skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Windows shell itself lets you browse the Web

Microsoft implemented it, called "The Microsoft Network" (MSNv1): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Dial-up#The_Microsoft_Netwo... . It used the Win95 Explorer as interface. Internet Explorer 1 (rebranded Mosaic) shipped with Win95b / Win95 Plus add-on CD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)

See MSN1 in action, the introduction film with Jennifer Aniston: https://youtu.be/kGYcNcFhctc?t=17m16s (watch it for 2-3 min to get the idea; or direct link to MSN1: https://youtu.be/kGYcNcFhctc?t=19m16s)

Read Bill Gates (former internal) 1994 memo: "Windows: The Next Killer Application on the Internet": http://www.microsoft.com/about/companyinformation/timeline/t... . "The memo starts with a background on the Internet in general, and then proposes a strategy on how to turn Windows into the next "killer app" for the Internet." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
Tablets seem to sell pretty well
Could a Little Startup Called Diffbot Be the Next Google?
Sounds like the American educational system at work
I don't see how this can compete with MixPanel. Why wait until the database part of the funnel to do analytics? Javascript catches data from the very beginning of the funnel.
It's an absolutely silly question; there's a clear difference between zoning rules based on land use, and zoning rules based on discrimination against a protected class.
The problem with randomness is that it is overwhelmingly likely to produce worse performance, not better. So much so, that it is practically impossible to improve through random effects.
Yes, it was quite the moving performance.
Supply/demand. If there's not enough housing, companies will either need to pay more, people would need to commute farther, or people will need to choose other cities.
I didn't mean to imply that a professor should necessarily interact with all his or her students. I was more thinking of how I've seen many professors who obviously did not want to interact with their students because they wanted to focus on their research, and seeing as the current system appears to not punish this behavior, it is suboptimal in a teaching environment.

I think the system is fine in terms of not forcing all students to interact with their professors as that would lead to very shallow relationships. After all, many students go to college just to put it on their resume and help them land a job.
If you look at the rest of the site, the entire thing is similarly pretentious. It's really quite impressive in a "train wreck in slow motion" sort of way.
To whomever downvoted this: would you mind telling me why? Have I offended you in some way? Is it because of the criticism of the hardware industry? Or the sarcasm?
Two months ago I received an itinerary, directly from the airline, that made two connections before reaching the final destination. At each connection, my arrival was scheduled to land 30-60 minutes after the connecting departure. I'm not concerned at all about the airlines becoming an omnipotent big brother.
OP here. It's not meant to replace mixpanel. It's to visualize KPIs that most startups have to pull from their MYSQL databases. Such as total customers, churn, ect. You would never use this for web tracking.
Actually very prescient, except that the MS tech he mentions is not being used. He basically describes the exact role that the browser plays on mobile devices today.
Yes, or course it does. You'll learn this if you ever go into a Global Entry interview.

Reminds me of what my Pakistani-American friend said. He has no problems when he goes to the airport. They know when he leaves, what route he takes, when he arrives.

Not right, but maybe true?
Its only a problem if the professor can't interact with all the students that actually want to interact though. I also had 100+ students in some upper division courses but I doubt more than 10 cared to interact with any given professor. Most were merely concerned with their grades.
AFAIK Zuse's idea was 'digital physics', ie. that physical laws are algorithms and the Universe can be considered as a (completely standalone, not part of anything else) computer.

Bostrom's idea is that the Universe is (probably) a simulation of something else, running on a computational device embedded inside another Universe.
What does punishing them accomplish?
NextLight: The Fastest Internet in the World (Almost)
I will do, Steve! I follow you on Twitter so I'll ping you once I feel like I can write decent Rust code and have an acceptable level of low-level programming know-how.

Maybe I shall write a little blog post about it, so I can explain the major challenges a bit.
Change your name. It's not reasonable to think that you can use another company's name for a copy of their service.
> XML is parsed on the device wasting CPU time and battery

It was my understanding the XML was compiled into a binary format for faster parsing on device, am I wrong on that?

EDIT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_application_package "resources.arsc: a file containing precompiled resources, such as binary XML for example." Ah yes, I think it does.

> Most of all, it allows no code reuse.

If we are talking code reuse in terms of having one common bit of layout that is used across several different layouts, actually you can: http://developer.android.com/training/improving-layouts/reus...

Also, the Android view system as it stands is incredible flexible.

You can provide different layouts and style rules for different screensizes and device configs - an kinda equivalent to the webs responsive design using CSS media queries.

Also, every view component is just a Java class. As well as allowing you to create your own class from scratch that you can just use as part of a view, you can also extend an existing view class and just change one bit of it's behaviour.

I don't especially mean to have a go at Anko - sorry. It's just that I think the Android views are actually pretty good, and certainly when I'm working on Android apps this isn't one of the major problems I have!
At the time he was doing liquor commercials, Welles was really, literally, the most interesting man in the world.

