skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Business Insider lost $11.9 million on $42.4 million in sales last year. Despite the loss, Axel says BI’s revenue rose 41 percent from the previous year"
A $400 million valuation for this. Axel will need a miracle for this deal to turn out to be financially positive.
>I run a local proxy to redirect hosted libraries like jquery.

how to do this?
Thank you, this is exactly how I felt about the whole ordeal bitcoin has been. Satoshi did God's work getting people to accept, or at least become familiar with the ideas of cryptocurrency and blockchain. He seemed like an intelligent man and I bank on the theory that he planned to exit the scene knowing that it did not have a future.

Cutting edge ideas will survive and thrive, cutting edge products not so often.
If you list the Fortune 50 you will find that they all get huge benefit from Open Source. I've worked with Wall Street Banks, Monsanto, NSA, Big Ag, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, and other companies which are extracting incredible profits from our society - often at a great cost to our society. Does it make sense to give free help to those who harm?
Yes, and almost no one pays any attention to the rest of Leviticus anymore -- only to the verses about homosexuality.

More importantly, the second verse encourages those who hate homosexuals to kill them, and I hope the overwhelming majority of us can agree that's not acceptable.
I just finished a C library for string interning: https://github.com/chriso/intern

There are also some bindings for Go: https://github.com/chriso/go-intern
Why is 1-1/(1-1/(1-…)) not real?
You obviously don't run a parse app or have not tried option 1 (use parse-server) yourself. Parse-server is not an open-source version of original Parse.com technology, it is not a "here take a copy host it yourself". It's a different tech, they are flooded with issues and if you read through them you'll realize how far is parse-server from production grade. So, option 1 is really more like option 3 (develop your own back-end). You'd be fighting with incomplete code, bugs, no docs, missing features, etc.

I'd argue then that option 2 is the only path for front-end devs/novice devs that cannot afford to develop a proprietary back-end.

For option 2 I'd add backendless.com to your list. I have been testing their service and so far so good.
If you are stable and profitable why do you need another round of funding?
And the original Slashdot article was about the IoT one.
I'm not saying people can make up for doing bad things. I'm arguing against prejudice (as in judging someone before you meet them and judging people instead of individuals).
Location: Modesto, CA (way east of SF)

Remote: Temporarily, not long-term

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, HTML/CSS/SCSS/etc., ES6, Docker, EmberJS (intermediate), ReactJS (intermediate), Elixir (beginner), Swift (beginner)

Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/nuck

Email: me@plejeck.com

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I started programming at 7, learning BASIC on my mom's classroom computer. Aside from a brief stint as a designer in college and a few dark years caused by Perl, I've been programming ever since. Also my the way I've picked up ample devops and UX knowledge.

I help maintain a few gems right now (Hooloo https://github.com/NuckChorris/hooloo , doorkeeper-grants_assertion https://github.com/doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper-grants_assertio... , sidekiq-debounce https://github.com/NuckChorris/sidekiq-debounce), with a few more in the process of being extracted from the existing codebase of hummingbird.me (namely, libraries for interfacing with MyAnimeList and AnimeNewsNetwork, as well as JSONAPI::Resources integrations with Chewy and Pundit).

I've been working with Rails for 3 years, with a focus on applying UX concepts to API design. I'm looking for a startup that can use my skills and help me develop new ones like native app dev or more thorough functional testing.
> ...no. Privileged ports are a way to prevent an unprivileged user from turning a service crash into a service takeover.

Whilst privileged ports are indeed used for that purpose, that doesn't mean they aren't a wart.

There's no necessary technical reason why unprivileged users can't bind to port 80, except that the designers of the network API decided to equate successfully binding to a port with having permission to receive connection requests for that port.

This leads to unpleasant situations like a web server having to run as root, even if (usually) only temporarily, solely because it needs to bind port 80.

This makes less sense especially with Docker, since even if a containerized web server binds to port 80, it won't receive connections from the outside world unless the container is configured to forward the "real" port 80 to it.
>Programs are mushed together and scattered through the filesystem rather than stored in separate locations. This basically means applications are install-only. Yeah, package managers try to keep track of everything, but that is just hacking around the problem, and most developers don't want to spend hours creating 5 different distro packages.

What about things like encap/gnu stow which symlink files from one single package dir.
To expand. You have the thing working, customers are happy, and, traditionally, that's when you grow the company.
And everybody is wealthier as a consequence.

Oracle's clients pay less for a solution than they would otherwise, Oracle can compete on this area, some engineers get paid by Oracle to improve a commons, and everybody else gets a more functional system for free.

Ok, maybe somebody worked there against their best interest, but that somebody wasn't coordinated by any big corporation, and should look onto fixing himself only. The ecosystem as a whole is healthy.
> Investors make money if the company sells for more than the cap.

