skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Proper, professional.." And what does that exactly mean? Beige isn't necessary to be professional. There are plenty of 'proper, professional' applications that have a horrible UX and an ugly UI. Not sure who the arbiter of 'professionalism' is. Is there an ISO spec to which we can refer? Or do we just find the guy who is still using MS DOS and ask for his advice? I'm stumped on how to uglify Slack enough to have it beknighted as 'proper and professional.'
There is simply no disincentive. Yes, it's upsetting, but is it upsetting enough to impact their bottom line, now or in the near future? Not likely.

It's okay because this is the kind of behaviour we have come to expect from large, for-profit corporations. It's how they're expected to behave, it's textbook behaviour. If you're outraged that a company would do this, you've simply not been paying attention to the business world for decades.

Whether it's morally okay or not is a different question. Companies are amoral. They can't be expected to act on conscience because they have none. If you want them to act on morals, you need to codify these morals in regulations -- or you need to make sure your moral outrage is big enough to directly create a disincentive for that kind of behaviour (e.g. be in a position of power where that outrage directly translates to a significant change of their bottom line).
> I saw terms recently that had a 2x liquidation preference (i.e. the investors got the first 2x their money out of the company when it exited) and a 3x liquidation cap (i.e. after they made 3x their money, they didn’t get any more of the proceeds).

But doesn't the 3x liquidation cap only come into play if the total exit is less than 3x? In my understanding, if the exit is greater than 3x the invested value, they then convert their preferred shares to common shares and receive their >3x proportional share in common stock thus retaining the upside of the investment.
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Also, I'd like someone to port all those "cool" 3d demos that came with SGI boxes. I have fond memories of playing with "button fly" and thinking it was amazing at the time (1996?).
Thanks, but I don't follow this. Saving a few keystrokes here and there, and process monitoring (which can be provided for by plenty of other packages ) is sufficient cause to reinvent init?

Even if djb's /service claims makes sense, it still doesn't support the significantly expanded scope of, say, systemd. I mean, hijacking system logging? What could possibly justify doing that in an init system?
Lessig is a member of the liberal elite. He's a Harvard professor with multiple advanced degrees, writes books and gives speeches with big words in them for academic audiences, advocates pro-consumer anti-business IP policy, and endorsed Obama.

That is emphatically not a recipe for being taken seriously by the Republican party. A successful Republican candidate is the kind of guy a redneck feels he could have a beer with, bonding over frothing hatred for Obama, who is definitely a Muslim and probably not an American. Higher education is a bed of liberal snakes, waiting to corrupt our youth and rob them of their good Christian family values. Science is to be distrusted, if not outright rejected. Job creators are the true American heroes and should be given as much power as possible and taxed as little as possible: they've earned it, through superior intellect and hard work. If anyone needs to be disenfranchised in political discourse, it's not the rich, it's the welfare queens and the unions.

You have a point: there are many similarities between Lessig's views and idealized conservatism, particularly libertarianism. But the mainstream Republican base is going to hate him personally, and after that, nothing else matters.
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That was key in Raymond Hulls' classic (and European bestseller) 'How to get what you want'. Repeated hand-written refocusing exercises on your key goals.
I'm not an expert on this, but my understanding is that concerns in this area often center around donations to political action committees, rather than to campaigns directly, although both are matters of concern. A "SuperPAC" backing a candidate may receive an unlimited amount of donations, and may spend it to support their candidate as long as they don't coordinate too closely with the candidate's campaign. They must remain sufficiently independent for it to count as independent expenditure, in which case the donations and expenditure are unlimited.

Unlike regular political actions committees, which can donate to candidates and must report who they receive donations from in turn, Super PACs are not required to report their sources of income.

This essentially means that people are free to spend unlimited amounts of their own money talking about their favored political candidate, though they can't donate unlimited amounts to the politician's campaign.

I don't have a strong personal stance on this issue, but I consider the ruling fundamentally fair. If I want to spend an unlimited amount of my own money buying advertising space to raise awareness around global warming, I can do that. That's speech, and large-scale speech takes money. I should be able to do the same thing to support a political candidate.
Just to say - we would love to work with Zulip to federate it into Matrix :)
Obviously short-term rentals serve a need many have or AirBnB wouldn't have such uptake.

Adding regulation to fix that issue without changing regulation to increase supply, etc. seems like it misses the point.

People are already ignoring the regulations - how are more going to solve that?
Sure, but getting there takes a lot of work, something that Slack already gives you out of the box.
No, that's when the 2x comes into play. In this scenario, the investor gets the first 2x, and then after 3x doesn't make any more money.
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"it isn't ill-understood"

I worked on AI research for a number of years and my strong opinion is that our understanding of general intelligence is, as some wit put it, "pre-Newtonian".
How about searching message history? Notifications when you aren't at your computer? Where's the mobile client with push notifications?
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It's a funny arc, especially since it goes from the start of the season "torture everything that moves!" 24 style, to more classic Star Trek "are we justified in doing this" by the end of the season.
This domain is unique in that it's not a good idea to read.

crazy talk.

