skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone tried a Humble Bundle approach, where users buy the software and have the option of entering $0? I suspect having a non-zero default payment and a guilt-inducing average payment would encourage people to donate, while allowing them the option to just get it for free.

I could put on my patio11 hat and say "Just charge for it"
Good thing one of them is a car company...
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High school wasn't all fun, but one of the definite low points was breaking out one of your new notebooks and discovering that you accidentally bought a ten-pack of wide-rule notebooks.

I, uh, guess I was a nerd.
Especially considering my 8.1 -> 10 upgrade has failed spectacularly several times. I'm not going and buying 10 at retail to try this shit out.
Great movie. Some things are more important.
When I was a kid, my sister and I drew "pixel art" on graph paper. I bet we would have had a lot of fun with the isometric grid.
> Except I've never once seen such a claim actually made by any politician.

I've seen it made by almost every politician I've seen questioned about the impact of particular donations, and most people defending campaign donations against proposals to regulate them more closely; and as a lifelong political junkie and Political Science major, those are things I've seen quite a lot of.
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Not 80% but it looks like as much time is spent fundraising as doing legislative work: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/call-time-congressi...

And my worry isn't about not being able to draft bills. It's about being able to review already-drafted bills. Isn't the TPP several thousand pages?
The answer quoted above said they needed to spend time to "untangle it of some commercial code that was used at some point." That just strikes me as a bizarre problem for Canonical to have even had.
It's referring to the lack of standardization of the VP9 codec, and the terminology is pretty common in standards bodies - it does sound weird and misleading when intermingled with free software though.
About all I gleaned from reading it was a big list of reasons why 'RESTful' is bad, and that the main solution was to use HTTP(s) as purely a transport layer.

What, exactly the 'solution' will look like depends on future posts... however https://xkcd.com/927/ (Standards) comes to mind.
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So this has getting a lot of discussion, unsurprisingly, but the discussion is split across several submissions, each with its own slant. Here are the submissions I've found:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039202
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10040428
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10041960
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043030
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043326

In a comment I'll put clickable links, with current counts.
It's a joy to use for side projects! I'm using it as the datastore in a web app for learning that automatically generates quiz questions from user-provided data. Integrating with it using the Python API has thus far been dead simple.
Seems like a non-issue. They did no research ahead of time regarding alphabet.com/@alphabet handles... this would indicate that they are not that concerned about the visibility/branding of the holding company, which stands to reason.

It's not like they didn't think about these things when they were naming, they just don't care.
Clickable links, with domain name and comment counts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039202 (oracle.com) 517 pts, 277 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10040428 (archive.org) 338 pts, 107 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10041960 (seclists.org) 1 pt, no comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043030 (archive.org) 7 pts, 3 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043326 (zdnet.com) 1 pt, no comments

The "archive.org" submission is there because the original blog post has been removed.
Power saving/ water saving FWIW is a social fashion, which the consumer need to show up. You need to show up your priuses and teslas. Your shower head might not make that ecological concern statement that people might be looking for.

I am not sure how much water to energy to dollars it would save against a conventional shower-head for to be positioned for budget customers, like say a energy consuming light bulbs.

May be it gives a different shower feeling and people will like it simply based on that.

Whatever the concern may be the product is worth building, if nothing else to expand our horizons, be it in our success or be it in our failures.
Why would the NSA monitor everyone in the world but not its employees' activities on their internal databases? Security within the NSA would have to be pretty terrible if employees were running their own hedge funds on the NSA's data without the NSA noticing. That said if it did somehow happen they might be prosecuted against intelligence laws rather than financial law so they wouldn't have to reveal aspects of their internal data into public evidence in an insider trading trial.
> against someone reversing their source is because they're afraid someone will steal their ideas

I was once at a startup and another company in Texas released a product with identical typos as found in our object code.

Selling that software was how I got money to pay rent and buy food to put into my food-hole, so I'm going to feel a little more sympathy for people who want to stop others from reverse-engineering their stuff.
BMW noticed Google's pushing into the (self-driving) car business. That's what their trademark complaint's based on.
Agreed that nobody is going to think Google is a marginal company. IANAL, but I'd think it's a bit odd that nobody from Google would contact BMW (as BMW spokesperson said in article). An announcement this big concerning two large companies doesn't seem a situation where you'd ask forgiveness rather than permission.
> The first two of your paragraphs about your feelings are completely irrelevant to this policy discussion, though I understand they are of great importance to you.

