jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Who, then, has the right to criticize RMS, if they don't?

Only people who are pure, demonstrated by worship of RMS, are free to criticize him. Of course, if they do so, they are no longer pure, and lose that license.
I think OP was actually talking about sending e2e-encrypted text messages (as in: SMS) through their phone carrier's infrastructure – which is what TextSecure (Signal's predecessor) used to support.
The big taxi company I drove for was at the top of the food chain in the Phoenix, Arizona area because the cars were clean, cabs usually showed up promptly, and if there was a problem you could deal with the company and they'd look into your complaint.

The company started switching out to the Prius a few years before I started driving for them in 2012. My first few leases were for old Crown Victorias, because I couldn't show up early enough to get in line for a prius (some drivers refused to drive the Crown Victorias, for various reasons).

The company had economy of scale in their fleet operations that was hard to beat: mechanics who knew the Prius like the back of their hand, boneyards (for parts), connections in the automotive industry.

They couldn't compete with people willing to wear out their personal cars giving 'rides' for peanuts. The company eventually sold off their fleet of priuses and their taxi yards, and refocused on the other businesses (app-dispatched medical transportation, etc). The Company tried to build their own dispatch phone app. But it didn't work especially well - I think they eventually decided to cut their losses.

VIP Taxi and Yellowcab are still doing okay, but I hardly ever see the green prius taxis anymore.
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We offer 401k match, generous equity, commuter perks etc.

PS: last time we posted on AskHN, we hired our founding financial engineer.
I highly recommend reading his book Phantoms in the Brain. Fascinating and approachable introduction to the kind of neuroscience--some of the talk's examples come from this book--that he talks about.
The middleast realizes that education is important for their growth once they run out of oil. They notice the success of israel and are trying to mimic it by creating institutes of excellence, but what they dont realize is there is no way they can mimic the culture of israel, which is more responsible for their success than anything else.

Its like u can build buildings in Bangalore but u cant replicate the culture of the valley. Bangalore ended up being a sweatshop where technology companies set up back end offices.

More over when half your population is not considered equal to the other half and is considered not ok for smart jobs or serious careers, I think that's a serious disadvantage human capital wise. Personally I don't think these programs will do any good.

Also, most of these programs are really new and I doubt if they will match the quality of the parent programs.

Disclaimer- I was offered to interview for one such program last year and I did not take it up.
Czech Republic might be good choice. I am living there and it is reasonably cheap, high speed internet is also very cheap (I am paying about $35/month for 100 mbps both ways) and weather is ok, during the spring and summer.

Croatia is ok too. I've been pretty much everywhere in this country (I spent week on different location each year for past 15 years). Great weather and landscapes, but during the summer there is crowds and crowds of tourists.

If you want to travel and see things then I recommend Morocco, very very cheap country and also safe. There are numerous internet cafe in each village (1 hour costs around $0.5 - $1). I spent one month last winter there and love it. I travel more then 2000km, see waterfalls, deserts, mountains and there is also some beaches too.
Thanks. Did not know that async APIs at the OS level existed.
One test I commonly use in interviews is to ask candidates to write a function to sum up an array of values. A scary volume of them can't manage it at all.
>> "They may even say "I hate you" or something similar. "

My son (4) regularly says he's going to go and buy a new daddy. Yesterday I wouldn't let him do something so he took my fathers day card away that he made me! Made me laugh :)
It seems to be implied, but I'm not taking anything for granted so my suggestion is thus: Maths. What do you know about math? Start there. You will be quickly asea if you are innumerate. Don't even think about reading any of the suggested literature (some very good suggestions, too...) without a good grounding in mathematics all the way through the Calculus. Don't make the mistake of thinking that the maths that may have helped inform any knowledge of computers and/or computation, will translate cleanly. Understand the maths first. You will then be able to understand where the authors, such as Michael Lewis and others, gloss over the mathematics to make the story more palatable to the 'average reader'. It's not that they do this deliberately, as much as their editors force them to do so. (Possibly apocryphal story: when Stephen Hawking submitted a first draft of "A Brief History of Time" it was rejected on the theory that each equation included in the manuscript would halve the sales... and he had so many equations that, it was quipped, "people would need to be paid to read it..." )

As for "what questions to ask for", start with the clear and explicit: "who's expecting to make money...? And how do they expect to make it?" This will lead you to interest rates and bond coupons, dividends, etc... But make certain you understand the math.
You could take the same numbers and make them say the opposite with subtly different assumptions. In short, those numbers are meaningless, or at least this analysis is meaningless.
I would love to own absolutely nothing, but have a portal follow me around, and anything I needed appeared through the portal, then disappeared as soon as I didn't need it anymore.

