skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You want to piggyback off others' work but you don't want anybody piggybacking off your work.

Anyone who has ever written a program for DOS, Windows, OS X, Linux or BSD has piggybacked off others' work. Anyone who has ever used a compiler to build their applications has. By that logic, proprietary programs should not exist at all; except maybe the OS kernels.

And you're welcome to think that way. I don't care for proprietary applications much myself. But I think you're pretty far removed from the mainstream at this point to advocate for the destruction of sales for the entire commercial software industry.

> You must choose: use GPL and make your code GPL too, or release closed proprietary software and start from scratch.

And that's exactly what people do. It's made substantially easier because most of the critical libraries (C runtime, GUI toolkit, etc) aren't under the GPL.
HDMI amplifiers, DACs, and audio extractors (which give a clean digital bitstream on SPDIF) provide an HDMI output. The output HDMI will continue to carry the video portion of the signal and usually (if not always) the audio stream as well.
Bitcoin: The Maximum Block Size Debate, Much Ado About Nothing?
You have it backwards; cache effects only start to matter once you have the other things right. For example, being able to transform boxed to unboxed arithmetic, or to optimize out function calls from tight loops, will, at least in most cases, give you a bigger performance boost than rearranging data for cache-friendliness will.
ssh -Y will work find on a LAN, but higher latency links are a really bad experience; X11 is a very chatty protocol with a lot of round-trip delays. On top of that, you cannot detach from such sessions. If e.g. your ssh connection gets reset, you lose any unsaved work in the program.

Traditional VNC servers allow detachable sessions, but the local use is kind of crummy.

Tools like x11vnc are closer, but they lack options to lock the display on the local machine, which is something remote desktop has done by default since at least windows 2000.
The same way I don't have time to collect a sample of every beetle in existence, but do know that there are about 400,000 species of beetle: I asked Google and it told me the answer.
In Australia, if by "In upscale establishments only, tip 10 percent", they mean "ridiculous overpriced tourist joints trying to make an extra buck targeting naive and ignorant Americans", then I completely agree.

Seriously, nowhere respectable in Australia expects an extra 10%, let alone in the upmarket restaurants where the prices are already high.

By all means, throw something extra in anywhere if someone has done something magical and unexpected for you in any business, but just because they've started using template receipts with a "tip" line on there doesn't mean a single place expects it.

To suggest otherwise is absurd.
It is real simple, automation has eaten some jobs. When someone write a web site, an app, an AI program, it automates work that people used to do by hand.

I used to write business apps for a law firm, when I wrote a VB program with Crystal Reports to do a series of reports, the people who used to do the reports by hand got fired and lost their jobs. I felt bad about that as well. Some of them did reports in MS-Office using Excel or Word or did it on paper before that.

I changed paper forms into electric forms stored in a database. The people who used to handle and process those forms got fired as well.

Robots now are ready to replace cheap labor, they can cook food or do other things as well.

We really need a Basic Income for people who lost their jobs due to automation, and almost everything we invent in software puts people out of work. If they don't learn new skills for new jobs, they could become unemployed.

Edit: Sources: https://public.tableau.com/profile/mckinsey.analytics#!/vizh...

http://singularityhub.com/2015/11/19/automation-is-eating-jo...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-09/automation-doesnt-j...

http://www.industryweek.com/automation/future-automation-and...
I think openjdk is used in production. It's even going to be used in android in the future. You are incorrect that openjdk is not production ready today.
>I'd be interested in a source on this.

I don't have a source. It'd obviously be against the political interests of the mining cabal to admit this so frankly. This is my opinion on what the statements of anti-BitcoinXT/BIP101 people actually mean.

>It seems like more transactions with smaller fees could be just as valuable as fewer transactions with higher fees to miners.

Since the transaction volume on the network is now exceeding what can be included in a 1MB block, some transactions have to be left out. Miners prioritize txs with higher fees attached. This creates the incentive for people to include larger tx fees so that their tx is more likely to be included in the next block.

If the blocksize is increased and more txs are processed but each tx continues to have just a token tx fee, then no, they don't make more money. There is little reason to include a non-nominal tx fee if the network's volume doesn't exceed the blocksize (at least not until the network stops awarding new coins). Keeping the blocksize artificially small constrains the availability of miner time, thus requiring users to pay more to get access to it.
FWIW, this repository is nearly 5 years old.
I'm no fan of the man, but it doesn't mean that dtrace is not an excellent tool.
One of the most memorable aspects of my recent Airbnb interview: most of the interviewers I talked to lamented that Airbnb wasn't "legal" everywhere.

I don't think that's their biggest problem.

Let's pretend for a moment Airbnb wanted to really bring value to travelers, hosts AND communities. What would they do to ensure the community at large benefitted?

