skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite a featureset like Wayback Machine...in that going to a certain day will show you top stories ranked by cumulative votes since submission...rather than the algorithmic position, and number of votes received from that day...but that's presumably not available via the API.

But even as just a list-by-day, it's a lot of fun to browse, especially going back many years [1]. What did you use to build it?

[1] HN's first day, http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9

1. Y Combinator (ycombinator.com)
61 points by pg 3175 days ago | 18 comments

2. A Student's Guide to Startups (paulgraham.com)
16 points by phyllis 3175 days ago | 1 comment

3. Feld: Question Regarding NDAs (feld.com)
11 points by pg 3175 days ago | 1 comment

4. LikeBetter featured by BBC (bbc.co.uk)
10 points by frobnicate 3175 days ago | 0 comments

5. MySpace: Not a purely viral start (startup-review.com)
9 points by starklysnarky 3175 days ago | 1 comment

6. Salaries at VC-backed companies (blogs.com)
8 points by pg 3175 days ago | 3 comments

7. Google, YouTube acquisition announcement could come tonight (techcrunch.com)
7 points by perler 3175 days ago | 1 comment

8. Woz Interview: the early days of Apple (foundersatwork.com)
7 points by phyllis 3175 days ago | 1 comment

9. Best IRR ever? YouTube 1.65B... (techcrunch.com)
6 points by sama 3175 days ago | 3 comments

10. NYC Developer Dilemma (blogs.com)
5 points by onebeerdave 3175 days ago | 1 comment

11. A Story About Not Going IPO During The Bubble (usatoday.com)
5 points by starklysnarky 3175 days ago | 1 comment

12. The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn (paulgraham.com)
5 points by phyllis 3175 days ago | 1 comment

13. Wired: The Desktop is Dead (wired.com)
5 points by farmer 3175 days ago | 1 comment

14. Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute (useit.com)
5 points by frobnicate 3175 days ago | 1 comment

15. Sevin Rosen Unfunds - why? (gigaom.com)
5 points by phyllis 3175 days ago | 0 comments

16. Business Intelligence the Inkling Way: cool prediction markets software (360techblog.com)
4 points by perler 3175 days ago | 1 comment

17. Small is Beautiful: Building a Successful Company with Less Capital (zdnet.com)
4 points by pg 3175 days ago | 1 comment

18. weekendr: social network for the weekend (weekendr.com)
4 points by askjigga 3175 days ago | 0 comments

19. Voddler Raises $2.2M For Virtual Cable TV (thealarmclock.com)
3 points by farmer 3175 days ago | 1 comment

20. PhotoShow: Broadcast Photos to Cable TV (techcrunch.com)
3 points by frobnicate 3175 days ago | 1 comment

21. Will Silicon Light Illuminate the Future? (technologyreview.com)
2 points by pg 3175 days ago | 1 comment
Reamde was just bad. Not even on the charts. It's extremely tedious and narratively preposterous.

http://coldewey.cc/post/26464791525/reamde-neal-stephenson-2...

I'm going to read a few reviews of Seveneves before I read it, Reamde burned me so bad. Although now that I know this huge plot point (spoiler warning!?!?).... I don't know which way that tips the scales.
Well then, try to structure things so you're catching those idiotic mistakes before you commit them.

The consequences you describe seem extremely mild. Cherry-picking now requires two cherry-picks instead of one, big deal. Git bisect has a "skip" command that solves this nicely. And I don't see how code review is at all impacted by this, unless you're using terrible tools that won't show a full summary of changes all at once.
‘We Assume the Bad Thing Has Already Happened’
Doesn't seem to me that all of them removed...
> "The problem is not these supposed 'reversals', but rather how this information is being reported."

The reporting is terrible, but I think there is a problem with the research itself. There's little apparent awareness by many researchers of the limitations of single studies, perhaps because they have been heavily indoctrinated re: the significance of p-values, etc., or perhaps because their careers depend on it.

