skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Take that guarantee away, and someone could design a reputation currency where participants could reject payments from disreputable participants. In which case accumulation of units does not imply the long-term ability to use them; instead, there will be a long-term incentive for participants to maintain a good reputation.

+1, considering that the empowerment of individuals to issue the currency themselves creates a trust graph that should be enough to mitigate many of the downsides he brings up. Here's my attempt at social, reputation cryptocurrency (but it's currently being rewritten from scratch): https://github.com/sunny-g/whuffie/blob/master/ABOUT.md
Ahh, a trip down memory lane. That's how my passion for programming started, on an HC computer. Those were the days when you could boot up right into BASIC.
Unless you're SES, in which case the remaining 2nd stage stuff is pretty important.
"persistent" up to 10,000 messages per team.
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It's a huge practical improvement over IRC. The integrations are turn-key for most things, very powerful, and deep search integration, so it can become your one-stop shop for things. It realistically has the possibility to replace Dropbox and email for internal collaboration. The channels, groups, and notifications preferences make it possible to structure your team for maximum signal to noise across both desktop and mobile.

Saying that Slack is "just another chat client" is sort of like all the old arguments about how much more powerful PCs were than Macs because they have more features—it's ignoring the value of design and conceptual elegance, and the real impact that has on UX and productivity.
I don't know why Slack is seen as a first mover; Hipchat, Flowdock, etc all existed beforehand. Slack seems to have raced ahead by ramping up marketing and not just focussing on B2B sales.

In terms of tech I actually see Slack as behind in the default product (no threaded conversations >_<), but maybe the ecosystem they're trying to foster will actually be useful or maybe the money they've spent on marketing will be irrelevant and they will collapse due to overfunding.
For 5), 89 modulo 77 is 12 so we just solve for the least m such that (m + 3) * (m + 4) (= mm + 7m + 12) is divisible by 77. Both 73 and 74 clearly satisfy the condition, but 18 + 3 = 21 divisible by 7 and 18 + 4 = 22 divisible by 11 is the least among the choices.
Keep in mind that the acquisition value is not just the code. There's also the brand, the userbase, the engineers, and not having to actually do it themselves.
I think the restrictions on linking are the primary objection people have, and I guess also the patent stuff in v3. I would like to see a license that is weaker than LGPL (static linking allowed) and stronger than BSD. (For example, some projects are licensed as GPL+linking exception.) Basically, I'd like a license that said distributed modifications to the source code for this project must be open, but everything else is a free-for-all.
This is why I wish I could ask comments about books without going to Stack Overflow. Is there a publishing system that allows you to put up a work as it is being produced and solicit input from people on what they find unclear?
I'm curious how you are organizing your data. Do you have one file per account (checking, credit card) or is it all in one big file? I've looked at ledger a few times and get a little overwhelmed, part of it though is because Quicken is so easy since it downloads everything.
> AWS & GCE

that's because they have plenty of v4 space, which is now a competitive advantage. have you tried to get even a /24 lately? pay up, sucker. bitspace is now a market with exponential returns.

it's the ultimate barrier to entry. the faster they move on it, the less of a barrier it will be to the competition. so why should they?

welcome to the new microsoft. except this time, we're all eating it up and loving it for some reason (that's another post...)
> it wasn't until reading this essay I realised how much contempt he had for the concept.

That's because he didn't. Cory published DaOitMK in 2003, meaning it was in the publisher's pipeline in 2002 and written probably 2000-2001. This essay was published in 2016. He's had 15 years of cumulative experiences upon the basis of which to change his opinion on reputation economies -- is it surprising that he's done so?

(Similarly: I disagree violently with the Charlie Stross who wrote Accelerando, circa 1998-2004, on the subject of the singularity. But hey, it's been close to 20 years; younger Charlie had less data and experience to go on, is all.)

((Disclaimer: I have no insight into Cory's mind on this topic other than that which comes from having known him for about 15 years and written a book with him.))
The effort for MSYS2 and Git-4-Windows should be merged as one project.
To compete in a global marketplace with no barrier to entry it's not enough to simply ship software. Apps are commodities. You've got to create something with unique value. Probably that means doing something technically difficult or new.
Great prototyping app: http://apex.oracle.com

http://santiago-north.weebly.com/complete-web-apps-part-4.ht...
Neither are the vast majority of casino gamblers, I'd imagine. They don't go to Vegas solely to gamble all the time, but Vegas casinos try their best to get them to gamble while they're there. It's all about impulse manipulation and getting them hooked.

