skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this as hugely superior to the freemium model, both from the perspective of the user and the app developers. App developers no longer need to cripple their apps and sell in-app band-aids to make money. The developers of the more entertaining and engaging apps will make more money. End users no longer spend a bunch of time on a game only to find out they need to pay to advance to the next part, or bypass some artificial restriction that shouldn't be there.

It just seems like a much more civil relationship.
"I'm not even willing to listen to your position until you pay me" may not be ransom, but it is an extremely unproductive relationship.
Red light cameras are a real problem. Since tickets are incentivized, some of the more greedy agencies have shortened the yellow light timing, leading to more tickets and also more accidents.
Dear AWS please eliminate startup time
Why do machines in this day and age still require more than 1 second to start? Why can't we have instant machine start? Especially when restarting an instance. Please fix this. Now. Today. Someone please.
Thanks for the feedback!

Generally when sharing you send a link like "sandstorm.company.com/share/xh37vmw0h5276mj7h5eh" -- the random hostname you quote is actually an implementation detail that you weren't meant to see. :)

Once a user has opened a sharing link once, the grain will appear in their "shared with me" list, so they can find it again by going to sandstorm.company.com. We will soon support sharing by other mechanisms that don't involve sending a secret link, too.
Is a Hacked Vehicle Also Defective?
I didn't speak for any of them, so the sarcasm doesn't apply to me. Actually I've only ever used LESS.

That said, don't be so quick to just what's popular just by the relative size of the numbers. I'd also check which had a headstart and by what margin.

A 3 year project with 12k stars for example is not necessarily more popular NOW than a 1 year project with 6k stars.

That's why I advocated for several metrics.
"God looks down from heaven
on the children of man
to see if there are any who understand,
who seek after God.
They have all fallen away;
together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one." Psalm 53

The truth about humans has been pretty apparent for about as long as humans have been reflecting on it: we sometimes have high ideals and dreams, and at our best the capacity to even temporarily embody them. But very few people (if anyone) are consistently good, it would seem everybody does something ugly eventually.
They cross any line anytime... that's easy to see if you know who is leading their presidential poll right now.
On top of valuation - there are lots of catches when taking equity. vesting periods, clauses, up-front tax, requiring to exercise options (at your own expense, could cost $100k's) when leaving the company, being fired just before your first vesting if they do well. How long will it take to get your hands on the money. Will you get the money if the company is brought out, or what factors will determine if you get a share of that money or not.

You may want to get a lawyer involved.

More simply just make sure the cash is enough and the equity can be a lottery ticket which you can view as $1 extra salary. Worth trying to negotiate any horrid clauses though.

I would personally play it by ignoring the shares part and just ask for more cash if you are not happy with the amount they are paying.

If you want to get rich (disclaimer I am not rich) I would suggest earning as much $ as you can, living as cheaply as you can and invest in good stocks and real estate in very desirable locations. Then each year concentrate on how you can increase your income so you can invest more.

You will wake up in 20 years time and think "oops I got a lotta money" to paraphrase Blur.
How Many Women Actually Used Ashley Madison?
> A fleet of more than 300 railcars has been dedicated to the Water Train project with a potential capacity of more than 154 million gallons (472.6 acre-feet) of water in a growing season. (1 acre-foot = 325,851 gallons).

472 acre-feet? Per growing season? That's so little, it's very close to worthless.
They seem to have accidentally replaced their README with their INSTALL file.
I've been saying google declares victory at 80/20 for years now, and haven't fought with them for about 6 months. I wait until they fix it, or someone writes an Xposed app, or I just don't take the update. I'm still on KK4.4. After seeing many of my 'feedback' suggestions get implemented within 2 weeks/the next update, I don't do testing for them anymore. They can pay me to be a Consistency Czar, otherwise my efforts are better spent raising children and in relationships with people.
They'd just get an insurance policy as a fallback but probably just buy the customer a new TV and make sure the mover is more careful next time.
Bitcoin course available on Coursera; textbook is now official
Thanks for maintaining libsodium! We use it extensively. :)

(E.g. a Sandstorm app ID is actually a base-32 encoding of the ed25519 public key with which the app package is signed.)
How does this address the graph? It probably doesn't predict the current situation, but it certainly is consistent with it, that fusion funding is below the "fusion never" line, and look, we have no fusion.
So so so so soooo many posts on HN that are similar to this.

This is the top post in another thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9337863

>> It's been getting better.

> It's not, it's getting worse.

> You are in a cycle of slave-driving yourself. You remind me of Jiddu Krishnamurthi's assertion that "Influence acts strongest when you don't realize that it is acting". I would venture that most of your accomplishments are a result of being told what you should do, what you should be.