Sure, learn by doing; but there are great resources to help you understand far, far faster than you ever will by experimenting alone. If nothing else, there is good code to read, and classic texts.
The drop in inequality has been after liberalization (in china and India, at least), not during communism. Read milanovic's work.

India is a more equal country than the US. I have no idea why people think it is unequal - its as if people conflate poverty and inequality or something.

You are correct that free trade - including remittances - can reduce inequality. Weren't you just disputing this?
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Oh wow, that is unique and very debt-like. My experience was closer to a 3x participating preferred.. Thanks for the clarification.
I remove plugins I don't use - that might help.

Also, as other people have mentioned, "exclude" files from being watched by the editor. I do a lot of NLP and machine learning work and I often have very large text training files in my working repos - important to tell the editor to not to watch these files.
That's not the right way to think about it. Just because you cannot imagine a way your software can be used to attack your company or harm the users, doesn't mean such a thing is impossible or unlikely.
if people aren't buying the late stage common stock at high valuations, then how can it be a bubble in late stage valuations ?

it sounds more like a bubble in tech press reporting of valuations ?
Yeah but if GNULinux is free in the first place, why spend so much govt. money on it?
No. Canonical held a crowdfunding campaign to produce one but did not meet their goals. As I understand it, Ubuntu's desktop environment, Unity 8, isn't ready yet either.
Technological Inflation
You seem to believe that the EU is one homogeneous, federal entity. It isn't, yet.

Having the EU parliament vote a motion in favour of welcoming Snowden as a political refugee is great. As the article highlight it isn't binding to the EU commission or EU countries. But this could help document Snowden's in front of the ECHR.

The European Court for Human Rights does have supranational power over EU states.

This is a small step in the good direction, no need to be cynical.
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He's not bailing. He specifically refused to rule out running as an independent and is still taking donations. He also left the primary trashing the Democratic party.
Polymer 1.0 has support for shadow DOM, but also what they call "Shady DOM": https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/articles/shadydom.html

TL;DR: Shady DOM provides an API that is similar to shadow DOM, but without all the crazy overhead when polyfilling it. The downside is that it's not quite transparent to someone outside of a Polymer element
A different angle is to look at what is accepted in a court of law. Laws do not consider copying/infringement to be stealing.
I know some people who say gunna (I was gunna do it). However, that doesn't make it correct. So, usage is not a measure of validity either. Most online dictionaries exclude steal/theft being linked to infringement/copyright.
The title should more accurately be Google search. Many parts of Google, for instance Youtube definitely do penalize stolen content.
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I can imagine that too. Rational people would of course use ctrl-y.
Who said it is supposed to be inclusive?
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You want to change your gui window fonts right? On XFCE you type appearance into the whisker menu and go to the fonts tabs. I'd never wanted to do this before but it took all of 10 seconds to figure it out. No idea how to do it on windows/unity/osx etc but I'm sure I could figure it out within a similar time.
> If you want the premium features, their pricing is very affordable.

"very affordable" is up to each person to define. One of those premium features is a history with more than 10,000 messages.

I frequently interact with at least 25 people just to do my job. The cheapest paid plan is $6.67 per user per month. That works out to $2000 a year. And that's only for the people I work with on a regular basis. Sure, I could afford that, but it's certainly not trivial. Email looks like a good alternative at that price.
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Wow, long time since I've heard that. (I loved "C'mon Kids"!)
Which lectures did you attend to learn about things like "net fitness advantage", "mutation load situations", "frequency-dependent selection", "heterozygote advantage". I always wanted to learn about these things. If you can refer me to an online lecture or a book I would be very thankful.
That page needs a Controversies section.
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More shoes dropping.
I think the troll's motivation is closer to breaking a seemingly useless system to waste the time of those who think its important.

You can argue against something, or show it to be unworkable.
Why would you wanna do that (install a desktop env)?!
Directly talking to the notify socket is not considered using systemd internals. It is documented as a stable, public interface:

https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/systemd/InterfaceS...

Socket activation doesn't have any systemd-based interface. You just get a file descriptor passed in the normal Unix way. The systemd library functions related to socket activation are utility functions for examining the inherited socket, but they are just wrappers for any other way you might do so.

You can configure daemons like nginx or PHP-FPM to use sockets inherited from systemd instead of their own, and it works fine. They don't have any specific support for systemd socket activation, nor do they need to. They can't even tell the difference between the systemd sockets and ones they'd get on a configuration reload.
I use the Haskell plugin from Jetbrains - it is the one with the most downloads. Then open a project that uses stack, create an execution target. Under the "Before launch:" area, add an external tools target: stack build --exec <project name>

That lets me run from the IDE. Syntax hiliting and formatting works well.
They are really nice, but I wonder if the fonts we have available today are not better - if only because more eyeballs have been using and improving them.

Also, having unicode glyphs is more important now that it was before. If my font can't show "άꚍαραξία", or "∀ a,b,c ∈ ℝ³", I think I am missing something, even if it looks good.

Droid Sans and Deja vu Sans look perfect to me. But I never got to use an actual SGI, so maybe I'm missing something about the technical advantage of using these fonts.
I read it as, commenters should not resort to gleeful uproars following said comment.

