jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been wondering about that. I'm not sure if crypto coins without being stabilized by central banks are a powerful enough force to cause the type of havoc that gold did during the great depression.

Then again, the potentially stronger network/memetic effects of cryptocoins, along with the amplification factor from markets being synchronized through instant all-encompassing global communications nowadays might make them dangerous to the economy without government involvement. We saw how much people can get hypnotized by these things during the Gamestop episode. I don't think unsophisticated investors' hoarding is enough to cause big problems but it is a bit unsettling that Tesla jumped on the cryptocoin train. If enough businesses follow suit, you get into scary territory. Last time it lead to Hitler and WWII. It makes me second guess my cybertruck reservation. I was on board partly because of Musk's audacious and epic attempts to bring humanity forward. This is a non negligible risk of going in the opposite direction of creating economic carnage that leads to new Hitlers (but with nukes).
rsync is hard on networks???????????

Is there any truth to this? I find it hard to believe -- most of the time rsync is tunneled over ssh which seems well enough abstracted from an optimal traffic generation mechanism that i would seriously doubt it's able to outcompete other programs for
network resources in a meaningful way ... perhaps this observation evolved because there are a lot of networks that have traffic shaping rules for ssh? unfortunate effects of traffic shaping rules for ssh + low bandwidth connection + rsyncs happening over ssh + an administrator logged into an ssh port via the low bandwidth link

could maybe produce this observed (but non-sensical?) correlation?
i agree. It's hard not to be cynical especially seeing that its microsoft/bing saying this. If google do move out of australia it's basically like microsoft winning the lottery.
Any time you get enough deaf people in one place, who don't already have a signed language, they invent one. In times and places where signed languages have been suppressed, they've popped up all over the place at schools for the deaf. There's not much reason for any of the languages to share grammar and such with each other, since they're effectively unrelated. You wouldn't expect Japanese and Navaho to use similar grammar or vocabulary, right? Same here.

[Not Deaf, but I studied ASL and deaf culture for a few years at 2 colleges and in private lessons.]
NoScript implemented this over a decade ago, as part of its surrogate scripts feature: https://hackademix.net/2009/01/25/surrogate-scripts-vs-googl...

This was one of my favorite examples of how there was much more to NoScript than most people assumed, and it had a depth of features that could not be matched by "alternatives" like uMatrix. But that feature was killed by the mass extension breakage in Firefox 57: https://github.com/hackademix/noscript/issues/133#issuecomme...

So in a way, this feature can be seen as more than three years overdue.
> I don't fiddle with it.

I keep my smartphone with shazam on when I listen to the radio. While moving I'll hear a song and just press the big round button in the middle. The simplest gesture possible on a phone. I noticed that when I do so, even if I make a conscious effort to:

- keep eyes on the road 100%
- not even tilt my head to look at the phone
- don't insist if I miss

even then I can see my brain lose focus of the area around me and somehow only have a mental image of my limb / arm / hand

It seems very unnatural (unless trainable .. can't say) to do those two things at once without turning into a high risk.
> If you go with copy-left you automatically disqualify some major institutions from using your software. Especially for a community based project, there may be institutions that want to make proprietary extensions so it can integrate better with their existing infrastructure.

This is still possible with GPL (and the AGPL, for that matter) by granting an exemption to the license for third-party extension software that is in the form of a plugin using a specific API.

It is worth noting that depending on the details of your (and the plugin's) implementation, such an exemption may not even be required.

This is probably a good place to start digging in to the topic:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins

But before anyone starts down this rabbit hole (the legal, social, and technical details of which I personally find fascinating, but YMMV), a maintainer should instead think about the things they want to allow, the things they want to forbid, and the things they want to be able to charge for. Also, which of the aforementioned things they want to provide strong guarantees for in the event of a change in ownership and/or a fork (eg. MySQL/Oracle, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, etc.).

But whatever the preferences are for a particular project, there almost certainly is a way to set those boundaries using a FLOSS license, and it is probably possible while using the GPL (but if you're leaning toward 'allow individuals and mega corps to do whatever they want', there isn't much sense in using the GPL as a starting point), though it is possible you might need a few additional tools for some scenarios (requiring a Contributor License Agreement or even copyright assignment for contributions, license exemptions for specific APIs, splitting out some shared libraries and releasing those under a different-but-compatible license, dual licensing, separate licensing for non-code assets, a nonprofit foundation, compatibility testing and associated badging & trademarks, etc.).

Anyway, there are a lot of tools available, and most of them can be grabbed when and as they're needed, if they ever are.