It's the researchers themselves writing "We show that ____", as if their single study with 20 participants all of whom are starving college freshmen CONCLUSIVELY proves such-and-such completely bizarre point which all previous observations have flatly contradicted. Then the media gobble it up, with all the authority of "science" to back them up, and when further research refutes the flawed study, nobody pays attention.
Cool!

Techmeme has this built-in (http://www.techmeme.com/110619/h1320), would be fun to run them side-by-side!
Revisionist history. That is a lot more frightening to most people than anything related to violence and gore.
To express it as a spectrum. Dogma has an almost infinite amount of resistance, science tries to reach to zero, but sometimes has too much (IIRC people became emotional about Einstein's theory)
You're very welcome.

Next book for the management of the project, although there's a lot more, e.g. Groves was responsible for US intelligence actions WRT to Germany and Japan's nuclear projects, one of the last chapters it titled something like "Destruction of the Japanese Cyclotron", is his Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project (http://www.amazon.com/Now-It-Can-Told-Manhattan/dp/030680189...).

Earlier publication date, so less could "be told", but lots of good stuff. E.g. when he first got an estimate of something major from the Chicago "Metallurgical Lab", he asked for the uncertainty factor, expecting something like 25%, and got a factor of 10. After explaining that in a neat "to feed somewhere between 10 and 1,000 people" metaphor, he then relates how they discussed it for a while, he realized there would be no firmer figure for some time, and then they all forged ahead. A truly remarkable man.

There's also a lot that's been published on Oppenheimer, but I'm not studying Los Alamos too much now, and e.g. the above book is very interesting for lots more details in how Groves picked him, and reexamined it in late 1944 or so because of Oppenheimer's relatively poor health and still couldn't find a replacement (as noted by Rhodes, if Oppenheimer had lived just a bit longer he ought to have gotten a Nobel for his earlier and way ahead of it's times late '30s theoretical astronomy on topics like neutron stars and black holes).

I'm in the middle of the Manhattan Project section in this much more specialized book, which has a political science analysis focus that's not going to be of interest to most of us, but it's quite promising, the railway story is neat and feeds right into Germany's physics establishment story; check back with me in a few weeks to see if it's worth your while: Technology and International Transformation: The Railroad, the Atom Bomb, and the Politics of Technological Change (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0791468682) the cheapest copy is now $19 (plus shipping), vs. the $3 I got it for, so it's very possibly not worth it.

I've also got these books on order: The General and the Bomb: A Biography of General Leslie R. Groves, Director of the Manhattan Project (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0396087612) and suggested from the previous book The Atomic Scientists: A Biographical History (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471504556) which might be interesting if you really like the first 300 pages of Rhodes' book.
You don't have to rewrite history to do this. You just have to run your tests before committing. You know, like people used to in the old days.

Indeed, i think the widespread rewriting of history that goes on in the Git world makes it more likely that there will be failing commits, because every time you rewrite, you create a sheaf of commits which have never been tested.

Now, in your case, it sounds like you have set up processes to check these commits, and that's absolutely great. Everyone should do this! But why not combine this with a non-rewriting, test-before-commit process that produces fewer broken commits in the first place?
because the biggest retailer is at the head of the money chain and can potentially control the supply chain. see: walmart
The alternative was to use a gif which would have looked awful in comparison. The video is really small (1.6MB).
You know, I think there might be a meta-analog to Godwin's law: that any meta-argument about arguing on the Internet eventually contains a reference to Godwin's law itself.

Since Hitler references are invariably followed by someone pointing out that Godwin's prophecy has been fulfilled, this reduces to a simply corollary of the law itself.
In my mind it's much more like Zodiac. It's not nearly as "smart" as Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon, and at least to me sort of screamed "grocery store fiction" as I was reading it. That said, I could not put it down, and found myself following every twist and turn with a grin.
'https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nginx/+bug/890179
Thank you very much for the nice compliment :)
Or perhaps it was intentional? They got an article on ARS, mentioning their brand 26 times...