(Of course, casinos also have their whales, as do Zynga-style games.)
Gitbook. I've used it for two small (unpublished) books.

https://www.gitbook.com/

E:

I may have misparsed your question, upon re-reading it and had an overly liberal understanding of "solicit feedback". Apologies in advance if my answer isn't quite up the alley you were looking for.
Yes.
It would have.
Edit: seems that I'm wrong. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#InternalDistributio...

IGNORE WHAT'S BELOW. IT'S INCORRECT.

Well, IANAL, but, I believe, technically, such modifications still have to be under GPL-compatible license (or organization is violating original authors' rights). I.e. anyone within the organization, who had used the software, must be granted all the freedoms GPL requires to be granted. Whenever organization members actually exercise those rights are up to them, of course.

I don't think it's a bad thing. It's only fair - if your business relies on proprietary sauce that you really want to keep secret - some may still consider helping you (and they use BSD, MIT or LGPL) while some may not want it this way (and use GPL or AGPL).
Which takes time to set up, whereas it's already done for you in Slack.
As someone who is a curious outsider to the whole bitcoin thing, the more I read all the bickering, the more I think "I'm going to stay away until they've got things figured out". After all, I'd be getting in to use the technology, rather than attempt speculate on its value.
In reality buyer has 3 layers of protection you can not do this and profit from it unless buyer is too lazy to click
a few checkboxes on a form.
Nothing beats the -Ovlad optimization level :)
"Skype for Business" has some of the worst UX I have ever seen.
It will happen. I have both a DSL and a FTTH connection and both are dual stack already. When disabling IPv4 (on my CPE) most major sites are OK (Google, Facebook, Youtube). So from a consumer perspective the change will be less noticeable (DNS takes care of that). Security however is a different aspect: this could be a potential nightmare with lots of devices directly connected to the internet. Besides the security aspects, for ISPs (where I work) there are quite a lot of changes (main router vendors that are not ready yet, provisioning systems that are not ready, CPE's etc.) so the real work and part of the reason why adoption is slow, lies there.

All that being said: it's about time Hacker News itself becomes IPv6 ready!
There's been a couple of really deep articles recently on reputation economies and how they interact with conventional economies:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/02/11/minimum-viable-superorg...

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/03/03/inequalities
Before reading this comment I thought the strikethrough numbers on the homepage indicated the team got it. I wonder if anyone else thought the same. I'm also red/green colorblind though...
Very interesting. Mint must of been making, a um, mint for inuit. I was always skeptical it was a big money maker for them. This move tells me it is far more profitable.
I dunno, $8b can buy quite a bit of innovation for your next company.
Juniper sells hardware with support demands far beyond that of Arduino, and yet somehow maintains a productive downstream relationship with FreeBSD.

It's telling that Arduino is flailing now that they've extracted as much value as they possibly could out of the ideas they stole.
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US drones already do lots of pre-crime targeting [1]

1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/civilian-deaths-drone-st...
That's like saying if you compile C++ to Intel x86 assembler, you're still programming in assembler. JavaScript is the "assembly language" of the web; compiling (transpiling) to it is not directly programming in it.

Now, you're half-right in that you may occasionally need to drop into JavaScript to do some "low level" things. This is no different from C++, where you may occasionally need to drop into x86 assembler to do some low level things, such as local speed optimization, or hitting memory-mapped registers.

In both cases, you're programming at a higher level using safer and more sophisticated abstractions.
One of the things I like best about Hipchat is that a person who joins the team 5 years later can search back through the history of the chat room forever. Hipchat has acted as an accidental knowledge base for me so many times that eternally persistent chat is now a requirement for anything I recommend. It's possible Lync does this and the implementation I'm using today just isn't configured to be useful in this way. Also, the fact that you can't message Lync users who are not currently online is a big non-starter for me. I've never used Slack, so I can't compare it.