So, start with what you want in terms of permissions and boundaries, then ask for advice on enabling/enforcing that structure with a FLOSS license, and it can probably be done without too much complexity (assuming that it isn't incompatible with FLOSS, like 'This software cannot be used by the military or to support the creation of WMDs').
> when there's data collected without a legitimate purpose for doing so

Who gets to decide what's legitimate? Most people would agree that detecting and fixing crashes is a legitimate usecase, but most of HN is probably staunchly against Windows telemetry.
Me too. If it's $0 can I "buy" a million shares of it?
Within about an hour, I got sent the link to Deep Nostalgia by several acquaintances. None of whom are AI Researchers or particularly tech minded. Daily Prophet come to life resonates. ML techniques that touch universal, ancestral themes clearly have more mainstream appeal than an agent that can solve geometry proofs. Raw human emotional response is thus a crucial component of evaluating Beneficial AI.
Thanks OP. Appreciate the clarification.
I don't know about the apple equivalent, but Spotify is available as a music app in android auto. The interface is intentionally trimmed down such that your touch interactions are limited.

Instead, it wants you to do as much as possible by voice. It almost works, but is frustrating enough I learned to just get the songs and albums i want lined up in advance and can get to in 2-3 touches. Not quite the same as tactile controls, but pretty close.
I think you may misunderstand how theoretical physics works. Theorists devise competing theories to explain existing evidence, while making some as-yet unproven predictions. Experimentalists then test those predictions using both controlled experiments (e.g. LHC) and observations (e.g. Hubble). Theories whose predictions were invalidated are then revised or discarded (e.g. Luminiferous Aether[0]).

That is the very definition of the scientific method, not at all "unprovable" as you claimed. The same process produced the current theory of evolution, and is just not as far along in the case of string theory. Seeing conflict in science and declaring it to be religious is like seeing a half-assembled car in a factory and declaring it to be undriveable. You are taking a snapshot and ignoring the process.

A note about the word "theory": it doesn't mean "untested"; it's the same sense as "music theory", that is, a comprehensive body of explanatory knowledge about a subject.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
Not sure how that's relevant.

Anyway it's a logical fallacy "appeal to popularity".
why does HR's network need to be accessible from the same internal network that everyone else is on?

Convenience I guess. Every book I've ever seen on network design and system administration talks about "departmental" servers and segmenting corporate networks at functional borders, but in practice I've never seen it. It's hard enough to get people to use different network shares for different data (e.g. personal, departmental, project related) instead of one global, world-writable share. This occurs at every level, from small businesses to the largest corporate and government networks.

On top of that, even if you compartmentalize, there really isn't any technical method to prevent Sally in HR from emailing a list of personal email addresses, phone numbers and addresses to Sam in the Communications department so he can send out Christmas cards to everyone. And, Sally being a non-technical user will probably just "hide" the social security and salary columns in that spreadsheet instead of deleting them and then will blame Bob in IT when that list of salaries ends up on the global network share and eventually printed out and taped to the wall in the hallway.
I might try this in an Evernote notebook! Thanks!
That cuts both ways - people can equally say "I was able to <X> because I never took <Y>."

Without some objective data, there's no way to attribute the abilities and accomplishments to the absence or presence of LSD.
Because it is not going to be as profitable?

They are making more money by allocating the same resources to ads related project, so why bother anyway.
Apple expects all Mac Pro uses to own multiple Mac computers in order to do routine maintenance. Outrageous.
It's not the failed IPOs like Groupon and Zynga you have to worry about. Those are actually good outcomes.

It's the ones that are "too big to fail" that you have to worry about. And it might not even be explicitly accounting this time.

I've had this strange suspicion for a while that a lot of the companies selling ads are doing some bogus stuff. I mean, we all know there's a lot of fraud happening in terms of ad serving/tracking and accountability, but I suspect that it's been institutionalized somewhere.

Or it could be any number of things. The amount of bullshit I've personally witnessed by startups to close a new round is staggering. The number of times I've seen people find creative solutions to adding an extra zero to "monthly active users" is just too damn high. Investors keep investing, established firms keep acquiring, and no one cares.
As a kid who wasn't so poor, but did have a few poor friends, I can point out some anecdotal differences:
My parents had time to show interest in my school activities, discuss what we were learning, and find out if I needed help. When I couldn't understand centripetal force to my satisfaction for my 5th grade science fair project about the yoyo, they invited their NASA friend over for dinner so he could talk about it with me.
I never wondered if my parents could afford to buy school items. I never worried about my parents being in a bad mood because they lost their jobs or couldn't afford to put food on the table and go to a relative's funeral. (I remember being at a friend's house while his parents were fighting about this.)
I had a friend whose parents were very poor when her father lost his job, he was in a horrible mood for weeks and then turned to alcohol. Growing up in that kind of environment is incredibly stressful.
I didn't understand it so much as a little kid, just later. For me, getting a B was a horribly stressful event. My parents might be disappointed and I might be stupid. For my friend being home was a horribly stressful event. Grades never mattered at all to her. Her parents didn't have time to pay attention to her schoolwork, they had other more important things to worry about.
I'm going to buck the general trend here and recommend bringing the guy on board, but note that what I say (as with all advice) isn't free from the odd concomitant caveat.

