skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does "importance" have to do with anything? "Importance" doesn't dictate how much money companies are willing to spend on internet infrastructure. The number of potential customers you can hit for the cost of lying a mile of fiber does.
Mozilla clearly likes having all those projects, and is willing to make compromises to achieve that. Maybe you think the non-firefox work they do is valuable enough that you're ok with them auctioning off the default search engine setting (for example) to fund it.

Myself, I'll stick to Konqueror. You don't need a Mozilla-sized organization or Mozilla-scale funding to make a great (IMO better than firefox in many respects) open-source browser.
> What I don't understand about any of this is why anyone wouldn't just either move their project to Github or self host. Why would you even still have your project hosted on SourceForge?

They won't let you "move" a project.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/source...

> At SourceForge.net, we feel a commitment to ensuring the long-term availability of the Open Source code released by the projects we host. We will weigh requests for project removal against the community value of leaving the project intact...Projects which have moved to another hosting provider are typically retained at SourceForge.net (though you can make a note on the project web site and project summary page directing users to the new home) for sake of retaining materials of historical value.
I think the problem is that abandoning your project on Sourceforge doesn't have the intended effect.

"SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements."

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/source...
Some of the trials from big western pharmaceutical companies are actually being outsourced to smaller labs in Asian countries with less restrictive laws, especially when testing with large mammals.
SourceForge used to have an enterprise revenue model, too. They bet the company (or at least the name) on it - VA Research -> VA Linux -> VA Software -> SourceForge -> GeekNet -> {Dice and HotTopic^WGameStop}.

If Github ever pivots to selling t-shirts, run.
feedbacks are wellcome, also if have any doubt about ir,
ill answer without problem...
Connection discovered between brain and the immune system
I need them only rarely for some super long links (and honestly I don't remember the last time I had to use one), but I need some to suggest them to people who simply feel the need to use them because reasons. And for IRC bots.
here is one of many http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-nashi-anonymous-opyoung... simply search google for kremlin troll army, restrict date range, voila.
Thanks for the story, it was a nice read. However, the answer is at the beginning: The author of the software is exactly the guy he claims to be. Along with photo and an interview in the Forbes Magazine.

Yes, they use all kinds of fake companies for whatever purposes, but there's really no need to entangle it all.
Are you suggesting that suspicion of possibly maybe having put a trojan in someone else's files somewhere is grounds to make all one's efforts useless and poisons everything else you do?

Short answer: Yes.
Downloading and running arbitrary binaries from the web inherently a quite dangerous thing do to, and I only feel comfortable taking such a risk with sites I trust. I no longer trust Sourceforge and there is very little they can promise me to make me start wanting to download from them again.
I've never been in a situation where the person head of me who has reclined their seat makes the entertainment system and tray table no longer available to me. The fact is, that person ahead of me paid for the space they've used to recline and it's theirs, not mine, period. If I try to block them from reclining, then I'm exercising my ego over theirs by denying them something which is rightfully theirs, which they paid for. That is wrong and tends to fall into a behavior covered in the DSM.
Also don't forget to take into account the price insensitivity of some buyers.

If I had a pill that could save 1 million people I wouldn't price it at $100, since I'd only make $100m. If I price it at $1m per pill, only 100 people could afford it, so that also only makes me $100m. But if I price it at say, $100k, I can get about 300k people to pay for it, which nets me $30b.

This is all aside from how much the drug cost me to make.
I'd like to know more about this "cooking device". Was it not really cooking the food, but just switching the raw food for cooked food? What exactly was it?
Thanks. Bizarre.
Does this affect the Linux client?
No. At a certain point it won't make sense for a software engineer to code and also to manage the books, recruit, do sales, or manage a marketing budget.

You'll find that as you grow it's best to maximize the time people can spend on what they are best at. Maybe the leadership could all have engineering backgrounds, but it'd be dumb to make them both engineers and in charge of some non-engineering thing at the same time.
But they've said that before. This amount to "we promise to stop breaking the promise we made earlier". I for one won't be trusting this new promise to last either.
did you hit that nail right on the head or what?
(you've summarized the general vision of wealthbot.io in one very eloquent sentence).

drop us a note at hi [at] wealthbot.io
They clearly couldn't do "new posts from sites you read" and "people who read the sites you read liked this article", which are very nice Now features. I suspect they'd struggle to do "recommended restaurants/museums/etc. near your current location" - Now seems to have figured out my restaurant price range (for example), and I can only assume that was through tracking.
Airlines enforced their preferences on everybody else when they decided - at the cost of some very expensive additional weight - that seats can and should be able to recline. If they didn't intend for customers to recline the seats it's perfectly possible to install or modify seats to make reclining impossible (some do) or to instruct people not to recline seats at certain times it might be inappropriate (all do). They also designed seats so it wasn't wholly impossible to sit behind a reclined seat (or indeed climb out of the seat) without reclining. So the people forcing their preferences are the ones insisting they have the right to restrict the inclination of the seat in front.