Actually, the investors with the highest liquidation preference could make a lot of money even if the company sells for much less than the cap.
I was part of the team choosing charities. You might be surprised to hear that we evaluated all our giving for ROI (measured in columns of print or TV time and the equivalent cost of purchased time. We also considered audience - and overlap with purchase influencers.) In general, the decision was simple - are we making more money than we are spending on the charity.
I agree but one counter argument is that a lot of research is already paid for by government.
A performance of the original:
http://youtu.be/fAxHlLK3Oyk
You missed his/her point - I don't think Obama donated money to the people opposing gay marriage.
I knew Cameron from 15 years back. Always helpful and very down to earth person. I am surprised he stayed at Oracle that long.

He was very active in BEA Weblogic Forums/usergroups. He would answer most questions with helpful answers. When he started building Coherence (which was sold to Oracle and hence ended up at Oracle) he added Coherence link to his signature while answering questions or trouble shootings other users problems. Pretty soon most JavaEE developers became aware of Coherence with that single trick.
It's incredible how mis-informed the author is regarding life behind the iron curtain and the whole 'commie' saturation this article suffers from makes it both painful to read and historically inaccurate. Imagine an article about let's say the Ford Edsel where every reference to designers or manufacturers would be prefixed with 'cappie'.
uMatrix is better, just sayin'
I generally agree. I like companies that enable me to do most things independently online, then quickly connect me with a competent human when I call about complex issues I don't understand.
Microsoft could do a million things, but speculation doesn't get you very far. In general, it's better to have some actual facts to go on.

One of the actual facts in this case is that Microsoft makes the vast majority of its income from Win32 programs, including Office 2016, not UWP apps.

Another actual fact is that Apple, Adobe, Google, IBM, Oracle and other large software companies also make their money from Win32 programs, not UWP apps.

Another actual fact is that all these leading companies are quite happy to launch lawsuits and/or to approach the US DoJ with accusations that Microsoft has done something anti-competitive.

All of this means that Microsoft cannot possibly close off access to the Win32 API, and even limiting DirectX could be a big risk.

It also seems to me that the PC games industry could quite easily be delusional about its significance in today's software industry, and that it's not aware of the full picture ;-)
“FWIW I hadn't heard about the revenue sharing thing until later on”
You seem to be making the same mistake than people who say democracy isn't the best system and yet you fail to understand that is the best system we have so far. A meritocracy in tech would be the same case, its not perfect but it would be far better than the current system were talented but socially unskilled coders from any group are at a disadvantage.
don't hate - there are lots of people out there wanting to have their own app. They're just responding to the demand
Sure, but weight gain in adulthood doesn't cause you to get taller.
I was going to add, "The Goal". I just received two more copies of it from Amazon today. I've given away more copies of that book that I can count (and will give away another one to a co-worker on Monday).
> On my desktop system I want apps installed in isolated directories, with few or no central dependencies. Even if it means I have some unpatched vulnerability in 10 places.

Why?

We aren't there yet, but Linux is trending towards xdg-app and appstream-esque projects producing a "common" nomenclature for software. Then you can write once install anywhere sandboxed app packages. All you really need are abstractions for both the package manager specific naming conventions and the system specific MAC filter.
he said he is not american neither US resident
"Olds" is a coy term by "millennials" who wanted the older generations who invented and keep using the term to get a taste of their own medicine.

As far as keeping out "olds", look at what Tinder did by demanding a premium from 30+ users: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/tinder-charging-people-30-t....
T-Platforms Introduces MIPS-Based Tavolga Terminal Computer for Linux Users
Interesting. I had no idea you submitted that one. HN seems to be increasingly stochastic these days. When this post fell off the new page last night, I thought it was doomed. Then, it suddenly revived this morning.

I did trim the strange hash off of the medium.com URL, because I thought it was a tracker from when I got referred. Perhaps that is why more people eventually found this submission. The de-duping logic on HN is pretty bad.
Touching story, but... Why did he leave oracle?
I agree but you will never be able to have a perfectly level field, I had friends whose parents were already in IT and thus learned to program years before I did which gave them a substantial advantage, but how do you solve that?.
Perhaps for a naive recommendation system, but quality ones don't do this.

For example if you employ 1-nearest neighbors, you will actually return a sample that is guaranteed to reproduce another user's preferences. You could of course sample over more neighbors, smoothing results, at the cost of more lookups and at some point in the limit you do see reduced performance due to too many points becoming similar and having this average of everyone being bad for everyone sort of thing. Most ML approaches account for this and will only look at user/item clusters where the assumption is that a user can be sampled from a user cluster and an item can be sampled from an item cluster. Locally you may have error incorrectly capturing the clusters but in practice this works fairly well and you dont have a one size fit all model.

