skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nonsense, individuals don't keep their species (or often even completely different species) alive unselfishly against their own interests. Such phenotypes would soon disappear if it was so. Altruism evolved because it's good for the individual's survival.

When you try to harm something or somebody for your own benefit, there are two possibilities:

Either such behavior is common enough and the target has a defense mechanism against it and in that case you will fail and you may even get hurt.

Or, it has never been too common and in that case you may succeed temporarily. However, the fact that the weakness is being exploited creates a pressure on the potential targets to find ways, or even evolve, to get rid of it. You may succesfully exploit it, but your descendants will find it harder and harder to live that way, and they may even die out.

On the other hand, when an individual is beneficial to other idividuals, it encourages them to support it, or over time even evolve traits that will allow them to better keep those of its kind alive and it will be easier and easier over time for it and its descendants to survive and have offspring of their own.

It's basically the real life equivalent of karma. Altruism evolved because individuals and species breed each other to be good.
extorting cash for patents

Standard practice among all the big players

office document lock-in

Standard practice among the players lucky enough to be able to do it (we now call it 'walled garden')

... My thesis is that all big tech firms now act as MS once did (or would if they could). But we're just used to it now.
I also wonder at requiring that new hires spend at least one week in the call centre during their induction. They might not know what they need at that point!
> So, the gold thing doesn't match humanity's tradition until very recently.

Ish. There's no unified "human tradition" anyway. Mediterranean societies have used gold- and other metal-based tallies for thousands of years, until they eventually settled on (gold, silver) coins as a standard. Greek/Roman conquests and trade then spread the idea.
Almost universally? Got any examples that show this almost universal attribute? Off the top of my head, from the past couple of months alone, I can think of the VW CEO, Ellen Page (reddit's former CEO) who were ousted from their companies for decisions that didn't go over well.
OK, there's an entirely different problem. Who is responsible for fixing the problem if not the guy's boss?
The unemployed underclass the valley und a non-controlled migration (which it advocates often for) kills it.
Its a sort of self-regulating-plant. So a societal mechanism, that aims to improve every tech available, is unable to do a bit of leviathan-cybernetics and stabilize its own propelling force.

Irony is when ones action contradict ones plans?
On this, I get a lot more upset with those setting the rules than those playing the game.
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I think that's very true. It was also a different environment back then - people affected were a much more homogenous group, so it's not surprising that we as a group identified strongly against what MS did. That fosters strong feelings.

That said, is this all just another EMBRACE from Nadella? ;)
E.O. Wilson. Read all of his books, they are AMAZING. Especially the stuff about cross species cooperation. http://www.newsweek.com/biologist-eo-wilson-why-humans-ants-... You can listen/watch to these talks he did as well. http://www.c-span.org/video/?322464-1/book-discussion-meanin... and http://www.c-span.org/video/?305870-1/book-discussion-social...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_spider

(I just assumed it must be the case that someone somewhere does eat spiders...)
Here's Zwicky's own write-up of the event. http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/1801/1/zwicky.pdf
The templating language isn't and can't be used to define test control flow.

It's only used to generate test cases - e.g. 7 login scenario tests on 7 different browsers. Or, as on my website, two virtually identical tests running on two different versions of python.

It isn't necessary to write test cases using jinja2 either. YAML on its own is enough.
These concerns make sense if we assume that they have no processes. My understanding is that they are using holocracy, so there are defined processes each with leaders (like boards with a chair) and these process are organized in a hierarchy that allows some to be overridden/replaced/reformed by boards with more central power. So, people can and should try to have many roles but will naturally get pushed out of things where they lack time, knowledge or trust, and not everyone is involved in every process or is allowed to nominate themselves to be involved.
I think you can license Windows on a per-user basis. Certainly for their higher end products (e.g. Dynamics AX ERP) you can choose device or user CALs and pick whichever one minimizes your license costs.

One of Microsoft's weaknesses is definitely the complexity of their licensing.
They are marketing really hard where the tech nerds and devs are, astroturfing comment sections and sponsored articles everywhere.

Things like Microsoft is changing and giving fuzzy feelings (really?), but the general audience is harder to get. I've seen huge billboards with surface 3 ads, special sections in stores, but I've never seen one in the wild.
"The larger U.S. companies may face a problem of perception that they have abetted U.S. government surveillance. They say, however, that they have broken no laws."

They probably mean to not having broken US laws. However, if they complied to US government requests they have certainly broken laws of several EU countries (at least German ones) and as well broken the Safe Harbor agreement.
I kind of thought the headline referred to the fact that they did finally release a patch that makes connecting to Exchange servers via Outlook possible again in the latest OS X.
[too snarky, maybe but it was a pretty hilarious situation where both Apple and Microsoft failed fairly hard for a (short) while]
Counter-argument: the justification given for Holacracy is that generally in life groupings of people aren't structured in that way. The example they give is that in a city there are no bosses, everyone choses a career, looks for work, finds accomodation, etc, independently. The mayor isn't your boss. This is of course the foundation of capitalism: free agents.
So, lets say for example that the US requires that you keep data on customers so that law enforcement can use it, but the EU requires that you don't so that privacy is protected.

