skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree in a normal or typical context, but the 0.4% thing muddies the water a bit and it makes me wonder if Bobby is telling the whole story.

The 0.4% proposal that was agreed on implies to me that they may have known that Billy was interested in turning this into a company and that before-hand they'd agree that each member has a 0.4% stake in whatever venture comes out of the work they do that weekend regardless of who uses it.

Why else strike such an agreement? Without this proposal, naturally every member would have a 100% / n share if they formed a company out of the team, and no single member could, as you describe it in your post, simply appropriate all the work without consent of the rest of the team. The 0.4% suggests that one member wanted to start a team before-hand, the rest didn't, but that this would be their compensation for the weekend of work regardless of who ended up using the weekend's resulting work.

Again this is all just speculation, but I'm having a hard time understanding a potential rationale for the 0.4% proposal, which was a developer's proposal of OP's friend, not Billy's idea to do a bait and switch or exploit the devs.
It seems like the web design team includes a lawyer.
Those 'toys' create thousands of jobs.

They create demand, which means people work to purchase them.

That work brings value to society (person x helped build a bridge, y did a dental implant, z built a yacht (horrors, a toy for a rich person, but recursively read this post)).

This is how economics works. You can't artificially split out some random activity, decide it is 'frivolous', and tax it out of existence. We are creating things, not destroying things. Dollars spent do not disappear, they are leveraged and multiplied via the labor of millions as they pass through our hands in an elaborate dance of IOUs. A dollar bill is a chit - a promise of later labor.
Which would likely convert at close to the same rate as USD -> local currency if BTC -> local currency is a liquid market. If it's not liquid, then Bitcoin is essentially unspendable locally -- she would have similar results if she opened up a US bank account and had her fees paid into that.
This is a feature that systemd provides. It is the distro's choice to use it. Arch doesn't use this. Arch uses systemd.

edit: Look how Arch dev says they won't probably ever use it: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=145265, just because systemd gives you an ability to do something people actually want, you can't blame systemd for a distro that uses that feature.
(well the heavy automation guys probably do,
because there's real danger involved)

See, that's the risky mindset - not that I'm deriding you in any way, mind; we're all guilty of it! "They probably do" is the same as "they probably see what this button does", when they may perfectly well not even perceive that it is a button in the first place. Nobody's mind works in quite the same way as yours, or as mine, or as anyone else's.
I block ads for one reason only: I don't want malware.. period.. the end.

The day ad companies actually have a conscience and won't sell to malware authors, is the day i'll stop blocking their ads.
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In the UK, there is Council Housing, this may be a good alternative to rent control because it provides housing at a nominal cost and gives the private landlords some competition. The only problem with this type of offering is it will stick in the craw of the American psyche who abhor the government competing against the private sector.

Rents do get bid up due to things like the minimum wage rising. This is because the power relationship between landlord and tenant is heavily skewed in favour of the
landlord. The employee/employer relationship also suffers from the same disease.

Disclosure: I'm a US/UK dual citizen, and a landlord myself.
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>"I think if your Safari Content Blocker blocks The Deck by default, it’s wrong. I dare you to defend it."

Hilarious. Okay:

I decide what comes up my pipe, into my house, and appears on my screen; opt-in. If you have a problem with me "free-loading", then put your content behind a paywall and I'll decide if it's worth my money.
They aren't attempting to donate they are attempting to try credit card numbers to find ones that are valid.
True. But whether it holds up in court or not is a different matter, but they agreed. And contracts do not need to be signed to be valid and enforceable. Handshake deals and verbal deals are just as valid and have indeed held up in court (even on cases worth more than a hundred million dollars). The issue is that without signatures contracts are very difficult to prove and thereby rarely hold up in court unless e.g. there are witnesses, or statements made in reference to the agreement etc, which can serve as proof.
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The big changes between npm@2 and npm@3 are the node_modules flattening, which has been a huge pain for those of us doing development on Windows given the MAX_PATH issues deeply nested node_modules have caused.

Very excited to see this out of beta!

(Also, the new Unicode progress bars are cute and more interesting to watch than the classic |\-/| spinner...)
> It's a great demo project, and I love seeing these on HN.

Thanks!

> OP - Instead of linking directly to en/Stanford Parser etc, you should get together a list of dependencies people need to run your application. Usually as easy as 'pip install pattern' (for the 'ImportError: No module named en') which is `import pattern.en` :-)

I didn't actually pip install anything for my project, I just downloaded and extracted the Stanford Parser, and Nodebox Linguistics libraries. The setup should be in the readme. I'll try to see if I can find the pip dependencies and update the readme.
The engineer did have a huge bargaining chip, it sounded like the company was willing to play ball but the engineer asked for a ridiculous amount in compensation.
> because it's a big part of who i am. to give a simple example of just how thoroughly oblivious you are - i was invited to many hetero weddings, some pretty big ones, and it had not once occurred to me to come up to the bride and groom and say: "you know, do all these people really need to know you two are fucking?!"

