skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just had a wild thought:

I wonder how different the web would be [1] if all data was sent in binary instead of some (text, HTML, JS) being sent in text format. Or do some servers and clients gzip the text automatically before sending it. I've heard of stuff like that (and seen HTTP headers related to it), but haven't looked deeply into it.

[1] I mean in terms of speed. But there could be tradeoffs, because, though sending (smaller) binary data would be faster, the parts of it that represented text would have to converted to/from text at either end.
>Apple did not conspire to fix e-book pricing and this ruling does nothing to change the facts We are disappointed the Court does not recognize the innovation and choice the iBooks Store brought for consumers. While we want to put this behind us, the case is about principles and values. We know we did nothing wrong back in 2010.

Unless I've read patently false accounts of the behavior, discussions, and conduct of Steve Jobs on behalf of Apple circa the iBooks store preparation and roll-out, this is one of the most laughably false statements that a lawyer has put to paper in 2016. The year is still early though.
Or it could be that it is significantly worse, and that the inertia of the brand keeps the boat moving (albeit slowing?). A shift to a newer model could be seen as a way to reduce headcount and contain costs.
Buckwheat may be one of the healthiest foods you're not eating
I think what you're doing is mixing up anon with anon
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For a CA they could structure their data as a log where each entry (new cert) contains the checksum of the previous entry. That way it's not possible to change the chain without unwinding it. Each person getting a new signed cert now has the new HEAD of the log and unwinding means revoking all these certificates.

Now if you put multiple CAs in the game it start to become interesting to use a distributed ledger like the blockchain. If all the signed certs are distributed as part of the ledger it becomes easier to track who issues certs for what domain. Something we cannot do with the current SSL CA system.
I had a similar idea as you originally with my startup: build a functional MVP, launch with beta testers, recruit co-founders, raise seed capital, and then (finally) start to focus on growth.

I wasted probably six months going down blind alleys with this approach. Here are some of the lessons I learned:

1) A small group of beta testers will not give your product the time and attention you need to find product-market fit.

2) High quality collaborators, willing to devote all their spare waking hours to your vision, are extremely hard to find (and even harder to get up-to-speed). Especially on a budget. You'll probably see several promising co-founders come and go before you find a good match.

3) Even if you have a really sexy MVP and a great team, it's nearly impossible to fundraise until you can point to a handful of satisfied early customers. You might think you can raise $100k (chump change!) to fund your first six months of operations, but you're probably wrong about that.

The only thing you should be doing right now is getting your product into as many customers' hands as possible. In your post, you say you plan to "charge money and earn revenue from day 1".

Today is day 1. Go get some customers!
Yeah, but printing with coffee and wine is way more fun.
I left out plenty of details, so sorry if the transition wasn't clear
and seamless.

VerizonWireless, whether via a "smart" phone or a dongle (i.e. 3G EVDO
or 4G LTE via USB usually, or PCMCIA historically) operates as a plain
old modem connected to a serial port. To connect with a UNIX system, you
need ppp, either in kernel or in userland. You also need a "chat script"
which is the AT Commands needed to set up the connection.

Once the connection is up, create a SOCKS proxy bound to localhost with
ssh(1) by using the '-D host:port' flag. You could use another type of
secured connection like OpenVPN or IPSec tunnels, but ssh(1) is by far
the easiest.

The one thing I've never figured out is the exact AT Commands necessary
to update the PRL (Preferred Roaming List), but that only needs to be
done every few years if you don't move around the globe too much. The
cell tower leases are usually 20 to 30 years, so they stick around for a
long time. Unfortunately, if your PRL gets too far out of date,
VerizonWireless can prevent connections, so occasionally you need the
verizon software to update it.
No, even as a Bayesian I could use either of two models to understand my data:

In world one, I use bayesian update on the model P(# boys | Bias) = Mutltinomial(n = 7, p = Bias)

In world two, I use bayesian update on the model P(# children | Bias) = Geometric(p = Bias)

Might-have-beens and didn't happens do play in, in my choice of model. I should choose the one that I believe, and if I'm not certain, I should use an even more complicated model that incorporates my beliefs about what models might be appropriate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11197592
MBTA has huge project management problems to be sure, of course it should be looked into.

But its really the only subway the city has, plus I think they're required by consent decree to build sometimg (Part of the "big dig" project (putting highway in a tunnel), another fine example of poor project budget control in the commonwealth of Massachusetts)
Interesting, I'd not heard that before. I'll look those up, thanks.
Could you please explain what you mean, what is the difference you talk about?

Roll a dice 100 times, and on average 5 rolls have the pattern I want.

v.s. I have found pattern and there is a 5% change it was due to random.

Is that not the same?
> That's the case with most OSS C++ projects - even on Windows it's best to just build from source.