As in, let's not turn this:

I've temporarily banned Michael's account

Into a plethora of snarky/glee comments like "yay, finally" (contributing nothing but a lynch mob)

I could be wrong though, but that's how I understood it.
I think the main thing that hamstrung Object.observe was that observations were asynchronous (scheduled as a microtask). It made data flow very difficult to follow for developers (particularly when driven by data binding systems).
> There have been alternative managers like cgmanager [1] that lxc is bringing - which (surprisingly) work well with systemd as well...

Given that vezzy-fnord told you: [0]

> The kernel mandates a single [cgroup] writer.

you must have come to the understanding that the way cgmanager gets its work done on a systemd system is to pass control group management requests through to systemd's control group manager. Because the ultimate plan is to have a single CG manager, either cgmanager, or systemd's control group manager handles the CG management requests. There's no other way it can work. Because the systemd project is heavily vertically integrated, the odds that cgmanager uses its own CG manager are near-zero.

> you are correct - I had conflated the PID1 argument ... because as far as I stand.. it doesnt make a difference to me.

Yep. Your arguments and assertions have been almost exclusively soft and non-technical. Here's some advice: When people are making comments about technical topics, don't join in the conversation unless your level of understanding on the topic is just about as deep as that of those who are speaking. [1]

> Probably another reason not be scared of systemd ;)

Given the timestamp on this comment, it seems unlikely that you've not had the opportunity to read my reply [2] to one of your much earlier comments. Given that I lay out five solid non-fear-based arguments for why one might be worried about the systemd project, your assertion that I shouldn't be "scared of systemd" is extremely dismissive.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486471

[1] Unless -of course- you're joining the conversation to learn more about the topic. In that case, refrain from making uninformed assertions, ask clarifying questions about things you are unsure about, and make the limits of your knowledge clear up front.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10488921
Especially after looking into this: http://rosetta.alhur.es/compare/Ceylon/Kotlin/#
which another guy posted here, it's pretty clear that NOBODY wants ceylon.
Why? Syntax.
Scala, Kotlin are loved by many cause of one simple fact. Their syntax. Ceylon tries to do something very differntly, which many people won't like.

I mean lets look here:
variable value doors = [ for (_ in 1..count) closed ];
nobody even understands this. and this is the first "real" line.

then look at Kotlin:
val doors = Array<Boolean>(100, { false })
everybody will understand what it does, you don't even need to know kotlin.
Right. The issue is analogous to the shared foyer of a building (where you also often cannot transact with random non-residents).

You argue that people who currently have a right to their country (citizens) should abolish its borders and allow anyone to move in. Which would be like residents of a building allowing anyone into the shared space. The value of access to that shared space is what would be redistributed from residents to non-residents (leaving its depreciation in the process aside). The step from this intangible to more concrete wealth is minor, especially since, as you've pointed out, it has significant dollar value.
That is true, but the book does not just provide correlations.
Where did he set up a straw man? He's just saying that, given two alternatives, he would take one.

And I agree with him, there are so many nice bullshitters these days. Hell, most of these bullshitters seem worthless "professionals", while here we are talking about Linus.

Oh, and if you think politeness has anything to do with being inclusive... You should look at the real world. Lots of poor people wouldn't care about you being polite or not, they would care about you actually caring and helping them.
Yes, companies are made up of people, but people in groups do not act like people. A group is more than the sum of its parts. This is important to understand if you ever deal with groups of people in any way, shape or form.

Sure, you can hate on Tim Cook or whoever as much as you want, but will that change the behaviour of Apple as a company? Extremely unlikely. The responsibility of a CEO is towards the share holders (who only care about the profit). The responsibility of a manager is towards his superiors. Very few people in a company of this size have sufficient power to change this kind of behaviour and the (dis)incentives are simply (and demonstrably) not sufficient.

You can and should hold Apple the company, as well as the relevant decision makers personally accountable for this kind of behaviour. But if you expect them not to act like this, you're simply being naive.

Find a way to prevent this kind of behaviour in the future. Or at least make sure you're not supporting it. But boycotting evil corporations turns out to be nearly impossible considering how many evils are being committed by nearly all significant companies and how few companies can actually be called independent or untainted.

Be outraged. But don't be surprised. Unless you learn from this so the same thing won't surprise you if it happens again in the future.
Given your experience with the IPCC, what do you think of the new NOAA ERSST.v4 contradiction of the NOAA and UK satellite sea surface records? I know the satellite sea surface records are prone to levels of high inaccuracy, but ERSST.v4 seems to contradict every other record. Besides, the idea of getting usable data from sea lanes, of mixed water, from engine intakes seems.....unlikely.
They didn't respond to my application either.
How is it not honest publishing well researched sociology articles for example and splashing an ad or two (Adsense) somewhere on the page. Just an example.

These articles get picked up by teachers and professors for students to study via search engines.

How is it not honest?

These articles have no chance of being commercialized in current world. No one would buy them and person behind them has no means to market...no money, no knowledge in marketing...maybe that person is not interested in commercialization of his/her product and just wants to earn a buck or two for coffee on each article...

How is it not honest?

Please don't generalize and project your view onto others.
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