I bet something like this is one day possible and it happens.

People hoard for the same reason they overeat. Because scarcity has been the rule until very recently. When scarcity hasn't been the rule for for a long time I think these things won't be a problem anymore.
15,000km makes more sense than 3 million lbs.
We're the same here. The Google Drive client is buggy, slow, and unreliable - but the Dropbox sync client is rock solid. We use Dropbox with Google Apps.
Box, in my experience falls between GDrive and Dropbox in suckyness. However I understand from people who have evaluated both that Box has much better large scale corporate level integration and management tools than Dropbox.
Thanks for the correction. You're right.

If one of these guys provided a more traditional fix/itch/ouch setup, they might get more traction with traders who are already active in other currencies/products.
The repo for DBMS itself is here: https://github.com/triAGENS/ArangoDB
Try deploying just with grunt and you will see the difference.
I remember the good old days when you could actually see music videos on MTV and watch sports on ESPN.

It seems these days ESPN doesn't have "sports" but instead it has "sports center" which is catty locker room gossip about who raped who, who is out with an ACL tear, etc.

I wonder if ESPN just buys up the rights to sports games so nobody else can show them, just as some people think the car companies bought the rights to the 200 mph carburetor.
> I've got no idea why I keep coming to HN looking for hacker news.

By "Hacker News" I presume you mean news that hackers find interesting? In which case, that is your answer.
We've got an application that is very similar to trello (www.iferapp.com) that we are planning to offer in self hosted mode - we are going into beta very soon.
I'm saving that paragraph. That was a fantastic explaination.
Naturally, I find some information immediately after posting this question. This was after searching for an hour prior to my posting on here. Anyway, here's some of the information I have found:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorRelaySe...
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Operationa...

Even with these articles, I am still looking for hardware recommendations.
I think you'd be surprised if you actually gave it a go. I'm something of a separation-of-concerns fussbucket myself.
Absolutely. What Apple is or isn't doing isn't the real issue. The issue is, do you want to put yourself in a position where they could do things to you and you'd have no recourse?

As a corporation, Apple is obligated to maximize profit for their investors. That means if they could raise their take to 40% or 70%, and make more net money by doing it- they are supposed to do it. Corporations are not charities. If Google could do it, they would do it. If Softie could do it, they would do it too. Stop expecting companies to do things out of the kindness of their hearts. Apple is doing what they are supposed to do. But if more developers moved to the web, they might even start doing things to attract them back.
I think it's worth mentioning that software copyright licenses (like BSD) cover a particular implementation (a.k.a. "creative work") while U.S. patent licenses cover a design.

The likely reason for Facebook including the explicit patent license is that with an implicit license it is unclear if derivative works also share the rights to the granted patents (e.g. "can I take part of the implementation that utilizes a patented design and use it in another project?") [1].

The implicit patent rights of the BSD license may or may not extend to derivative works or different distributors, but the Facebook PATENTS file clarifies that it does not and avoids the ambiguity. For places outside of the U.S., that do not care about U.S. patent law, but do respect copyright, the BSD license is still in effect.

I don't think that simply using Facebook software will open up your business to a "huge business risk" -- any more so than you'd be doing by working on the assumption of an implied patent right grant on the derivative works permitted by the BSD license. IANAL.

[1] From the same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113515
FoundationDB was a performant, distributed (multiple machines), shared nothing (multi-master) key-value database with SQL on top (not sure if it was standards compliant SQL) that supported translations and serializable isolation (ACID complaint IIRC, but they were some size limitations).

In any case, given that narrow feature set, I can't think of many production quality NoSQL databases with that feature set, and I can't think of any that replicated the millions of writes/sec on GCE like Foundation did, so Foundation seems to be quite special.

Interestingly enough Apple is a heavy user of Cassandra, so if this related to iCloud I wonder if they decided to replace it and why. Or maybe they had enough money where the decided they could just own the database, and DataStax's valuation was too high.
> more nuanced way of putting it would be that the Republicans prefer that government interfere less with economy. To that end, they support regulation which restrains government from interfering with the economy, and are against the more-typical regulation which directly interferes with the economy.