Are you are suggesting that one of those laws should be changed to make it easier for multinational companies to operate, even though there was a good reason for the law in the first place? Because I would say that if the company absolutely has to keep customer data then they shouldn't operate in a country where that is illegal, and if they refuse to keep customer data then they shouldn't be operating in the country where it is required.
There was observation - see his paper - http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/1801/1/zwicky.pdf - they saw the particles streak up out of the atmosphere, and measured their speeds.
Doubling the speed of jpegtran with SIMD
Small business yes. Large business owns the government, so nope.
Oh, the tactics did offend people. And still do. But it was always a small number of people that cared about software freedom.

The Microsoft consent decree was about restricting browser choice by shipping their own browser as default and claiming it was unremovable. By contrast, today Apple idevices not only ship with a browser but ban all competing browsers (via the ban on run-time compilation effectively banning JIT compilers). Apple have total control over every application that is allowed to ship on the platform and take a 30% cut.

Google are responsible for Android, which is Free software to the absolute minimum they could get away with by law. It relies on millions of lines of GPL'd code, yet for most phones it's quite hard to get a rebuildable source tree that even includes all the kernel drivers, and if you do it may be prohibited from loading by a locked bootloader.
:)

I sat on it for another evening, but I'm not sure of the best word for you, to be honest.
A nitpick: More mathematics has been created/discovered/whatever since 1950 than before. It's not true that most of math predates the American academic system. The modern academic system, for all its flaws, has fostered an explosion of new ideas.
This is not the time for improvisation. While your version may be fine, lawyers say to use these phrases and they have many good reasons why they choose the words they use. At best, your variation will be equivalent to the recommended wordings, and you add the risk that your wording may not cover everything or a misuse of legal terms.

There is another reason to use the recommended phrase, too: it's a standard. More people will immediately understand your intent (regardless of how they respond).

> I want to be polite

While general politeness is always a good idea, the police are not on your side and you absolutely should not go out of your way to appease them. If they want to hassle you, they are going to do it anyway. In practice, they probably already made their quick-and-arbitrary conclusion before they started talking to you.

Don't take my word for it - this is the advice any decent lawyer will give you. I highly recommend watching this[1] lawyer explain the public<->police interaction, corroborated by a police officer who explains how they try to scam you into talking.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

edit: fixed minor editing error
Someone could break the Bitcoin Network on demand
Challenge me, to come up with something, why? You were the one doing the assertion, so you should be prepared to be challenged and answer, not challenging back.

You said that a given notion/idea is against human nature; the burden of proof is yours. Do you have any scientific support for that claim? What definition of "human nature" are you following? Even relating to the very limited historical accounts you were trying to assess, how can you be sure it's "human nature", not "human culture"?

I'm sure you're thorough and rigorous in your field of expertise, and don't accept "claims" blindly. I'm just asking for the same standards in other subjects. No need to be frivolous just because the subject is human behaviour.
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Asides this particular chemical compound, doesn't it seem obvious that ingesting something charred, same like smoking or eating highly processed foods is going to be bad for you?

It's almost like natures way is to work best on simplest ingredients (until it isn't).
The infrastructure team?
None of the recent articles have mentioned it but hollcracy is a American commercialized edit of Sociocracy aka Open Governance (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy).

The seminal text is "We the People" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0979282705/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=...) [no affiliate]

The analogy would be how Scrum was created as a commercialized revision of Agile XP.

A key tenant is the rights of each circle (team/committee) to actively chose how it will make decisions, and it's free to use systems such as voting or putting someone "in charge", but it also has a bunch of innovative decision making approaches that achieve much better buy in and are based on achieving consent as opposed to consensus. It's the difference between, 70% of people are on board so we are going ahead regardless of what the rest think. And we'll we've heard from everyone and even those that have stated publically to try rest of the group that they have concerns they are no longer blocking "paramount" concerns and we are united in our agreeance to go ahead.
"Certain drugs have been found to interact with placebo" ??
> did they change their ways in this regard as well?

Oh, they absolutely did. Now they also threaten companies with lawsuits unless they install their own apps on Android devices [1]. I didn't say it was for the better. How this doesn't immediately alarm the anti-trust bodies for using patents to force companies to buy its products is still a puzzle to me.

Microsoft loves the rigged patent game and it's exploiting every minute of it, while fighting hard to ensure it stays this way [2] and also doing its best to make the copyright system worse, as well [3].