It may be relevant that I often work on remote teams. I can't just say aloud, "Hey, anybody know about foo?" In a Lync world I have to individually message one person at a time and await their response or open a chat with everyone which will go away almost immediately after the question is asked. And generally once people have said their no they close the window, the helpful response will not be viewed by most of the team.
Living in your investment is a bit like having your 401K funds invested in your employer: If something goes wrong, you're doubly-screwed.
I think this is wrong, distributing within an organization is not considered distribution under the GPL.
With the exception of “discard” (on port 9), of course.
No, Mint isn't even reported in Intuit public earnings reports because its contribution is so small it's not material to overall earnings
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For software, create a plan to build what you'd normally code... preferably, something you want. Figure out how to sell it, how long it would take to build (time === money), the business model required including marketing plan to reach profitability, and whatever else you need to launch it. Then build a 10-20 slide deck with a designer about the idea (not a prototype), learn how to present it (don't waste it coding, let others do that in the future) and start pitching at least once or twice during those 2 weeks.

In the end, I hope you'll become a successful technical CEO and great company because you've learned a lot more than an API or two.
They need a bigger barge with more powerful station-keeping, and a dynamically stabilized hydraulic landing platform. (Along with a gimbal-stabilized uplink dish.)
Possibly, LGPL or MPL?

You can link it with whatever proprietary code you want, but keep the LGPL library free. As long as you don't want to link LGPL-licensed library statically, it's quite simple to comply with license terms.

There's also MPL (v2), that's weaker than LGPL, roughly operates on file-level (rather than LGPL's library-level).
What makes you think that? Everything I've heard suggests that Mint is very far from profitable.
>Over 100 ships did this between late October 2015 and the end of the year.

That's somewhere between 1 and 1.5 ships a day, which is between 2-3% of daily entrance figures. That's certainly not nothing.
I found the presentation on Vitess to be informative regarding this. You basically do it via sharding and anti-affinity with reasonable restore times to pull from backup and get back in replication chain.
These wars and "plots" happened before the US even existed. Did the Americans time travel in order to create them or what am I missing here? How do you think religion spread in the past, peaceful missionaries?
Did I see video footage of inside the fuel tank?
While I'm sure there are a number of people who are really interested in the SES-9 success, I was really hoping to see a water landing. I continue to be amazed at how difficult it appears to be to get a reliable signal from an unmanned boat out in the Atlantic back to land.
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It does for the publishers of the games, that still own the rights on the ROMs. Now they can package them with MAME and relatively easy bring out a PC port.
That depends on the specifics. The fastest implementation of most integer instructions use constant time.

Constant power and EM depend on some extra factors, but when there is variance, it is normally very small (a transistor or two not switching for each bit of difference).
After all that's what they're getting paid for. They can crash a dozen more stage 1's and they're still making money. If only other startups worked that way.
Pretty sure it was actually the LOX tank. But yes.
Abba?
It's also the case that, by the time there was a problem, RS was so heavily invested in real estate that it would have hard to have shifted gears. Even today, "maker spaces" are mostly pretty informal and don't exist in suburban shopping malls.

And, honestly, why should one care about "saving" RS if there are spiritual successors that are a better match for what people are looking for today? Why deal with the costs of a legacy company?
100 ships have taken a route around south africa during the last quarter of 2015.

For comparison, 17483 ships used the Suez Canal last year (about 1450/month). And the number of ships increased by 335 in 2015 (compared to 2014).
http://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/TRstatHistory.aspx?reportId=2

Edit: in fact, clicking through the data on that page.. it looks like 2015 was a record year (by tonnage) for the Suez.. along with record toll collections. They did handle more, but smaller, ships in 2008.. but that could just be caused by the trend in the industry toward larger ships. More cargo passed through the Suez than any year previous.
I don't think any of the landing crashes so far have been due to the barge's size or movement. It's always been problems with the rocket, not the barge.
Yes, seems that you're right. At least GPL FAQ from FSF says so.

I've updated the comment.
Right, I like to say that capitalism is really just a distributed algorithm, for solving interrelated questions about how to allocate your resources.

Like any algorithm, you risk Garbage-in-Garbage-out. It's the role of society (and government) to put the right framework in place. (For example, ensuring that it is not profitable to assassinate rival CEOs.)
I belive this is trying to fill that niche: http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/
I'm not really bullish on Slack as a product, but I don't think Slack as a business is so bad. I think Slack is trying to be the Yammer of IRC: you get it in through a couple of people using it, and all of a sudden you convert the entire enterprise, hence the focus on marketing.

Hipchat/Flowdock/probably others existed before Slack, and are still largely interchangeable at this point, but they're not investing so heavily in marketing.

I think a direct comparison to MySpace is inaccurate since neither they nor their competitors are directly viral (yet?), but they could certainly be replaced.