What are you talking about? The second paragraph has no feelings whatsoever. I guess the first does, but I was responding to your "do you believe" questions. Belief is sort of a feeling. I am happy to debate, but please stop the personal attacks.
But Alphabet is a holding company of sorts. I don't think we'll be seeing "Alphabet self driving cars". Google's efforts on self driving cars will probably continue to be branded under Google or will get its own branding name.
If you can see through the ads, this site has what you want:

http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/trianglehex.html

Adjust line parameters as you like, and it gives you a PDF.

I used it to get a hex grid when explaining Pascal's triangle to my kid.
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> GMO crops are banned in Europe

No, they aren't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_genetically_modi...
If by MP4 you are referring to H.264, there are still many years remaining on most of the patents. MPEG-LA publishes patent lists, if you're interested to look.

You are right in that there are many other encumbered technologies that have patents expiring soon. MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, MP3 and AC3 audio, and several container formats are included. Notably, this is almost all of the technologies required to make a DVD.
Thank you for using the word, "mirror" so that I could find it quickly.
This appears to be a really nice writeup. However, at the end:

For nonlinear systems, we use the extended Kalman filter, which works by simply linearizing the predictions and measurements about their mean.

I would recommend looking at an Unscented Kalman filter:

http://www.control.aau.dk/~tb/ESIF/slides/ESIF_6.pdf

which sucks a lot less.
OK, so it's a latency concern, which makes perfect sense.

> If we used Raft to replicate the document, in many cases it would be a lot more chatty.

I'm out of my depth here. Leader needs to send AppendEntries and slave needs to apply to persistent storage and ACK. Leader needs to wait for majority of ACKS before responding to the client. That's the same as your three-node replication scenario, so what am I missing here? Does Rethink db relax consistency guarantees in some cases to achieve better latency?

It's not your job to educate me on Raft, I appreciate your being patient with me, but feel free to opt out of this conversation anytime you please.
Glyphs and symbols are more likely what you're talking about. They are often referred to as icons in the tech field so I get the confusion with nomenclature.

Icons are mostly represented as visually interesting identifying artifacts about your product. That's why we call app icons _icons_.

The "icons" within the interface of that app, things that might tell you a menu is present or that a group of users is online, are symbols. Glyphs often conform to content. A good example of a glyph is an emoji or dingbats.
It has a gui. It supports headed and headless modes.

you're right tho, most tools from win32 won't work.
Yeah, but wouldn't it get people's attention if two candidates on stage at the debate spoke to the same issue? I imagine that will have a much bigger impact than one candidate who people already are inclined to dismiss as too far left. Safety in numbers.
> BMW is examining whether any trademark infringement has taken place, Ms. Sandstede said.

how likely are they gonna get trademark infringement notice?
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> Our IP is more important then your security concerns, no we don't care if you are a core bank

But that isn't what it says, at all. It even explicitly says that if you do find a security flaw this way they will still fix it.

But the main point is that you can't do anything by reverse engineering the source code that they aren't already doing, and doing better than you because they have the actual source code.
And my point is something like if you "need" something horseshoe shaped for crafty project or whatever, now a days you download a .scad from thingiverse, run it thru openscad, run the .stl thru curaengine to get a .gcode, then feed the .gcode to octopi on your printer and pick up your shoe in a couple hours at a cost of about fifty cents of filament.

You can't possibly be equating the manufacture of a simple physical metal object, something easily automated, and arguably of little valuable in a modern setting, with the creation of high quality, researched journalism, intended to inform the public.

Can you?

I mean, if you think that metaphor is at all appropriate, you've completely missed the point. Of both my own post, and of journalism in general.
Ads and reliable counting should be possible to provide from the content providers site. Tracking/identification is optional. The question is just: if it's the only choice available, would advertisers want to pay for non-individualized ads being shown to all visitors, without any chance of click-through counts?

My guess is: initially no. But eventually? Why not? All we did then was turn web advertising into what it was from the beginning - print ads on a screen.
I don't know how Bitovi can bash other frameworks for breaking compatability on major versions, when they completely changed the concepts of JMVC in version 3.3. They also stagnated for 2 years between version 3.2 and 3.3.

>If your project chose JavaScriptMVC in 2007, you would have made a wise decision, giving your team an upgrade path to a modern application for the past 8.5 years.

This is kinda funny to me because I know it's untrue. The product I work on in my day job is based on JMVC 3.2 and we can't upgrade to 3.3 because of the size of our app and the amount of refactoring work that would need to be done to make it work with the new concepts.
A neat idea, but I think that Humble Bundle mostly has bundles of games (or software directly related to games)...

Hmmm, making a more open Humble Bundle type shop could be a neat idea, and I see that openbundles.com is currently available.
Another avenue is membership. Gimlet Media is experimenting with this right now:

https://gimletmedia.com/join-gimlet/

Members support their company at $5 / month, or $60 / year.