I have some ideas, mainly around ensuring users aren't listing more than one property and that neighbors of a listing have a way to veto a listing. But I'm getting the impression they don't really have a concern for the community. Which is ironic because their next play seems to be bringing a more cultural experience to Airbnb travel. It would be pretty hard to give someone a good cultural experience if they arrived at their Airbnb space and everyone in the neighborhood was ready to give the visitor the stink eye.

Given most people are not Airbnb hosts, I have to imagine unless the company does some major community outreach in the next few years, they're gonna run afoul of some grassroots headwind.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/compare/0.12...bitcoincla...

Commits 48, files changed 103

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/compare/0.12...sipa:segwi...

Commits 27, files changed 71

I'm a bit too lazy to count lines now, but I believe nullc has said the actual changes in segwit are smaller than those in the hardfork to 2MB.

Could you point me to the metric by which Classic's changes are smaller? Maybe some of those commits shouldn't be counted or something, or they change less lines, I don't know?
which is addressed by the bit I clipped:

"""
Sigh. Does anyone on Slashdot even know what Mozilla is doing anymore, or do they just actively seek anything minor they can to twist into pathetic negative rants? They've clearly already shifted their focus back onto Firefox lately, but apparently you haven't noticed. Apparently all you've seen is "hype", while selectively ignoring everything else.
"""

for there being "no incentive", Mozilla dev seems extremely focused on fixing these problems
Well, I know a lot of families who used whiskey for teething. Haven't heard any harm in it. The relatives who didn't seem to get less sleep.
We have gambling addiction hotlines too, but don't blanket-ban gambling.
I did learn a few things from the article, though. The big one has to do with why the car batteries I use on a hydraulic and winch system have been failing fast. It has to do with the way I run them all the way down before charging them back up.

In my shed delivery business, I have a custom designed trailer with a hydraulic lift for the tilt bed and a winch for loading and unloading the buildings. They are 12 volt and I just run them with a car battery.
This is very nice! For once, we should try to write everything that's happening in our pipeline ourselves!
Ray Tomlinson, Email Inventor, Dies at 74
I'm glad to see Bob finally able to find peace. Just the step of coming forward and talking about Challenger was huge; the outpouring of love and kindness from all corners of the globe is incredible.

(I've known him for about ten years -- he attends a small church in Brigham City where my father-in-law is the pastor. From what I understand, even most of his closest friends had no idea.)
Winners of Google and IEEE Little Box Inverter Challenge Announced
some daycares did install air filtration systems and got a whole lot more asthma cases. We didn't have the cash to do that for ours in the 90's and it turned out all the better.
The download transactions used to require access to a website that I think Microsoft took down that would connect to banks.

Most banks had to provide an API for MS-Money to download data from them, and not all banks support that API anymore.

You might find that some banks still provide MS-Money format files for download that you can import.

Here is how you used to do it for an unsupported bank:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/836196

Some banks still support MS-Money others do not.

MS-Money will take QIF or QFX files and import them I think.

Even if your bank does not support MS-Money file formats you can find a converter here:
http://ms-money-file-converter.en.informer.com/

I think Quicken is more advanced than MS-Money. It has been updated to modern technologies while MS-Money is frozen in time and a legacy app.
"Reduce costs"? How does having an encryption program installed add costs?
CLX not only still exists, it's the only working backend for McClim, and implementation of CLIM which is a specification for a particular gui API.
Note that plagiarism involves not citing your sources.

How do you feel when someone claims your ideas as their own?
To second this, when paying by card most establishments will skip the tip option on the POS device. No one expects it, its factored into the wages.
Flattened? Probably not, it's slightly higher salary, like 5%, but it's not enough time for my stock grants to vest and show a clear trajectory.

I left one of the big internet superstars, and tried a startup. After a year I decided it wasn't going anywhere, so I went to a medium sized company that is really growing. I make slightly more in salary than i did at my internet superstar company, and more $ value in stock grants. My new company is growing so the stock should go up, but its less certain too. My job title looks good, so I will be able to use that in my 'next' job, if there is one; maybe I'll stay here forever. My goal is $400-$500k per year in salary and stock, over a 5 year average. Say you get about 200k in salary, and you get an initial 4 year stock grant, and each year they give you another 4 year one, so it takes several years of that to overlap.

I guess I can say I'm in Seattle.
That's a little longer route but nice to know it's there!
Rootstock – Smart Contracts on the Bitcoin Blockchain
Love it, but... it has to transport a double bass. ;-)
What I concluded from the short but quite touching article:

Speak out if you see something wrong, no matter what the profession.

Speak out with a passion.

