skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that's exactly what Internet.org and Free Basics is. Transparently so. FB has 1.5 billion users in a world with 7.3 billion people. It's not an exaggeration to say that pretty much everyone 13 and up with an Internet connection that wants a Facebook account, has one. That means that the only way you can grow your user base is to increase the number of people with an Internet connection.

Zuck and Facebook do bill Free Basics as a charity, but yet, they're not giving the Internet, they're giving poor people what Zuckerberg wants. They're not hooking up Twitter are they? They say it's because of "agreements", but really it comes down to the fact that they are paying the telcoms money, and they want an audience for their ads. Now that's not immoral, but it's not a charity, so don't expect people to say how great and benevolent they are. Now FB could pay for the real Internet, but they don't, because they're not a charity. It's this mismatch between rhetoric and actions that really pisses people off.

We saw this before when Google first started operating in China. The Google Triumvirate said, "Hey, isn't some Internet better than no Internet?" (The exact same argument that Zuck is making today.) Of course, the Chinese had Baidu at the time, and Baidu actually worked better for Chinese language search than Google as well. The real reason Google wanted in China wasn't to spread knowledge, but rather to get access to the 1.4 billion potential users, because pretty much everyone with an Internet connection outside of China already used Google.
Not really. So far the use cases have become wider rather than simpler, and we've simply found use for that extra power. You need a pretty powerful machine just to watch 4K video, and to fill up that gigabit pipe. And if you want to play modern games you need to get a very powerful one.
Do people with other android version or the phone make face the same issue while using this email id ?
Actually not at all similar to US charter schools.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-ame...
Didn't think about that, good idea as a small extension!

But I don't think, a video codec would work. Or maybe just with very few points/triangles. Depending on the point-selection (equally distributed is a lot faster!) it takes some time between 50s to 5 minutes for a triangulation of about 4000 Points.

For just a few hundred it could work, but I don't think it's good enough for real-time.

(Displaying is no concern. You can render thousands of triangles in real-time)
I am talking about HN black bar and the HN mods , his last tweets are publicly known now.
Well, the risk comes when you don't have a strong footing for your suit. And I think that's the philosophy behind "loser pays".

As I'm thinking about it, one of the other big benefits is at-risk speculation. Say I'm a small fish with a few hardware patents and I'm pretty sure Honeywell is infringing on them.

Currently, I need to ask my good-for-what-I-can-afford attorney to have a look at it, then debate whether I have the cash on hand to take the suit, and figure out the economics of sustaining my business while I try to seek damages from Honeywell's wanton disregard for my IP. I have to do all this because I'll likely have to pay as I go unless I have a slam-dunk case, and even then, a lot of my winnings would go to the attorney if they'd foregone payment until verdict.

In a loser pays system, there's a greater guarantee of payment if they win -- so it can be beneficial when the possible case looks good on the surface, to do some at risk research to determine its real viability. I can take that case, then, to a larger or more experienced firm because the economics of the win are advantageous to them. Hypothetically, it could help in that second way to level the pitch for the "underdog."

As well, knowing I can take my case (or defense) to a larger firm who would be better protected from loss in an at-risk or deferred payment agreement, means that larger corporations will necessarily be dissuaded from the more frivolous or speculative suits they're wont to bring. Even for corporations with large litigation coffers, running a negative balance sheet will get a firm or legal team replaced.
Thanks. I'll have to read more about tax incidence.

But naively speaking, what's the incentive for a corporation to increase employee pay in this scenario rather than just maximize shareholder value?
I suppose because it is a meta question where any discussion doesn't have any value.

We already know that many HNers are in favor of a black bar. It doesn't matter if there are hundreds or thousands.

Just ask hn@ycombinator.com. They are the only ones to decide on this, and they already know about that request.

What could a Ask HN thread possibly do?
Firing a group of people makes the remaining people have some fear they will get fired too. This might be a tactic to get even more labor out of the remaining employees.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10815442 and marked it off-topic.
Interesting definition. Do you mind telling me where you got it from? Personally, I prefer these dictionary definitions of the word faith:

Dictionary.com: Belief that is not based on proof; e.g. "He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact."

TheFreeDictionary.com: Confident or unquestioning belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.

MerriamWebster.com: Strong belief or trust in someone or something.

So, since science is admittedly fallible, since we don't know everything, and since we often times don't have proof, wouldn't you say that our leaping to conclusions based on incomplete information, regardless of how strong or accurate that partial information is, is faith, according to the definition of the word?