The challenge with all of this, is that no one has been really able to make a lot of money with the donation paradigm.

For example, 5by5, a hugely popular podcast site, has roughly $2,500 / month in donations on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/5by5

If you look on https://recurrency.us/discover, you can see how much bloggers there are making. Not much.
Good point! But the key was either something a person had to memorize or a physical object. So it comes down to questioning (which goes back to the 5th amendment) or search and seizure (which is what the 4th amendment is clearly about).

In any event, both the impenetrability of strong encryption and the scope (the value of the data that can be encrypted) are perhaps further beyond hand-executed codes than an atom bomb is beyond a musket.
its BMW ... not a patent troll ..
This is the monthly income for a news site with about 160 monthly articles and 143.000 monthly page views: Direct Ad Space: 170$, AdSense 50$, Sponsored Articles: 45$, Amazon: 4$, Donations: 0$
For learning - Kleinberg

For reference - Cormen
Your second paragraph is a description of how to implement a more "egalitarian" system, which you describe your preference for in the first paragraph. I agree that your second paragraph is one possible vision of a more egalitarian system, but you provided no non-normative reason to implement this system.

My reason for asking about your beliefs was to ascertain whether your preference for a more economically egalitarian system was positive or normative; your response made it clear that it is the latter.

In addition, I have made no "personal attacks"; I never impuned your motives or insulted you.
Does anyone know of a program like this for Box?
Here's my take... It's not a moral decision, it's a financing decision. Larry and Sergey (and their initial backers) made a decision to put this structure in place. Everyone is free to decide to invest or not invest in it. Conventional theory suggests that investors don't like these types of arrangements, and these provisions weigh down the price of the stock. Therefore, the original owners had to accept a smaller valuation based on this.

This isn't a morality thing, it means that the Class A common stock holder are more like bondholders (who put in money without votes) with upside, rather than full owners. But all of them were well informed about this when they put the money in.

This is not to say that we should all invest in Class A shares, just that this structure is one way of many to invest in a company, and people who don't like it can put their money elsewhere.
The blog post doesn't make me think of license-agreements-as-a-weapon. Oracle's position is probably the strictest I've seen anyone be in favor of software IP protection. They are not adversarial, they are supremely protectionist (presumably because they think their software is so great that other people want to copy it). That protection (possibly over-protection) is the core of the disagreement, and the source of the article's tone and inherent frustration on both sides.

Oracle thinks it is self-evident that protection of their source code is paramount (i.e. as closed source as possible), other people disagree both with their priorities and the very idea of absolutely forbidding any deep analysis of any kind outside of Oracle itself. It still seems like a debate about the degree to which the source code is "closed." For Oracle, it is absolutely closed, while many of their competitors are more lenient (i.e. slightly less "closed".)

To be clear, I think Oracle is being silly with their over-sanitized and idealistic views regarding their intellectual property. The other companies you mentioned (Microsoft et al) have much more reasonable approaches and agreements.
You and dragonwriter are missing my point about innovation, and also greatly underestimate the overhead cost of the advertising-publisher industrial complex.
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They couldn't care less. The name does not actually mater for an holding and the website will not likely be used for anything. I think no one will actually search for this.

alphabet.com does not even reach the page 1 nor will abc.xyz (unless they are faking results)
I have been looking all over, but can't find where Alphabet is incorporated. Anybody have the answer?
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Are these long resumes playing Keyword Bingo, or shorter resumes?

I've kept my resume to 1 page and avoid the table stakes skills.
This is a very exciting development. I had been reading recently that gene therapy had been nearly completely written off as unworkable (in regards to cystic fibrosis).
Use python or go instead.
Regarding NBC, their failure wasn't in the hamburger menu itself. They didn't use it properly.

Their design had what looks like a menubar which is the precise anti-pattern to a menu-button. Those items, and what is showing already as top page content, is guaranteed to catch everyone's attention first. Those menu-button items are not only hidden and require an extra click, by design they have been made less important. And since so many sites have de-cluttered themselves by simplification, users' first impression is that they got rid of everything for the better... except it wasn't what they did, so basically everything under that menu was unreachable.

Two things would have been better. First, they could have kept the menu icon but had it expanded on the top page so that people would see those items as top page content, and also make the intuitive connection that there was a button that's associated with them. When the reader goes deeper, the menu items could then safely be hidden, with the user intuitively fetching them via the button as needed. Second, they could have given the button a name, instead of use the icon. For example, Amazon's "shop by department" button is the equivalent of NBC's hamburger menu. But since they have a menubar, instead of having a menu-button on a menubar, they put a menu-item instead by giving it a name and an equal member of the top selection. This upholds the primary design pattern in use.