Well, Feynman could top him maybe, but the list of men who could is short.
This is a really interesting paper which I haven't been able to finish in detail yet. Just a couple of quick reactions:

> We would like to be able to make a const pointer a
guarantee that nothing that receives the pointer may write
to the resulting memory. This allows const pointers to be
passed across security-domain boundaries.

I've always wished that were the case too. It would also allow the compiler more optimization opportunities, because it could assume that a call to f(&x) will not change x unless a non-const pointer to x has escaped.

> Container describes behavior in a macro common in the
Linux, BSD, and Windows kernels that, given a pointer
to a structure member, returns a pointer to the enclosing
structure [20]. This may or may not be permitted behavior
according to the standard, due to the ambiguous definition
of ‘object’.

I'm not sure what interpretation of the C standard would disallow this. For the initial member of a structure it seems particularly clear-cut that it is allowed:

C99, 6.7.2.1.13:

"A pointer to a structure object, suitably converted, points to its initial member (or if that member is a bit-field, then to the unit in which it resides), and vice versa. There may be unnamed padding within a structure object, but not at its beginning."

This seems to pretty unambiguously state that you can convert a pointer to an initial member to a pointer to the enclosing struct. I can't imagine what interpretation of the standard would disallow this, or even disallow using offsetof() to convert a non-first member to a pointer to the struct.
It's because you will probably interact with people, and having a socially aware human brain will cause you to recognize surprise and judgement in others, and you'll have to find a way to emotionally deal with the resulting rejection and exclusion.

Most people do this by saying "It's ok: I'm doing it on purpose. I didn't want to be accepted anyway."

And that's what rebellion is.
The parens don't quite line up with how triplets are usually notated. This effectively prevents you from ending the composition with a triplet that loops properly.

You can hear it weird here: http://typedrummer.com/53d811

vs. without the triplets at the end, only in the middle, so less broken sounding: http://typedrummer.com/4x2977

EDIT: Ok, workaround: just put the first character in parens - http://typedrummer.com/hoxj64
I can, specially in Europe.

One good example might be the Portuguese Carnation Revolution that took place in 1974.
It overthrew a corporatist dictatorship where private enterprise created a feudal system based on state sponsored monopolies handed out to a few families.
The dictator himself was apparently modest in his life style, but his friends running the monopolies were very wealthy.
Life for the common person improved significantly after the revolution with access to free health-care, more education and better worker rights.
A lack of Millennials making work the central focus of their lives might indicate a lack of compelling and worthwhile opportunities. Blaming workers in this case is similar to blaming borrowers for irresponsible lending during the housing bubble.
Why Apps Need a New Data Center Stack
This reminds me of Turbo Pascal, where certain runtime functions can take variable arguments, yet the language does not allow defining such. It felt like magic.

Abother example is lisp, and yes lisp has the ultimate macro language (scheme, cl, clojure), and yet in Common Lisp there is the notion of "open coded" - certain builtin names are known to the compuler/interpreter and can do also magical things. That to be said certain implementations of C/C++ also have them.
Well, given the value of the stolen goods in question ( http://www.theeagle.com/landandlivestockpost/in-today-s-mark... seems to indicate that a year ago, two thousand dollars was reasonable if historically high), a reasonable penalty would be restitution and depending on history perhaps a suspended sentence with compulsory community service, or failing that a few months in prison. Although it would have to be one of those prisons you only get in foreign countries where the aim is to make everyone better off by turning criminals into lawful, valuable citizens :(

Ten years is just plain fucking stupid, and costs the state an absolute fortune.
The page is just pure white for about 30 seconds before it loads for me. (Gentoo Firefox on Linux.) I don't know why but all the items on the page are positioned off page with "visibility: hidden".

Anyway, in case the author sees I thought they might want to know. And if it doesn't load for someone here, wait 30 seconds and it probably will.

I can see in the console your fonts are failing to load. Perhaps this is causing the issue?
Any article that discusses atheism and does not even mention Ayn Rand is incomplete. Its probably a good thing she wasn't mentioned as one of the "new" atheists because she is an old atheist from way back when it wasn't fashionable but was shocking to be one.