Sure, out of politeness I might refrain from using the intended functionality of the seat if you ask nicely (same goes for switching off the light or redirecting the airflow nozzle, and I might choose to delay my toilet break to avoid disturbing your sleep). My sense of politeness tends to go out the window when people start suggesting its selfish or impolite for me not to coordinate my cabin controls to their liking.
The tech arms race in AAA games and why I'm abandoning it
Ask HN: Was urban life much different before TV?
Did people visit each other much more and socialize more? And if so, what the heck does socialize mean in that context?
> NZ is able to get drugs cheap because the US consumers are paying extremely high prices which cover the development costs.

And sometimes it's the opposite, with European pharmaceutical companies covering all their costs in their home market then selling the same drug at over 5x the price in the US while only having to cover marketing costs.
> We decided to sneak a peak. Logging in with the “mobiteam@icloud.com” apple ID and the password graciously provided in clear text, we have identified a typical QA team account...

This provides the 'break in the case' but it's based on illegal activity. Just because a company is acting unethically doesn't give researchers a legal shield. (Especially considering a quick search led me to the probable identity of the author.)
Especially when you go to the trouble of buying a Knee Defender to limit the movement of the person in front...
A reminder that this is just one of the consequences of open-source, free (as in libre) license software: It wouldn't be truly free otherwise.

I'm not saying I condone Sourceforge's actions, and this does deserve to be known widely, but what one person would consider privacy-invading malware could be another person's "helpful offers assistant" (or whatever)...
> Is it because we are past the point of no return?

If you look at the computer history, we already had several cycles from single computer to timesharing to mainframes/supercomputers to PC to thin-clients/mobile to (?). There has always been a time when single powerful computers were in the majority and then there has been times when thin-clients with big server structures were the majority. The Internet supports also the model of more decentral computers and everyone could host their data on their own devices. It's currently just not the right time and there is no business model behind it, so no one push for that solution at the moment.
Thanks.

So that indicates that the natural language parsing isn't super advanced.

"Traditional"-style dependency parsing should be able to solve that, and some of the Facebook AI group's recent work indicates that neural-network based parsing should be able to handle it too.

My toy QA system can handle the second case, without even doing dependency parsing.

It's not clear to me if this is a problem or not. If their voice recognition is as good as it seems that's pretty significant technology.
it's overwhelmingly not coal, a majority share is imported gas. Local energy is coal and renewables are under 5% last time I checked, that's true.
Yeah. CD Project RED deserve massive props for publishing The Witcher 3 DRM-free too!
looks like someone has some reputation to fix ...
Show HN: Estimates made easy
If you're making 30K you don't have a mortgage. 100$ a month for life is a significant fraction of your disposable income, and it never ends. ITs very much like a mortgage.

Anyway, folks aren't bellyaching about $100 a month. Student loans are costing millions of Americans many times that for 20 years.
They should allow it in schools as well. Would stop bullying quite quick.
first thought- MS didn't support SSH?
There's still ongoing debate about the identity of the ship claimed to be the Queen Anne's Revenge. In fact, some researchers have called into question the entire methodology used to identify the majority of wrecks, indicating it falls under the idea of "Ruling Theory".[0]

As regards the Queen Anne's Revenge: [1]

Ruling theory is when a hypothesis is so aRrac&ve that researches may consciously or unconsciously record data in favor of the hypothesis. “Ruling Theory can be applied in many fields, including archaeology” (Railsback, 1990). An example of an archaeological site applying the Ruling Theory is the Beaufort Inlet Shipwreck. On November 21, 1996 a team of inves&gators from Intersal Inc. discovered an 18th century shipwreck about a mile and a half off of the coast of Beaufort Inlet. Shortly aMer discovering this ship the ques&on of this ship being the Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s flagship, started to arise. Today many communi&es on the Outer Banks, like Ocracoke Island, use the Queen Anne’s Revenge to aRract tourist. Is the Beaufort Inlet Shipwreck really the Queen’s Anne’s Revenge? Or have researches been too hasty when gathering their informa&on about the Beaufort Inlet Shipwreck?

[0] Harpster, Matthew. "Shipwreck Identity, Methodology, and Nautical Archaeology." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 20.4 (2013): 588-622. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-012-9131-x#p...

[1] Collier, Carson. "Ruling Theory Applied at the Beaufort Inlet Shipwreck." (2014). http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
On limited network connection, so can't give you links, but:

* Academic keyword is "semantic parsing", main publications open access at http://aclweb.org/anthology

* Semantic parsing maps sentences into something actionable (a query is answered, the robot moves, etc). For a more abstract, non-task specific version, relevant keywords are "semantic role labelling", and recently "the AMR corpus". Systems stuff falls under "entailment" and "paraphrase".

