skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: Crowdsourced content systems can have only 2 of the 3: Authorartive, Comprehensive, Upto date. Systems like Wikipedia and Stackoverflow miss either one or more of these characteristics. The article claims to have found the "solution" to this problem which is simply having experts for high level areas who invite experts for sub-areas to create the content.

I don't know why authors think this is different or novel or scale to something akin to Wikipedia or Stackoverflow. In a way, the article doesn't even look honest as it cherry picks examples on SEP that look great and examples on Wikipedia that look bad to justify its grand claims.
Data Sovereignty is being negotiated in TTIP and TISA treaties, http://www.euractiv.com/sections/infosociety/dont-forget-big...

"It is crystal clear what corporations want in the Transatlantic trade agreement (TTIP) and the other treaties being negotiated: a commitment to allow cross border data flows and data-processing across all services sectors, including financial services, without any limitations. They consider requirements to use local network infrastructure or local servers as discriminatory, with potentially adverse effects on trade."

From 2014, http://www.zdnet.com/article/wikileaks-leak-shows-data-sover...

"50 countries including Australia and the US may be signing away rights to ensure sensitive customer data remains in its country of origin."
Shocking, didn't work.
Let's say we make a list of all IP allocations today. We could replace each of them with 16 million unlimited-size subnets worth of address space, and we'd still only be using .00004% of IPv6. And that's before we consolidate multiple blocks owned by the same user.

There are currently half a million active BGP entries. There's no reason to massively change that number.
Tiny motors could suck carbon dioxide from the ocean
Here is an article with a tour of the GM teardown facility, so automakers unquestionably do it.

http://www.slashgear.com/the-auto-vivisectionist-inside-gms-...

That said, there is pretty much no US market for diesel outside the European imports. So they may not be focused on their diesel competitors enough to have done the teardown/research/testing to discover VW cheating. I find that more plausible than everyone cheats and everyone knows everyone else cheats.
A manager who doesn't continue to code or work on the day-to-day actions may fail to keep up with necessary technical knowledge, effectively reducing their ability to manage.
That depends on whether someone else has already implemented it for you.

In PHP, for example, bcrypt is just `password_hash()`. To use PBKDF2, on the other hand, you have to generate your own salt and pass it to `hash_pbkdf2`.
lol, I have one word for you: that means nothing.
But you must realize that during such a war, the maximum economy possible in the US would be whatever can work without international trade, which would be comparable to 1900 or so.

S&P down 99+% would be a start. I don't think it matters much what job you have, if it's not farming you lose it. The dollar loses its value for paying for anything not locally produced. We lose any tmechnology that depends on overseas resources, meaning all of them. Meaning with the dollar seriously down, laptops, phones, ipads, tvs, cars, all would massively increase in price on top of that. And then there's oil ...

This wouldn't be a guarantee, but if history is a guide ...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10258311
> because of how poor financial education is in the US in traditional learning environments

Financial literacy is a pretty basic combination of Grade 5 math and common sense. If you can't grasp it yourself with a tiny bit of effort, no structured learning environment is going to help you.
I don't find it strange at all, and looking at a proper classical economist - they would have no trouble explaining it.

Most people, when understanding economics tend to make the jump directly to money/cash when explaining prices and market action.

But to be correct you have to look at utility. There's little question as to why companies install open source software - the TCO can be lower. But why do people contribute their time in building it?

The answer is that the reward of being part of an OSS team brings great utility to a developer, and this is true even for marginally successful OSS projects. So people exchange their time for intangibles like reputation, credibility markers ( the author casually drops in which projects he is involved in) as well as the ability to leverage involvement into actual cash like well paid consultant gigs, books or successful blogs.

So there isn't any strangeness going on at all. OSS makes sense from a company point of view, and it makes sense from an individual developer point of view.
You're applying several inadequate metaphors. To do the same thing, it's kind of like saying my tool box full of tools is similar to a screwdriver. No, wait, it's more literally like a box to carry tools in. ;)

It's hard to argue with metaphors, because they start out being inexact and go downhill from there. (oh, another one!) But I'll try anyway :)

It's really nothing like group policy's or configuration profiles, except it could be used to deliver similar functionality for your machine from either the manufacturer, or from your company, or from anyone else along the way who implemented their own backdoor into your hardware during shipping[1] or maybe just inserted their own microcode into the CPU, because it literally is an all-powerful hardware backdoor that lives below your OS. It can even be upgraded remotely in many cases.

Backdoors can be used for good or for evil, of course, but that's what it is. (and it actually has nothing to do with hypervisors, unless you take the metaphor that any operating system you install is really running under the control and whim of the Intel Management Engine.) Again, the metaphor of a remote management console is again over-simplifying, but, sure, it can do that, too.