Yes, it's better.

Building clang+llvm takes about 2 hours on my machine. Last time I used the prebuilt binaries to check the status of C++17 in clang. I remember looking at the paths with "ldd" to see if their clang linked properly with their llvm. It was OK.

There is an ongoing ABI change in gcc for C++. Maybe it's finished now.
It's not a derivative work unless additional creative effort is added. Altering the scan to increase the faithfulness of the reproduction is not creative effort--no more than if you edited an OCR scan of a printed work to correct the typos. Nor are mistakes in the reproduction introduced by an automated process creative efforts.

If you intentionally altered the bust to convert the crown into a bundle of hot dogs, that would be a derivative work. No one would care much about it, though, as the original is what's famous, and they would prefer a faithful reproduction of that to anything you might do to your copy to make it uniquely yours.

Similarly, a photograph of a painting that has been digitally retouched to fix the colors is not a derivative work.

You have to intentionally do something to make your copy uniquely distinguishable from the original. It can be anything. Put a hairy mole on David's buttock. Change the Creation of Adam such that the creator is the FSM. Sneak the TARDIS into Starry Night. Replace all the human heads with Kooikerhondje heads in The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.

The Utah Teapot digital model is a derivative work of the original physical teapot, because it was scaled vertically by 3/4. That's enough. Were it not for that one difference, you wouldn't be able to tell whether someone copied the digital model directly, or remeasured the parameters of the physical model.

(Note that my opinions on this matter are not necessarily going to match those of judges actually able to decide intellectual property disputes.)
> It's not without precedent. [...] Debian's solution [for qmail]
> was packages that, as part of the install, patched, built, and
> installed qmail from sources on the target machine.

I don't see how this is a relevant comparison in this context beyond
the trivial "Debian has had some packages built from source at install
time in the past".

At the time qmail was shipped in Debian's non-free section, and the
resulting binary wasn't being linked to a GPL codebase to get around
linking clauses.

So I can't see how this has anything to do with what's happening with
ZFS here.
One could also argue that Zappos would be making less money with a traditional org structure.

Both would be baseless opinions. It's damn near impossible to compare like for like here.

I'd file the idea under "interesting", but I'm not going to be rushing to send Zappos my business card because there are creepy and inappropriate overtones - not least is the insistence that Work is Family[tm].

But... I think it would be definitely a good thing if more corps experimented like this, so that "business culture" actually meant something identifiable, and there was a lot more corporate diversity, with a much wider variety of management structures and personnel styles.

Then if you didn't like a culture, you could avoid a corp. It would be easy.

The problem now is that a lot of business culture is implied, and the rules - which are at least as strong as those used in holacracy - are unspoken. Sometimes they're deliberately misleading.

I don't think this particular solution has much hope of transcending office politics. But I still think it's a more interesting culture than anything offered by (say) HP, Oracle, or IBM.
Sure. You can't credit him with 100% of 4chan's cultural impact. But his experience is extremely unique, and likely very valuable to Google.
Yeah, definitely. I have become a little disillusioned with the video game industry on the consumer side as well, though. There seems to be a lot of "download the newest game, play it for 30 minutes (for an app, 2-3 hours for a big game), then delete it and on to the next game" going on, and it seems very difficult to make a name for yourself unless you're working on large, artsy indie games that take many years to make.

I've started getting into the board game hobby recently and it seems like, while you're never going to get rich off of it, there's much greater opportunities to gain a reputation and while there's a lot of "play the game a few times and move on to the next" in the hobby as well, because games are physical they tend to stay out there and get reprinted for decades, instead of stay out there for a few months, on average.

I tended to design board-game-friendly designs in the first place, so I decided to pretty much switch to board games. As a bonus, there's a healthy demand for mobile app versions of board games anyway, so you can get a physical AND a digital version for the same game design.

Plus it's a hell of a lot faster to prototype new mechanics and build prototypes with physical board games.

But that's me. Programming games is still a lot of fun, just sucks when gamers spend so little time on your game before moving on to the next shiny thing.
You are absolutely correct. Homebrew-Cask favors convenience and availability of as many applications as possible, though we make reasonable efforts to avoid malicious actors by verifying checksums, download links, and (soon) GPG verification where possible.

You may be interested in https://www.macports.org for a build-from-source solution for OSS projects.
Oculus Rift will only come to Mac if Apple “ever releases a good computer”
To get there you had to scroll past:

>I worry I’ll never afford my own home, or always have to flatshare

>Salaries don’t, and never will, reflect the rising cost of living

>My degree was a waste of time

But i guess wanting to be a grown adult without having to have rommates is entitlement.

