skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something I never understood. If I put a piece of code out there under a BSD style license, how can others lock me out of my code? Yes, they can add non-free code to their copy and distribute it, but my original copy is still there. Unless they add a feature that I was also planning on adding, and they patent that feature, which would keep me from adding the same functionality to my copy of the code. But how likely is that to happen?
"So comparing coal to nuclear is kind of valid, except that coal is not the only alternative to nuclear power."

All of the other alternatives cause more deaths. All of them. Dam disasters have been mentioned several times. Wind requires people working on high towers (and sometimes falling off). Solar electric uses extremely nasty semiconductor processes, and requires that people climb on roofs. Passive solar -- roofs again. Oil production and distribution is dangerous. Natural gas production and distribution is dangerous. Coal production and distribution is horrific (though not nearly as bad as it once was, it's still pretty bad).

Nuclear power has the lowest death rate per kWh generated of any energy production method known. By far.
GitHub is down
> (L)GPL v3 (not v2) is also great if you don't want it to be integrated into business products.

Starcraft 2 has LGPLv3 libraries in it. Its hard to not see Blizzard as a business nor SC2 as a product.
This must be understood in the light of the philosophy of Peter Hinjens which is the community comes always first, before technical assets. Smoothing community process and interactions is (very) necessary for a project success.

Growing zeromq ideas mainstream will provide more value to the project of improving distributed software than changing drastically zeromq (to (re-)build nanomsg community).

> testing coverage completely matters.

testing matters not testing coverage.

Testing matters as way to give insight about the project, api and protocols as such integration tests more useful that unit tests. This help people jump in, it's a way to document the API/Protocol.

Achieving the API and protocols is more important than having a good code coverage. If there is no code, there is nothing to cover, and nothing to show.

He develop his ideas of good community processus in the chapter Sphere of Lights of Culture and Empire essay [1]

[1] http://cultureandempire.com/html/cande.html#toc-3
Its whats on the margin that matters.
Maybe leadership in those countries should take that into account before proudly declaring themselves against US interests, nationalizing US wealth, blocking US ships, kidnapping US citizens, proxy warring against US allies, exporting terrorism, spreading anti-US propaganda, radicalizing its citizens to be anti-West, etc. Jesus man, the US isn't some charity, its a nation with its own self-interests and it will move to protect those interests. Not to mention, its obligations of defense in regards to being part of NATO and its post-war relationships with Korea and Japan and Israel.

Also, its a moral hazard, and frankly stupid, to make non-US nations above criticism just because they're small. Assad is mass murdering his people in Syria, for example. He deserves that criticism, and more.

Hell, Allende's downfall had everything to do with running a radical administration hell bent on nationalizing everything and pissing off business owners, the workers, congress, and the military. Of course, people like you shout, "OMG THE USA OVERTHREW HIM... somehow" and here we are. Sadly, this is further anti-US propaganda. Allende dug his own grave yet the US gets the blame. It is possible to be disliked by the US and also be a domestic fuckup on a level where your own people get rid of you. How nice to always have someone else to blame for your troubles.
Exactly.

I made some ignorant comments about the legitimacy of how much pollution is actually caused by these cars considering "tailpipe" emissions tests are a thing where the test is segregated from the car's computer system entirely, and we haven't heard much about these types of tests failing.

The real question I have is, if the vehicles are actually producing less emissions during the test, how come they can't use the same method to produce less emissions during normal operation? If the "defeat device" had some adverse effects on the car's operation, which I imagine it does, I would also think that it would be apparent when running the test. "Sounds like this car is running on 2 cylinders at 75 RPM..."

Edit: I'm just going to wait for the videos, someone will eventually detail what's going on.
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GitHub is experiencing a minor service outage
Ideas are cheap.  Execution is what matters
Yep, the Z80 was an 8-bit CPU, but the 8088 was regarded as a 16-bit CPU. It did have a 8-bit external data bus (the 8086 had 16-bit) to make it cheaper, but the register sizes and instructions were the same as the 8086.
The employment length is really bugging me. I've always selected people with a few years at their current job, leaning towards higher, because it feels safe, but this says that <2 years of experience is better than longer! I wonder if they're "newer" so more likely to stay around and not be pushed out, or if the rates are much higher compared to a marginal increase in risk. I'm leaning toward the latter. It looks like income has the same effect for home loans; <50k has a much higher return simply because they get a huge rating hit.

My other big hit is 3 versus 5-year terms. Anyone here care to comment? I like the 36 months because it feels more liquid and when I started I wasn't sure LendingClub was going to be around for a decade or more. Beginning to think I should reconsider that stance.
Quirky, Wink File Chapter 11; Flextronics Makes Bid for Home Automation Business
Saudi Arabia has only added about a million barrels per day during the supposed attempt to weaken US frackers.