When you're reading this[2], remember that you don't control those keys and you can't remove that software. You can't 'just turn it off':

1. http://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-actually-intercepted-packages-to-...
2. http://libreboot.org/faq/#intelme
Why single out Apple?

The US Government owns:

6.0.0.0/8
7.0.0.0/8
11.0.0.0/8
21.0.0.0/8
22.0.0.0/8
26.0.0.0/8
28.0.0.0/8
29.0.0.0/8
30.0.0.0/8
33.0.0.0/8
55.0.0.0/8
56.0.0.0/8
214.0.0.0/8
215.0.0.0/8

HP also owns 2 /8's, 15.0.0.0/8 and 16.0.0.0/8
I probably shouldn't suggest this is like some black and white view of the world, since I do also love a good book store. I don't really care for a Walden's, but I love a good Mom & Pop book store with the book shelves labeled by sharpies.

But I also don't conflate reading with my trips to the book store. They are separate experiences for me. I find it a little much when people talk about how much better paper books are over ebook simply because they can browse around a Powell's for hours until they smell just the right type of leather bindings. I mean that's fine and all, I enjoy that stuff too, but my Kindle allows me to actually read more things, while being so much more convenient to tote around. I don't really need to visit a book store to get a sense of the next Brandon Sanderson novel. I already know I'm going to buy that, so a Kindle makes much more sense to me there. I enjoy a trip to the book store on a lazy Sunday, where I'd like to find a new trade paperback comic or even a photography collection. Book stores don't make paper better or worse though, they are just a great experience on their own. /rant
If content negotiation[1] had a standard way, Google's client could have told the server it was only for a thumbnail of N size and a smart server could serve less bytes.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Content_ne...
> "Only runs authorized code" can be a good thing as long as you're the one doing the authorizing.
the real solution is to have a CHEAP bike share for last mile commute.
Wow, I was expecting a little more economics in a post titled "the strange economics of OSS." It is too bad the post makes such grand claims without any modicum of effort to back them up with data; these are very interesting research questions. The two most hand wavy claims have to be "it is almost taken for granted that the source code for most software is freely available" and " it is at larger, older firms, that the least amount of open-source software is written." As far as the former goes you really have to ignore Apple's ecosystem, video games and anything related to industrial automation or espionage in order to make such a claim. As far as the latter claim goes IBM, Intel, Oracle, HP, Texas Instruments etc are often at the top of contributions to the Linux kernel by company. To be honest thee latter claim is rather empty without some methodological framework that defines "older company" and "most open source software."
It's shifted towards consulting. You build great OS projects and people pay you to make it work for their company correctly.
Correlation does not imply causation? Maybe I didn't read the research right, but what if people who have the ability to change themselves and stop / decrease procrastinating, because the mere fact that they managed to stopped procrastinating (e.g. stopped a negative behavior in their mind, and got good results out of it), they were able to forgive themselves for past procrastinations?

E.g. if someone was addicted to drugs, and managed to go clean, they are more likely to forgive themselves (and others to forgive them) than those who just keep taking drugs, right?. Any 5 years old will tell you that if the bully started becoming nice, it will be easier to forgive them than if they stayed a bully. forgiving oneself is not that different than forgiving others, and if you correct your ways, it's easier to forgive yourself, just as much as it is easier for others to forgive you. no? what am I missing?
In my experience (10+ years running a forum), it's more love-hate. There are the ridiculous trolls and idiots being a magnet for legal threats, but there are also those regulars who contribute sensibly and really care about their participation.
Coinbase Files 9 Patents for Bitcoin Products
Aura PHP gets a complete email validator
You can't pay people token sums to moderate or they can sue you and demand proper wages and benefits.

The same thing happened to AOL's old chat rooms back in the 90's and early 2000's.

http://priceonomics.com/the-aol-chat-room-monitor-revolt/
Yes. Their sales figures basically ignore any indie book without an ISBN (which is, like, 95% of them, and which are now the majority of sales on Amazon).

Ebook sales from major publishers have slipped recently because they've jacked up the price to avoid cannibalizing their print sales.

Unfortunately for them, the major publishers don't control the market any more. They (and the NYT) are whistling past the graveyard.
To the contrary. I think the perceived success of FLOSS is mainly due to the fact that there is more big companies with the incentive to make big softwares free. This is not what OP says.

I don't say it's not progress. But if we end up doing all the same things the same way, the prize is not that bright.
Within ... months(2? 3?) of starting learning 'C'. I no longer produced code that was capable of array bounds violations. Of course you slip up now and again, but it's just a matter of habits.