Retirees capturing more wealth than an entire generation of working college graduates? Dont be ridiculous, thats not entitlement.
Very well. Joseph Mercola[1] to put it politely, is not burdened by objective reproduction of claimed results when hawking his alternative remedies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola
> However, you can still have a lossy encoder that uses a lossless format as a target

I wish "lossy-ness" was always an encoder parameter and never an intrinsic property of the container. The world would be a better place if we made this distinction early on. Instead every time a jpeg is edited and resaved the world gets a little more potatoey.
I think provingmypoint here has a fair point.

The cost of registering – even if it's just 3-4 clicks away – is not negligible, and it gives a very different situation by default. I won't discuss the merits of a reputation & voting system, but when everyone has an account, the actual result is that few people are anonymous in practice. And maybe that's not so bad.

But on imageboards like 4chan, you will find very few people using names or even so-called "tripcodes" (the closest thing to an account), which means that by default to anyone that isn't a moderator, everyone is Anonymous in a sea of Anonymity.

Of course every Internet forum keeps logs of what IP posted what, but as long as it's kept private, that's entirely besides the point.
Why is that weird?
Gerhard Domagk tested his few hundred drug candidates in live mice with bacterial infections. The recent attempts started with single bacterial proteins in a tiny dish.

This goes back to the phenotypic screening argument.

Unless your biological model captures most of the factors involved in a biological system, it's not worth much. You might get a great hit, then put it in an animal model and get nothing.

There are a ton of examples of the value of phenotypic screening in past drug discovery. The discovery of benzodiazepines (Valium, etc) was completely random. Hoffman created some new molecules and just injected them into mice. When the mice fell asleep, he followed up on it.

Of course, phenotypic screening is not a panacea. It's expensive and has problems of it's own.
It's smug comments like this - particular to engineers - which always give me a chance to chuckle about how little computer programmers actually understand scientific practice.

All the same problems happen in biological sciences, and are even worse in some cases, since there's more money at stake. Failures to replicate are rampant in medical/pharmaceutical studies.

If you want to claim biology's not scientific either, go ahead. But science is about seeking knowledge, not having total agreement all the time.
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Accessing Native iOS APIs from JavaScript, via NativeScript
> 131b revenue in 2015. So, at 1.3m, a 0.001% fine, aka half a minute of revenue.

Came here to say exactly this — except that it's even worse than your numbers suggest: some form of the UIDH has been in play since at least 2012. If you amortize the fine across the lifetime of the program, a mere $1.3m is an obscenely paltry penalty.

These "fines" will never deter bad behavior until they have some teeth. When VZW takes in more in the time it takes for me to let a call go to voicemail than they were fined for this crap, I think the take-away has to be that the regulatory bodies are pretty much, "That's nice, son. You run along and play now" over it.
Surely you mean 1998...
But you can set the classname of the component and then refer to it as ".componentclass h1" or similar, right? Or is that what you are saying gets too unwieldy?
I'm interested in your Python book. What is the title?
There is a combobox on the top right to change the theme.
The other two themes don't have this feature.

Try it for example here: https://code.woboq.org/llvm/clang/lib/AST/Expr.cpp.html#3537
So etags should work with JSONP call...

I found that:

http://fitzgen.github.io/github-api/
That's the second definition in Webster's 1913 edition. The first is:

> Fitted or designed to signify or make known something; having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look.

It seems to me that this is the sense in which statisticians talk about significance. It means that the results actually signify something rather than just being meaningless noise.
I find the modern view of monopoly peculiar:

"the market for retail distribution of electronic books ... was essentially a monopoly, with Amazon.com ... controlling 90% of e-book sales. Amazon sold many of the most popular e-books at a loss, making it difficult for other retailers to enter the e-book market as they 'would run the risk of losing money if [they] tried."

along with the 1999 conviction of Microsoft being a monopoly in part because they gave away Explorer.

A monopoly is historically identified with having a higher than market price, not a lower.
To be fair in regards to the late night service cut, it was only a test program when they rolled it out and supposedly ridership was declining since they introduced it. Plus, it was only available on the weekends (two days a week) anyway.
Thank you - I was mistaken in some of the clauses of the CDDL.
Thanks to you I read that timeline. I'm pretty sure it's a good thing these people are self-segregating, I wouldn't feel safe at an event knowing they were attending.
I worked on a radar project with a similar problem. The target system was a computer called HP superdomes. HP discontinued those (the PA-RISC version anyway) . I think they bought a couple spares. Ebay was mentioned as a source for parts, which doesn't always give you a good feeling.
It's an exciting project, but having chosen Oklo [1] as their name makes them extremely difficult to search for (try 'oklo reactor' for example), which is a little problematic for a startup...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo
> This is why people vote donald trump

I'm sure people vote Donald Trump for many reasons, however I don't really understand the need to insert Trump in this conversation, and given Trump business record he is no stranger to shady business practices.

