skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without IPFS, pretty sure authorities can order to take down the repository and all of the forks.
Just like how google's predecessors were not keen on search relevance so that users didn't find what they were searching for quickly - leading to them spending more time on the website and increasing ad revenue. We know where that logic led those companies to ;-)
Racist attacks on YikYak at prestigious college
Post Berne, I believe copyright is the default. It may be WTFPL but it appears to be surprisingly hard to actually put something into public domain based on the brief reading I've been doing.
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The same can happen with GitHub repositories, though, that is how the vast majority of Go packages get published.

It's almost as if privately controlled, centralized archives are a bad idea.
The impulsivity seen in patients only happens in the synthetic, and possible more "selective" dopamine agonists that work more with certain dopamine receptor subtypes. Whereas, levodopa, which is a dopamine precursor and presumable not selective at all (ie. works on all receptors) do not have the impulsivity effect, or at least as dramatic, on these same or similar patients.
to generate a lot of data to sell microprocessors to people who make internet bots
A GL context sounds cool, although at what point are you just reimplementing a DWM inside xterm?
With a currency backed on gold there is no such thing as inflation. And in fact money tends to increase value over time, as the economy grows.

Of course invested money can be lost, but on average it grows. The expected value of investing is almost always positive.
I know we all love Amazon prime, but I buy from Newegg whenever possible. Greatest PR campaign ever.
Oooh, some are pretty cool. Here's a silly question: I'm just some random dude with zero experience or history of investing. When and how might I be able to invest in any of the startups listed in this page?
Barely satire, the only difference from reality is that they meant to do it.
HTTP/HTTPS not working inside your VM? Wait for it
Also explaining nicely with real life to the face why you should only use specific versions, or at least specific ranges for your dependencies.
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I remember seeing a talk a while back where the presenter was attempting to define the utility function that characterizes intelligent agents. His thesis was that an intelligent agent would work to maximize, up to some event horizon, its number of possible courses of action. This reminded me of that talk - money, power, etc... are all ways to increase one's freedom of choice and thus autonomy.
hah fun read. #3 is a stretch - the car will obviously drop me in the most convenient location possible and then circle the block or go park itself. I'd love to see driverless cars just for #6. Not because I want to work more but simply to know what the "future iteration of email" will be!
Yea! Great read.
If you like what Newegg is doing... Buy from Newegg! You might save a few dollars with Amazon, but you'll save a lot more than that buying from Newegg.
Other ways, besides lying yourself, that you could know a person was a good lie detector:

* You've seen them catch others in a lie

* You've heard stories about the ability 2nd hand, either from people who have been caught themselves or from people who have seen others get caught.

In addition, there are many fuzzier, less reliable types of evidence:

* Somebody has so much knowledge and experience about something that you can safely assume irregularities would stand out to them.

* They just give off that vibe: soul-piercing gaze, etc.

* They tell you.

So logically, the question makes about as much sense as asking how you could know someone was a good cook if you've never tasted their food. And not only that, getting caught in a lie by someone isn't even necessarily good evidence of their lie detection abilities. Maybe you are just a terrible liar. Maybe they got lucky one time.
'User Pain' as bug metric (2008)
Potentially silly idea, but could this be (cheaply) replicated by a phone with a slow motion camera pointed across the finish line and an armband with a QR code on it facing towards the camera?
To me a patent troll has always been the patent equivalent of a SLAPP. Where you file not based on an expectation of winning, but that it will be less expensive for the defendant to settle than to fight the suit and win.
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I don't see the issue here. If the name is taken the lawful way (and Kik is a clothes store chain as well as a chat app, so it's even taken twice) why fight it or be angry about it? Just take another name.

That said the decisions by NPM are also hard to follow. Why allow someone else to take over ownership of a package? Why allow anyone to take down published versions of an open source package? If you publish open source stuff on my site I have all the right to keep that stuff in that version and share it with others. That's pretty much what FOSS is about, right?
What if an archived version of a module is found to contain errors or security holes? How would they fix that when the module is frozen in the BlockChain? Add a blacklist?
Customer isn't the same as boss.

When doing something a customer asks for, you are doing something for someone's benefit (usually...).

When doing something the boss asks for, well, you may never know whether it makes any sense to anybody at all if the company sufficiently detaches employees from the results of their work. There are places where you just feel like you are wasting time for nothing.

Besides that, you can always (but not too often ;)) tell some particularly annoying customer to leave and pick up another one.
I think the fact this article talks about "your car" demonstrates the failure of the journalist to understand the fundamental change that autonomous cars bring to society. Cars will become a "transport as a service" solution. Just as Uber is already allowing people in Urban environments not to own a car, so driverless cars will accelerate the process.