> You will NEVER have the energy that the people whom you compare with have. Because they are being themselves, and are connected to the natural wellspring of motivation that comes from genuine interest, while you are the salmon swimming upstream, aping societal ideals and trying to be someone you are not.

> Choose the opposite for a while : stop doing things that don't motivate you. Find out what motivates you. Be spontaneous. If you find a small plant at the roadside that you want to water, do it. Observe that absolutely no effort was required in this action. This is the mark of genuine flow : you will not feel the effort. If you chance upon some project which you execute in this natural state of interest, you will not feel tired.

> Almost no one takes my advice because it's so threatening to be natural. What if you are not naturally ambitious? That's a horrific thought to have while being in the company of achievers, isn't it?

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ACHIEVE TO ENJOY LIFE. YOU ENJOY LIFE BY ENJOYING IT.
Of course it has to do with race. You yourself are using code words of "affluent" for white and "crime-ridden" and "violent culture" for non-white, which is the same coded language parents themselves might even use to justify their prejudices. However, just because a neighborhood is mixed-race does not imply it is "crime-ridden".

Spending part of this money on desegregation busing programs would have been a step in the right direction.
This is all true. The title could have had some more context, though, for people who have no interest in this particular Unity.
I don't think all of them have a license that requires publishing the source code of derived work.
When "outdoor grazing" means dedicating land for animal use instead of planting crops that could feed several hundred people, just so that a couple of them can get to drink milk... I'd rather see the "zero grazing" variant.

Or get rid of the stupid cows already.
Ah, that makes sense. I didn't look into what businesses the sponsors were in.
They reaaallly want the Amazon app store to happen on Android, don't they? We'll see if free content will be enough to get non-tech-savvy users to go through the trouble of installing an .apk file.
actually, yes they did...

"the companies we've identified have actively violated the GPL and even our trademark."

Did you read the announce? https://grsecurity.net/announce.php
This helps clear things up for me, thanks.
Basically every dating site has this problem. I think it's linked to the usage pattern every site devolves into - men say yes to everything and women are extremely selective.
Jeremy Howard[0] gave a TED talk[1] in which he predicted that this would be a short-term trend, where labelling data for AI will be an easy way to get a job for a few years. He predicts that this will drop off as enough labelled data is provided. I think this fails to consider that our expectations of AI will increase along with our ability to manipulate increasingly large amounts of data, so we will begin labelling increasingly complex data.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Howard_(entrepreneur)
[1]: http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_howard_the_wonderful_and_ter...
Same way you produce electricity from any heat source: steam turbines.
Slowly improving copyright clarity
Veriphone
https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3938&p=139...

There, shamed. Easy.
Well, we're still running machines with - NX bit aside - Von Neumann architecture. Software is still data, just the sort of data that makes meaning for computer to execute. Don't see any issues with backing up the software.

I think I've heard of some approaches to conceal the actual algorithm from the computing unit (by obfuscation, or by distributing the actual calculation between multiple units), given that the software we're actively using doesn't do anything secret - and is likely to be a free and open source software, it doesn't make much sense to protect the executable code besides integrity checks.
Is that actually allowed by the GPL? The text says:

> Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.

(emphasis mine) Is it legal to penalize someone for exercising their redistribution rights, or would that count as a de facto restriction?
To be frank, the grsecurity folks and Brad in particular aren't exactly nice to others or trying the get stuff merged in the right way, so they don't get a lot of support from the kernel folks.

Most of the time Brad is shaming kernel devs and saying they're all idiots.
"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal." -- Stravinsky
I got dinged as well. Similar story on efnet logs. No charges but they announced their presence with authority. Left me a business card too.
I think he means that it is unfair because the abusive companies are releasing an insecure and untested version of grsecurity, while using the grsecurity brand name in their advertising. This means that any vulnerabilities discovered will hurt the grsecurity brand, making customers trust it less, and hurting the actual legit sponsors using a real secure version of grsecurity.

It is similar to how any knock-off of a brand could hurt the brand; a crappier version of something that people will now associate with the real brand.
meh. wonder if this will be affected by their employment fiasco, it definitely impacts my interest in trying their services.
Does anyone know where one could find (if YC's published the stat) of the median/average age for the founders of the companies worth > $1 billion and $100 million?
Read the judges findings from the appeal. The article did not even mention the purported signed confession:

"Ms. Parker admitted that she made the initials “PP” but stated that none of the other handwriting was hers. She also indicated that none of the other handwriting was on the document, including Ms. Gunter’s signature, when she filled in the initials “PP.”"

Woodsworth went so far as to commit fraud in order to take money from Parker.

http://www.la3circuit.org/Opinions/2015/03/030415/14-0943opi...