But in this case this logic isn't even correct. Since they support laws which ban competition, and that is clearly interfering with the economy. I.e. it's interfering for the benefit of monopolists, and against the benefit of their competitors and the public. I get an impression that this abstract idea of "don't interfere with the economy" is simply inconsistent. More consistently that position looks like "against competition", which equals against free market.
Yes, he knew because we already knew each other before I joined his company.
The US/Mexico border near Tijuana is pretty heavily populated on both sides, with the only real hurdle in points being the rather narrow Tijuana river. The agility of a drone would let it dart quickly enough over that you can get the goods over before someone noticed what was going on.
* If US can grow 159 bushels of corn per acre, and African countries are currently at 29, why is the 15 year goal for African countries only 48 bushels per acre instead of somewhere close to the US?*

Irrigation probably presents the biggest barrier, especially in the Northern equatorial regions of Africa. Once you're utilizing 100% of the water available you can't grow anything else.
I enjoy how he begins a vision of a much more pervasive Internet with "And with your permission and all of that...".
It is (or at least was) possible to opt-out, I'm using none of those with KDE 4.14.3-r1

That said the only reason I was able to accomplish this (and it was convoluted) is because Gentoo (Linux distro) allows me to customise & compile software with specific settings.
Seems more a downside of some locations, than of lunchtime walking per se?
My guess is he plead guilty under advisement his case was hopeless. There's a significant likelihood evidence necessary to aide his case is locked away deep inside the FBI.

A very a la NSA illegal wiretaps putting people in prison under guise of "confidential informant".
What's the major difference between Gotalk and Socket.IO?
Well, I can't even encourage people on my team to simply take the stairs for meetings in other floors. Go figure. :) I'm under the impression that this is something very hard to evangelize at work; many people don't care or don't want to think about sedentarism.
This is great! ;-))
Our team used pngquant (http://pngquant.org/) recently to reduce complex, high-res PNGs to about 33% of their original size. It gave us the size benefits of lossy compression while retaining the PNG alpha channel. It seems to be good enough to tide us over until WebP gains traction (not holding my breath).
You are extremely correct. It gets even worse for large NGOs without direct government funding - organisations like greenpeace are said to spend 40% of their funds advertising to get next years donations. I don't know if that is urban legend or plain false, but it seems quite plausible.

It's also very true for a lot of startups - too much of the founders time is spent ensuring the startup gets more access to funds. It's a terrible trap to get into, and circumvented only by bootstrapping to a revenue phase.
Although this method may be great for you, it doesn't seem worth it to me.

Having your passwords hacked or guessed is bad because it's a hassle, and it can lead to you losing time and money.

This method of password generation/storage is also a hassle, and definitely leads to losing time (which may translate to money).

I find it far easier to come up with a reasonably long and complex 'base' password, then tag an extra bit to the end depending on which site you're accessing. Since our memory is strongly context dependent, it's easy to remember the extra little bit for the site you're currently on.
This python API into Delicious could give you a place to start:

http://www.michael-noll.com/projects/delicious-python-api/

Unfortunately Delicious will throttle you if you hit the service more often than once a second so you might not be able to get too much valuable information.
"the `./configure && make && make install' routine seems to constantly break on OS X."

macports [1] is a great thing. I like it almost as much as I like freebsd's ports system (which is my favorite package system).

[1] http://www.macports.org/
Google Translate is definitely far from perfect.

I once saw this forum post that was in German, that Google translated "A: Nyet." to "A: Yes."

Since it was a question and answer post regarding information for an upcoming game, there was quite of bit of fuss over it before this translation error was discovered.
>If the brick and mortar store's only value-add is providing the same information I can find online by reading the online-retailers website, then why do they deserve my business? I go into brick and mortar stores to see if they can offer me something else. Sometimes this happens, and the value makes me purchase it from the local store.

Exactly, if that's all the value they add then they are basically competing on price. I am thinking of the stores that actually guide you through the process.

One example by me: a mom and pop shop that specializes in HDTV's. You go in, often are greeted by one of the owners, and they take you through everything explaining what the specs mean, what is best for you etc. This is far more information than you can find in an Amazon description. Now don't get me wrong, if you go in there and tell them that you're not planning to buy anything they will still be more than happy to help you out, that's their business model. However I would say it's immoral to go there, tell them you are going to buy a TV, work with them to figure out exactly what you need, then go on Amazon and buy it for less.

tl;dr It's not immoral to walk into a car dealership and ask for a test drive under no pretense that you plan to buy a car, but it is immoral to spend 3 hrs. with the salesman then at the last minute say that you never even considered buying a car from them. The actual line falls somewhere in between.
(IANAL)
In Europe, software is not patentable unless there is a kind of physical/technical effect that goes beyond the normal interaction between the program and the computer.