Expect a revolution in bus services. A type of transport that has fundamentally not changed since it's inception in the 1800s. Now you will be able to have on-demand bus services that take you from your nearest bus stop to the bus stop you need to go to. Expect a bus to be of any size, delivering the solution for the capacity needed on the planned route. That 3am journey might be a seconded 2 person pod from the local community service fleet provided by a local authority, compared to the 24 seater used at 8am by a dedicated bus service provider.

People need to stop thinking about "cars" and start thinking in terms of the intelligent mobile "seat".

Oh and his "errands" to the dry cleaners story. Why would an owner put that into his boot??? Why would they not use a personal delivery service, a mini-van with multiple security coded "boot spaces", that comes directly to your door, allows you to put things into the boot space, then delivers it to the business. The delivery service could even drop off a container for you to fill and then come by later to collect it.

Either I'm thinking about this WAY too much in my spare time (I campaign on transport) or that journalist is not doing their job properly.
In all honesty, I think npm handled this whole situation poorly. I'm not excusing the dev's behavior but I take issue with npm removing the module as well as arbitrarily restoring left-pad (with the cop-out of same name, different dev) WTFPL notwithstanding.

For those defending Kik's trademark, its like MS trying to trademark the word Windows. Didn't work that well for them either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com....
I am obviously a old fossilized ancient developer. This situation seems like insanity.

not the unpublishing part. the part where the thing that you require to sell/publish/do your job isn't under control or isn't stored within your organization.

Am i wrong in thinking that you should just have a local copy of all of your source code dependencies. would it really take that much longer?
This has been posted previously (2008, 2009) with no comments. I'm interested in HN's opinion on this.

Does any bug tracker support that feature? I haven't seen it in the ones I'm using.
> Can we talk about how patents own namespaces?

This has nothing to do with patent law. It's a trademark dispute. The two types of laws are as unrelated as property law and contract law.
Yeah, they're getting there. The binary package cache is a start. If it cached upstream tarballs and git revs as well as builds, it would mitigate the sort of thing the OP talks about.

Nix still needs some sort of distributed trust model, though. Without that, nixos.org is a single point of failure.
I remember Mission Motorcycles came up with a Model S equivalent motorcycle(electric, high end). Looks like they shut down late last year - http://www.autoblog.com/2015/09/14/mission-motorcycles-power.... Not surprising considering the expected price(30k-55k)
This seems like a fairly childish response. I'm not pro-copyright, especially in software, but "someone took my made up name" seems like a dumb reason to unpublish the rest of your work.

> "NPM is someone’s private land"

No shit npm is a privately owned company? That hasn't changed before nor after you took these actions.

> "Power To The People"

This is what I don't get. All of the modules that were unpublished seem unpopular / not used so I don't know what impact this will have, but how does screwing over users of open source software equate to power to the people?
Why not pin against the git hash?
Markdown as a media type will have arrived when the first spam email is sent in markdown.
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ESCALATING ANDroid DEVELOPMENT COSTS?
That. Is. Not. How. Trademarks. Work.

A trademark gives you protection of a mark within a specific industry. "Software" is not a specific industry. They do not get wholesale ownership of the term.

And if you blindly install a module, expecting it to be some official release without looking it up, you're an idiot.
Serious remark: I am Dutch and when I was very young and computers and games were rare I played text adventures and they were English only: I do not think I can imagine a more efficient way of learning reading and writing as a young child. Why not let them play the games in English? I live in Spain now and the major complaint the youth makes about learning English is that everything is available and usually forced (dubbing in movies and tv shows included) in Spanish so even if they write/speak English I cannot really understand it; too little real case practice.

Edit: also I see in daily life how my Portuguese colleagues struggle finding answers because they read docs/learn and have errors/feedback in PT and so search answers in Google in PT as well which often works but in some cases does not and usually I have to figure out what the problem is in English which will usually provide the answer. I see that the better coders in our team and switch their computers to EN and follow the English tutorials so why not do that straight away... For maintenance, even in small companies, comments need to be in English so why use PT/ES in the first place for codoing. Not saying you should teach your kids programming (although, why not) :)
Speaking of Nix, I just watched this video by Eric Merritt from recent Erlang Factory conf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRSFJH3Lw6I

He is the author of one of the popular Erlang books and here talks about using Nix in production instead of just pure langauge specific package managers (or OS package managers).