> love is a big deal in everyone's life, and i won't stick mine in a closet because you don't want to hear it.

I don't really think that's a fair comparison. A wedding is a public celebration between two people so of course they want everyone to know that they're celebrating something. But your own sexual orientation? How do you bring that up in a conversation not about sexual orientation? I don't care what someone's orientation is, they can be whatever they want, but if I'm meeting someone for the first time why do I need to know about their orientation?

Obviously no one here is saying to HIDE your orientation but, at least for me, being heterosexual doesn't make me who I am, does being homosexual really make people who they are? I feel like that's separate from sexual orientation. In my opinion at least.
If there's value in what someone like Billy does, then software developers should learn those skills; business, negotiation, finance. Then we wouldn't have a story like this at all.
> Thanks, in part, to a new era of machine learning, computer are already starting to assimilate information from raw data in the same way as the human infant learns from the world around her.

Computer are also able to spot basic grammatical errors that that BBC should not be making..
It sounds like you managed things pretty well and stayed in control. So good for you too! Being in a position to split up without losing everything is something we don't all prepare for. In my case it was by pure luck. I had to go scrambling for the copyright laws and eventually worked out that my code would belong to me (according to definition of employee, work for hire, etc.). It could easily have gone the other way because I didn't consider things going sour when I started, and by the time I became concerned, I was already too heavily invested in it to want to risk starting a fight.

Having a written agreement about copyright ownership like you do is absolutely essential if the code is something of value. Without that you can never really be sure who it belongs to.
From my perspective as a user, it doesn't matter. If the ad networks and their customers are unable to enforce standards on their advertisers, then I have no choice but to block them. Making it my responsibility is not an option.

Its not possible to enforce compliance with some sort of ethical standards industry-wide, but it is possible to at least encourage it, especially if you are a large player like Facebook or Google. From my perspective, they don't even appear to be trying.

> I guess you could argue that Google and Facebook controlled enough of the market that if they acted in concert, they could have prevented the current situation, but they certainly would have faced strident accusations from advertisers of anti-competitive behavior and would have attracted the interest of regulators. (And if that is your argument, you should say so.)

Its not clear to me that this is the case. Simply enforcing standards on ads is not the same as limiting competition. Its an issue of a corporation deciding to not carry your content because it does not pass some presumably published and neutral guidelines. At the very least, it is not as clear-cut as you are making it sound.
Out of curiosity: You're feeling free because you're another member of the team or have prior knowledge of the situation, or because you Googled it and just want to?
Yeah, Randy was a bit miscalculating the estimate there. Within a month of that comic, flickr made http://code.flickr.net/2014/10/20/introducing-flickr-park-or...
This is well and good, but there's a trust issue. Last time we let you guys have free reign, you created a user-hostile hellscape of tracking and intrusive ads, and sold ads to the highest malware-pushingest bidder.

After you guys messed the whole thing up so badly the first time, why would we want to re-open the doors at all? "It's OK guys, this time we'll be good for realsies!" just doesn't cut it.

As much as I feel for the people involved, I just don't see a compelling reason for your industry to be given a second chance and continue existing at anywhere near its current scale.

An evolution of business models away from web advertising is what we need to bet on, rather than a pinky-swear from the people who got us into this mess in the first place.
Indeed, my point was that arguing that the pluto mission cost "only" $720 million and thus comparing the value of the products of this mission as less than the acquisitions of Oculus at $2B and Mojang at $2.5B does a great disservice to this achievement.
Interesting. I didn't know they had a replacement after they dumped the POSIX kernel personality in Windows XP.

Wikipedia says that "Interix will not be included in Windows versions after Windows 8" though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
I am not an NT guy so maybe this is off, but doesn't windows support overlapped IO? To my understanding it is a socket only version of epoll.
I never was that good in geography. I can only think of the Netherlands or Belgium.

One fiscal year can be very short in the IT sector. In some cases, you need halve a year to get to know the complete topic.

According to the link I have given, at least in Germany the situation is now such, that even when you have more than one customer in a year, you can be accused to be "Scheinselbstaendig". The offices just search for evidence that you might be, but not for evidence that you are not. One such evidence for "Scheinselbstaendigkeit" can be for example small investment needs ... something you typically have in the IT sector as freelancer ...

It seems that the new law in preparation shall codify this practice.

But of course, when the situation is better e.g. in the Netherlands, it could be worthwhile to work there. But (since I already thought about that possibility) would it also be possible to do so without moving there and still earn the benefits?
> I believe the entire ecosystem of "hackathons" to be a scam for Billy like people to exploit naive developers.

