skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
look at Microsoft and apple both of their real winners were after the fact. Office and the ipod/iphone. Also, I think anything that makes money is a win. Not just unicorns. If YC wants export to the rest of the country it needs to shoot for more base hits. I think in SV people have already self selected to follow cray ideas. but the rest of the country if you want to get the best candidate show them something with the best odds of not failing.
At the same time (from the article):

47 U.S. Code § 333 - Willful or malicious interference

No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this chapter or operated by the United States Government.

This puts some responsibility on the LTE operator to not stomp on WiFi.
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In my view the crappiest part of software updating is that it is all-or-nothing. You have to take the bad if you want the good. Maybe I'd like to update my software so that I can get all the latest security patches and bug fixes, but I'd rather not have yet another UI re-design or a load of new features I will not use. Currently, for most software, if I want the fixes, I have to also swallow the features. Either upgrade to version 2.6 or stay on 2.5, you have no other alternatives. It would be great to be able to cherry-pick only the bits I want. Probably not an easy problem to solve, but it's a pain point for a lot of people.
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I wish there was a similar level and quality of resources for what I think are called lifestyle businesses. By that, I mean product-based businesses with at most a few million in revenue, a 5ish person team, a solid sustainable market position, and no desire to revolutionize any unicorns.

I know a lot of people attempting this and they mostly seem to be flying under the radar, or at least have nowhere near the cachet of a startup. They are often bootstrapped, frequently for lack of other options.

For those of us who don't want to be in the pressure cooker or are turned off by the hype machine, these businesses are a viable alternative route toward independence and possibly achieving a significant impact. The fact that they have become as attainable as they are is I think also something quite remarkable.
I'd suggest googling Godel's incompleteness theorem for starters. It proves that within any given system of rules there exist valid theorems that cannot be reached by only logical 'graph traversal' of the state space represented by that system. All systems of rules have 'islands of unreachable truth' within them. (My attempt at a summary.)

A lot of people maybe read too much into it, but it's a very interesting and profound theorem. Among other things it more or less proved that attempts to logically deduce all possible theorems of mathematics from axioms -- which were popular at the time -- are futile because this is impossible. It's related in some ways to the Church-Turing thesis, which also proved such efforts impossible by showing that the halting problem is not solvable... you could never enumerate all the theorems of mathematics because it's impossible to tell if you're done.
Yes, I first learned C programming on the Amiga, and it was a fun experience. Deference an invalid pointer and meet the Guru!

I remember installing a program on my later Amiga (a 3000 with a 68030/ MMU) that made the first page write only. This definitely improved stability...
Thanks for sharing - I knew there was something wrong about that statement from memory.
Now that it's made it to the front page, maybe it won't get posted again...
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I understand and respect their position too, and while I think it's probably a waste of time and effort, I think they're a little less misguided than the GPL group. I use both GPL and BSD tools every day, so I'm mostly indifferent.
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Indeed; "non-religious" doesn't imply atheism. Think of all the people who say, "I believe in God, but in a personal way--I am not religious".
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Which bank?
you're going to get downvoted and you'll think it's because you badmouthed a popular technology. It's not because of that, it's because you criticized something on a technical forum without giving any concrete reasons why said technology is bad.
By that, I mean product-based businesses with at most a few million in revenue, a 5ish person team, a solid sustainable market position, and no desire to revolutionize any unicorns.

I believe this used to just be called "a small business". Not a terribly new idea, but being rediscovered perhaps by tech people?
TlDr: Elite engineer doesn't want to see homeless people.

What a fucking doucebag.
This spurs my nostalgia for a short-lived startup satire blog called Dead 2.0 from 2007ish.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060826025403/http://www.dead20...
Human Genome patents are no longer recognized in the United States of America. https://www.genomeweb.com/clinical-genomics/us-supreme-court...
Well, per capita. And I would not discount frictionless payments.
But we aren't talking about just buying something, but consenting to the partial sell of your own information. Think of it like a child not being allowed to sell some object of great value they posses without parental approval because of how easily they can be misled about its value and uses.
It's pretty difficult to get software development to qualify for SR&D. The way it was explained to me by a consultant was to qualify there had to be technological risk of failure (i.e. it is unknown whether or not it is possible to do task X via software).

So your average SAAS startup doesn't face technological risk, even though they face lots of business risks (might not be able to hire good enough developers, might not be able to produce bug free app, etc).