The scientific method is a tool for discovery and obtaining knowledge, and it often times isn't a very good tool due to our limitations. Faith is another tool, and we use it every day. We get up in the morning and go to jobs we don't like because we have faith that, come Friday, we'll get a paycheck. We spend a lot of time and money going to college because we have faith it will result in more knowledge, a better job, etc. We employ the scientific method because we have faith that it will increase our understanding of the world around us. Faith is a principle of action. Too many people mock faith as being a passive, religious concept and mistakenly define it as you have, and then go on to hypocritically embrace faith under the guise of science, I think.
Why not give market solutions a chance?

Because "market solutions" demonstrably fail in the presence of externalities, esp. for public goods.

Besides market equilibria are provably intractable in the general case anyway... (Unless P = NP, that is).
What an absolutely ridiculous comment.

Yes, some friend/acquaintance could have paid him a visit. How big do you think the chances are that HN would be the channel that would alert a friend or acquaintance of Ian that would not already be aware of this through his twitter feed?

> But dang's comfort is more important, isn't it?

No, it obviously isn't but he made the right call in shutting down that thread and it looks to me as if you're trying to blame Dan for the death of Ian, which is utterly reprehensible. As I wrote above there is no way to do this right but with hindsight you too would have known what to do.

Fucking backseat drivers. I've been thinking really hard lately about why I feel that HN is no longer the nice place it used to be and it is comments like these that ram that home in a way that not much else ever could.
ARP provided an exceedingly tiny set of additional APIs. It's not in any way a replacement for AmigaOS. AROS is closer, but while it's vastly superior in some aspects (not least: it runs on pretty much every modern platform you might care about in some form or other - either native, or hosted under Linux or other), it's also still not a complete replacement in others.
thats not /need/ its /want/.

i'm also not sure i believe you that self contained executables are massively easier to deploy in most cases where the end user is involved. normally they want minimal interaction - if it makes a difference to them how many files it is, then you are doing something even more wrong in how you expect users to deploy - for most users on most platforms it should be an installer or via some app store - possibly both.

if you are targeting a very specific type of user then you might well be right, but thats not obvious at all.

i asked about the case for n blobs of data because it is unclear where the symbol names come from in your example, and changing them after the fact is not something i would expect people to work out for themselves...
You mean like interpolating the colors from each vertex?

Yes, it's possible and quite easy to do so :)

I make a list of things to do - Homeworld 2 is on it ;)
It may be hard to correctly anticipate what impact this breakthrough will have, but i get the sense that this combine with quantum computing could change our future pretty quickly. I feel excited about it and frightened at the same time ...
Yes, some drivers may make a lot of money by Uber. However, in some countries/ region, drivers complain they need to work so hard to get an order. They need to stay alert 24/7 since the competition is keen. The order can be taken within 1 second in some region. Not all of them can make money through Uber.
This is not about inevitability and immortality of monopolies, but their likelihood and the detrimental effects they bring on while they exists. Both can be pretty high in some domains, so it is worthwhile to think about it, to me.
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Felt like I heard the Facebook/AOL comparison before... turns out it pops up in a lot of places:

Kottke, 2007:
http://www.kottke.org/07/06/facebook-is-the-new-aol

Marketing tech blog, 2009:
https://www.marketingtechblog.com/facebook-is-the-new-aol/

Stowe Boyd, 2010:
http://stoweboyd.com/post/7928792532/the-decline-and-fall-of...

PC Mag, 2010:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372729,00.asp

The Verge, 2015: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/4/7488495/facebook-is-the-new...

NY Mag, 2015:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/facebook-is-the...
It's a distinction without a difference. Either way, you need to stop immigration or bar immigrants from employment to stop the process.
This is probably one of the theory vs. practice issues. While I admit that the article is mostly correct then again, in practice, I haven't had much trouble with Linux in the 00's and 10's while using Debian based distributions exclusively.

Surely I am not immune to the shortcomings of Linux but I don't remember having had to tweak my system as part of routine maintenance for... years. This was commonplace in the 90's. Merely upgrading or changing your X setup required tweaking configuration files, setting modelines and whatnot. I don't even know where the X configuration files live anymore. While the foundation is shallow, things generally work to the extent that I don't have to do "maintenance" on my Linux computers. Even external displays seem to work mostly just fine when presenting.

I haven't missed binary compatibility once: the distros compile everything anyway when libraries update. Compared to clinging to the cruft that makes 30 year old Windows programs work in Windows 10, I feel I'm better off with Linux even if I have to kill pulseaudio a couple of times each year and there's a slight chance that one of my laptops won't resume after suspend if it's unplugged.