Bingo!
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Yeah, that was my first thought.

I'm thinking there are two things at play.

I'm from Scotland where nobody has AC, so when you are cold, you turn on the 'heating'.

And generally we have a separate control panel and thermostat so they don't get merged in my head and I would never say 'switch off the thermostat' when I meant 'switch off the heating/AC'.

https://xkcd.com/1576/
"SEL4 is free. What does this mean for you?"

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lRndE7rSXiI
Ethical ad-blocking is to block any and all ads that you don't want to receive.

Shouldn't we be discussing the limits of ethical advertising?
I don't use a Nest thermostat but isn't that exactly something that Nest does? Program and schedule dates that you want your HVAC off?
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Cool!

I once designed a scale model of the solar system for an elementary school class. The sun was a ping-pong ball. At this scale, earth is about three meters from the sun, and Pluto is a hundred meters away. Both earth and pluto at this scale are too small to see with the naked eye.
That's because you're talking about "rights" not "morals".

I have the right to call you an asshole but it wouldn't be moral. Mods have the right to ban everyone with ideas they don't like but it wouldn't be moral.

You do have the right to demand something from someone for free. You do have the right to go to every store in the city and empty every "take a penny leave a penny" tray. But having the right to do it and it being moral are very, very different things.
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A good way to remember is a dessert (the post-meal treat) is so good you want 2 (hence 2 's' characters)!
Cygwin does not alter the behaviour of existing programs. It is a DLL that can be compiled into new programs to provide lots of POSIX/Linux compatibility. It also comes shipped with lots of pre-compiled Linux binaries of common tools.

If you run your pre-existing JRE, its behaviour won't change. If you run a JRE compiled with cygwin (I've no idea if they provide one or not) then it will have UNIX-style path support.
Billy didn't code anything so he doesn't own shit. SW clearly states that no contractual agreements can be made during the weekend the work is preformed. Any work conducted after the weekend Billy owns, but nothing during that weekend.

In situations like this it's very clear that whatever you make, you own.
Using Word2Vec or better yet, what it was based on, https://www.kaggle.com/c/word2vec-nlp-tutorial/forums/t/1234... might make this possible and would be a good approach toward achieving future goals.

Take a look at text sentiment analyzers and processors that employ advanced machine learning algorithms like this too, http://52.10.12.34/TuataraSum
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The GPL is a cancerous license. If you use GPLed code, your code must (almost always) become GPLed, thus the GPLed codebase grows. If a GPLed project use other OSS code, it tends to be able to keep those changes, but the opposite can't generally be reciprocated (You can't take GPLed aspects of Linux and port them to a project under the BSD license without changing the license of that software).

This is not a bad thing. It sometimes sucks, but overall it's helped preserve the ecosystem and it has been integral, IMHO, in making sure companies stay honest with their upstream OSS meal tickets.
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I always go for the networking and the chance to be a "fish out of the water". This year I went purely for fun and wound up building a mobile chat app (which I had zero experience with) for my 5 year old daughter. It was a lot of fun!
My experience is that the blockers have done a very good job of keeping up with these tactics, so I'm not particularly worried on this front. There is still viral marketing and paid PR pieces disguised as legitimate content, however, but not much can be done about that and it doesn't impact me as much as traditional advertising.
Because this is the furthest away from Earth that we've managed to photograph in any real detail.

Because exploration. I really get depressed reading comments like yours, and I don't mean to have a go at you, I understand where you're coming from. It just upsets me that you can look at the product of an over ten year mission and dismiss it with such casual disdain, as if this isn't something that is literally at the limits of what we as a species can do. This is what we were meant to do, what we are programmed to do since birth - explore.

The reason it depresses me is because an overwhelming majority think like you - liek wtf is roks innit who cares. And this is why we spend so much time and effort on inwardly focussed nonsense and no time at all, given what we could do, on exploration and actual achievement.

So yeah. It is just rocks and ice. You are right. By so observing, however, you have missed the point so completely that you have made me sad for the entire human species. Well done.
It seems that any documentation for software is useful more as a reference or as an FAQ or after you messed something up. This is why it's important to make tasks reversible or to make dangerous tasks take longer. We need UX/UI cues and your example of keeping the UI simple is great.
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This should be renamed to: "Common red flags to look for in merge requests and code reviews" and handed to every rookie, mid-level, and senior developer on your project!
A webcomic from twelve years ago summarized my feeling on ad tracking:
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/19

Of course back then we called it "spyware," but apparently now it's the more consumer-friendly "interest-based acquisition and aggregation you tacitly agreed to when you decided to visit our website."
I resisted using an adblocker for years. Finally installed ABP about 6 months ago, when a handful of sites I was reading started in with the double-underline-word ads and some of them would trigger malware warnings on mouseover.