This was in 1987 or so. Perhaps that was unusual; I don't know. It was part of the culture where I worked. I'd programmed professionally in Pascal before, so I'm familiar wit the compare/contrast here. Tactically, it was safer, because 'C' covered more than did Pascal, and the balance of the code when you used pascal was assembly. Perhaps the assembly was sufficiently dangerous that we didn't make as many mistakes, so who knows? We felt assembler was
more of a liability.

The choices were more limited then. Performance, shmerformance - darn near everything runs fast enough, now, with the exception of a few grotty corners.

Rust/Python/what have you are all very nice. I just sympathize with the poor people who get drafted into working on 'C' code bases without seeming to be happy about it. I personally would find somebody to mentor me a bit and review the code if I were in those shoes. Perhaps that sort of thing has passed; shame if it has.
Hotel workers in D.C. propose strictest Airbnb regulations in the country
But it seems that such a treaty would fall afoul of EU law, no? That's the basis of this position if it were to become a final ruling. The AG's position here is that data privacy is a fundamental right that cannot be negotiated away by the EU or its member states. Am I misunderstanding?
Uff. Thanks - that makes sense.
Old research on loneliness: E. Fromm, The Art
of Loving. To paraphrase:

(1) For humans the fundamental problem
in life is doing something effective
about feeling alone.

(2) The first recommended solution
is a good romantic relationship.

(3) In such a relationship, the couple
(A) gives knowledge of themselves
to each other,
(B) cares about each other,
(C) respects each other,
and (D) responds to each other.

The couple has love --
compassionate, committed,
affectionate, romantic,
intimate, passionate, and
faithful.
They are honest with each other
and can trust each other.

Exercise: Look at other couples
and estimate how many of
these features of love their
relationship has.

Hint: May find that only a small
fraction of the couples have more than
four of these features.

Result: A large fraction of
people have no or poor romantic relationships
and are lonely.
It'd only take a few of the oil producing nations to start trading in a different currency. Back in the year 2000 one of those countries started trading oil in Euros. That country was Iraq. What was one of the first actions taken by the US after the US asserted control over Iraq? Replacing the Euro with US Dollars for oil sales.

If one country doing this is enough to spook the US, what does that tell you? Furthermore, this has not been an isolated incident, other oil-rich countries have threatened to leave the US Dollar behind and have faced instability shortly after (Libya, Syria, etc...).
I don't see how that can meaningfully be determined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia#Poten... has a long section about possible reasons for why females might not be participating, and ideas for how to improve the situation, with the explicit belief that higher levels of female participation will lead to a better Wikipedia.

Thus, is the "percentage of women in general [who] would ever be interested in writing for Wikipedia" using the current Wikipedia as the baseline, or some hypothetical best-of-all-possible Wikipedias?

In either case, how do we even go about determining that percentage?

At best this would be a latent variable which depends very much on the model you have. While important, it may be very hard to determine. (Eg, 'happiness' is an important variable, but unlike money, it's hard to measure accurately.)

My model in this case is that the editorial population will be similar to the reader population, but lagging by about 10-20 years.
When we've seen problems, some of my clients go there and see green and say "Amazon shows they're fine - it must be your code or something you did or didn't do - fix it". Well... it's green but it's not fine. And there's little I can do to demonstrate to someone that it's not code but infrastructure.
Norway rewards Brazil with $1B for keeping the Amazon full of trees
Their reasoning is that f-35 is nuclear capable, whereas the current drones aren't officially. It's not a good reason though, if it came down to it, subs with nukes would be more effective than aircraft.
It's always tough to explain to non-developers that the fact that they can, on their own laptops, install roughly the same stack as a multi-million/billion startup in a relatively instantaneous amount of time. And with one line of HTML, include a design framework that came from the result of countless dev-hours to refine. The software is indeed valuable, but it's not tangible or immediately useful in the way that Formula One cars, if given away to everyone from an infinite supply, would make people drive incredibly fast even if not well enough to win a race.

Another factor is that much of the best open-source software is similar to the best Unix tools: they do their one job very well. Being able to install all of them at your leisure is not much more advantageous than having grep, curl, and awk installed but no text files to work with or knowledge about how to use pipes.

I was trying to think of closed-source, focused software that is most definitely better than their open-source rivals. Not counting full-featured suites such as MS Office/Google Drive versus LibreOffice, or GIMP vs Photoshop...the first thing I can think of is ABBYY FineReader for OCR, which I've never used but the results of which seem to blow Tesseract out of the water, even though Tesseract is very good. But perhaps its niche is not broad enough to attract the level of open-source development in the same way that software and database architecture has.
Apparently this is a repost, but I for one missed it the first time around.

I'll just say I found it to be a highly entertaining and well-written account of a nightmare scenario I think many of us here can relate to: The unexpected and unexplained exploding AWS bill.
Hi. Instead of focusing on trying to make Excel a DB, we focus on the strength of Excel which is computations and business rules. That's the main difference :)
Yes. Click here and you'll be one of them: https://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?nrow=5&nco...