All publicity is good publicity, right?
It's worth noting IMAX does in fact have a trademark in the relevant fields -

": Consumer electronic products, namely, headphones, earphones, cables, camcorders, DVD players and stereos; home theater systems comprised of a projector system, a surround sound system, a screen, media servers and control devices; and gaming equipment, namely, video game machines for use with televisions and computers; video game controllers; computer software for playing video games and for accessing and browsing global computer and communications networks; video game programs downloadable from global computer networks and global communications networks; and user manuals for all of the aforementioned software and devices sold as a unit therewith; devices used to facilitate interactive game play over computer networks; television and video converters; speakers, loudspeakers systems"

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:77u...
>I have never met or heard of a successful person that doesn't have skeletons in his closet. Each and every one of them has built his tower either through shady deals or on the backs of others. On the other hand, I met a lot of middle-class people that obtained independence by themselves. There are no skeletons there. Only the scars of decades of stress and hard work.

You have met and/or heard of every successful person? Making a generalised blanked statement like this is unwise.

>Will you buy the $9.99 or the $10.00 product? You can spin marketing and psychological tactics all you want. It all boils down to perceived value vs cost.

Another more nuanced issue which you have attempted to over simplify. If all other things are equal, sure, price will be the deciding factor. But, all other things are never equal.
I hadn't read it before, but almost none of the critiques in that article apply to delphi, so someone who takes it as a serious modern day critique clearly knows nothing about delphi.
It's ironic that in an article documenting attempted censorship, I have to squint to read this legitimate comment because people think that disagreeing with someone gives them the right to censor them.
The "Why" is @seppo010's to answer (but having it run as is on all OSs is a big plus for one). As for writing it in Assembler, that makes little practical sense since Redis is written in (ANSI) C and it quite well optimized. In fact, if you profile Redis you'll see that very little time is actually spent by the code itself - OS, storage and network are the real bottlenecks usually.
On the other side of that whole 'nother world is a blockchain waiting to replace all of those relationships.
Emscripten doesn't provide LLVM with a backend it uses a fork of LLVM called Fastcomp and that has a asm.js backend. Also the current backend isn't integrated with LLVM the way normal ISA backends are.

This I believe (can't access page either) will be upstream and integrated with LLVM proper. Providing performance advantages as well as allowing frontends that aren't supported in Fastcomp but are based off upstream LLVM to support WebAssembly.
I feel that advantage goes away once you discover Amazon.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that they're sacred, but I do think you're right that a disagreement over their relative importance is probably at the core of this.

However, I think the stuff about breaking the build is way off. If one were really fearful of any commit breaking the build, wouldn't one embrace rewriting history? You'd try to avoid making a breaking commit in the first place, but if you're fearful of breaking builds, then once you did make such a mistake, the ability to go back and rewrite it would surely look pretty good.

One of the big advantages of git as I see it is that you don't have to be fearful about bad commits. You made a commit that broke the build? Well, try not to do that, but as long as you don't push it, it's not a big deal. Fix it (in a new commit!) and you'll push both of them together. History is preserved, nobody's build actually broke, everybody's happy.
I can appreciate the suspicion. No agency involvement whatsoever. This is an idea evolved from conversations with people without a home at the shelter I was volunteering in the winter. Our shelter was only open on Mondays [1] and the shower was a big hit, but the shelter on Tuesdays didn’t have showers. When I spoke with my girlfriend, who was volunteering at the Big Issue Invest [2] at the time, about offering the shower at our place on Tuesdays, during that conversation it became clear that my idea wasn’t sustainable nor scalable, and now we are 11 people committed to getting this done. If you’re in London and want to meet me or come to our next meeting to confirm our legitimacy, you’re more than welcome. Is this helpful?