Some really good insights on immutability, reproduceability, and of course real production use examples.
The pushers("Pandango, Inc.") run a webmail service, so I think the intention of this is that if you wanted to write an email with more expressive styling, you could use markdown instead of having to write HTML.
Asking for Immutable / Append-only is insanity, due to the fact that eventually someone WILL clutter the hell out of it, which all of your mirrors will hate you for, as well as downstream ecosystem toolchains. The only viable way to allow it is by vetting every upload, and uh, good luck finding volunteers for that.

Decentralized / Distributed is a good thing to have and prior art already exists.

Source: Experience with the grand daddy CPAN.
sigh
I never understood why markdown (given it's lack of formal spec) "won" the light markup battle...
I still think restructuredtext is syntactically better equipped and pleased to read...
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This is plainly wrong the device is fully encrypted RTFM
https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

PS: But yeah the optional iCloud backup is currently the weak spot.
I love how it was said that something like this has "only happened 3 times in the last 2 years". The fact that it's so easy to break npm is hilarious, and of course the maintainers don't care.
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who talk about websites, javascript and whatnot?
Not only a lawsuit it's just totally inappropriate, invasive, and rude.
"How our courses work" jump link doesn't work.

s/Colaborate/Collaborate/g

Are you going to make all the courses yourself or are you considering paying third parties to make courses?
Ok makes sense. I should also apologize, Google didn't really give me trick questions when I talked to them 4 years ago or so (but other companies did), so didn't mean to imply they did as well.

Google had a list of technoliges as you described, and I was asked to rate myself on each one. I think it would have been slightly better if they explain why or how it is used.
Javascript has an almost non-existent standard lib. Obviously Python ships with most of the kitchen sink in core. You're not grumpy, but you're misguided.
Except of course that the library in question is 12 lines of code. And that you might not even know that three levels down your dependency tree someone used that module.
I particularly hate it when package mainteners don't get semver http://semver.org/ and a minor change introduces a breaking change.

We've had it a couple of times where builds fail, only to find a breaking change introduced into a minor or patch version. I know it feels like a big thing releasing a major version, but it's a good thing. Hell even node is at version 5.9, probably 5.10 by the time I check back later today. ;)
This why sites that don't allow package authors to "unpublish" have contact information so that data deletion can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
CHg: A bit faster Mercurial client for Unix with per-user cmdserver daemon
Shoot him an email if you're interested. rms@gnu.org.
I hear this all the time but have never seen an actual example? Are there any? (Where defense was existent but perhaps incomplete, not nonexistent)
I know the "tecnicism" (hell, I have written a pair of plugins and a pair of firefox extensions).

But from the "features" point of view, is there something I can do sorely with a plugin? (I think about direct filesystem access or the likes)
You may need to be an accredited investor, in which case you either need at least a million in assets or an income of more than 200k. I believe this restriction is in the process of being removed eventually though.
I benefit from Canada's favourable option plan, but it is still bullshit. These tax loopholes are how a VP of Marketing at an obviously going-to-be-successful company like Shopify makes $1m / year while only paying half the top marginal tax rate.

Even more if they are clever. I'm not sure if they've closed the loophole but you used to be able to max out their TFSA by exercising their options, claiming the share certificates, then putting them into their brokerage account before the Series A is closed. It only costs $500 / year at RBC to do this you / your family just can't ever own 10% of the stock in question and it is completely legal. Then when your $40k of shares grows to $4m after the IPO you have a perpetual tax free investment account.

But these tricks are nothing new. Businesses have all the flexibility in the tax code. The only year I was in the 1% in terms of income I paid an effective tax rate of 12%, and this wasn't because I qualified for the capital gains exemption tax when my business was acquired (the business wasn't was too young, your business needs to be at least 2 years old to qualify).

Investment income should be taxed the same as normal income with one caveat: losses should decrease normal income and should be _after_ inflation. Right now the biggest pushback I hear (that I think is legitimate) to raising the capital gains / dividends rate is about inflation; which makes sense for 4% blue chip bonds, but falls apart on 40% yoy options that are more like deferred income plans than they are investment schemes.

Edit: Downvote me all you want. People disagree with things that challenge situations that are good for them.
You're describing the process of actually delivering - that's currently UPS/FedEx, etc. They will certainly struggle with Amazon in the near future (and maybe Google). Shipping will always be owned by the big guys because it's a tough, expensive problem.

But ecommerce? That will always be open to smaller players because the start-up cost is low (you develop a way to sell it and give it to a shipping service).
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Without copyleft, we wouldn't have free software in the form it is today.
Immutability doesn't mean you need to have the whole history locally. For example in git you can just checkout one branch while the whole repo is on the server. For bitcoin there are clients which download only a part of the blockchain even when every transaction is immutable and cryptograpically signed.
They'd notice it when doing a local `npm i` for development.
I wonder if the Maniac Mansion you can play inside DoTT is also remastered :D
Great game, one of the best outros in any game (won't spoil it). I think it is the perfect sweet spot of an adventure game for me.
You just listed three things, and the study is suggesting that it's the first, not the second two.
We already have the immutable repo that you are looking for. We do all our builds from a caching proxy server that pulls in new binary objects when we need them, but serves up the old one for the 99% majority of repeat builds.