(thx gknoy)
my bet humanity has another 25 years max
The README has so much information except... From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_(software)

Lantern is a free peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention software. It provides a way to bypass state-sanctioned filtration through a network of trusted users, but it's not an anonymity tool like Tor. Using Lantern, users in countries having free internet access can share their bandwidth with those who are in countries where the network is partly blocked. Network connections will be dispersed between multiple computers running Lantern so it will not put undue stress on a single connection or computer.
Yeah, we just have to find their project page, hope they have a PayPal or Stripe or other donation link (that accepts a currency we already have, sorry I own no Bitcoin)...

And then donate.

For every developer or project. I don't know about most of the engineers whose work powers my internet use. How do I donate to people I don't know about?
There are plenty of loons everywhere....
It's a kernel module implementation of much of OSF Mach verbatim copied and shimmed from MkLinux, not just IPC. See sys/compat/mach in the NextBSD source tree.
There's no point talking anymore given the fact they you two don't think apoliticism is even possible.
I want to add something. I am sure that it will get obliterated by other people. I am not with anyone that uses grsecurity.

On the one hand I can imagine nothing more bitter than other people making money on your hard work.

However, isnt this how the whole thing goes? I mean there wouldn't be a linux kernel without the work of a whole bunch of companies. Did they get sponsorship money from you? grsecurity wouldn't exist without the work of a bunch of other people. Did grsecurity pass on money to other vendors that they rely on? What about people that wrote the drivers that grsecurity use when they did development.

Open source only works because people contribute to a shared base. In return for their contributions they get to use what others already contributed.
I generally agree, but it seems like it could have some bad side-effects if it becomes a popular business model, though.

There are a handful of interesting paid apps that are very short, unique experiences - which don't try to drag out the game to keep you playing it every day for months.

Its already getting harder and harder to actually sell/buy apps for money upfront, and this seems like it will make it even harder. And while I seem to be in a tiny minority of 'app' consumers, that is still my preferred method of obtaining new applications.
I dont know but thats how i want my app store to be so im installing it.
Pretty slick tool, hope it works well! How do they avoid the Tragedy of the Commons?
.. have you seen http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-2782.20.48/ ?
Wonderful project. Some stupid questions:

- Will I be able to access the apps from outside the dashboard (regular url)?

- Is there a paid support version for self hosting?

- Any quick tutorial for contributors?

- Where do I sign up for updates?
That decision legalized sodomy, not S&M.

S&M is in much more of a grey area. See https://ncsfreedom.org/key-programs/consent-counts/consent-c... for details.
Maybe ... but it hugely depends on the per minute price Amazon are paying.

The same thing could have been said about streaming music services and yet many artists seem not too happy about the per play $ they get from Spotify & ilk (though they are probably bound to say that regardless to some extent)
Is the reason Amazon isn't releasing this for iOS because of Apple's closed ecosystem or is Google just a bigger competitive threat?
Please don't add the burden of testing an additional architecture for app developers.
Kind of disappointed to hear that there isn't much custom stuff going, especially with iq as their VFX sup.
OCamlers' critiques of Haskell
Thank you for such a great work and especially for making it available for free! For anyone interested, I can also recommend trying out Sage! There is also this free book (http://abstract.pugetsound.edu/sage-aata.html) on Abstract Algebra which includes Sage exercises.
The most prominent application of number theory in computer science is probably cryptography. I can highly recommend "An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography" by Hoffstein, Pipher and Silverman in that area.
Compression and Information Leakage of Plaintext (2002) [pdf]
Took me a minute to find out what "actually free" means:

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/underground/do...

"Interstitial Advertisements

When a user launches an Amazon Underground app for the first time, a welcome message in the form of an interstitial ad plays. In subsequent times that a user either launches or resumes the app, paid interstitial ads will also sometimes play."

Interesting. So amazon deals with putting in the ads and the app dev gets paid for every minute the app is used. Seems like an interesting idea, probably useful for games that are very engaging (read: time drain)
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Mods, please change URL to https://getlantern.org/
This sounds like a good idea; I won't be using it
Guns+or+butter:+Hawaii+chooses+butter
One problem with Amazon App Store on Android phones is that if I replace my Android phone, I have to start all over again. Using the Google ecosystem, it's a matter of signing in and all my backed up apps and data are reinstated. There's a lot more friction to keep using the Amazon App Store/Underground app than there is with Google Play Store.
Co-Founder Garrett Camp Buys Back Majority Share in StumbleUpon
Closed system. There isn't a good way of doing this on iOS that isn't complicated. Too complicated for the average user.
It wouldn't be feasible to do this on iOS. It'd required everyone of their customers to jailbreak their phone, and then all of the app developers would violate the TOS with Apple by releasing the app in ways that circumvent the app store.
It seems like you've missed the point. The problem isn't that companies are using the work without paying. The problem is that the unnamed companies are essentially lying in their marketing and violating the grsec trademark in the process.