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2988525/android/microsoft-str...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/11/20...

[3] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2613305/patents/microsoft--...
> You mean, the total homicides (the violent crime ones) are about half the rate of motor vehicle deaths. Actually closer to a third.

Whoops yes I accidentally flipped it around incorrectly weakening my own argument :p

> It's about 10-15k homicides v 40-50k car crash deaths per annum in the past decade.

I'd still say it's closer to double though, there haven't been as few as 10k murders since 1965, and as the population was much smaller then (about a third smaller) the rate of homicide per capita wasn't much different from the average of the past decade. Meanwhile car deaths haven't been 50k since 1980 so 10-15k and 40-50k would include numbers going back 3 to 5 decades.

For 2005-2015 though the motor vehicle deaths average about 11 per 100k[0], for murder it's about 5 per 100k.[1]

[0] http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm (top absolute values, bottom per capita values)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i... (doesn't include 2014 and 2015 but they're estimated at roughly the 2013 numbers. Notice the substantial dip right around the recession, I wonder how much of the drop can be explained by fewer miles driven rather than improved safety).
Genuinely curious why you choose not to use "not given any drug" option in your combinations. Would this "baseline" not be useful in any capacity?
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I said their IaaS is a cheaper alternative to AWS IaaS with the exception of their S3 alternative. I suggested B2 is the cheapest alternative to S3 do you have a suggestion?
"It is a fair bet that there has not been a single day since 19BCE when someone somewhere has not been reading Virgil’s Aeneid, and it is hard to think of many other books, apart from the Hebrew Bible, of which one could say that."-This does massively overlook the texts of Eastern religions and philosophies.
> So you now have 30-40% more people on the sidewalks. 30-40% more cars on the road. 30-40% higher density.

This is the fallacy that the article is pointing at: an increase in 50% pop density doesn't result in a 50% increase in everything: mass transit is the best example of this, higher density enables much more efficient mass transit systems. A lower density city will have most people go to work by car, a higher density one will easily have over 50% of the population commute to work by mass transit and bicycle.
Rust is kinda the Godwin's law of C++ threads these days.
Well, I never thought I'd see the day libcom was posted up on here. I spend a bit of time on their forums about 10 years ago - used to be a bit of a bearpit, don't know what it's like now.

The archive is interesting, though. A lot of material from outside what you'd strictly call libertarian communism, but just niche even within the already niche worlds of anarchist/Marxist/etc theory.

(Thought I'd better post something before it gets flagged to the bottom of the ocean.)
For a great and concise introduction to Libertarian Socialism here is a classic Noam Chomsky lecture from 1979 called The Government of the Future, in which he gives a justification for Libertarian Socialism, or Anarchism, as the natural and correct form of government for advanced industrial society from the classical liberal ideals of the enlightenment. He also compares the competing economic and social ideologies, laissez-faires capitalism, state capitalism and state socialism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDQGdKyh7s&index=1&list=PLE...

Edit: here is the text of the lecture if you'd rather read it.
https://libcom.org/library/government-future-noam-chomsky
They haven't been hits, yet.
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> "Those of us with nothing to sell but our labour power"

This is the weirdest thing about the dichotomy of Communism's popular resurgence in tech circles. In literal terms, our 'labour power' is fingers on a keyboard. Doesn't the real value in our work come from our ideas? Technology is a lever for ideas, and that lever can be exploited by creativity in a way that few other areas of human endeavor can match.

So, if the value (benefit? effectiveness?) of our work is measured by our ability to be creative, how does one reconcile that with pure labour valuation, which is evocative of the standard-dollars-for-hours exchange?

I'd be interested to hear from any self-professed communists about this.
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Hi! Thanks for sharing.

I'm looking into implementing Peek and Pop into my app as well. One thing that was not clear from your article was, do you use two different View Controllers for Peek and Pop (as the Peek VC is way simpler, though functionally related to the Pop one)?

From the Apple documentation this looked like it was meant to be one and the same VC (though displayed in a "responsive" way).

FYI, I've asked the same question on the dev forum here: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/21954

Cheers!
We should probably put a “*” by Pao since, as far as I know, we’re not sure if she was actually responsible for the decision that ostensibly got her ousted.
European commission press release on Safe Harbour following the Court ruling
Also, I wonder: didn't Valve used to have a normal hierarchy years ago? You know, back when they used to ship stuff? I'm genuinely curious to find out if that's the case. If that's true, then it seems that Valve only "stalled" after adopting this company structure.
> Ads help fund free services and content on the web.

"free" is incorrect, "obfuscated costs to the users" is more accurate.
> This is of course the foundation of capitalism: free agents.

Exercise for the reader: If Holacracy is taking a pure free market as its model, why not just dissolve the company?