Artifactory is one package that does all of this, but in the past I have rolled my own using various packages to cache maven repos, Ubuntu packages, Python Pypi packages. It is not that hard and makes you mostly unaffected by Internet outages and repos that go away for some reason.

And since the cache is under your control you can publish your own binary objects to it, and clean it up too if you really want to get rid of something.
If you're using CloudFlare to protect your site against DDoS, you're essentially participating as part of a passive protection racket. "That's a pretty bold claim," you may reasonably contend. Here are the facts:

- A very large proportion (I would conservatively estimate >50%) of DDoS-for-hire sites are hosted on CloudFlare. I couldn't find a comprehensive survey of all attack service providers, but in a recent sample[1], 100% of the services were protected by CloudFlare.
- CloudFlare will not discontinue service for customers offering DDoS-for-hire services unless you are the police and bring them a court order [2].
- If you are not the police and submit a report of someone operating an illegal service behind CloudFlare, they will forward you report, unredacted, to the owner of the IP range. They will not tell you who owns it prior to forwarding the report. It is highly likely that your identifying information will be passed to the (anonymous) individual operating the attack service and that their (likely bulletproof) hosting provider will do absolutely nothing.

"Why do all of these services use CloudFlare?", you ask. One simple reason: before CloudFlare, the market of DDoS-for-hire services was somewhat self-regulating via all of the providers DDoSing each other. Since the advent of CloudFlare, though, many have used its protection to avoid attacks from the others, which has led to an increase in DDoS-for-hire services and a reduction in prices as they attempt to compete with each other. CloudFlare providing DDoS protection to these DDoS-for-hire sites therefore effectively increases the supply of such services. On top of that, "just use CloudFlare like everyone else" doesn't work for everyone -- people who don't easily fit into CloudFlare's plans (particularly people offering services via protocols other than HTTP/HTTPS) can't use it at all, while some others have to pay for a higher tier of service. It sounds pretty convenient for CloudFlare that all of these DDoS services are around (and cheap to use), doesn't it?

Further reading: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gb...

[1]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03410
[2]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/thoughts-on-abuse/
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
The US Federal Government only has the ability to regulate interstate commerce. Kik, the project, does not engage in commerce. Also, npm (the package manager) is not a commercial vehicle.

>I couldn't make an open source word processor and call it "Microsoft Word".

Sure you could, you just couldn't use it in commerce.
3 reasons (for me)... all of this are harder to write and to remember in restructured text: source code blocks, links and images.
Also sections definition is totally fuzzy for me http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtex...

Markdown can work more like your mind. Restructured text is still too much like programming.
I think trusting people is actually a good thing which the node community has going for them. The opposite culture of vetting everything and making it really cumbersome to publish artifacts would most likely have led to that 'left-pad' would never hav been published.
Sure, but the FSF and the GNU project were reactions to proprietary software becoming more common. Free software wasn't recognised as such until Stallman saw the issue and decided to act. Saying that "free software existed before the FSF" is ignoring the fact that free software would've died almost entirely without the FSF and GNU.
That’s also the whole point of using a function.

(For what it’s worth, I changed it from this to show off ES6.)

function repeat(s, times) {
return new Array(times + 1).join(s);
}

function padLeft(s, width, padCharacter) {
var d = width - s.length;

return d <= 0 ?
s :
repeat(padCharacter || " ", d) + s;
}
the Tesla model 3 would oversell all the BMW/Lexus/Mers taken together if - and that is a big if - it would cost $35K which, with all my respect to Musk, i just don't believe to happen. I think it will cost about $50K and at that price it will be a worthy competitor, yet not conqueror, to the 3 series, etc...
I'd like to believe that both paxunix and andrewsteward wrote those comments after having read the article, but pretended like they didn't for the Internet points. Actually makes the comments a bit funnier.
That's actually their standard 404 message: https://www.npmjs.com/package/lukegt-test.
I just wanted to say that I enjoyed reading your article. I wish you the best and keep up the good work. I especially appreciated the viewpoint of a non-american (as a non-silicon valleyian, which arguably has similar learning curves).
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Vetting new module is what the drupal.org project does, and the backlog is massive and people don't want to submit new projects due to new module hell.

After their first module they can create as many new modules aas they want though.