Because not doing so will end in traumatizing guilt, which Mr. Ebeling was fighting with for so long, despite doing so.

The fantastic quote by Charlie Bolden:

"We honor [the Challenger astronauts] not through bearing the burden of their loss, but by constantly reminding each other to remain vigilant," the statement read. "And to listen to those like Mr. Ebeling who have the courage to speak up so that our astronauts can safely carry out their missions."
CommonQt is a set of Qt bindings. It works just fine.
Ethereum: What’s the fuss?
So ability to charge transaction fees is an incentive to keep the block size limit at 1MB?

I have to point out that I'm completely new to this issue and the underlying technology, so pardon me for ignorance.
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You can just use the GTK or Qt bindings. Or make a web app.
Chips and Help Desk Support?
To me "richer" implies more complex, with more subtle features - not "deeper" in any intellectual sense.

As an older person, I really find it difficult to care if a particular friend didn't like an Instagram pic I posted. I really don't care how quickly they liked it and I don't even know which of my Facebook friends don't follow me on Instagram. They are all social interactions that add complexity and richness to the experience, and I don't pay attention to any of them.
CSV files are good, but sometimes they contain blank data and spaces that mess up importing them. I used to work as a federal contractor importing text files into databases by downloading them via FTP or Web Sites on a federal Intranet.

I would import them into Oracle, SQL Server, MS-Access, Clipper, etc and sometimes had to write a custom program to import the files.

I would work in a Unix environment as well and had to run AWK and SED to remove blank spaces and other problems that would cause invalid use of null errors in a database that the column couldn't be null. Sometimes the CSV file didn't follow the database validation rules, like using text in a number field, etc.

We also had fixed width files. Stuff from an IBM Mainframe that was in EPISODIC that had to be converted to ASCII. Then when it converted some of the characters in the file had to be edited because they were illegal control characters that had something to do with DASD JCL/JECL control codes.

But a CSV file is basically one database table with a bunch of columns in it that you import, separate the data with commas.
The Tokyo area has two suspended monorails. Chiba's [1] is well known. It's a big, heavy-duty system in an urban area. Less known is the Shonan line in Kanagawa Prefecture.[2] It's a single-track system with passing sidings at stations. This line was crammed into a suburban area, and there are lots of turns to get around obstacles. The support columns are in odd places. That's the monorail dream, to be able to put in a system without severe impact on the area. It's worth watching the video to see how that worked out.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOsJrU5XUIw
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvgTr37v0EE
It's inconceivable that an "experience practitioner" can devise a treatment a drug company can't manufacture, but you are correct that the economics of personlised medicines aren't financially viable for drug companies.

I don't think there is a simple solution for that, but I can tell you is that these economics still won't prevent the discovery of such treatments. Some initial proof of this is the fact that the scientific community has embraced the concept that cancer is extremely heterogenous and will require a unique treatment for each individual patient (which has generated the "personalised medicine" buzzword).
Me either but if the charities where good ones then it seems like a win-win to me.

It's not that different than celebrities endorsing a charity for "free", they give up some time which gets positive PR and the charity gets the benefit of raising against their events.
blah blah feminism feminism feminism lets not treat women as equals. :/

please stop pretending women are somehow inferior to men and need articles to promote their position as if they are :/
Yes. http://nypost.com/2015/02/16/millenials-ditching-their-tv-se...
Well, thanks, I think I speak for all of us in that last paragraph. :-)
I didn't claim it wasn't production ready, the parent post did.
Defining a market is itself an external influence. There is no object that is intrinsically a market: all markets are made to exist by human action. Sure, it would be nice that those external factors that define a market don't change too much too quickly, and that those factors are clearly and openly accounted for, but all markets are unfree if this is your definition. It is an ideal that cannot be realized because it is incoherent.

I think your example of a non-free market would better be called unfair. Of course, everyone has a different definition of fairness, but it's a useful term for discussion to coalesce around.
Well, the real difficulty is to figure out what barrkel meant by 'public value'.

Either the current scheme contributes less to public value than the previous privatized scheme, or it doesn't.

Is additional extortion by local crews better for public value than higher fees by foreign owners?

Figuring that out requires making a political judgement, rather than leaving the discussion on the abstract concept of 'pure rent extraction'.

(As the canal is artificial, and Egypt does maintain and develop the canal, and creates new wealth by providing an alternative transportation connection, I really don't see how it is 'pure'.)
They did update the employee conduct when I first complained about it. Previously it just said, "don't watch porn at work." I'm exaggerating. But barely. I want to laugh and I want to cry.
Quote emcq's response above:

> 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.