This is not how FLOSS is supposed to go.
Because it's a pain in the ass to sideload apps on iOS.
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I think it is a bit much to expect each high school to compose a fight song from scratch.

I played in the marching band for our high school's football and basketball games and most (probably all) schools in our conference just used college fight songs with modified lyrics. (Our school song was Notre Dame's fight song, another school had On Wisconsin, etc.)
iOS doesn't allow apps to be installed outside a few apple controlled processes without a JailBreak.

I don't think Amazon would want to launch a product dependent on JailBreaking. Unless Apple is forced to provide an API for alternative app stores, I can't see this ever being allowed. Unless of course apple rips off the idea and does it themselves.
> It's law in Australia. If you do not serve a notice period you owe the company wages for that period. 1 month wages minus 1 month notice = 0

You have misstated the law. If you sign an employment contract that requires two weeks notice from either party to terminate, then you work a week and quit without working the two week notice period your employer is not required to pay you for the notice period, they absolutely must pay you for the week you did work. Similarly if an employer tells you not to work the notice period they are still obliged to pay you for it.

I understand your confusion as the wording the clauses about withholding pay on notices is somewhat unclear and takes a pretty close reading to understand
By 3000, I doubt that anything resembling modern society will exist. Look at life in the 1800s or 1700s to see what things will be like, if we are lucky.
If you want to browse their apps to see what is "actually free" before going through all the trouble of their app: http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=rw_tiny?&node=11350978011
Agreed. Fellow Googler here, please escalate this.
50% of you...
This way you are just setting their standards as yours.
Source: Apple Is Behind Mystery Event at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Cool -- that's a really compelling story! And I presume the two apps (the main app and the connector app) can send messages to each other?

The only part of this that seems short of ideal to me is: I want the connector to use a real web browser to talk to the bank's website, for several reasons, but chief among them is that if the website asks the user something unexpectedly (like a security question), or something doesn't work, it's easy for the user to see what is going on. That is one aspect of the client-side approach I liked: the browser running the accounting app is the same browser being used to actually fetch the data. Do you have an answer for this?
I could be wrong, but the projections are extrapolations based on obviously overly optimistic assumptions about the a) the federal government's desire to fund large, multiyear scientific projects b) the ease of creating an economically scalable fusion reactor
It's probably true that there's an excess of easily accessible quality entertainment. I certainly have backlogs in multiple content categories. But those backlogs just build up, because I'm much more likely to play/read/watch a new release than something a couple of years old.

The reason is that a big part of the value of the content is social. It's a lot more interesting to play a game while a high concentration of other people are playing it too. It's a lot less fun to play it years later, and just read through dusty archives (since the chances of an IRL friend playing through the game at the same time are miniscule).
Except it sounds like amazon is putting their own ads in the games. So basically this is a complete fail.
Grsecurity has been here for a while and I don't think common people know of it at all, they hardly know of what Linux is and half of them run it on their phones. Those who know of it will also understand that running outdated versions on outdated kernels isn't a fault of Grsecurity. Grsecurity isn't really a brand or needs to be defended.
As the Washington Post pointed out (and common sense concurs), the only way a Scandanavian-style democratic socialist economy can exist is because there is a United States to drive the economy enough so that there's enough productivity that those countries can afford their socialism.

Unfortunately, I can't find the article now, but it surprising to see in the Washington Post.

If the USA adopted these policies, the biggest change would be to drag the top quintile down, while the bottom quintile wouldn't change much. Oh, and the top quintile are the people who create all the jobs, so it's just a vicious cycle.
Like recently with the morrocan guy and the french train. It could be that he just wanted to the "good-ole" robbery.... Like the big train robbery... It was never considered a terrorist act.
> Actually free

I'm feeling a bit sad that I'm overjoyed to hear that this category exists.

Paid, Free, Actually free

I like how they explain up-front that they pay the authors instead of perhaps another hidden payment model within 'Actually free' that ends up charging users.
Finally, someone figures out the real reason Amazon is doing this. Thank you for doing the job all the journalists reporting on the press release failed to do.
The story of Google Maps and Google Wave (2009) [pdf]
Amazon's own OS is a fork of Android, and the Amazon Appstore consists almost entirely of Android apps you could also get through Google Play. So it makes sense they'd do it for just Android.
Could this service be used to pickup things from the home depot? Say 20 cement packs, a pallet of cinder blocks and some wood? Or is it for consumers only?