* The theory driving this stuff is increasingly combinatory categorial grammar (CCG). Read Mark Steedman's book "The Syntactic Process", for an explanation of how to parse NL sentences into lambda terms. The premise of the theory is that we can make an efficient compiler that outputs the lambda terms directly, and that the syntactic structure is just the derivation structure --- a trace of the algorithm.

At the end of the day though, we just want the output. There are lots of ways to compute the relevant reepresentations.

* Much relevant work on CCG-based semantic parsing is happening at University of Washington, e.g. under Luke Zettlemoyer. With the new Allen Institute investing serious money, Seattle looks insanely good for NLP now.
Very interesting, I like the package file structure it's something I always missed from Java, the back-to-back compatible is something that looks promising lets see if it works, will test out in async mode to see if it'll work after page has been loaded.
Isaac Asimov thought so. I recall reading a quote by him at one point about how air conditioning and television directly made cities (of which he was very fond) less safe and friendly places because people didn't stay outside to socialize with their neighbors and stay cool: they stayed inside.

"Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses, and so was television. There was nothing to keep one in the house. Furthermore, few people owned automobiles, so there was nothing to carry one away. That left the streets and the stoops. The very fullness served as an inhibition to crime."
No :d
That's probably not true. More firearms can easily mean fewer deaths. An armed society is a polite society. Historically the most heavily-armed old west towns were the ones with the lowest death rates from violence.
"Big Pharma" isn't a monolithic entity with greater coordination powers than New Zealand. (The very largest pharmaceutical company, Johnson & Johnson, has $70B in revenue compared to NZ's $180B GDP.) Furthermore, NZ can make a credible commitment to act irrationally for a long time through the democratic process, while individual pharmaceutical companies are driven by shareholders to maximize profits with a time horizon set by interest rates.
I don't really mind the default search engine all that much, personally. Not gonna lie, I use Google anyway for web search because it's the best at what it does.

I do think it creates a conflict of interest when you're a privacy organization and by far your biggest customer is a company that makes all its money in the advertising business, but like you said, it's easy to turn off.

I'm a lot more creeped out by the newtab tiles. Again, I know you can turn it off, and I know it's not transmitting my search history off of my PC. I don't think that makes it okay, though. I don't want code on my PC that's designed to analyze my behavior to push products on me.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I'd be willing to pay some money for a light, configurable, sensible browser like Firefox 4 but with modern HTML5/CSS3/etc support. It'd have to run on FreeBSD and be open source, of course.
Not just lack of R&D. After expenses for FDA clinical trials is $150 million+. Nobody can afford that if they don't have a patent letting them recoup expenses.

My go to example for this is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy. That is the treatment of autoimmune diseases by infecting people with parasites which suppress your immune system in a targeted way for their own protection. I personally know someone who successfully treated his Crohn's disease with hookworm for 5 years and counting now, and the main problem he has is that if he ever needs antibiotics he needs to get reinfected because antibiotics will kill the hookworm.

But it is illegal to receive this treatment in the US because the FDA has never approved it.
I've used hammer.js professionally. It's small, reliable, and provides useful things like deltas. It also pairs great with mousetrap (https://github.com/ccampbell/mousetrap) for keyboard interaction. Would recommend.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious but where do I download the installer?
Or do I have to (cross-)build it all from source using mingw-w64?
"No matter what MS does, it is always wrong."
> If anyone manages to make a messaging app that both has strong security and is user friendly and supports features users expect, they will become very rich.

How so? Who's going to pay for it?

I reckon I could do it, you know. Use PGP for the backend (duh) but take some time off work, hire actual designers for the UI, make the identity verification step make sense for the user. But 98% of users don't care about security, and 98% of the remainder can't tell the difference between good and bad security.
So how is that supposed to work?

If some percent of the nodes are malicious, that means sometimes an election will include a majority of them and they will create a false transaction.

This means only some transactions are trustworthy, not all.
More on that music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U34MFcJdGCo

Spoilers: turns out it actually comes from a stock sound effects CD and was used in a handful of other games, too!
nm has been rather misleading for past few generations, Intel is just as guilty as other fabs.

Not everything gets shrunk in modern die shrinks.

What my limited understanding is that transistors might be getting shrunk but wiring connecting transistors is not getting shrunk it is still at some larger number (65nm?)
When Silicon Valley Is Too Much Like Silicon Valley
Is Sweden one of those countries where harming a robber inside your own house can put you in jail?
Agreed! Nice piece of well written suspense and intrigue in the tech world. If it's also factual, that's a bonus :-)
Perhaps something the countries signing on to the Global Apollo Programme[1] should be investing in. It's priorities are Renewable/Storage/Smart Grids, but I don't think we should be ruling anything out, if 2C is the target.