However the first few companies using deep learning to do facial recognition from photos (eg. facebook automatic tagging)... well they would have faced technological risk. It wasn't known at the outset that deep learning would produce sufficient quality matches to be useful.

On the downside... big organizations that can pay big bucks for assistance with writing SR&D applications can qualify for S&RD. Several of the big Canadian banks have recovered considerable amounts. Which is pretty outrageous on the face of things... how much actual SR&D and technological risk is being faced in a banking environment? None that I've ever seen (well... except for one project I was involved in... but that was a trivial "lets try this and see if we can use shared record locks as activity signals for a job scheduler").

In a way scientific/technological risk is a bad measure for software R&D. In general there is very little technological risk, and what risk there is is generally tackled via prototyping and/or early testing. The meat of the development costs comes much later... and there's no gov't tax support for that at all.
China also has (hundreds of millions) of incredibly poor people who would like to live in one of these ghost cities. The problem is that all of these giant empty buildings cost money to build and the investors still want to get their money back.
Eric (a Virtualmin employee) has been experimenting with Let's Encrypt for some time, and, as I understand it it is possible to setup manually without any extra hoops imposed by Virtualmin (which is usually the case, as Virtualmin does things in a very standard way, by design). We have plans to include support in the very near future; not the next release, which is coming in a few days, but soon after.

Nothing should prevent you from setting it up manually, but it will be available easily in the near future, as well.

Edit: I just talked to Eric. The official client has historically required extremely new Python versions (newer than any Linux distro for servers ships with), but that's recently been fixed. I think Jamie was already working on implementing our own client, however, because of that problem, so we may end up shipping our own client. Regardless, it'll soon be supported by Virtualmin. We're as excited about it as anyone.
AR = augmented reality. You still see your own world and your own spoon and bowl. You can definitely have the view projected anchored in space above the physical things you interact with.
http://viliconsalley.com/2015/09/26/silicon-valley/10-things... I'd say yes
Office space has a direct line item on somebody's balance sheet. Productivity doesn't.
> It's not as he was CEO of LGBT organization or he was running for a public office. Mozilla is not a political organization, his opinions in this matter should make no difference whatsoever.

Mozilla is explicitly political. That's like their entire shtick: they want a more open web that respects user freedom and privacy. That's a political stance.

And Mozilla has LGBT employees. They'd like leadership that isn't going to make them feel unwelcome.
1 mostly aluminium Boeing 747 is worth the same as 200,000 tons of processed aluminium.

The US imbues large technological value to an otherwise raw product. You pay for their knowledge more than the raw product. The benefit the US enjoys is the marginal cost of another plane is much lower than the marginal cost of producing raw aluminium.
Maybe it is refusing to listen to people while presenting false binary choices that exclude the actual concerns.
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> deserializing malicious data was unsafe

Deserializing malicious Cap'n Proto messages is safe (barring some now security bug found in the implementation). Cap'n Proto RPC is explicitly designed to be used between mutually non-trusting parties.
Office was not the first word processor, Mac OS was inspired almost wholesale from Xerox Parc, the iPod was absolutely not the first mp3 player, and the iPhone was absolutely not the first --iPhone-- edit: smartphone (what a freudian slip!). These are all perfect examples of my point: these were all examples of these products that due to their incrementally better and thoughtful design, which included ease of integration into larger digital ecosystems, compatibility with other products, availability and cost won out in the market. Not a single one of those, however, was a first in kind, nor was it a monopoly. What drove those all to success was the absolute obsession of their developers and designers with making products that were a joy to use and fit seamlessly into larger operating ecosystems.
I read (or skimmed) most of the comments here first, before reading the article. The content of the article was not what I expected after reading the debate here about whether or not to just lock up "crazy"/homeless people.

I am currently homeless. I am not mentally ill. I am medically handicapped. I am very clear what I need. I need an income that does not keep me sick. I find it frustrating to read discussions of this sort.

I think a lot of people on the street would be far better off and face far fewer barriers to getting their life back together if there was dramatically less prejudice. Most homeless people are on the street because they have overwhelming personal problems that society does not have good solutions for, not because these individuals are incompetent. Even if you are extraordinarily competent and know exactly what you need and want in order to get your life functional again, the degree to which you face prejudice and people who are dismissive, disrespectful, and controlling makes it an uphill battle, much more so than I think it really needs to be.