Hint: look up Ronald Coase.
For years the hackers/pundits were telling MS to adopt a more inviting buisness plan with free versions etc. It is possible that this approach could be detrimental even if they hace good products. It is ironic that as consumer Windows has become a more polished product they have removed the premium pricing in favour of app stores and subscriptions.
Those are just lawsuits between the two, wasn't the nature of the royalties for Android devices that they contacted OEMs and said "we have these patents, you better pay us or we'll sue you", and the OEMs paid up?

That's different than cancelling outstanding lawsuits.
Not entirely sure why libcom's the top of HN. They've been posting the same misrepresentations and misunderstandings of markets for years.
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I sure see a lot of Kenneth Goldmith on HN lately. I wonder if its self-publicity? Or, maybe I,m here too much?
That might be a less than ideal structuring of ownership. An investor with a track record of businesses where people work for free with nothing in writing may not be an omen of your prosperity.
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The communist ideology resulted in the torture/execution/starvation of, what, 100 million working-class people?

People don't go about saying "I'm a fascist, let's give it another go, maybe it will work this time, sorry about the millions of dead children".

So why do people think it's OK to say they're a communist?
Not a communist, but having ideas isn’t labor, execution of ideas is.

In the context of creativity, labor is the long process of rejecting all of the bad ideas before you get to the good one.

Also, part of the thesis of the labor movement was that workers should be compensated for producing value, not for working “hard”. Briefly, this means that wages don't have to decline as advances in technology make life easier.

The modern tech industry is weird because the laborers build the machines that they use (where “machine” means things like algorithms, not laptops).
> The analogy would be how Scrum was created as a commercialized revision of Agile XP.

Scrum was developed independently of, and is quite distinct from, XP.
I've read "On Human Nature" (not any of the others, though). I'd say that there's nothing there which would imply that ideas proposed in the link shared by the OP are "against human nature".
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Libertarianism is hugely flawed. Garbage in, garbage out. I don't think anything incorporating hugely flawed philosophies is ever going to be a good idea.
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On first read, I was going to ask to get a link to that thesis, thinking it was some Masters or PhD work. Every 10 years you're going to have the 'big-evil'. I'm with you 100% about it being standard practices in big companies, and 110% about users being complacent about accepting the walled garden.

Also re: patents- IBM has a huge patent portfolio. Very little of it is used to patent troll. Those boxed-office Texas shell LLP law-firms setup are nothing like what IBM is doing today (second only behind Red Hat in terms of core Linux kernel commits, IIRC[caveat: source was from a talk I attended in 2013 by one of the 3 upstream-controllers, including Linus]). "Evil 80s IBM" is now actually too stagnant to really exploit the consumer and barely breathing off of old banks and gov't systems that run System/36,360,38,390 on z/OS.

"Evil 90s MS" is now opening up basically everything for the consumer, minus the cash-cows (enterprises). MS Research funds tons of Haskell research, language development that gradually goes from PhD/post-doc work -> "obscure" languages like Haskell/F# -> C# (LINQ is effectively a monad). Python 3.5's new async/await is largely influenced by work Microsoft did (both in semantics and syntax). The CoreCLR is on Github. Inspect, modify, alter, run your F# code on a RS/6000 or 8 dollar ARM if you want to. Visual Studio Community Edition is free, a la the IntelliJ model. I argue they're now a net positive on the community. Just like IBM, they've realized the enterprise is where their money is, so charge for SQL Server licenses (which are really reasonably priced compared to Oracle), Sharepoint, Server, and Dynamics/Biztalk type stuff.

In the 80s it was IBM. In the 90s it was MS. Today, Apple performing so much walled-gardened anti-competitive practices (I can't install my legally purchased copy of OS X on my Intel machine? Really?) that it makes the MS DOJ trial look completely insignificant.
I too am interested in this for shallow dof, and was excited at the idea that these lenses are effectively f1.2. But there's no way that skater shot is f1.2-equivalent. In fact, there are no sample shots anywhere I can see that back up that claim.
The thing I miss most in ZFS (aside from a native in-kernel linux port, as I've found ZoL to be kinda buggy) is to be able to grow zdevs. I can add a new zdev, I can remove them, but I can't add one disk to my 7-disk RAIDZ2. MD RAID has no problem with this.

Also, if you add zdevs later, you will never get full performance again as the striping will be off (putting more writes on the zdevs with more free space), and there's no 'rebalance' kind of thing (I've seen some scripts that just move stuff around, but I've never seen any evidence that they work, and I really doubt that they do based on my understanding of zdev allocation).
There isn't really a good alternative. "Americans" doesn't work; Simón Bolívar went to war to liberate "the Americans" from the Spanish. I'm surrounded by Americans here in Buenos Aires. But almost none of them are USians. And no, I don't know how to pronounce "USian" either.