paper that compared CPU/GPU/FPGA. The conclusion was - GPU's win on compute/$, FPGA's win on compute/watt. Hard to find the paper now, though.
That's the first link at the result of the redirect, the text "World Religions Tree".
If the innocent material you have suddenly becomes subject to search-and-seizure by the Secret Service, off-site backup would likely be targeted as well. Keeping a copy might even be a felony even if it turns out the data was innocent (obstructing an investigation/operation etc).
I thought Heroes of Might & Magic III was available for Linux anyway.
If they didn't many of the best libs wouldn't' exits today.
If a licensed mechanical engineer signs off on a set of building plans and the building collapses, they are held responsible. Should software for self driving cars be held to a similar standard?
Information overload.
I hope they stop making Windows entirely. What a sad company.
You forgot Egg Timer on the New York hackaton's page, which features a drawing of not one but four female ovaries, complete with blatant objectification:
http://pamelaliou.com/blog/?p=367

When white women in the tech industry themselves are reprogrammed to be non-welcoming to diversities, you know there's a problem.
Interview with Clojure-Loving Dan Hammer about Open Source Deforestation Project
I ended up googling one of the pictures in search for higher resolution and seem to have ended up on the original post, from 2011 in a forum on european culture:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?27686-Mount-...

Same article and pictures, word for word. Pretty suspicious of that site posting it without any links, but I can't be bothered to dig more.

Nethertheless, it's still a good read.
They will abandon Windows and work on a new operating system based on Linux.
I desperately want this to be true just because I'm a political junkie and a student of history and it'd be a great start to the week to see the White House, State department, Pakistan, and everyone else respond to it. Definitely rooting for a Charlie Rose interview of Hersh. But there does seem to be only one main source he relies on and the whole story and its details just seem so perfect.

It will be interesting to see if his story is corroborated in the weeks and months to come.
Presumably, we're not -- updates will be free, and the policy "pays" from increased focus and less disruption within Microsoft's product strategy. After a period, they only need maintain one version, and none of the updates can hurt adoption.

In other words, they've just announced that they're not going to pull another Vista or Windows 8 that damaged their brand, and neither are they going to make the mistake of supporting XP for so many many years again.
>It's not $300 a day. It's $300 on launch day. Sales always, always drop far below launch day unless you have other factors which keep the app in the news or on a "top 10" chart.

Yes, but those $300 were still made in a day as the 8th top app.

What the parent said is that $300 for each day you're on the "top 8th" is good.

If he can't be on the top 8th for long, that's his problem, and it doesn't mean people should be getting $12K for a single day on the top 10.
I'm not sure how even ignorant law enforcement raids go from "maintaining additional copies" to "obstructing justice."
You seem to be really digging for some kind of SJW secret hackathon cabal or something, when the explanation is a lot simpler: crass and offensive jokes are funny but usually lack the staying power required to see them all the way through a hackathon.

If your argument is "Well, nobody but SJWs would possibly throw one of these and they do it just so they can taunt the rest of us" then I think you need to spend more time off in the real world.
Does any distro keep that in their packages?
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> but it's not a programming language you're selling me, it's a whole environment

Well, yes, because programming languages don't exist in a vacuum. The currently available libraries, tools, and documentation are very important if you decide to actually do something with that language.

> I have never missed autocompletion in Javascript

A moment ago, you complained about having to press a few more keys for the type annotations.

> I wanted to make the point that I don't automatically consider that "IDEs can autocomplete" is a positive feature

That there are IDEs which let you auto-complete everything is a positive feature.

Being toolable doesn't mean that those tools exist. If those tools exist, you can make use of them if you decide to use this language. This is a good thing.

By the way, JavaScript doesn't lack good tooling because it doesn't need good tooling. It's the way it is, because offering good tooling for JavaScript is really difficult. ES6's modules and classes will help with that though. The tools will make good use of this statically available information.
The more important problem is that the middle class is squeezed -- in the US from what I read, but also in Europe that I know, and nobody CAN really spend as much anymore in the first place.
http://typedrummer.com/m2k5ou
I have never seen it before, and that was awesome.
The 330m user stat might not have been that impressive; Facebook was well on course to surpass it by then, but even as late as 2010 MSN/Live Messenger was apparently sending 9Bn daily messages from 1.5bn daily conversations. Which - I must admit I was surprised by this - is a lot more than Twitter boasts today. If those stats are evidence of failure to offer anything to the market I can only assume you don't regard the next generation of consumer startups that highly either.

I'm not sure what additional value pioneering MSN users would have discovered from not being able to communicate with people using AIM, but I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that. At the time I found it a perfectly adequate chat client which my friends and I used exclusively, but I reiterate that I am open to suggestions of better ways for MS to have kickstarted the process of acquiring 230 million users in two years straddling the turn of the century.

They robbed themselves of the chance of success because they didn't really have many ideas of what to do with all those users beyond try to drive them to their web portal or sell them emoticons, but for the time they managed seriously impressive growth and totally dominated the market.
"progressive-splaining* means what, exactly? I have a similar issue with the misused mansplaining, for what it's worth.
A percentage that makes a multi-billion dollar industry out of home (and home office) software?
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Do you catch more flies with rotting flesh than with sterilised water?
Hi, founders of the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon (AKA "Stupid Hackathon") here, and yes we do have a certificate, linked below for future reference.

http://i.imgur.com/8Qp91cE.gif
This sort of research only makes sense if you use an expansive definition of "liberal" and "conservative". From a historical perspective, it makes hardly any sense at all. For example, Englishmen in 1590 presumably split into "liberal" and "conservative" camps as defined by such research, and yet essentially everyone was ridiculously reactionary by modern standards, in that most people were monarchists who supported the personal rule of a queen. This suggests that the liberal/conservative divide, while real, need not necessarily bleed into politics. It's democracy, of course, that changed the game.
>They're all byproducts of the fact that JS is the only language that runs in a browser.

So? The end result is the same, Javascript has these attributes and Python doesn't.
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http://typedrummer.com/7n8zmp
Where do you think these open source companies got the idea for long-term support policies from in the first place? Microsoft and IBM had been selling software and supporting for enough length of time that these things became necessary long before OSS projects caught up.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm taking those on board for updates. And thanks for trying it out.

For the News channel - I tried to get the right mix of being enough, but not too much. Maybe even allowing the user to set the density might be a good idea!
What will GetVersionEx start returning? dwMinorVersion is 32 bits wide, so Windows 10 can live for quite a while. I look forward to Windows 10.34124.