By contrast, the US added about three million barrels per day in three years ('12,'13,'14).

Most of the oil price damage was caused by the dollar. Oil had been running at significant global oversupply for years before the dollar began to crash the price back in June/July 2014. That same dollar effect threw Canada into a recession, cut Australia's growth rate in half, and crushed emerging markets including Brazil.

Long before Saudi Arabia boosted production, the dollar took off on its greatest run in decades. Oil immediately began to crash from there forward.

The USSR also collapsed due to the strong dollar 30 years ago, which dropped the price of oil substantially. Oil went from $140 inflation adjusted, for three years, to plunging off a cliff to $35 or so, courtesy of Volcker's strong dollar move. And then again Russia nearly imploded during the cheap oil days of 1997-2000, also caused by an extremely strong dollar (gold hit around ~$250).
How do you set up your Trello boards?
IMO, that has always been the problem with environmental issues. For the past thirty years or so everything has been focused on this massive yet fuzzy future catastrophe rather than the real, specific, less "critical" damage being done now. Thing is, addressing the latter will pretty much address the former as well.

Activists insist on framing their message in terms of the former, though, even going so far as to claim focusing on immediate local effects is "missing the big picture".
Is Japan Abandoning Pacifism?
Mozilla can be quite slow with certain features; for example work on U2F support hasn't even begun one year after a ticket was made (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065729). I'm not exactly holding my breath.
> Would that suffice? How else?

I think it's a great feature and very useful for smaller projects especially, but it doesn't replace mailing lists for larger ones.

In open source projects especially, it's standard procedure to create one or more topical mailing lists with archives. Take a look at the Wine lists for example - active lists with forum mirroring:

https://www.winehq.org/forums

This is something that really improves some workflows - especially FOSS projects with a lot of outside contributions. Email is super friendly to newcomers to a project, and forums/archives let you get a feel for the general social tone as well as look at older issues matching your own. I don't think you can just replace this with a tracker.
Anyone getting their emails has known it was coming for a long time. They used up all the good places pretty quickly - they got the return customers and didn't need to re-run coupons. Now it's all weight loss scams, online courses "worth" $2k but sold for $20, and even sex toys lately.
Well, maybe not for lossless compression..
Groupon was a deliberately calculated scam once it started getting huge investment though. Investors are always willing to burn the long term (the public) if they can pop the short term (themselves).
8-bit bus interface?
Source: using the service every month.

In the beginning, you would pay the driver in person.

After a while, they added the option to pay on the site directly, with a fee (or perhaps without, I can't remember).

Lately (a few years ago, can't recall the exact moment), this is the only available payement option. You cannot book a trip without paying via credit card, at least in France.
My brother in law runs a restaurant back east, and he said that Groupon has been a great channel for driving business. Anecdata, I know.

I think there's a business opportunity to help people running groupons capture the most value out of the leads (at the least, sign them up for an email newsletter).
Classroom for GitHub
There you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ
"Tweets by @git_lab" -> "Account suspended"
> The qualified yes was really a no: I believe that the market structure can't and won't deliver...

My hypothetical to which you replied was: "Assume that all IoT devices are secure and only exist to serve your interests, rather than the interests of a national intelligence agency or corporate overlord. Doesn't the ability to remotely monitor and control the devices that you own from any place of your choosing bring benefit to you directly, and -directly or indirectly- to society as a whole?".

I even took pains in my comment to mention that I recognised the wide gulf between the situation in my hypothetical and the abysmal state of consumer electronics security.

Now that you've been reminded of what my hypothetical question was, is your answer an unqualified yes, or an unqualified no? Remember that market forces don't apply here; these devices are correctly designed, implemented, secure, and only serve your interests.

> I was referring to the Solow productivity paradox: computerised technology certainly feels much more efficient, but in terms of the economic variable "productivity per person-hour"..

Ah. shrug

Good software to solve complex problems is often not easy. There are clearly areas where the proper application of computerized systems either save substantial amounts of time and effort, or let personnel more easily collect and digest the information required to do his job.
Yet another alternative: https://rocket.chat/
It's the technological singularity. Thanks to the various "code academy" initiatives going on around the world, there is a growing middle area--between software developers and users--of scripters, people who plug components together but don't do a lot of greenfield programming.

It used to be that being a scripter was a stepping stone on the way to developers, mostly because back then scripting could only get you so far. Now, you can apparently make an entire career being a scripter, if said code academies are correct in the promise that they can find you a job with the extremely shallow curriculum I've seen them provide.

This isn't a bad thing, it's pretty amazing that it doesn't take a decade of dedicated study to do so much anymore. It's just that in our current culture we lump them in with developers because they are clearly more than just users. We still expect a set of resources put into a Github repository to have a significant amount of new programming, rather than just being glue code between a few commonly available libraries. But that's more of a problem of our lack of ability to differentiate between large, greenfield projects and small, configuration-oriented projects at-a-glance than it is a problem of programming being "too easy".