I'm not saying that these Linux problems aren't problems. They exist and when they hit you, it hurts like hell. But my point is that Linux is imperfect as is the real world and people just tend to work around imperfections, again, like in the real world. So, mostly things work 5x better than 10 years ago and 50x better than 20 years ago.
Yeah, but those don't usually ask for $50k to do it, and then badmouth the ircd project.
In his book The God Delusion, Dawkins creates a 1 to 7 point scale where 1 = I know God exists, and 7 = I know God doesn't exist. It his book, I believe he placed himself at a 6 on his scale, but later, in a debate at Oxford University, he declared himself a 6.9.
Buzzfeed is a credible news source. It just so happens that they are, so far, the only news outlet to become profitable online, mainly through content for which they have been stigmatized and which you seem to be criticizing. That being said, as the only profitable online news outlet, they have started to build up a rather high-quality long-form journalism team, of which this article is a product. It seems as though clickbait and low-quality content are the unfortunate price modern news companies must pay to make money online in the 21st century. I wouldn't be surprised if Buzzfeed becomes the dominant online news source in the next 10 years, both of trash and real journalism.
India should do what Romania did: nothing. Deregulate all telecommunications and create a free for all. They'll have the fastest internet and the cheapest phone system with a couple of yours. It's not as if Indians aren't as much or even more entrepreneurial than Romania (which still has a head start over the neighboring countries because of this).

Corruption will likely not tolerate such a free market without getting a slice of the pie, that's the biggest stumbling block.
Because haskell is almost a platform for discussing and implementing FP concepts. Especially if you want type system. (Not sure how much is ML discussed these days)

Erland on the other hand, is targeted on soft-real-time distributed systems. How was the quote? "Every soft-realtime highly availabe distributed system contains informally specified, incomplete and bug ridden implementation of erlang." Or something like that.
I got an offer from a late-stage (not sure if that's the right term, but they had a shipping product) non-public startup that included 10,000 stock options. That sounded like a lot, but I had problems evaluating that number without knowing the shares outstanding. I asked for that figure, and was told it was privileged and confidential.

I decided to value the options at $0, and instead think of them like a non-monetary perk: "free lotto ticket Wednesday". I ended up turning down the offer.

Was that experience normal? Did I have a right to know the shares outstanding?
yes, and even if they weren't, i'm pretty convinced that they would work faster and harder too.
(Tedious disclaimer: not speaking for anybody else, my opinion only, etc. I'm an SRE at Google.)

> It's a pity there's no way to report bugs like this to Google.

This is a popular myth.

General instructions are here: https://www.google.com/tools/feedback/intl/en/

In this particular case, it's an android app, so what you do is tap on the hamburger menu, hit "help and feedback", then "send feedback".
Android multi-output logger
English translation?
I have always just asked this one simple question:

- What is the price per share at current valuation?

I don't think it's has to be that complicated...
Very nice!

No problem with C or C++ (I am mainly working in C for OpenGL stuff for years).

I chose Python because I wanted to concentrate on the algorithm (didn't know, if there were obstacles along the way...). So in Python I could just go for executable pseudo-code :)
I've read some of the surrounding discussion, and the Android-x86 lead (Chih-Wei) very clearly laid out events from his point of view on 12 Dec:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-x86/qkWG2TwVBq...

Chih-Wei Huang wrote:

Christopher Price continues cheating his backers
and all others that "his team" is developing an OS which
is much better than other competitors (including android-x86):

http://consoleos.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/COS-competitive-061214-003.png

However, one year and a half later, the guy just
copied and renamed android-x86 and then claimed this
is his amazing OS!

All the developers of android-x86 including me
have spent many sleepless nights to code,
test and debug android-x86 to make it better,
but this guy just copied it to deceive his backers.
The dishonest actions do hurt the android-x86
community very much.

...

However, cheating the world that he is developing
something amazing on Kickstart in 2014
but finally just copied an open source project that
he degraded at first (see the competitive chart on his
site) is very immoral.

A commenter on Reddit guesses (probably correctly) that Chris Price is just using the KS money to create demand to get interest from companies who might join his project. It's obvious that $78k isn't going to get you much of a prototype, though it can get you swag & marketing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3yslc1/androidx86_...

samandiriel wrote:

So... I would say that what the kickstarter was really for was to get capital for Price/MMV to woo companies by putting together marketing tools and some kind of proof of concept release, who would then put in the code and talent required to make ConsoleOS actually happen for the Kickstarter backers (assuming the proof of concept release wasn't good enough to meet the advertised feature set, which appears to be the case).

Perhaps originally Price thought he could just throw the IA stuff to some cheap contracted sweatshop coders and get the product to the finish line that way and then get hardware manufacturers to license it, but that died when Intel axed IA.