I agree with this critique of the new kid's approach to attacking religion, though their services probably do have some value in slowing its advance. Rand, of course, addressed this critique in her work, stating that atheism is not a central tenet or even a very important conclusion in her philosophy. It is a consequence of going by reason but she did not stop there and defined a whole systematic philosophy including metaphysics (existential), epistemology, ethic and politics. So the main question to the New Atheists in this article is "Okay, so you don't believe in God. What do you believe?" None of them have a a consistent, integrated, rational alternative to the proto-philosophy that is religion. The closest is Sam Harris who at least claims it is possible to define an ethic system based on reason but he is not honest enough to do it.
I think I agree, but I believe you're saying "repatriation" when you mean "expropriation." Repatriation usually refers to a requirements to realize gains, etc. in one's home country--not the taking of property by force. The taking of private property for government use is expropriation.
If ever there was a condemnation of the concept of a "counterculture" this is it.
I can obviously only speak for my students in terms of willingness to do legwork, but I don't find this to be the case at all. And just because they ask me something in an email that they could figure out themselves, I don't necessarily have to give them the answer.

The opposite is usually the case. I prefer to use their hastily sent digital questions as teaching opportunities -- opportunities I wouldn't have had if not for the ease with which they can engage with me. For example, I often respond to questions that need to be researched elsewhere by reminding students they have Google, as well as world class libraries.

Like any profession, different professors approach their work in different ways. How a professor chooses to engages with his or her students isn't the fault of students. I don't see much value in metaphorically shaking my fist and lamenting "What's the matter with kids these days? They're overly entitled! How dare they expect success!"

I, like most professors, am in control of the education I provide. That's my favorite part about being a professor. (It's definitely not the salary...)
The American Dream: Designed by War Planners [pdf]
i need to be carefaul with it :D
Despite DNA, the Rapist Got Away
I wouldn't be surprised if this would make players want to cheat more. "Hey hey! Look at my character! 300,000 people watched him!".

I don't really think making the ethics of an in game execution a big deal is really the right tact though. Aren't there better things to do?
The private key in the article was generated specifically for the article as an example - there's no CA-signed certificate that used it.

Also, certificate revocation is very unreliable.
Thank you. Articles like this make coming to HN on a Sunday morning worth it.
duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9485389
Crashes Firefox after trying about 20 different examples
from this page, i.e. opening a tab, listening a bit, closing again, opening a new one.

Firefox 37.0.2 on Ubuntu 14.02 LTS 64 bit. Reproducible, crashed already 3 times.
Open format.
I've never met any group more rigidly hierarchical and conformist than anarchists.

(For the record, everyone I ran into at CCC was actually super nice. Only met a couple of the I'm-more-punk-than-you crew.)
Tesla GPU Accelerator Unit Grows Fast for Nvidia
How narcissistic does one have to be to think that an important characteristic of being for or against "the war" is how alienated and edgy it makes you feel?

And while a sense of "not being a part of the crowd" does impact the subjective experience of culture, to put that at the center of one's appreciation of is hollow and empty. There's a reason why people view hipster "I liked it before it was cool" attitude with contempt.
Oracle Database is a typical enterprise product if there ever was one. The people buying it won't be the ones using it.

From a developer's or systems administrator's point of view PostgeSQL for instance certainly offers a similar - if not superior - feature set and better usability. That's not the main selling point for enterprise software, though. For enterprise customers aspects such as maintenance, service contracts and having a large company that can be held accountable if anything goes wrong are far more important.

Another reason is the way enterprise sales processes work. In general, they take far longer than sales decisions in SMEs and involve a variety of stakeholders. Oracle employs a large number of smart salespeople and Oracle can afford wooing prospective customers for months or even years before a deal is made.

That said, Oracle Database is a fine product that generally performs very well.
Flagged for negativity ;)
Luckily, at my uni this is not the case - obviously visible when on average, 70% fail the first time. In almost every class. (Math usually worse, functional programming usually better).

And even though professors and their assistants answer emails, you have to write a real email - which is something that makes you think more about it than just being able to send a FB message.
The leak is the European Commission:

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1230
This is perhaps too few words to elucidate git. I appreciate that Ms. Cook links to other articles on her own site that go into much greater detail. However, I still think the best self-contained and relatively brief explanation of Git is "The Git Parable."[1]

[1] http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.htm...
What potential change in the cattle market do you believe is not being priced into the futures?
I see a smiley and something else in there
So the author should just call it OhMyPoche :D
I remember seeing this posted on HN a few months back.

Here's the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8932737 (see the comments for the correct link..)

I remember liking reading it.
A big part of the point of punishment is to act as a deterrent. 99 years of prison may be excessive, but there has to be some negative consequence for the person who breaks a law, otherwise there's no reason not to.
I have always wanted to attend a hackaton wearing a 3 piece suit and shoes so shiny that I could mirror myself in them, just to see if they really wouldn't judge me for it.

Of course I know the answer.
SKYNET: Applying Advanced Cloud-Based Behavior Analytics [pdf]
I didn't say detain, I said "investigate". There's quite a difference. And yes. If the evidence suggests there might be something there, they should investigate.
illuminati confirmed
What does it even mean for an XML layout to be type and null safe? This reads like a parody. XML resources give you orientation/screen size resolution and component re use. I haven't drunk the MVP kool aid that's the new hotness, but this is far too much in the other direction. If you're setting margins in code you're probably doing something wrong.
I completely agree with you on IP and I am concerned over cooperation among countries to enforce IP protections. What I'm more concerned about is what I consider valid property rights such as physical property (equipment, your home, business) and your own body (expression, substances, etc).

