jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Intellectual property is a misnomer, or at least a weaker form of property. It's not about free speech, but rather about the particulars of owning an idea which may reside in another mind. Calling it theft outright is framing the question. Of course people are against theft, but if their ideas of theft are different, they are referring to different things.

Furthermore, there are three distinct cases where IP is understood differently: trademarks, copyright and patents (I suspect you are referring to copyrights). Some people may be against only one or two forms of IP, while accepting the others.
People who do math (in a large sense that includes programming) often have a streak of Platonic realism: the idea that ideas are less invented than discovered.

Lots of important code boils down to identities:

a^0.5
== sqrt(a)
== (b such that b×b == a)
== (a certain line of x86 assembler)
== (a certain line of python)

Or equivalences:

Turing machine
== lambda calculus
== Java Virtual Machine
== Haskell
== Conway’s game of life
== Excel

Or other relations:

worst-case runtime of X ≤ worst-case runtime of Y

The notion of owning necessary relationships between concepts is at best problematic. It’s not helped by the fact that a lot of pretty obvious ideas get protection. The first one that comes to mind is US patent 4941193, which covers doing fractal image compression in the way that any competent programmer hearing the phrase “fractal image compression” would immediately imagine. There’s no incentive to license that kind of patent to the little guys, and the little guys don’t want to do the paperwork anyway, so a lot of things like fractal compression have stagnated because someone owns the predicate that images are often self-similar.

This is obviously not the whole story. There are benefits to society, and specifically to programmers, from moderate IP protection. But I think it’s is a reasonable answer to your question. The default attitude for hackers seems to be that anyone should be able to implement anything in the literature for any purpose. If you have the technical ability to circumvent what you see as immoral restrictions on knowledge of the structure of the world, you’re likely to do it.

(I’m not trying to argue for this view in this comment, only to point it out.)
Wow. So is it turning a string into a constant?
It is called a vendor providing an API for a platform with useful features implemented, so that one can focus on building solutions to one's problems and not reinvent the wheel. Watch out, the way you said it makes you sound like a free software fanatic/proprietary system hater.

I would seriously consider Obj-C on non-OSX systems if it had a better library available (GNUstep doesn't cut it), but that's a chicken-and-egg problem.
There is work being done on distributed exchange, the problem is quite difficult tho, I believe there is an exchange in germany that works quite well and users pay by bank transfer between each other (sepa transfers are cheap or free)

There is also localbitcoin

some people used mtgox to trade, but I can not understand why since their fees were high, trading engine slow and buggy and well there are better alternatives
+1 for the clever signup flow.

As some have already touched on, privacy is going to be a major roadblock, at least for our team in using this. Legally we can't send out any addresses, and I can't think of any ways around it for your queries at the moment.

Is there any way to do batch queries and receive aggregated data?
No, just normal developer monoculturalism. Same as showing only Mac screenshots that is common, or showing your website inside a Macbook, etc.
I'm certainly getting that feeling.
Simple: You go to a bank that isn't taking these risks to begin with. (Such banks don't exist now because FDIC insurance means there's no money in creating such a bank.)
Mozilla uses Python, but executes the code in a very limited environment so you can't import anything not on an allowlist, can't write to files, etc. But it's just the regular Python interpreter executing stuff. It produces a set of data structures describing everything that are then used by the unrestricted calling Python code.

It seems to work pretty well, though it feels a little constraining when I'm trying to figure something out and I can't do the standard `import pdb; pdb.set_trace()` thing. There's probably a way around that, but I've never bothered to figure it out.
Old school, great load time.
Please present a single major (or even "tier-2") service that has a 100% static privacy policy that expressly states that it will never change.
Drive-by addressing the HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) question you have.

It depends. If you want to scale on other metrics than cpu/mem, then HPA can do custom metrics too. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-...

Specifically the Prometheus Adapter.
Leading with a little blurb about WHAT the solution does would be nice.
Meanwhile, support for monitoring their Zen CPUs was backed out of the kernel in December because the interface is undocumented and buggy, and AMD isn't helping.

AMD is a Big Company, could go either very right or very wrong.
Heh, I was half expecting this to somehow be a Miss/Hit bug, considering the recently discussed Norway => No bug...
Some airlines do. More often on puddle jumpers than airliners though.
I'm with you on that one.

I also assumed that the the title had been editorialized/was click-bait until I read the pdf and the incident was filed and issued by the AAIB as a 'Serious Incident'.

Which is understandable given that the flight was 1,244 kg overweight at take off due to a programming error that assumed a 'Miss' = 35 kg / passenger instead of the correct average weight of an adult female of 69 kg.