If you're thinking about the cold start problem when you dont have any information about a user, yes it's possible that your overall statistics is a combination of many subpopulations that doesn't really fit anyone very accurately but there are ways around this as well.

So in short - a naive ML recommender that perhaps you get out of a textbook would certainly face these issues but the are addressable in production with an "industry" grade recommender system and will lead to better performance. I don't have firm numbers but in A/B/C tests compared to other black boxes I've seen 20-30% better performance when you start to address some of these issues.
It has been drilled into us that plagiarism is theft and therefore bad, but there is nothing more natural in the world than taking others work and building on it or sharing it. Ownership of thoughts and ideas is a modern invention, and harmless "plagiarism" has been going on since the dawn of time. Not every sentence, idea, story or indeed puzzle should need to have a wholly original formulation, and it's not hard to see how stringent citations might stifle creativity or distract from the ideas being presented.

In particular, I wonder to what degree this sort of plagiarism causes any real harm, repeating others clever ideas from years ago in a way that can only be discovered by data mining. Are the puzzles less fun knowing they have shared elements with ones from years ago?
Actually giving something back is really hard in the open source space. If you don't create your own open source project you will have a hard time to integrate into another open source project.
Forget diet. Go all the way with a proper water fast. Unfortunately if there was a way to monetize a person not eating for 30 days we would all be hearing about it. Big Food & Drug companies can't productize fasting so it remains fringe as possible cure for many ailments.
Probably yes on the first.

No on the second, for good reason. There wasn't anything in the article that indicated that the prosecutors did anything wrong. They took the evidence they were given by the police, by informants, and by the crime lab employee and presented it at trial. That the police did not give the prosecutors all the evidence the police had, and that a forensic technique that was widely accepted at the time by the FBI and the state turned out to not be accurate is beyond the scope of the prosecutor's role.
Careful! The Obese will use this to try to justify the dangerous "Health At Every Size" movement which has been killing people.
Do many people use this?
you might want to overlay some instructions, it took me a while to figure I should drag it around.
There is a whole body of fraudulent pseudoscience that kept this practice looking all sciency. Once you show they knew it was bogus, that's not just being wrong, that's a criminal conspiracy. I'm surprised nobody has called out the fake science behind "polygraph," too.
>All config files should use the same standard format. I'd say "like YAML", but I'm not aware of a widely-used format with standard features like file includes or data types beyond "int" and "string" (e.g. for time intervals; these really shouldn't be "just a string... with a custom format").

Not sure how this compares http://raml.org/
Apple's entire strategy is to release a complete end-to-end experience for mass market production. It would only make sense for the MacBook to upgrade their computer with a GPU for virtual reality if:

1) Customers really wanted to use VR.
2) Apple released their own VR set.

I just don't see a real scenario where VR is ready for mass market consumption yet.
Programmable Infrastructure
Check out AutoIt for an example of GUI automation. I've used it before as a hacky way to extend GUI programs.
I'd think that it matters how many innocent people are executed vs how many lives are saved by deterring potential murderers, and my trouble is I don't know how to get those numbers.

Regarding just the second number - deterrence - here's a claim that the death penalty deters, saving between 3 and 18 lives per execution depending on the study you choose (quite the spread, BTW...):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06...

...But here's a claim that the death penalty doesn't deter (though they cite, not direct statistical evidence, but the opinion of criminologists and the fact that some places without a death penalty have lower murder rates than places with it; but maybe if I dug deeper I'd find something more direct):

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-about-deterrence-and-d...

Perhaps someone who've looked into it more deeply can weigh in; all I'm saying is that it matters what the answer is.

(My own intuition would be that people aren't deterred by the death penalty very much, because they count on not getting caught, instead of multiplying the penalty by the probability or some such. But I could be wrong. Also I'm open to the opinion that you shouldn't do some things to people regardless of potential benefits to society, for instance I'm pretty sure torture would deter more than the death penalty because it's a very vivid picture a potential criminal would have in their mind, but it's great that nobody thinks we should go there. I just don't think that the capital punishment is "cruel and unusual" that way.)
It's a fork of App Inventor[1] so it's essentially a new version, built by people that built the original version[2].