What it seems to boil down to is that MMV is trying to leverage the open source model to create a product they can sell to hardware manufacturers, using seed money to obtained by way of Kickstarter for marketing and extremely half assed attempts to sort of weirdly co-opt other projects such as IA and x86 and then somehow persuade coders to donate their time and energy to do all the actual work for them (which is what 'open sourcing ConsoleOS' appears to connote).
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I agree, but at the very least please explain the policy here. Even if it is what HN feels is right just tell us what the policy is.
"I don't work with math-heavy domains, so I don't need heavy math (type system) to write my programs."

I don't think you know what you're missing.

Type systems can be used to enforce pretty arbitrary things. Representation of data can be handled fairly well automatically, so types describing representation are only marginally useful (mostly where we care about interchange or care a lot about performance). However, if you make your types domain relevant, they can help you with domain relevant things. This can be simple - "I don't want to pass a bid price where I expected an ask price" - or it can be surprisingly sophisticated; I was able to ensure that certain actions were only taken on the correct threads, checked at compile time, in C - this helped me tremendously in refactoring when I discovered some piece of logic needed to live somewhere else. I really can't imagine doing that work without type checks, and it wasn't the slightest big "math heavy".
Or make business owners pay legal immigrants and residents the same fair wage and give them the same conditions so there's no longer an incentive to choose one over the other.

As for illegal immigrants, any business that employs them should be fined the value of the wages they saved, so again there's no incentive to employ them.

All of this comes down to business owners screwing over residents to save a few bucks. It's not the fault of immigrants.
I don't think you understand what at-will means. They can fire the employee for no reason at all, alcoholism or not.
Putting Facebook in the same category as Rotary, NGOs, research institutes and the remaining long list you mention cannot be a more flawed analogy.

In any case, you seem to be missing the bigger point here - it's not about whether FB is promoting this today for maximizing profit or not, it's about promoting the re-modelling of the internet where information flow is controlled by FB.
The linker trick has a problem. It doesn't set the non-executable stack bit, so as a result your whole binary will have an executable stack, and therefore be insecure against various stack smashing exploits.

Try running 'readelf -S blob.o' and you won't see any '.note.GNU-stack' in the output.

If you go via a C source file compiled with gcc (or clang), then the compiler sets the bit properly.

Edit: Also I tried to add a comment to the original posting to warn them, but blogger just eats my comment.
Even when the maths is simple, few people seem to do the maths. The number of reasonably bright friends I have who say "I've got some equity, so if it goes big I'll make great money", but haven't actually sat down and calculated that "great money" is a one-off £50k astounds me.
You clearly haven't seen the regex that matches emails according to RFC822:

Behold: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
remix os x86 seems better than this console os thing, which is free, base on android x86 as well, but much better UX
http://www.jide.com/x86
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Hmmm, Google, etc had that lawsuit awhile back? And the h-1b mass hire/fire stuff at various companies for tech workers?

It's not a narrative when you have multiple major employers in an industry successfully sued for it.
I don't get why Zuckerberg's or Facebook's intentions are even relevant.

It's a fairly simple question. If Free Basics, which violates net neutrality (Facebook has never denied this, instead responding by saying that poor people internet is more important than net neutrality) is allowed, then every ISP in India will have the legal ability to violate net neutrality.

Indian providers are already terrible, and will almost certainly abuse their powers to have both website providers, and customers, pay more to access services. They will be providing different packages with the lowest tier only giving Facebook access, the next one adding Bing, etc...

What we know as the internet, and the best parts of the internet, which allowed companies like Facebook and Google to flourish in the first place, cannot exist without net neutrality. Allowing Free Basics is essentially India kissing the internet good bye, in favor of AOL style walled gardens. Admittedly, there will be a wide variety of walled gardens to choose from, and some of them may even allow you to talk to your friend in a different walled garden.

But the internet won't exist anymore.
In illumos distributions, we have elfwrap for this:

http://illumos.org/man/1/elfwrap
What will it be: “.MOTORCYLES” or “.MOTO” domain names?
This covers a lot of the more important things -- certainly to the individual. But one thing that you need to keep in mind in terms of predicting the actual value of the options, which is outlined in the "More ambitious questions" section is things like overhanging liquidation preferences, participation rights, downside protection for investors, etc. Ask these questions.
You did the right thing. The situation is analogous to someone telling you the numerical amount of your proposed salary, but not telling you the currency and/or frequency. You don't have a right to know the details, but without the details it's hard to evaluate them as worth more than 0.