NPR had a great article about US tariff policy. It detailed a 3,000 page book that's used to set the appropriate tax:

> The book lists the tax that importers have to pay on approximately every single thing in the universe — including, of course, T-shirts. They're right there under heading 6109: T-shirts, singlets, tank tops and similar garments, knitted or crocheted.

The average tax rate on stuff coming into the U.S. is around 2 percent. The tax on T-shirts is much higher: 16.5 percent. That's what we'll be paying on the Planet Money men's shirts, which were made in Bangladesh. But the Planet Money women's shirts were made in Colombia — and those, according to the book of everything, come in duty-free, with no tariff at all. [0]

To me it just seems very arbitrary and hence rife for corruption.

[0] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/12/06/247361423/the-gian...
> wove an entire argument on a fallacious assumption

Which assumption? Do you assume I should already know what you are talking about? You smug bastard! ;)
Great, I will try it out later this evening! I used Wallabag before, which was already mentioned, but it has a session problem so you had to enter your password everytime you tried to use it. I hope I can replace it with this, keep it up!
On the serverside, your stores should not be singletons (shared between all requests) but in request scope (one per request). Otherwise users will be reading eachother's data.
Asynchronous Testing with Protractor’s ControlFlow
Two Years Through the Looking Glass
Redditors for Nepal – Redditors for Nepal
> $1.4b in 2014 - for a tech company (i.e. low marginal cost of delivery)

You say this, but IIRC even with that revenue, Twitter hasn't been profitable, which is generally necessary for long-term viability. The "low marginal cost of delivery" hasn't materialized, if they can't turn a profit off of $1.4 billion.
The way I understand it, I should only rebase (for squashing, not in the case of a spilled secret or inappropriate message) if I haven't pushed it to a shared remote branch. Is that correct?
I read somewhere that the best troll comments are ones where you can't tell if the poster actually means what he says or is trolling.
Ever heard about the French Revolution?
It's really not all that impossible for singular mutations, hence evolution. Further, adaptations composed of independently maladaptive mutations can occur. This is the point of the comment you responded to. They are unlikely, but he alluded to that.
> Internet Explorer 1 (rebranded Mosaic)

Keep in mind that this wasn't the original NCSA Mosaic

"Spyglass, Inc. licensed the technology and trademarks from NCSA for producing their own web browser but never used any of the NCSA Mosaic source code. Microsoft licensed Spyglass Mosaic in 1995 for US$2 million, modified it, and renamed it Internet Explorer."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
Today's beginners don't make the tools.

I must be too old. The new guys can come and bring their new tools. I am retired now.

Back when I started, we used to care how the older engineers did stuff. The academics who trained us at uni had never worked in industry and had no real clue. Hence we had to learn the real stuff from the older guys. These days we are the old guys but just treated like yesterday's newspaper.
The state of student loans in the US don't really seem like a warning sign for student loans in the UK, which work so differently I'd almost argue they should be called something other than a 'loan'. What's more it wasn't really a profit move (the universities don't make any more money) as much as a who should pay move.

If you want to draw parallels between the situation in the US & Canada and the situation in the UK, I would point you at the Conservative government's attempt to stifle education on global warming, and the cosy relationship between the government and corporations, particularly the banks.
I think that's missing the point. Even if the information appears benign, it's still government trade secrets. Countries like China aren't singularly focused on stealing super top secret blueprints for the U.S's latest weapons technology (though I'm sure they'd jump at the chance), much of their spying is on the more mundane stuff. Like public works projects and infrastructure related information. That kind of information isn't nearly as interesting so it's not publicized as much.
I think you are me.
It's interesting how some of us like the same while some others like different. I like SF because I am the most boring person you can imagine (opposite you, who I imagine edgier. I have no tattoos and my hair is natural color, stereotypically boring). But I like that I can go there and see people who are so different than me and different among themselves.
Spice up your tackle box
So could someone clarify this for me? Is is that the TPP negotiations are occurring in secret, or is it that the TPP will be passed without it being available for the public to view (which should be the case for most bills?)?

The former seems very reasonable to me (that negotiations happen in secret, and then the final product is presented to the public/congress for a vote), but up to this point I'm still not sure which is the case.
Oh bugger. But we came up with Hasura from: Haskell + Asura. Asura is the Hindi/Sanskrit word for Demon.
You're the first person I've seen mention it, thank you. Trying to :)
Almost no one uses either of those, Dart VM never even made it into a non-experimental version of Chrome.