Honestly it would not have been disingenuous to exclude that tiny link clause altogether, but now they're being punished for transparency, because people are too lazy to click on the the "About" link for the page they provided.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/05/mit-spin-out-thunkable-hope...
[2] http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/our-team.html
I run www.propertywizard.io - I'd be interested in talking to see if we can help each other (email in profile)
Driverless lorries to be trialled in UK
There certainly is a definite correlation between obesity (which is a psychological disorder, and not a "metabolic" one) and cancer. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3773450/

So this is not surprising.
Yeah, and most venture investors are pretty bad at their job - the majority of the industry loses money. But that's irrelevant to startups raising money, because a dollar is a dollar is a dollar.
For the curious: "The plugin in question was Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM), a popular WordPress plugin for creating custom post types that, in the three years since it was uploaded on the WordPress plugin repo, has amassed quite a following, being currently installed on more than 10,000 sites."
For the non-believers of Snapchat, here is where I think its value lies:

For the past 50 years brand strategy has largely been (fairly) well characterised. Conventional wisdom in the industry did well enough for brands like McDonald's and Coca Cola to expand across the world and capture generations of customers. This is in part due to an incremental pace of innovation in how customers have consumed media in this time period.

Then came along the internet and a bringing a huge stepwise change, driving not only unprecedented levels of fragmentation/segmentation/individualisation of users but also changing how we interact with and consume media.

The generation of "millennials" and "digital natives" are people who now spend more time on the internet than in front of a TV.

Facebook, with their 1Bn+ daily active users who are known to spend nearly 18 hours a week on the Facebook mobile app, saw the value in Snapchat - younger users don't have a Facebook account. It's uncool, it's creepy with its privacy policies. Snapchat has extremely strong market share on viewership for a generation of users that are arguably the most impressionable/valuable. This same generation don't really watch TV. Considering individual brands would spend hundreds of millions on TV, if Snapchat can capture even a fraction of this media budget, they'll be hugely profitable.

NB I chose McDonald's and Coke as brands as they are two good examples of previously invincible global brands that are now showing significant decline. They also had huge media budgets. For the purposes of my argument, I've chosen to ignore other market trends such as growing health awareness but my point still stands.
Borat(ism) is alive and well!

https://mobile.twitter.com/devops_borat
You've worked for all those bad companies, making money while providing them services, and you want to pin the blame on Open Source Software?
The Handover Guide
The state of forensic "science" today is similar to the state of medicine in the 18th century. Bloodletting wasn't an effective treatment, and but it's not like doctors--much less ordinary people--of the time knew any better.

Obviously those participating in hiding evidence should be prosecuted, but it's hard to blame everyone else who is going along with what forensic "scientists" tell them. The legitimate scientific establishment has done little to nothing to expose this field as the domain of charlatans. How are lay people supposed to understand the difference?
IE, Safari... why are these not choices for "sensible people"?
Fast Company, Inc. Magazine Publisher Hacked
>If you can't avoid say screaming in public that's a problem not just a non issue. Arguably the tolerances might be low, but it's hard to argue with the basic premise.

People are prescribed stuff for much much less than "screaming in public", including feeling stressed in BS high stress jobs, being "hyper-active" at school, etc -- with "modern psychology" more often than not siding with the normality of abnormal and abusive societal norms (as it always did. Science is conservative. Not so long ago you got medical treatment for being gay, for example).

>Granted doctors assume if your talking to them you have a problem. But that's arguably a reasonable prior.

Doctors also prescribe and over-prescribe all kinds of BS to people who don't need it, and get all kinds of pharma percs for doing so.

Heck, they'll go even to doing un-needed operations, compared to that, prescribing BS is nothing:

https://www.google.gr/search?q=uneeded+operations+scandal
Show HN: Scaffold Node.js App Implementing MongoDB, Bootstrap and Passport Auth
After uninstalling Firefox I did look at Vivaldi, but went with Maxthon: http://maxthon.com. It's available for Linux and all major platforms. Fast too.
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Plagiarism is wildly overrated.

I remember in middle/high school writing research papers for English class. I spent more time trying to NOT plagiarize than I spent on any other aspect of the paper. Which doubly absurd when you consider that there is literally not a single original thought a 14 year old is capable of having with respect to the War of 1812. When the entirety of my knowledge on a subject is based on a half dozen sources how the hell can I not plagiarize.

In that instance I say plagiarize away! Focus on idea sharing. On how to explain complex ideas to your classmates. On how to build consistent abstractions or arguments. On literally anything other than how to rewrite the three sentences so it says the same thing as those three sentences but with different words so you don't get kicked out of school.
Thought this would be about http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/01/21/selection-bias-and-...
The programming language cycle (2006)
Humans love mental shortcuts. E.g. Taibbi has forever tagged Goldman Sachs as "The Vampire Squid". Years ago somebody Google bombed Microsoft as "more evil than Satan himself". And Bush became "miserable failure".

So, what of Oracle? I'm drawing a blank, but that's probably because I don't frequently interact with Oracle or with its products.

Anyone?
The Tatra 603 ad midway down the page is really fun! It's 12 minutes long, but worth taking the time to watch. Great soundtrack too.