I'd say a better approach (but may have user experience penalty) would don't even decide for the user, ASK. For example, take Flipboard / Quora as an example, you are asked to choose some topics to follow at the beginning. Assume research/data show 80% of the users are software engineers and 90% of them always pick "technology" as a topic they want to follow, would you rather show technology as one of the top five in the list of topics to choose? There's actually a lot of experiments you can do from a simple selection/survey process. I personally can't stand at going through pages to find something relevant, but I am also surprised to find things I never thought would be interesting to follow if I weren't present the options at all / or earlier.
The Muse (YC W12) is hiring full-stack engineers
I am probably going on too much, but I really want people not to believe some ridiculous story about being washed up at 30. Learn something new, people! Before you take a job, look at your resume and see what your career trajectory is. Do you work places and go after a year (this can be bad)? Do you have a substantial time period at a strong company? Can you talk about why you left each company? What can you contribute?

I was more than 10 years at Microsoft, mostly IC and some lead work, and then back to being an IC at the internet giant, then lead at a startup, now mixed design and dev at the new company; i was hired on dev skills plus experience.

$150k in stock and salary is reasonable for an experienced dev, say 10 years. At the startup we paid mid career good devs 150k in salary, plus worthless options. A typical deal for devs with 10+ years who can do c++, java, distributed programming is 150-175k in salary, a couple 100k in stock, paid over 4 years, plus new grants each year. 2 years ago when twitter was doing better I got almost 200k in salary, plus double that in stock, payable over 4 years.
you don't seem to understand how bitcoin works. all the nodes on the network must follow the same rules. neither classic nor XT have different consensus rules. They have change proposals, but those can't be activated until the majority of the network agrees to it - basically the miners mining X blocks out of the last 1000. The majority of miners are on core and until that changes, core is the rules.

What I'd love to see is if core would simply stop all development (maybe after the HF and SigWit) and focus 100% on developing an RFC describing the protocol (bugs and all) in detail. Once that's done then we can feel comfortable running other nodes that are compliant and there can be true competition. Then we can work on a steering committee that can manage the development of the protocol. Because 5 developers acting as economists/central bankers is not the way to go.
> I’m very cynical about efforts to get girls into science. I’m very cynical about efforts that are meant to change women into something better. And, it’s time for them to be the new thing that is good to be. That’s fine for women who feel drawn to science—I’m certainly one of them. But every time we tell girls to be something else, we’re also telling them that whatever they are isn’t enough.

You seem to have posted this on the wrong article, because it appears that the interviewee agrees with you.
> I'm getting the impression they don't really have a concern for the community.

Of course they don't. Their "sharing economy" BS is just short-term regulatory capture as a business model: pull together enough money to buy off various politicians, change the laws to suit their business practices, and let someone else deal with the consequences. See the extractive industries and subsequent Superfund sites.
The Eviction Economy
http://crystal-lang.org/ might be a good fit for you then. Or http://nim-lang.org/ if you're flexible on syntax.
Thunderbolt 3 and the mainstreaming of an external GPU will play a factor in this.

If Apple embraces this, then as soon as the new Intel chips are in all of their computer products, they can release or third parties can offer better external GPU solutions.
I have nothing to say other than, author, if you're reading this, this opinion was... There's no other word for it: utterly fantastic.
How can you believe that when they literally forced down diplomatic planes over Europe for just some of the leaks the US are out to get him for? When the whole Swedish bar association is up in arms at the abuse of process and Swedish image related to the farcical charges? When the documents about his police statements there were all leaked and clearly show his innocence from the allegations? To me, your thought process just seems naive.
> For those interested in the "AI threat" discussion, here's an excellent thread on Quora about it with answers from Andrew Ng, Yoshua Bengio, and Pedro Domingos (along with other random opinions): https://www.quora.com/Is-AI-an-existential-threat-to-humanit....

I read Andrew Ng's answer on quora - but I'm not sure it is really addressing the stronger arguments or concerns that would suggest 'AI may be existential threat to humanity' as much as a straw-man of the 'evil super-intelligence', with all respect, it's hard to call this an interesting or involved answer.
Tufte has done some neat stuff but his claim that Challenger (or even more tenuously, Columbia) were caused by bad powerpoint presentations strains credibility.

The problem wasn't that the right people didn't know the danger. The problem was that they had enormous political pressure on them to move forward, and they were able to discount the danger in their own minds and fail to stop the launch despite being informed.
Author here. Not sure why it was posted, but this (really old) project is basically defunct. I gave github.com/luna/* to the people creating the visual Luna language that was on HN recently. Moving it to my account must have caught someone's eye.

Anyway it was just a toy project that I never had enough time/motivation to complete. I was inspired by the size of Lua's VM, but deterred by its obscurity (and lack of inline documentation), so my original goal was to create a very clean and minimal VM.