[1] http://www.carisislington.org/phdi/p1.nsf/supppages/1381?ope...
[2] http://bigissueinvest.com
> Having to recline and look up at the screen was annoying, and the size was gratuitous with most of it wasted to peripheral vision.

The first feature is a function of sitting to close to the screen, and isn't specific to IMAX format. The second is by design -- a major point of large-format cinema screens like IMAX is to provide a more immersive experience by making it so that, in shots where there is a strong central focus, even the non-focal parts of your vision field are occupied by the movie screen rather than (usually, just black) background from the theater, and, second, enabling shots that are composed so as to invite audience members to not just focus near center, but to look around the screen (this second feature isn't taken advantage of in films not designed for large-format screens, but major films now generally are made in a large-format aware manner.)
No, no... IMAX are developing a competing VR system and only want to drive people to adopt VR too early, so they can swoop in and grab the already cultivated market with their product, of course.
The mnemonic I got in school was that if you can answer with "him" then it should be "whom."

Who made this? He made this.
Whom do you trust? I trust him.

This mnemonic is predicated on answering in complete proper sentences. I realize that in current colloquial English, "Who made this? Him." is certainly an exchange one might encounter.
Great hack, Thanks
Not the GP, but I quite enjoyed it, personally. It's probably the least "Neal Stephenson"-ish work in his oeuvre, to be sure — if you come to it expecting another Snow Crash, you're going to be disappointed — but I had fun with it.
Show HN: 99 Haskell – Solve live Haskell coding problems in the browser
The good thing about the current name is that there's a clear distinction (at least to users "in the loop") between "psql", the command-line client, and "postgres" the backend service. I'm quite aggressively against renaming the product to "psql".
same here. it is much more clear to me to reapply my commits, as long as I constrain myself to clear, coherent and atomic commits.

replaying changes is much more comfortable to me, especially when I have them in shot term memory, surely easier than merging other people stuff within your files

my average feature is around 7-10 commits, all replayed on latest commit on the branch. it forces me to catch up with other people work on shared areas and gives me quite some more confidence that merge isn't messing up with problematic files.
Maybe not self-referene but reference to the class to which it belongs, cf. Quine's paradox:

"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
And yet they do, check out /r/GasTheKikes or /r/coontown or many other examples
Given that they had virtually 0 real users, I'm not convinced the strict fintech laws are a necessity. It seems like the free market on its own is alreardy pretty good at avoiding dodgy companies.

One might think of Mt.Gox as a counterexample. However, I see that debacle more as an unintended consequence of too much regulation: making it too hard to setup legit exchanges reduces consumer choice and forces users onto alternatives like Mt.Gox even though they don't really trust them.
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Depending on the cinema you were at, you may have paid extra to see the 70mm print, instead of the 35mm cut.
The new sd-bus API of systemd
Are there any examples of the text format of wasm?
I'm either confused by your statement or the article. The article seems to imply that they created a fake history for the listings as well as fake buyers/sellers, and yet were taking real money (albeit Bitcoin) from their users, with the intention of paying out to users out of pocket.

Even if the laws are unjust or prediction markets are good, surely neither of those points matter if the data backing it up is generated rather than real.

I'm not claiming to know anything about economics here I just don't feel like this statement meshes with what actually happened -- the law took care of what reads like fraudulent practices, and we certainly shouldn't be cheering on Sand Hill because they tried to set up a game around it.
It's not just driving. The company I work for has an office in Marseille, France. At that office, there is a beautiful staircase that spirals around the middle of an open central area. In the middle of that area is a tiny, metal elevator. Virtually everyone takes the stairs, and the elevator is basically only there for the physically impaired.

At the US office, the ONLY access to higher floors (mind you, the building only has 4 floors total) from the lobby is through two large elevators. To even use the stairs you have to enter through a back alleyway, and the stairs themselves are the basic dungy "pretty much emergency use only" type stairs.