True that the actual incident was a lot different than the title suggested (and I assumed) but taking off a ton heavier than what the manifest stated is a ‘bit of a problem’ to use the English art of understatement.
Yes they index these links. The "problem" (if you can call it that) is whether the crawlers discover the links or not, and if they do, how much of a priority they are.

For Twitter specifically, remember that lots of websites syndicate tweets, links and all. It's likely a crawler would discover the links on non-twitter.com websites.
It seems like you are very gung-ho about painting me as a conspiracy theorist without any real ground.

I don't know about you but in my world when someone say they wonder whether something is the case I would either ask the the reason for this or tell them why it can't be the case. I wouldn't lash out as you did and accuse them of putting forward conspiracy theories and saying other people are lying.

"And this is where it turns into proper conspiracy logic. Instead of banning flash because Jobs/Apple thinks it wont run well and provide a good user experience, as claimed, you suggest that:
Apple think they could provide a good flash user experience if they want to, but they would rather ban it to convert advertisers to their ad platform, but the CEO has no idea about either the possibility of making it work or the company's actual motives, and honestly believes his own claims that they are banning flash because it cannot be adequately fixed."

That is you reading words into what I say, talk about conspiracy theories!

I am beginning to realize that I am speaking with one of Lenins "useful idiots" and that makes this conversation fruitless.

You know my opinion you haven't made any arguments to change that.
One factor, but not nearly enough to explain it all: Everyone who gets a .com will also get the .net and often the .org, whoever someone who gets a .net (for a online community, a blog, ect) will not always get the .com?
Agreed. I was going to look into it, but not having windows support means you block 90% of your market. It's deceptive because saying "cross platform" to a developer (especially for a desktop app) means "runs on most devices". Using the term otherwise is a semantic game.
I had a hard time with the letter/number one, since to me, vowels seem even, while consonants seem odd, while the pairing in the test was the opposite. I kept wanting to click on the wrong side, even though I correctly identified the object.

I did only get one wrong (and knew it the second I clicked), but I think I could have done it faster without the extra mental processing to override my urge to click on the wrong spot.
It appears that the app name did not infringe, yes. Apple's trademark is for communications software and his is for a timer program.
Will there be some deb/rpm packaging tool included?
It's not like they can sell a Verizon iPhone without CDMA right after Verizon launches a 4G network. Without backwards compatibility there would be no coverage, it would be worse than AT&T.
This course got me into iPhone application development. It's a wonderful resource from Stanford.
Agree, clumsy post, still the main point it wants to change is that Failure is very frown upon in Europe.
I agree. I started contracting recently. At first I imagined getting 7-8 hours of billable work in every day. The reality is I've been able to do 4 - 5 hours of billable work every day before feeling burnt out and a bit crazy.
Your assumptions regarding many entrepreneurship programs are correct. They emphasize the presentation, rather than the products, and claim that outsourcing is the de facto answer to technology development.

But not all are like this. Visit a few, sit in some classes, and meet some students. Most, if not all, programs will let you do this. Some will insist that you to do so. See what kind of people are there. You may encounter one of the programs, or a group of individuals within the program, that insists on developing a technical skillset.

Honestly, you'll more than likely find out that you could have saved a great deal of time and money by simply working on projects yourself, or by getting an MS instead of an MBA. Also, most business programs these days have minors or inclusive programs to let people with tech skills take a few classes and broaden their abilities anyway, provided that you are already there for a degree.
Many paid iOS apps are pirated, even crappy ones. My impression is that Android app distribution introduces far more friction than the iOS App Store, for both consumers and developers.
You might also find this useful: http://jet.ro/2007/08/13/immediate-mode-graphical-user-inter...
Wait how the hell is that cheating? Shouldn't he be lesser predictable in the exams?
With an aim to have a start-up of my own, I decided to first give up my permanent job and work as a contractor. This I thought was safe than going out all by myself. I now have a company of my own but I work at client sites. Initially this all seem to be right thing and I also thought of taking up some freelance work which could generate profits for the company.

But, due to my full time job I can hardly focus on my freelance projects let alone targeting those deadlines..

And also I think to bag onto some good projects its essential to meet right people and win projects- which all comes down to networking skills.
Except all the messages are spam.
You need to be loose enough that you'll actually write and release a compiler, imperfect as it is. Shame can be a powerful motivator but it can also be paralyzing.

As I've used more modern languages with better type systems I've moved away from high test coverage and towards writing code that simply can't go wrong (or at least, that is exceedingly limited in the ways it can go wrong); http://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/12/09/typed-language-tdd-p... is a well-written explanation of something very close to my current approach. So I wouldn't put the emphasis on branch coverage or fuzz testing that you do. But I absolutely agree that you should have a very high level of confidence in a compiler before you ask people to use it, substantially higher than the level of confidence required of a library or service.
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> Most laypeople think of free will as the ability to make choices and act in accordance with one’s desires

As opposed to what? Making "determined choices"?