The million-dollar question: "Am I selling to a market that I lack access to / lack the means to access?"

If the answer is yes, then you need this guy. And bad. You're likely a lamb heading to the slaughter without someone like him. Enterprise software is one such (arcane to an outsider) market. For instance, it's incredibly hard to sell to CIOs / IT departments without a solid channel of motivated System Integrators. It's even harder for a startup with little credibility to build such a channel of System Integrators who aggressively push your product without the leverage of strong relationships (built over a non-trivial period of time, usually years or decades).

I speak from personal experience - we added a Vice President of Sales from a Fortune 500 to our team, and it was the catalyst that our business so desperately needed. Within the space of six months, we were able to close over 10 channel partners and consequently access decision makers at hundreds of IT departments.

My advice would be this: keep compensation low, as low as you possibly can. If the guy balks at this, that's a red flag. A true VP of Sales will take it as a personal affront if he doesn't have to prove his mettle through results. I can't emphasize this enough, vest equity solely on performance (revenues realized) and set a reasonable, realistic cliff (a year can sometimes be a bit too short). Give him the authority to incentivize reps adequately. There's a great example from a company called Verdiem in this TechCrunch article (http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/06/0-to-20-million-ten-hand-to...)

Verdiem’s Jim Flatley taught me this at Plumtree: he fought to get early reps 15% of every sale, but after we made our numbers for the first time ever, nobody wanted to pay them less. Even after the bubble burst and every other technology company took a blood-bath, Jim kept delivering results.

Another article that you just can't afford to overlook is by Mark Suster (http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/05/the-excuse-department-is-cl...), and he sums up succinctly in one line what I've been trying to convey through all this verbiage:

(Sales people) are more mercenaries than missionaries.

This applies to their leader, the VP of sales in equal measure and the moment you internalize this (and make peace with this fact), you'll find this decision quite easy and understand how to approach the entire exercise.

All the best!
I'm sure its not too hard to just have everything from that email address forward to the trash if you're so inclined.
> What about some of the others: Airplay, Corona, Cocos2D-X? Has anyone actually tried some of these that could give more insight?

Toolkits you mention are geared towards cross-platform 2D and 3D graphics, i.e. game development. They do not deal with native controls at all, you have to take care of buttons, menus, touch control etc. yourself. My guess is that Martin Fowler is talking about view-based applications.
You're right - there's no point trying to 'find the right approach' when it comes to space flight. But not every piece of software has to get every little detail right. When the issue is more about figuring out what you're trying to accomplish with software than accomplishing something perfectly, creativity is very important.
The company discontinuing a software product may want people to buy another if its products instead, which they might not buy if they could get a community supported version of the killed product for free instead. E.g. Adobe ended up owning both GoLive and Dreamweaver, and killed the former. If Adobe had open sourced GoLive, that might have reduced subsequent Dreamweaver sales.
Yes, it is a derivative of methamphetamine. Adderall (amphetamine) and Concerta both are used to treat ADD.
No two books have helped me more than:

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion
The shuttle is an excellent example of many things, but not necessarily of a conceptually difficult task. It's hard, but it's not mind-bending. The hardest part comes from having to prove the systems correct because lives depend on it.
If you read the article, it is about scientist/people who state lsd helped them with their ideas.
Not in working.
The same thing will happen as in almost every other developed country: average well-being will go up but some people will have to wait longer for treatment. It’s not like this is some novel, utopian idea. Public heath care is the norm in most western countries with plenty of variations and lessons-learned to choose from.
That's not even close to a fair summary of this thread.
I did some googling and couldn't find any clear differences, so just settled on gotty. If anyone knows, I'd be happy to add it to readme!
Big defector, my ass. He doesn’t even have the cojones to call out his old pal Zuck. McNamee is merely profiting from the techlash to get his name out there.

Source: went to see him speak at Stanford. Asked him myself during live Q&A, if Facebook is so evil and must be stopped, why doesn’t he call out Zuck for terrible leadership given that Facebook culture and business practice comes straight from the top? His answer, direct quote: “well, he and I are friends.”

If this is our big defector, we’ve got serious problems.
"The bottom line: Opposition to higher minimum wage laws is increasingly based in ideology and orthodoxy rather than real-world evidence, economists say."

We can't be treating all changes in minimum wages equally. Those quoted in the sources were very minor changes that may simply reflect what the market price for low-end labor already is.