I see this pattern everywhere, where basic design and access flow in the US discourages even the slightest amount of physical exertion.
Using the new try / catch in Swift with asynchronous operations / closures
> It seems like the free market is pretty good at avoiding dodgy fintech startups.

Hahaha, are you kidding me? https://www.reddit.com/r/sorryforyourloss
Pro: It's faster

Con: There are still issues being worked out, support seems to be staying on top of it though.
> Rewriting shared history is (almost) always bad.

Agreed. The one counterexample that I have is Github pull requests. Those are actually branches in your fork, and you do want to rewrite those when you get feedback on a pull request. That makes it easier for the owner of the repo to do the merge later.
Anathem is seen as his seminal work? Huh. It is, by far, my least favorite of his books.

The Baroque Cycle is fantastic and I just finished Seveneves which is really good as well.
Too bad it is Apple-only.
Redis is already leaving plenty of performance on the table, e.g. by not having any concurrent shared memory data structures (the fastest concurrent hash tables achieve better throughput even on inserts than the fastest single-threaded ones). It does this in the name of implementation simplicity. People focused on implementation simplicity don't generally abandon the operating system.
I completely agree - but i think there is another dynamic at work here:

Companies can loose their trademark if the term becomes generic, and one way to defend against that in court is to show a history of defending the mark (I'm not lawyer but that's my simplistic explanation) this is a great article explaining the phenomena around derby pie

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/01/399842082/wha...

My bet is that they are weighing the lesser of two evils (to them) loose their trademark or look like a fool in the press for a few days...
I also read this as just describing how it worked for you, not saying that it didn't work. I guess some changes to the post might help though since people seem to be getting that impression.
Yep. We are very good at intuitive pathfinding in 2d, but really really bad at much of anything else.

Although, that being said, someone who spends a lot of time in caves may be better.
Interface is oft forgotten, but it is a very good book, and very timely with era of billion dollar presidential campaigns and industrial strength data mining.
US gov tested facial recognition tech on thousands of Americans at DC airport
Also I think English in under-represented. India is not in the English block and I would estimate there are at least high tens of millions of English speakers there.
Seems like a fun little project!
I agree with you, I've had good and bad experiences at big and small companies.

One thing - I think that if someone is hiring a programmer, that's already an indication that they are looking more for someone to execute a vision than to be "creative". This isn't always the case, but it leans that way. People have an idea, or a need, and they realize they need a programmer to implement it, so they set out to hire one.

There are some highly coveted R&Dish programming jobs out there at big companies (such as the old Sun Labs) - smaller companies may have trouble supporting something like this. But if you want to really be creative, you may have to strike out on your own, launch side projects, and so forth. It's tough, because it's hard to get this and a stable salary at the same time.
I flagged the parent message; hopefully that will bring it to the attention of such a power user.
The Portland example is dangerous territory, because now they have a home they can rent for much more per month and might kick you out. Then you just lived in a construction zone doing free labor for a year for nothing.
A SteamOS Contributor Speaks
Right. I just found this comment: "It only took some minor additions and extensions to turn Pascal into something that was found useful for industrial strength programming. Witness Turbo Pascal and VAX Pascal, for example. Kernighan's paper could have taken the angle of "What Pascal Needs to Become a Very Useful Language," which would have come across as less angry."
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Stipulated. But experience with co-workers tells me that drinkers miss more than potheads work, and can have catastrophic life collapses. "Drug" tests don't often test for alcohol consumption. So, I still think that "drug" tests aren't in place for that particular reason.
Soundpipe – A lightweight music DSP library written in C
Sounds like vc money has found another industry to come into and kill thousands of mom and pop businesses. As this process continues, massive investments to take over every industry by using efficiencies of scale, will there be any room left for the lower class entrepreneurs?
I've seen worse be handed down for less.

It's not entirely fictitious. Unlikely, but totally realistic and totally legal.
An experimental System-on-Chip with a custom compiler toolchain