The question is: who would want to spend a pile of money trying to outmarket Slack? It's hard to tell what their sales figures are, but if they get lodged in the public's view as the company that does this, it will take concerted, capital-intensive effort to dislodge them, and why would you go to that effort for a low margin space?

Open Source is really not relevant in this space since the price is cheap and you're paying for convenience.
I think the IOT just jumped the shark.
> These days your life isn’t complete if you aren’t part of a role-playing gaming group

I may be a bit old to know, but is this really true now? I wasn't aware RPGs were having that much of a cultural renaissance.

Perhaps my 16 year old, nerdy, Rolemaster-addicted self is vindicated!

Or perhaps it is hyperbole.
They expanded it into a full article a couple days later: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/technology/apple-sees-valu...
It looks like getting a signal in normal circumstances is doable, but problems occur when a 200ft rocket shows up wanting to make friends.
Doesn't wayland require KMS drivers? I've never had any luck with nouveau doing anything but forcing me to reboot every few days.
We will probably release a piano roll view in order to simplify any MIDI input first, so stay tuned!
Honorary degrees are usually granted to people who have achieved something particularly noteworthy in the field, or who make large donations to the school. I think what you're actually asking for is academic credit for work experience. And indeed some of the lower-tier online colleges such as University of Phoenix or Kaplan University do offer that option. So if you just want to check the box of having a Bachelor's degree then that might be an option, but be aware that many employers don't take such degrees seriously.
I think he means waste as in unaccounted externalities such as putting co2 into the atmosphere without paying the social costs.
It seems to me that something like xpra should be fairly easy to port to wayland. (For those who don't know, xpra installs itself as a compositing window manager, and then can render each window either locally or remotely).
To be honest, I don't know. I've done very little frontend programming in the last decade. I've no idea about Scala for the GUI either.

I'd be willing to learn how to write GUIs in any language.

PS: I see that Leksah (http://leksah.org/), a Haskell IDE, is written in Haskell using GTK. The screenshots look decent enough. Not sure if it's unpleasant to write a GUI app like that in Haskell.
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I know Uber stores as a float. Lyft probably does not since it's averaged over 100 rides. Integer math is easy!

Also you can't mathematically have a power law over (1..5)
I'd wager acquiring mint was one of their worst decisions ever. A product that's losing popularity year after year and a pain to maintain technically too. Wouldn't be surprised if they shutdown the product in a year.
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https://git.io/docker-parse-dashboard
You're probably right. If they needed that stuff they'd probably build it. But I bet that what I suggest would result in being able to land in rougher weather with better media from 1st stage landings.
UWP has literally nothing to do with any of those things. UWP means we can release on both platforms without re-writing our whole rendering pipeline, memory management and network code from scratch. One code works everywhere. If companies are sloppy and don't provide good controller options then it's definitely not because of UWP.
They only protect you if the seller has money in his account. My Friend bought a video card that was never sent. Ebay said that the seller did not have money in his account so there was nothing they could do. He was out $500 with no recourse.
I was going to say exactly the same thing. Once the initial novelty of app stores wore off, only the shitty economics behind them were left to bare:

- The barrier to entry is so low as to be non-existent. We haven't seen a mass distribution channel with entry barriers this low since the lemonade stand.

- Since the above point forces most participants in the market to now compete mostly on price, the race to the bottom of the last decade or so has raised a generation of consumers who now expect software to be free.

- The subtle friction of finding and installing apps has led the average person to basically not bother at all, as we now know most people install zero apps per month. The lions share is now exclusively the domain of those with ridiculous marketing budgets and iffy business practices.

I'm just not sure exactly where we are on the technology curve of App Stores. Are we in the trough of sorrow, where a new horizon of viability and sustainability coupled with lowered expectations is just around the corner? Or will we look back at the App Stores as the AOL of the 2010's? I'd love to hear opinions on the subject.
Once I saw this, I tried to use Wayland on an Arch Linux install. It worked great (apart from the really gross default cursor), until I tried to use gdm as my login screen. I have a two-screen setup (which worked fine with Sway if I just started it by itself). But if I start sway through gdm, the two screens would fuse into one screen. Is there any way to fix that? I'm guessing it's not a Sway issue, it's either an issue with the compositor Sway uses or just gdm.
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I think it is part of new FUD that has been going around the last few years. I suspect it is being pushed by companies who want to use Free software and not contribute.
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