It is common sense that raises in wages must result in either reduced profits or increased prices. Of course profits can be reduced, but not below zero, at least not indefinitely. Naturally, profit margins in industries employing lots of low-end labor are already low. Of course prices can be raised, but that erodes purchasing power and competitiveness.

Unprofitable companies signal wasteful allocation of resources, and higher prices tend to hit those at the bottom the most.

There is a sweet spot where surplus profits can be transferred to the workers through an optimum fixed wage, but that number would be different for every region and every industry.

Absent a safety net for those workers that may be priced out of the market, I concur with the following assessment[1]:

"One can find plenty of economists on the left and right who think that while $15 an hour may make sense for some companies, a one-size-fits-all approach for businesses big and small around the country is a “risk not worth taking,” as former Obama White House economist Alan Krueger has put it."

[1] https://www.aei.org/articles/a-15-minimum-wage-is-great-for-...
Googles results are getting steadily shittier, so they're a bad benchmark to beat.

The behavior based searching is crap which has been usurped by people seeking profits. Optimizing the dopamine feed of users and ad impressions of publishers isn't a good thing or something to aspire to.
DuPont sold off their 52.a.b.c to Microsoft and Amazon 5 years ago.
Take a look at https://www.udacity.com/course/high-performance-computer-arc...
> As many have pointed out, the minimum wage in many places has been eroded for years by inflation, so increasing it is really just making up for a lack of indexing on it.

The last minimum wage hike was in 2009, when the minimum wage was increased to $7.25. Inflation adjusted to 2019 dollars, that would be about $8.70.

In 2016, both main Democrat candidates supported a $15 minimum wage, which would be an increase of around 10X the required inflation adjustment.

What is it that you were saying about arguing in good faith?
I assume you meant that the other way around? Sports fans are the definition of tribal.
Yes, focused on the UK (at least at first).

One of the major reasons hiring good developers is hard is that traditional job boards are dominated by recruiters and it's hard for an individual company to stand out. So companies are pretty much forced to use recruiters who aren't great.

I'm solving the find good developers problem by building a job board that allows individual companies to standout, but also by strategic advertising. Using my background as a developer I can target ads much more specifically to top-tier developers by focusing for example on the things they'd be more likely to search for.

Solving the "it's hard to find good jobs" problem for developers is a side-effect of the main problem I'm tackling :)
I really like Solus and Budgie, but last time I tried it enough things were broken (ex: switching workspaces via keyboard shortcuts) that I moved on. I currently dual boot Pop and Elementary. I particularly like Elementary’s terminal and their picture in picture feature. But elementary is getting long in the tooth.
What does the dongle thingy feel like when youre using it? I've never seen one IRL, but all I can think about when I see the photos is that it would spin around, be awkward to use, and maybe even wear out the headphone jack. Any comments from your experience are appreciated.
I think there's a startup opportunity here.

I'm not intimately familiar with the laws involved, but it seems like a fairly trivial problem to build a business around Whois masking (done right). Provide the same service as WhoisGuard, but explicitly say in your contract that your customer retains all ownership rights to the website.

(And provide a nicer UI than Namecheap does for such things...)
You should allow the user to customize the keyboard, I prefer 'awsd' for movement and 0 and . as nintendo's 'A' and 'B' buttons. It maps better in my brain.
I don't have to download a new copy of uTorrent if I decide to use different ports.

The client could probably just check periodically for a signed message from a central server (or a broadcast on the network itself) with instructions to currently operate on the network.

This isn't really a big deal or usability issue that I can see.
Apple's adoption of NFC is focused on using the iPhone to make make payments. It would be interesting to see if they are planning to use it also to transfer money from iPhone to iPhone.
It's not meant to be a reliable way to test. Unit tests wouldn't help the problems that Chaos Monkey is meant to solve.

Chaos Monkey is meant to force apps to go into failure modes "in the real world". If they see anything unexpected happening after a service is killed or degraded, they can investigate.

It sure beats having a service go down unexpectedly for the first time six months ago and not have tested scenario in production.
this is an amazing usability hack of the internet.
again please point to a single example of this happening ever.
Western musical notation has been continuously evolving.

It is far from being 'largely unchanged for hundreds of years'.

For example, look at the notation for this piece by Iannis Xenakis. (Shows the sheet music in the video).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZazYFchLRI

Compare to this gregorian chant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graduale_Aboense_2.jpg

Or to this piece by his teacher oliver messiaen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Messiaen_Oiseaux_exotiques...

There are some important things that are the same between the chant and the piece by Messian, but the notations are very very different, and have accumulated some really important stuff over the years.

Saying that musical notation has been largely unchanged for hundreds of years is kind of like saying that English has remained largely unchanged for hundreds of years.... in that it is incorrect.