Though, if we recast scripters as users instead of developers, then it's a terrible thing. It means that the real software developers of the world have written a bunch of software with a really, really shitty user interface.

Either way, it's not the scripter's fault.
"you have areas of land where people won't be able to live for thousands of years.."

Where are these areas? Can you name a few of them?

" in addition to that we have to store the waste from these "safe" plants for few millennia"

Nope. After a couple of hundred years it's no more radioactive than the ore from which it came.

Long half-life = less radioactive. By definition.
Any free alternative to GitLab?

Gogs seems to be an option but it seems to be missing a very important feature of code review.
Open source or free software is a stance.

If you say Open Source it implies that the choice of a copyleft license is a strategy to improve your return of code, but the default is “just be open”. The goal is to get other people to support you.

If you say Free Software it implies that the choice of a lax license is a strategy to improve your spread, but the default is copyleft. The goal is Freedom. It sounds easy nowadays, since there is so much Free Software that if you have some free time you don’t feel the restrictions from proprietary software.

If you want to feel the restrictions from proprietary software again, try changing the layout of gmail and keeping it in working state for 5 years.
Canada has had a strategic maple syrup reserve since 2000. It hit the news when someone stole $30000 worth of the sweet stuff from it.

It's basically there to both protect Canada's domestic syrup producers and extend the sales market internationally.

You can bet your tuque that the reserve would be put into play if New England syrup producers made a move that might hurt the Quebec producers across the border.
Will Groupon founder Brad Keywell's newer venture, Uptake, face a similar outcome? A recent Forbes article suggests he's better at starting a company than running it.
>Instead, he focused on Fukushima, which will cause around 150 deaths from cancers.

That's if we believe the official accounts, who have been found lying on several occasions on this very matter.

>For every tragedy created by Fukushima, there are over a hundred created by the earthquake itself.

So? You can't prevent an earthquake (at best you can just build more resilient houses), but you can always not build nuclear reactors.

>You know what kills more people per year than nuclear plants? Everything.

Same goes for lots of things which we nethertheless don't tolerate. Like serial killers.
Hm, this has sparked my interest in lending via Lending Club. I'll check this out for sure.
Co-founder as a service
The Future of Native Apps
Have you ever used a password manager? As a general rule they should definitely accept paste.
Blog post introducing the service:

http://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2015/09/21/introducing-atomi...

Link to startup ideas, referenced in the site: http://www.hello-startup.net/resources/startup-ideas/
GitLab is already free, in both senses.
How Is the Data Privacy of Your Development Tools?
So make it an optional feature for people to enable on their own accounts?
Very useful tool. Gives valuable insight on how to select filters in portfolio construction. If "the Pearl" was a existing product, I would definitely invest in it.
Very nice, this could be the basis for some cool visualizations!
>it's exciting to know there are problems which nobody knows how to solve

Not sure this fits in with the systemic cultural goal of authoritarianism and conformity at all costs. I mean we both know its a good goal in an abstract sense, but its directly at odds with what we pay them money to indoctrinate into kids. "Sometimes your leaders can't tell you what to think because they don't know" isn't exactly standard authoritarian conditioning. And "think and imagine" isn't standard conformity-inducing conditioning. Furthermore "here's something important, but we can't graph a metric result on a graph" is inherently insubordinate to existing leadership dogma.
From purely technical standpoint, there is essentially nothing that you can learn from Chernobyl that wasn't known in 1986, and all that essentially boils down to "don't do that".
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Biotechnology startup helping Asthma and COPD patients manage their disease by creating Android and iOS apps to sync with our sensors.

- Need developers ASAP to help lead our upcoming product launches

http://www.caretrx.com
It's a classic spin -- trying to blind people concerned with nuclear plants in their area etc, by using science selectively.
Dad Who Wrote Check with “Common Core” Math Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About
Criticizing the USA isn't the same thing as being its enemy. Blocking unfair USA policies in their sphere is the right of any nation. The alternative? Rolling over whenever the USA says Boo!?

The USA, for its part, needs to then be very circumspect in who it steamrollers and when. Not because it can't get away with it; because its wrong.
"Merge first, fix later"

I agree with merge first fix later, if you have sufficient work hours to actually do the fix: in the Freenet project we lost many contributors, because their code wasn’t merged in time, so they just lost interest: “my effort is wasted here”.

Truth is: Those who get their code merged quickly are more likely to review other code, so they grow the community.