As for Verizon fine vs Apple fine , I'm no lawyer so I don't know what Verizon's case maximum penalty was, though the fine seems quite low.

edit: s/tactics/practices
Actually when the public funds drug research it's often not reproducible 1. From personal experience the number of times when the work isn't a fabrication is less than the number of fingers on my right hand.

1 http://blog.scienceexchange.com/2012/04/the-need-for-reprodu...
The color theme is based on KDevelop's theme, which happen to be my favorite IDE. I find color really helpfull while reading code since they each have a different to which you quickly get used.
But there are other themes that one can choose.
It's tiny compared to the $450 million that Apple will be paying. But then, how would one calculate damages for what Verizon did?
It’s about a method of communication. Let's take the positive suggestions.
Wow that is one amazing PLOS one article.
There are lot of missing parts. Everything beyond using it for single disks or with RAID1 is still experimental. It's slow for a lot of use cases like VMs or OLTP ( http://blog.pgaddict.com/posts/friends-dont-let-friends-use-...) and using nodatacow does not count!

RAID1 is implemented to use the oddness of the pid to decide which disk to read from... RAID5/6 have huge performance problems in certain use-cases. Write hole is apparently still a thing.

Quota seems to be still broken or difficult to handle, the tooling is not exactly nice or intuitive (this may change in the future).

Hardware failure handling is nonexistent - it can't detect a broken drive.

Lot's of other gotchas. Just read the mailing list. I've been fighting against btrfs for a while and I'm happy when I'm not having to deal with it. Works probably fine for desktop usage but don't bother stressing it - at the moment it will break horrible.
That can help with fingerprinting. Any entropy escaping from a users session is useful.
Drop in the bucket for Verizon. Your data is for sale.
> Some people feel you should never ever say things like "more unique", "most unique" etc

I am among them. Here's why:

(1) There are already other words that express related concepts that are subject to gradation: "rare", "special", "unusual", and "extraordinary" come to mind.

(2) The original meaning of "unique", namely "one of a kind", is an important concept. If we let the word's meaning get lost, we will not be able to express that meaning as easily.
Correlation is not causation, etc.
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cool. I've used a similar chrome extension for tracking other businesses feature and pricing pages. Have you thought about B2B usecases?
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Pretty well summed up by other comments, but loss of ROI. Funny enough one of my last blog posts was the most response I've ever gotten (few hundred K readers, tweeted by O'Reilly, liked by Zuck) but it still felt "not worth it" in the end.

Now blogs are simply the place I put something if I truly write something for enjoyment where that enjoyment needs to be 100% of the reward. This does happen, but rather uncommonly (because: life).
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Ha. This is too true. If there wasn't some kind of construction project over budget at all times, people would think something was wrong.

Really though, the MBTA has a bunch of major issues. Not just project management. I honestly don't know what it would take to fix it but something has to give sooner or later. People are finally getting fed up.
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> [Tom] Chavez thinks industry titans like Larry Page, the chief executive of the Alphabet holding company that includes Google, are intentionally driving up salaries. “If I was Larry, I’d do the same thing: throw a few more million at people and cut off everyone else’s oxygen.”

Cut off everyone else's oxygen? There are maybe 10 companies that hire in volume and are willing to match top tier offers. The companies that aren't willing to match top tier offers could do so by hiring fewer people and paying them better, but they choose not to. Those companies are cutting off their own oxygen.

Some companies are willing to pay more than others, often by 2x or more, and those companies have a lot more options when it comes to hiring. That's how the market works now that the wage suppressing no-poach agreement has been canceled. And frankly, that's how it should work. Companies should be able to go out and pay market rate to get the people they want. And people should be able to take advantage of that.
All interactive components are going to require some minimal local state in order to maintain their function.

But the amount of that state that the actual app programmer need necessarily know and fiddle with is pretty small, and can easily be abstracted away if the framework you're operating under allows it.

I daily use Reagent, which is a very clever ClojureScript layer built on React, and generally the standard pattern there is to have a single canonical state atom that has the stuff you genuinely care about, and the rest can be left to stateless or abstracted local-state-only components that you need only pass the big atom to, or even just a cursor to the parts of it that matter to that individual component.

We have an entire in-house forms library for this that we use like this every day, and honestly once you get used to it it's fantastic and saves yourself a lot of "state hell" like you get with complicated OOP frameworks.

Reagent is basically the reason I'm still a web developer even though I'd really rather be working in native: because declarative FRP is a hell of a lot more fun to work with.
He defined capitalism.
Like Baltimore, sometimes you have to burn shit to the ground before people start listening.

The media didn't care about the peaceful protests over the Freddie Gray murder. But burn 1 CVS down and everyone shows up.