NBC's designers went for the hamburger without knowing how to use it or understanding what made it popular. You cannot mix competing philosophies and color is no substitute for broken intuitions. Even now that they settled for the menu-bar, they don't have an at-state, under "more" we see the same items in the menu in different order, and they use the pinned menu that doesn't go away even when you scroll -- a design already falsified by the frame paradigm of 1999.
It's hardware. If it's not patented out the wazoo, it would never have attracted any investment.
I see; I hadn't seen that, and that explains the pile of negative responses and downvotes to my original comment. Thanks for the explanation.
What a clever title. I would even go as far as calling it icon rendering.

A good icon, just like a good logo, causes a small visual play in the back of one's mind. For that to happen, a lot of design time is spent in exploration, sketching perceptual cons, cross-pollenations and optimizations.

I respect Eli, but I'd hate to see this part of icon design survive, while genuine creativity vanes.
Runs into in what way?

Sure, BMW owns alphabet.com -- Alphabet, Inc., uses abc.xyz, and probably doesn't care about alphabet.com. They aren't a consumer-facing entity, all the consumer facing entities are presumably going to be subsidiaries with their own names and identities.

And, sure, BMW has a trademark on Alphabet in particular domains. Again, Alphabet, Inc., is a parent entity, its quite likely the subsidiaries will all be doing business under their own names, not using "Alphabet" as a trademark in a way that would conflict with BMW's trademark.
I pulled these from Eli's blog but they do a pretty good job of showing the "stripping" down or elimination of thought and effort in designing icons.

Number 5 does the best job in conveying his claim.

1. http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54bb4cfce4b045585ada36...

2. http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54bb4cfce4b045585ada36...

3. http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54bb4cfce4b045585ada36...

4. http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54bb4cfce4b045585ada36...

5. http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54bb4cfce4b045585ada36...
What does 'prooves' mean?
I've managed a 25-year career out of staying away from anything Microsoft in the embedded arena. WinCE, WinCE Auto, Windows Embedded, Windows XP Embedded, Windows XP Embedded Cool Ranch Flavor, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 8, Windows whatever-the-hell-it-is-today. And that philosophy has saved me a lot of pain over the years.

The tools might be great, but I don't ship tools. I ship applications that need good solid runtime libraries.

Win10 might be a fresh start and that's all well-and-good. But I'll believe it when I see it. Slapping on a buzzword like "IoT" won't change things. I develop lots of IoT stuff and I see no reason to go near Win10.
Site is back up but cheers for the magnet!
The performance of the out-of-the-box WordPress stack is terrible too. I maintain benchmarks for WordPress running on different company's platforms (http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2015/07/28/wordpress-hosting-pe...) and had to stop including Digital Ocean because it's just not in the same league. I get asked everytime why they aren't there though and have to explain, that's not really what Digital Ocean does. If you want high performance WordPress, lots of companies have built on top of DO's infrastructure to give you that. But DO doesn't give you that out of the box.
I'm curious why you think it's awful? I used the one-click Wordpress install on DO and put up a custom-coded theme. The site gets around .5m visits a month and I've never run into any problems.
Why is that odd? It is pretty much a textbook example of a proprietary standard.

Here are some definitions of "proprietary" as used by members of the FOSS community when talking about standards:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4634957 (BrendanEich)

>"Proprietary" as in "sole proprietor" is appropriate for a project with zero governance, launched by Google after some incubation closed-source, dominated by Googlers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9395992 (pcwalton, Mozilla employee and Rust core developer)

>In a competitive multi-vendor ecosystem like the Web, public-facing protocols that are introduced and controlled by a single vendor are proprietary, regardless of whether you can look at the source code. NaCl and Pepper, for example, are proprietary, even though they have open-source implementations.
I like both IntelliJ and Visual Studio. Why do you like the latter better?
Reverse-engineering for personal inspection, and selling software with stolen code are two different things. The company in Texas you talk about was doing the latter.
This is why I'm ditching it and going back to static HTML for my corporate site. As a small consulting shop, we just don't have the time or resources to worry about "WTF is wrong now?"
Additional discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10038727
As an extension here, you could store the entire script. Storage is cheap (at least for the size of the scripts that we're talking here most of the time).
> BMW noticed Google's pushing into the (self-driving) car business.

Kind of hard not to.

> That's what their trademark complaint's based on.

BMW hasn't filed a trademark complaint. They haven't even indicated that they think that there is a violation. They have said they are looking into whether any infringement has taken place, which is many miles short of having a complaint.