The usual example is the software to control a anti-lock braking system: as there is a technical effect, it is patentable...

More details here:
http://www.epo.org/topics/issues/computer-implemented-invent...
the casual user at home, with no exposed services to the public, has no real need for a short ipv4 address. ipv6 would suffice just fine for the end user, and the isp can handle the v6-to-v4 translation in their own infrastructure. this would free up a substantial amount of ipv4 space.

the isp could also provide dynamic dns as part of their package for users who do want to access their devices at home. why remember a 4-octet ip when you can get your own subdomain from your internet provider?
Because of the throttling penalty it's often worse for a compiler to produce avx512 code. It's only worth it for very specialized tasks, not even gaming. This may change when throttling is no longer required on newer process nodes. But for now, it's mostly a gimmick.
> They basically just inject this every two seconds:

Isn't that the difficult part, ie. to intercept a request to a server and inject malicious code. In this case as all request goes through the great firewall, the hack was trivial.

The retaliation from GitHub is quite clever although not great for the user or Baidu.
I use a patchy python script (pyhon isn't my first language) to accomplish it. It basically just rsyncs the file once it's saved (using `on_post_save`). It's a bit tedious because I need to manually add folders it's going to watch, Also, it's not exactly remote code editing, since there's a local copy of the file (which is downloaded/uploaded). I believe most Sublime users do something similar to this, however I hope I'm wrong and I'd love to hear about an alternate approach!
Thanks for this comment. I think that we'd find each other in strident agreement, which is why I typically only go to smaller or more academically inclined conferences these days.

That said: a lot of us have constructed our identities through exploration online, so the notion that IRC and GitHub are not expressive of personal identity sounds a little weird to me. It's very, very hard to actually separate identity from the developer, especially when it comes to activities like bug triage. I don't have a good answer, but I think there's an assumption that what we can measure necessarily is what is important, when what we measure in terms of programmers is often what's easy to measure.
I stated, that it's not very beginner friendly, and that I've tried it previously.
> Rust could get things done in a beautiful way, if they
> just....stabilized it.

Hence the Rust 1.0 stable release on May 15th. :) http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/02/13/Final-1.0-timeline.html
I disagree just because an overloaded term is not necessarily a meaningless or low-value term - many of its definitions might be important. I do agree that overloaded terms are frustrating, though.

It also doesn't help that some of the overloading of "feminism" is from its detractors.
Shaving my head was the best decision I ever made regarding my hair. I never knew what to do with it before that.

Vastly happier now.
I mean, this is totally reversible and is mostly caused by hitting the zero lower bound. Consider that money is put into circulation by the fed buying safe assets. They can sell these assets to reverse this.

Not that there isn't any danger. Even better would have been if the Fed was ok going into negative rates (like the ECB did a few years ago). They wouldn't have had to create so much money. People, businesses and banks are just hording government money instead of private assets because it offers above market returns of 0% while marginal safe assets on the private markets have had negative returns (on a risk adjusted, liquidity adjusted basis). With sufficiently negative Fed rates more in line with the markets, people would have kept their assets instead of hoarding government paper and the Fed wouldn't have needed to print so much.
Social media should be a good thing.
The trouble is everyone associates it with Facebook + Instagram (and they both suck).

It's really hard for a new player to come into this crowded market, but I'm sure it will happen sometimes in the coming years. Zucky has brought nothing but toxicity, and hopefully, that will cost him in the long run.

What I'd like is something simple that would allow me to stay in touch with my friends, I don't want any reminders about "X posted Y", or "You might know Z" or whatever.
Boys do as they are taught.

its not role models, its expectations.

I as a man am not expected to become a carer. I am not expected to be a nurse. I am not expected to show emotion. I am expected to fight, talk through grunting and like sports.

Girls are taught to be girls, they must be nice, they must smile, they must care, they must be demure.

Now, this is automatic. You treat others how you see others being treated, unless you have reason to change your behavior.

> I've spent all my evenings of the last month on my latest electronics project. Do you think I'm doing that just because Charles Babbage also had a penis?

nope.

but, try this: obsess over caring for orphans, injured animals, restoring habitats, etc etc. Kinda naff right?

Its equally as hard as electronics, requires the same level of science. But its not done by boys because its "what girls do"