I think I get why this question has been asked, but I think the pop-topic of free will vs. determinism is a FAD.
For most of us this is not option for personal reasons. Old parents who will not move, kids going to school here, etc. Not to mention that I don't have any relatives or friends in Ukraine and moving there would require to cut all personal and business relationships.
In fact a single payer system alongside private insurance works really well to keep the private insurance providers honest. Up against a single payer one of their primary value add for most people isn't even better health care per se but better customer service, faster appointments, clear and helpful advice, etc. This is a good deal for the NHS as well because they still get your tax contributions but the private system takes some of the load off them.

In theory I'm mostly a Friedmanite. I think he has good reasons for preferring private enterprise for most thing. In theory private enterprise should be able to provide better health care than a public system as well. The problem is politics, lobbying and market distortions always introduce complications and obstacles. Health care is one of those markets where the resources and incentives on the provider side just overwhelm the ability for private individuals to get a fair deal.

I'm very glad we have the NHS over here, yes it has inefficiencies and weaknesses but compared to the horror show in the US I think it's far preferable.
The neuronal gene Arc, which is key to learning and long-term memory in mammals, also has retroviral origins. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5884693/
In a heat pump, the heat does not come from the electricity but from an environmental source. The electricity moves and compresses but does not heat anything.

Your usage of dollars indicates you live in the US. I hate to tell you but your definition of "economic" is probably not sustainable. Your price of electricity would probably double or even triple when switching to (cheap) renewables.
Sure, it would definitely be a large acquisition but I feel it would work quite well with their efforts to improve Maps. It seems that they might becoming less timid, under Cook, to spend large amounts on companies.
Social creatures like being valued. What they don't like about being objectified is having everything else about them disregarded. I hope it's not callously dismissive to ask: what new, surprising thing does this article tell us about the universe?
Yugoslavia had neither Twitter nor Facebook, and that got much worse...
I'm actually very curious... I have a few project in golang and if this was more performant I would consider porting them.
Anyone know what's up with their certificate? Firefox does not like it
Since when did monads become a synonym for Haskell?
I mean, I know where it comes from; I just don't think that there's a nice hand-wavy way to get people to understand what's going on there: you really need to start with how uncertainties multiply across a system, define entropy as log(W) in the NVE ensemble, discover temperature hiding there too, then switch to the NVT ensemble (i.e. connect to an infinite reservoir of energy at a certain temperature) -- then you can get at Boltzmann factors.

Even then, as was pointed out to me recently, it's not clear that the "always accept a lower energy, accept a higher energy proportional to the Boltzmann factor" yields a steady-state Boltzmann distribution -- especially because that would imply that the result is independent of the number of configurations with a given energy (the "density of states"), which seems surprising. If that doesn't hold then it's either a convenient approximation or a bit of magical thinking...
If you're just looking at browsers, then how about Microsoft, which still has a dominant browser market share.

If we're looking at desktop operating systems, Apple and Microsoft are the main suppliers. They provide built-in support for H.264, not WebM or Theora.

However, when looking at content providers, Apple is a very important player. The majority of online video content is sold through the iTunes Store. And rental places like Netflix and Hulu also rely on H.264.
The article you linked above contains a partially unminified version.

EDIT: On second thought, you'd probably be better off using a completely different compression algorithm that doesn't sacrifice performance for golfability.
I love each version of it! :D
You can go more mainstream with the TI-84 Plus CE. It has a C compiler.
Came here to say the same thing- had eye surgery a few years back and the floaters are maddening. I've got a few apps that use a white background feels blinding whenever I have to use them.
Okay I'm usually annoyed by these things, but seeing pg's picture... and then thinking "Oh, hmm, YC-funded huh"... then seeing Marc Anderseen's picture... then... seen a lot of other pictures, and then seeing "Inspired by investors."

Wonderful job. Stellar.
The joke one is so much more concise and just better. I know what the product is about instantly.
The "never phone home" UI should make it clear that it will still phone home to check for updates.

But I'm sympathetic to Github here. Having users on unpatched software is a bigger risk to them than not having 100% perfect insulation from sending their IP address to Microsoft.
Counterpoint, it is a very rare and unicorn-like class of company that has assiduously and methodically cultivated a grassroots cult of fanboys, that can do a presentation like this with zero advertising spend.

The closest I can think of might be Apple.

I am not saying spacex or tesla are vapor or hype, but that their fans are very, very enthusiastic about sharing every new thing and wild theory with all of their friends, unpaid.
Knowing what we know now, we know that Facebook saying they “did not know” something is a boldface lie.
But for 83(b) to be feasible, the company has to be worth essentially zero.