The baseline difficulties are plenty hard on their own if you have certain conditions. But facing so much social stigma and often offered "help" of a sort that makes you want to scream "Please stop helping me!" while denied access to the kinds of help you actually need, that more middle class people can more readily access, sometimes just for asking because they don't face the same stigma and prejudice -- that alone is pretty crazy making. It usually does not go over well to try to comment on such frustrations. People want to see themselves as good and right and do not want to hear that they are making things harder and are behaving in a classist manner. I am often at a loss as to where can you talk about such things and have it be a productive discussion?

I think that really needs to change. If we can change that, then being homeless becomes less of a trap that seems nigh impossible to escape.
Ok, we changed the URL to that from https://github.com/ncase/neurons.
This is satire, for those of you thinking it's a real article.

I was on the fence about letting people imagine it's real, but I'll be a bubble burster.
Maybe Twitter should recharter as a Public Benefit Corporation?
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Cheapest flight is 448, in his favor rounded to 400/RT
Twice a week, 8x400=3200
I'm not taking another step, numbers are BS
Yeah, we stitched to a hosted solution.
Another question: would this also have the effect of banning "open source only" policies for government procurement?
The Ford F150, which is the best selling vehicle in America, switched to aluminum body panels this year.
"Gmail founder" sounds a little funny to me.

If I am employed as a developer in a company on a new product, am I then a founder of that product? It just seems like the word founder just keeps being used more liberally as time goes on.
You sound like someone who hasn't ever tried to hire people in Silicon Valley.
Who really won the Bush v. Gore election?
Also way more expensive.
Sometimes you can get better terms but where and when I was contracting they were pretty standard.
I seem to recall some Mozillian saying this wasn't intentional and explaining why, but I don't have the link.
The agreement is, as you say, between governments, not between the hundreds of millions of citizens they govern, and was negotiated in secret. So, as a whole, it may be good for "the parties involved", but I would suggest that it is absolutely right for any citizen to criticise any part of this they want to, as vociferously as they desire.

You could equally make the opposite point: In something this large there will be points that are good, but that doesn't mean that the TPP as a whole isn't bad for the average citizen.
Human Genome patents are no longer recognized in the US[0], but my understanding is that they were used to protect genetic tests and treatments. For example, Myriad Genomics held patents against the BRCA genes (which can indicate breast cancer risk) which they used to prevent competitors from creating BRCA-based panels.

[0]: https://www.genomeweb.com/clinical-genomics/us-supreme-court...
Wow. Sounds grandiose but this is an epic piece of writing by one of the smartest guys in the field.

Required reading.
The "free exchange of ideas" like "I gave money to people that think you're subhuman?" (Hardly an exaggeration either. The ads from the group Eich directly supported are still available on youtube, and are downright disgusting.)

Let's not mince words here. This was never about "speech", this was about action, and his complete unwillingness to own up to that action. For a CEO, that's a pretty big failure of leadership.
When you have millions of customers, you start running into the limits of private IPv4 address space. Before deploying IPv6, T-Mobile was using 25.0.0.0/8 (assigned to the UK Ministry of Defence) for the internal side of their IPv4 NAT.
> 3 security questions

Why are these still a thing? Is it regulations or something?
so it might make it impossible for a court (a govt entity) from enforcing the GPL
Since when does clickbait end up on the front page of HN?
Reddit comments are owned by their owners, no (at least, that's how copyright works in the USA)?

How do undelete sites fly under the radar? Is it just that no one has been effected enough yet to warrant the hammer? It appears decomment.com is hosted on OVH servers in the EU (France possibly?). Aren't they keen on their "right to be forgotten" law?
http://www.isb-sib.ch/fp/people_search.php?cn=jerven%20tjall...
I'm showing 259KB in linux, 259KB in OSX, and 253KB in windows.
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I'm just trying to get all of this "package management" sorted out. So could anyone please comment.

Guix is a package manager that is currently limited at 2619 packages [1]

NixOS is a GNU/Linux distro which uses the Nix package manager (makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments) and currently provides 11630 packages [2]

Ansible/Chef/Puppet is a package manager oriented at deployment at multiple nodes, which works with multiple GNU/Linux distros.

Vagrant is a package manager. A wrapper around Ansible/Chef/Puppet.

My understanding is that I can fix all problems with NixOS, with the caveat that I'm limited to NixOS, so I can't Nix on a Debian or Ubuntu or Redhat.

Assuming the adoption of NixOS isn't a constraint, why should I bother to learn Ansible/Chef/Puppet and Vagrant?

And if Ansible/Chef/Puppet are still worth learning (and please comment why) besides NixOS, is there any reason to learn Vagrant as well?