[1] http://globalapolloprogramme.org/
Hoovering up the inactive accounts is probably in automated process. There would be little point putting in extra code to exclude less trafficked areas.
Right. Hopefully momentary iq lapse. :)
Most of the time I don't recline my seat at all because I simply forget that it's a thing I can do, especially if the person in front of me doesn't recline his seat enough that I notice it.
Agilescope.io is a tool to make project/product estimates easier. The first target group are Freelancers and Small Teams in Software Development and Design.
Next on the roadmap is to integrate time tracking to get full control over both sides. The estimate and the time you really spent on it. Better cost/budget control for you and your customer.

Any feedback is helpful. Thanks in advance.
Folks don't risk death for an iPhone. Crime would be diminished, this is clear from statistics. Its not an arms race, because the criminals' survival is not at stake, just some ready cash. This was illustrated by the drastic drop in crime when cocaine became much cheaper - nobody was willing to get killed for it any more.

However the citizens' survival IS at stake. Folks often argue that the threat of capital punishment doesn't work. Of course it does, criminals are using it every day. We just need to reverse that social pressure.
Emphasis being on "embrace" at this point. It's too early to cry wolf yet -- there's not even an obvious way to get from here to "extend".
> That isn't a good thing.

Well, the search engine I'm using not being able to find what I'm looking for is also a not a good thing.

I quite like DuckDuckGo, but 10% of the time DuckDuckGo falters on a search and I have to put in a '!g'. Clearly, you can't be the absolute no. 1 search engine accross almost all queries without using some degree of personalisation.

As for a search bubble, Google and DuckDuckGo just take two highly opposing views. In reality, I'd love to be able to turn personalised search on and off at will, but neither DuckDuckGo or Google are going to let me do that any time soon.
Excuse my ignorance, but can this also be used in cmd.exe context?
This raises an interesting point: Skype downloads your chat log from their server. They have your chat log on their server.
Both GOG and CDPR are a subsidiaries of CD Projekt. So, it's not all that surprising :)
But they definitely deserve props for lots of things, not just being DRM-free.
Ask HN: Www.helloearth.us domain expired. Anyone knows what happened?
www.helloearth.us used to (until a few days ago) stream live from ISS (ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment). Then its domain expired.

I know the experiment continues and we can still see it from the original page (www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream), but Helloearth had a few features (such as split screen) that were nice.

It was one of my initial tabs on my browser. I am just curious if it will be back.
> Sourceforge needs to call it a day

The world is calling it a day on Sourceforge - they are just hanging around to milk what they can out of past glories.

Of course they can't just turn off anyway: there would be outcry from people because their currently idle project that hasn't moved to being hosted elsewhere suddenly became unavailable.
Brandishing and open carry are entirely different things. Take the class!
Regarding making this work with GMail, Google still has their End-to-End GPG plugin for Chrome+GMail: https://github.com/google/end-to-end
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What else in his life is he seeing in the wrong way?
Is it really that much a of problem that we won't be able to run specific software from sometime in the past?

Historically relevant software should leave behind enough cultural artifacts that its impact can still be understood regardless of the ability to re-run that software as it existed originally. (video evidence, writings about the medium etc...)

Imagine the case of emulators to see how this can easily become a recursive paradox.

Today we have emulators that allows us to run most software from the beginning of computation. Will it be relevant to be able to run those emulators 100 years from now in their current form?
This is part of the reason why I don't think compatibility layers like this are worth bothering with if you're after performance - different OSs do things in different ways, and while it's possible to make one work like another, it's sub-optimal because that wasn't the use-case the OS was designed for.

It's really a high-level design decision: Applications originally designed for *nix will use fork(), while those for Windows will use something else - maybe threads, maybe CreateProcess().
How Fake Skin Will End Animal Testing (as Soon as We Can Mass Produce It)
Pro-ISIS Hackers Are Targeting News Outlets, Says Security Firm
Er, okay.

Well, I don't agree¹ with your method of evaluating trustworthiness (which seems to me rather too quantized and "chastity"-minded), but at least you know exactly what you're doing and who you're trusting.

[1] Read as "I believe it's sub-optimal for a given cost-benefit formula, after some assumptions about certain variables and certain opportunity costs, and other methods would likely be more useful in context."
>It would be nice for our american friends to understand that we value our privacy too.

I love how everyone pretends that only the US has spies. Or they say "oh but my country sucks at it so it doesn't matter". The entire West shares intel and double checks each other by espionage. Of course you don't want to condemn the entire West, that would be stupid.
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