Let's say you join a startup that the IRS can claim is worth $20M (based on e.g. money raising valuation), and get 1% in RSUs worth $200K - depending on your other income that year, the tax bill can easily be close to $100K (if you made $100K in salary and live in NYC) for doing an 83(b), and it is still likely to be worth zero being a startup.

And before you say "the fact it raised $2M on $20M makes preferred reflect that value, not common which is still worth zero" - that is a common position, and the IRS almost never challenges 83(b) election valuations - but are you willing to risk that they won't start challenging them? I gave up more than one offer because I wasn't.

The bottom line is that the US tax system's taxing of virtual, unrealized, unrealizable profit is insane - I am not aware of any other western country that does that.
I am areligious, but I thought stewardship, in their context meant 'looking after' more than 'exploiting'.
This was the worst thing about switching to Python 3. `map` and `filter` are annoyingly "lazy" and `reduce` is basically shunned.

I wonder if the real reason this was changed was to discourage the use of `map` and `filter`... wrapping them each time with `list` is a pain in the ass and hurts readability.

And it breaks code in hard to anticipate places if you don't.

First thing I do when starting something is change them back in global scope. If I want a generator, I'll write one...

Down with PEP 8!
You claim things are "easy" that you clearly haven't done before.

I've been a PostgreSQL DBA for a decade, and built HA setups for my last three employers. Care to reevaluate your claims of what I have or haven't done?
My graphics prof (who was fantastic) also worked at System Simulation and liked to bring up the part he worked on in class:

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~blob/alien.html

TBH, I'd do the same.
The confusion is somewhat reasonable given that many synthesizers (including straightforwardly subtractive ones) have an FM knob somewhere. It can produce some really great metallic and/or bell-like sounds.

A synthesizer in which FM is the main way of making sounds, though, is extremely difficult to work with, since you're basically just modulating sine waves with one another. Even some very famous electronic musicians will admit to not quite understanding how to work with them in a predictable manner. The DX7, certainly, left plenty of musicians totally flummoxed.
Depends on what you're getting out of the gym membership. If you're just going to the gym, walking on a treadmill and doing curls for a bit, gym memberships can be incredibly cheap.

If you (like my SO) is going to the gym and using multiple provided amenities and training programs, that price can get very pricy very fast because those amenities are usually upcharged.
I think they are using web sockets or something which requires persistent connection between the phone and browser. Since on iOS, apps can't run in background this approach will not work on iOS.
So the borrowing costs must be quite high to warrant that revenue.
IMO the way to decide that follows from questions like: What does the Fed buy? Second question: What do the sellers to the Fed buy (where do they spend the proceeds?), and wherever the spending chain goes from there. To my eye, stocks and real estate, at least right now.
1. Have you ever tried a Kirby?

2. My Kirby G3 is 25 years old and can suck a blonde through the chrome of a trailer hitch. How old is your Dyson? How long will your Dyson last? Can you get parts for it? Is it repairable?

The G3 does have bags but they're HEPA H11 and EN1822 that catch ultrafines, so there's negligible emissions and it's all contained in a bag rather than breathing that crap while dumping a baglass.
My girlfriend's father, who works at an insurance company, heard I was looking for work while I was over at dinner, and starting talking about one of the hot new technology things they're investing in, which was real-time location monitoring in-app. I tried to be polite—as I am with most people who hear that I do computers or whatever— but he did seem taken aback by my lack of enthusiasm for my insurance company being able to know where I am at all times.
Thanks for letting me know. This seems to be far from being adopted into C++, if at all, right? Is the C++ community behind this effort?
Another native speaker here: I think the fact that we can debate this is evidence enough that it's confusing :) Yes with salary I usually say I "make" my pre-tax income. But I don't know if that's really what "make" means per se, or if that's just a side effect of how most jobs advertise salaries in pre-tax terms. (Also I assume this usage is actually older than the income tax.) In my mind, if someone tells me they "make $X / month" from a business, it sounds to me like they're trying to draw a comparison with "making a salary of $X / year", which is a lot closer to profit than revenue.

I guess in the end, it's just uncommon to say something like "Microsoft made $X billion last year" by itself, because it's just not clear what it means. Business news articles will almost always phrase something like that as "made $X billion in profits" etc.
“and how it decoded them. He wrote that down in his own words”

For clean-room design, you write down what the original does, not how it does it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design: “The term implies that the design team works in an environment that is "clean" or demonstrably uncontaminated by any knowledge of the proprietary techniques used by the competitor”)

Having said that, the distinction between “what” and “how” can be somewhat blurry and the article also says they were “following the prevailing court decisions about
how to avoid copyright issues while reverse-engineering a trade secret”, so maybe, it was more “what” than “how”.