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/

[2] https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html
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My impression is that anything related to YCombinator gets huge upvote bias.
When decisions are irreversibly taken that will bind the future of citizens without their consents it has to be named by its real name: autoritarism.

Technocracy boils down to aristocracy by diploma (eventually related to birth) instead of pure aristocracy. Still, the people of the nations should be the one edicting the laws. And if we mandate people to do laws in our name it is not acceptable that our consent is not sought by debating.

Modern so called democracies are only democracies by name in this case.

I might not the only one thinking that governments are losing their legitimacy. I am apt for being called under the flag and in case my government call me to defend their values/regim... I will not.

The social contract has been broken between modern governments and citizens. The social contract does not bind me anymore since the other party is not respecting the term of the contract.
SR&ED can work very well for its intended audience. Most of the really vocal complaints I've heard were from people and companies that really shouldn't have applied in the first place.

However, I agree that there is confusion and external pressure to apply which doesn't help things at all.

Most startups, don't do this sort of R&D at all (or hardly at all).
Apple is mapping the inside of buildings w secret app – so is Google
And it should also be noted that what the US is moving toward is legalization (eliminating some or all prohibitions on drugs and
making them not contraband, though there may be restrictions as with other legal medical drugs or recreational substances), not decriminalization (eliminating criminal penalties for small-quantity possession while maintaining the general prohibition such that the drug is still contraband.) While decriminalization has happened somewhere, state-level legalization of either medical use (making it, from a state perspective, analogous to other legal medical drugs, except with an ad hoc regulatory regime because it is still federally prohibited which prevents it from working with existing protocols for medical drugs) or more generally (making it more like, e.g., alcohol, with the same caveat) and there are currently-active proposals at the federal level for both medical and general legalization.
So in order to fix the annoyance of push updates introducing unwanted or unusable functionality, his proposal is that push updates should also disable the device until accepted by the user?

Not quite clear on how that's an improvement
Very little information on the site -- how does this work? Presumably by storing the contents of every Reddit comment made since Decomment's creation and serving them up on demand? I imagine once you delete a comment on Reddit it's no longer available via the API or by scraping the site, but I was hoping something more interesting was going on than just storing comments in a separate database before they are deleted.
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I'm sure there is, I like the story behind the code on this page:

http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/7800/games/

these games were rescued from Atari ST format diskettes that were thrown out behind 1196 Borregas when Atari closed up in 1996.
TCO doesn't address unpredictable system load or execution time. Recursion doesn't lead to predictable systems.
Thanks! Will look into the CFA level 1 material as well.
I have some basic hold on accounting concepts, have prepared financial projections for large projects in the past and also can read and understand most parts of company annual reports and financials.
Also could you please extrapolate a little on "materials from the exchanges and articles", does it mean routine publications/periodicals and white-papers sort of material? It would be really great if you could just point me to any one of the example source of these.
if they have, it's probably on 720p, since no mediasource is supported yet.
Yes. At the risk of over-explaining: I meant my comment as a sideways remark that Hacker News is full of hackers, many of whom believe a cool program is its own reward, whether it's needed commercially or not. I did not mean to disparage the question or the questioner.
Ha, it's amazing to see a Leo Strauss reference in a HN thread! I majored in Political Theory at Michigan State, and the department was full of Straussians. Worlds colliding.
Allan Bloom was lamenting this more than 25 years ago, when college was already not like it used to be:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mi...
We collectively just don't know. Not even in the cutting edge literature. Humanity, only has a basic understanding of what the biochemical role of many proteins is, and due too that also a similar idea of what the genes role is in the rather complicated system of making a functioning human.

Bandwidth and storage are infrastructure issues that could be solved with enough money. In biology we are still lacking good technical solutions to do the chemistry and even something "simple" like getting a protein crystalized so we can determine its 3D structure is not trivial or cheap yet.

Fast genome and RNA sequencing are massive improvements and really help. But the basic understanding of what all those genes, regulatory and other parts do is still relatively primitive.

We often "complain" that we wish that people stopped sequencing and went back to do more biochemistry for functional characterization instead ;)
For your second question boils down to "item sharing" versus "vault sharing".

Item sharing is more flexible than vault sharing, but it requires more work to see who has access to what. It also involves many more public key operations. And it makes things more complicated in finding efficient ways of actually getting things to the right individuals.

But as things develop we may switch to something more in line with what you suggest.
Thanks for the references!
The idea to follow the texts and readings from one of these courses seem to be a good idea. Will read up on that.