"Threat to be blocked" is exactly right.
I've had medicine induced akathisia before and it was by far the worst thing I've experienced in my life. Unless you've had it yourself, there is no way to convey just how terrible it actually is. I can easily see why people would want to die when facing this.

I've heard this is used as a form of torture in some countries. Being strapped down and injected with a medication that induces akathisia would make the most hardened individual talk.
If somebody is going to get upset at some offensive language he's almost certainly the sort of person who will continually get walked on, since acceptance is the primary component of the worldview.
well, for one, the IRS doesn't treat bitcoin as a currency, but as a commodity. While some foreign currency transactions fall under the regime of capital gains, a transaction resulting in the gain/loss of less than $200 are specifically excluded from capital gains [1].

Note that this relates specifically to changes in value of the US currency in relation to the commodity or foreign currency. In this sense there is a difference between a sports car and a cup of coffee encoded in law. If the euro you bought for $1 is suddenly worth $1.02, and you buy a 1 euro coffee, you'll only realize $0.02 in gains, and not hit the $200 threshold. If you buy a 100,000 euro sports car, you will realize a $2000 gain, and have to report that on your taxes.

Since bitcoin is a commodity, it doesn't matter if the value moves 2 cents or 2 dollars or 2 million dollars, all gains are capital gains.

So if you buy a coffee with euros you specifically don't need to report that, but with bitcoin you do. Whether the IRS is going to notice that you don't record every single capital gain arising from a bitcoin transaction is another question, but there is a major difference between foreign currencies and bitcoin as far as the IRS goes.

[1]http://www.maximadvisors.com/2013/12/us-taxation-of-foreign-...
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Here's Billy's fb page: https://www.facebook.com/billy.giordano
But then how else can we continue the narrative that it's the Engineers (because we're not programmers but Engineers with a capital E) who are the end-all-be-all of any tech startup, and it solely on our shoulders that the company lives or dies?
Its not 'strongman governance' its 'leadership'. Someone needs to step up.
It all went downhill starting with the X10 camera pop up campaign. People noticed the success and since, underhandedness has prevailed.

Now it's simply become a tragedy of the commons. Browsers of the web employ blockers die to the annoyance of shortsighted advertising tactics, in turn, advertisers, trying to extract more revenue from the remaining bare browsers of the web, utilize even more questionable tactics resulting in more people deciding to use ad blockers...

No one is winning this one.
So...in other words gmo foods can potentially change human genes or at least add new genes. How in the world would this ever be an argument for gmo foods. ::mind boggled::
The only ethical advertising is a factual text description and a price. Computer Shopper magazine used to be full of this.

Any more advanced advertising is specifically designed to undermine human rationality. It's an act of aggression similar to forcibly drugging people.
The specification says the WebSocket is the default transport; some implementations also support Unix Sockets and Unix Pipes.

I have my own in-house WebSocket (raw, not WAMP.ws) application server and a very thin client-side API wrapper around raw WebSockets; it performs PubSub and some RPC. It's not rocket science but it's also not trivial.

I might consider migrating that custom subprotocol to this framework. It looks like they have thought carefully about the general issues with PubSub/RPC and it will be easier to scale my use (as in expanding my RPC APIs, not in terms of # of clients). I can focus on my data and APIs, not on the substrate.

Hopefully an ecosystem of designers/implementors/users emerges that make this thing awesome. Of course, I've thought that about other libraries and frameworks and it went nowhere, so we'll see.
It's also likely that he didn't realize what he was doing at the time. Maybe he felt upset or stressed about the situation but not necessarily that he was subconsciously hoping to failure.
No, you're not the only one. The guy wants 40 basis points for 10-20 hours of work. In real companies, you would have to work 4 years to get that kind of equity. He thinks he's a founder of the internet when he's actually a guy in backwater Texas giving himself way too much credit for modeling a basic CRM schema.

To paraphrase a former governer of Texas, he was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
You know, high order logic memories are a completely different kind of intelligence, that, if somebody makes it work, can be much more capable than plain pattern matching techniques.

Granted that it's a fundamentally more difficult problem, so the pattern matching will probably get there earlier.
The moral issue is that the websites need to pay their bills. However, I'm in agreement with you for a far simpler reason:

If websites had cared about "ethical advertising" in the first place we probably wouldn't have had ad blockers.

We've been dealing with "unethical advertising" since, what, 1995? I'll disable my ad blocker in 20 years.
I think 0.4% was just for the weekend worth of work. Like just think of it as everybody vested that much over the weekend so the company still had 96.4% unvested equity with very unclear ownership. That makes it seem a little more reasonable although not any less confusing.
It's so nice project!!