There's lots more data over here: http://www.google.com/trends

(I don't believe the author was referring to this, I think he meant something far less interesting.)
"You get the same book either way. Why should it be cheaper."

Because it's not being printed in China on slices of dead tree, shipped across the Pacific Ocean, shipped to a wholesaler, shipped to a retailer, sitting on expensive retail shelf space for months, and then (if it doesn't sell) being shipped back the other way for full credit?

Why should it not be cheaper?

If customers don't get their ebooks cheaper from the major publishing houses, they'll get them cheaper from someone else.
That's because they is a good number of articles that mention "Marxism" as a philosophy, yet it doesn't have it's own article.
Great piece. Our startup supports http://deeplearning4j.org and http://nd4j.org, and it's a great feeling having the open-source wind at your back. Talented strangers helping to fix and grow your project.

To use a couple economists' terms, positive externalities are generated when code is open-sourced, and the beneficiaries are the companies contributing, because together they're making something greater than any one firm could build alone.

Our software is orders of magnitude better simply for having been opened to hundreds of pairs of eyes. The QA is intense.

Engineers at closed-source deep-learning startups chafe under their gag orders, especially since so much of what's closed quickly becomes outdated. Lack of transparency can easily hide lack of competence.
Regarding encryption inside your network, it's a new trend since the NSA business has been going on. Google famously decrypted at the edge and the NSA demanded (and received) a backdoor into their network to ba able to see the unencrypted internal traffic. As a result, Google now encrypts at every level.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/gmail-traffic-between-googl...
> In your example, your ISP has allocated you well over half the bits in an address.

Eh, think of IPv6 as allocating from a 64 bit subnet space. So they're only allocating 1/8 of the address space.

> using the same proportions, the level above "home customer" might have a /25, the level above "ISP" might have a /10

More like /40 and /28

And once you are in the million-customer range you don't really need prefixes any more, but that gives room for more layers of generous prefixing and still having most of the address space spare.

Basically: you can't give everyone as much as they might ever ask for, but you can give everyone 10x as much as they seem to need and still have a dozen bits to spare
Yes, pretty much like Kodak, which invented the digital camera, trying to kill it off/keep it expensive so it didn't cut into film sales.

How did that work out for them?
So does it mean you can directly connect to it from external network?

What happens when you visit a ipv4 website, what IP address will site recognize?
You can pass structs by value. Why not arrays?
I think it's important to note the strange duality of this moment:

1. This is a cambrian explosion of open-source infrastructure tools

2. This is the dark ages of open-source UI

I think it's important to be aware that on this front the Open Source movement has completely stalled. When I was in College, I used Abiword, Evolution, and Rhythmbox. Now those things have been replaced for me with Google Docs, Gmail, and Amazon Music.

I love the web, it's incomparable for convenience, data protection, and access on multiple devices. But it is fundamentally at odds with Open Source software. Back in the day of desktop software, you could throw a tarball on the web and people could use your stuff without any real handholding. In order for people to use a web service you write, you have to maintain a server instance. It's just not worth it for me, random open source web service author, to maintain a server for millions of you, random open source software users. It's time and it's money for very little direct benefit to me.

And on app stores, it's pretty bad too. Maintaining a reviewed and updated app in an app store is a huge job, and not something a casual contributor to an open source GUI is going to want to do, just to have access to their branch of an app. And I'm not even sure Apple will let you submit an identical app with just one little feature changed.

This will change... the endgame is something like Ethereum, and the currentgame is maybe something like Heroku Button, but there is still a lot of infrastructure to build to make it as easy to maintain an open source web app as it is to maintain a desktop app.

And in the meantime, Open Source UI is just going to languish a bit. That's OK, it's just where we are in the history of the web. But it's going to get a lot better in the not too distant future.
We run the Excel spreadsheets on our engine. For security purposes, some Excel features are for the moment disabled ( macros, xll, odbc ). Our take is these features are to be handled by your code, that send data to the spreadsheets. The sheet will handle the logic ( business rules, computations ) and send back the result to your app.
It remains to be seen if their "carrier killer" missiles are effective. Very likely the countermeasures a current carrier group could deploy would be effective in stopping such an attack.
Maybe I can crowdsource some help from here then - My SO has a food blog [1] which it would be nice if it were self sustaining (so ~$30USD/month for domains/hosting). She's just put up Amazon affiliate links on select articles and is still working on building traffic.

Should I stay away from AdSense? Where am I going to find the ads to "hand-pick"?

[1]: http://thecinnamonscrolls.com
need some more automatic daily titbits and in the line words

like a wikipedia board