You can only do that if you actually have the time to keep quality up.
Is this it? Looks ridiculous.

http://uptake.com
> But the reality is that there are very few code bases written in Rust and an uncountable amount written in C++

Most libraries use a C ABI due to it being stable, and Rust has fantastic FFI support for C (although tools to take in a .h and spit out the FFI in Rust are definitely needed). There's no performance cost to FFI in Rust, either, it's just a function call. As someone that spends a lot of time in an existing C++ codebase, FFI with zero overhead offers a very enticing migration path.

But as you were asking about making a new language, I was just pointing out the language you were starting to design has already been built.
1) Infrastructure projects always appear expensive to the layman. The correct way to price power generation projects is to look at the expected actual cost per MW over the lifetime of the generation facility, and to factor in -as best you can- actual externalities related to the operation of the facility.

2) As I understand it, the hard part of nuclear power isn't the engineering and construction; that's a solved problem. The hard part is fighting pervasive, irrational anti-nuclear-power sentiment.
Web analytics: how Nissan increased their sales fivefold
Warrant from some previous event in another state?
>Or something, oh, artistic?

The idea that there's something "special" that makes it "artistic" (little fluffy clouds a la Bob Ross maybe?) is the very basis of kitch.
China is aggressively trying to do the same thing, attempting to boost their storage to 500m barrels, and buying a lot of oil right now while it's cheap (something the US should be doing, to further bolster its 700m barrels):

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-17/even-a-slo...
Is it better than #lisp?
Spending just half an hour in #lisp, and you see more assholes than a Turkish Customs Agent.
Interesting. That's much more
detailed than covered in my
eighth grade civics class!
My brother did a lot in constitutional
law, but I didn't, and I'm not a lawyer.

So, maybe with some interpretations
of jurisdiction stripping, Congress
and the POTUS might pass a law saying
that the SCOTUS has no jurisdiction
over cases involving abortion
and then pass a law making abortion
illegal. Maybe. I am getting
a suspicion that maybe
jurisdiction stripping could
not be used for that little two
step dance.

And, if that two step dance
could be used, then, sure, it's
curious why a Republican Congress
would not start to take those
two steps. For me, I don't know.
And the OP didn't talk about
such a dance step either! Mike
Huckabee seems highly interested
in making abortion illegal, and
the OP mentioned two more candidates
trying to outlaw abortion even
in cases of rape and danger to the
mother, but, still, I've heard
them say nothing about
jurisdiction stripping.

Out'a my depth!
I've been wanting something like SQLite for JSON for awhile now. Or alternately, something like Mongo but without the server process.

The challenge is the query system, finding documents again. This JSONlite doesn't have one (yet) other than retrieving documents by UUID. There's been some work to make jq usable as a library, that seems like a good basis for JSON queries. https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/C-API:-libjq
Quirky files for bankruptcy, puts Wink up for sale
I teach a college UNIX systems programming class. This semester I decided to switch to GitHub, and so far, I can't believe I didn't do it earlier.

I like to write code in class, and it's great to be able to push every couple of minutes so students can follow along on their laptops if they want. Of course that's more about git itself, but the GitHub interface is good and I think that it lowers the frictional cost for both me and the students, so everybody gets a little more done.
Looks all right to me
John Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States, wonderfully stated that the office of VP "is not worth a bucket of warm piss."

I suspect Trump would view it the same way. Whereas Rubio is well-placed to parlay a VP run in 2016 into a title fight in 2024, I can't see Trump wanting to be someone's second in command.

It's part of why I think he'll drop out - when the poll numbers crater, he's got nothing to fight for, and for his brand he's better off throwing some mud (whatever Master Wizard is for "the Establishment is working behind the scenes to ensure I'll never get the nomination") and walking away than he is waiting to record 2% of the votes in Iowa.
[citation needed]

Seriously though, the Groupon deal wasn't always ideal for every company, but how do you justify calling it a "deliberately calculated scam?"
Nope: https://status.github.com/messages
The photo captioned as a view from the Willis Tower is actually from the John Hancock, you can see the Willis Tower on the right side of the photo.

However, very cool, and has perhaps inspired me to make the same trip one day.
Geographically accurate tube and rail map for London
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I see Wayland is getting ready. I wonder when we will see it by default in most distros.
It was some well known artist who when confronted by a member of the public about some modern art saying "That's art?! I could have done that!" replied "So why haven't you?".
Isn't this kind of thing beneficial if run with more reasonable margins and a subscription model for customers?

Basically, the customer subscribes to the service and gets discounted meals at the cost of not being able to choose the restaurant himself.

Restaurants can use the service whenever they expect to have empty tables, allowing to still profit for them, but with a reduced profit margin.

I'm not sure if it works for restaurants in particular, but it should work for businesses that cannot easily change supply levels, aren't selling something that is completely a commodity and ideally where varying suppliers is enjoyable for customers.
Docker Machine, Compose and Swarm: How They Work Together