skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that strategy did not work for them in India. Hence they are trying to sell cheaper refurbished models.
Github now returns 404 (Not Found) for the linked project.
> I actually don't understand why ISP do not offer better upload speeds.

ISPs usually have business/enterprise offers with more upload bandwidth for $$$. They don't want to cannibalize this with more upload speed for residential users.
Maybe I'm miscalculating, but I think you're off by an order of magnitude.

According to [1], a dense open space office in Manhattan has 100-120ft² per employee; let's take 108ft² which is ~= 10m². That means each m² has ~1/10 of an employee. Even if you multiply by 100 floors, you're only getting ~10 employees/m².

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/nyregion/as-office-space-s...
I don't know a lot about it, but AIUI it's mostly a fork of MySQL with more features, rather than a fundamental improvement. MySQL's problem isn't that it's owned by Oracle.
I had a look at the matrix*vector multiplication code for Eigen once and it was rubbish.
But it's not just software giants, a surprising number of hardware devices and companies use BSD too. I'd bet neither your self-driving car nor your doctor's medical devices run linux. The CDN you're reading this from... probably not linux either and probably not the routers sending the traffic either. Your cell phone GSM network isn't running atop a linux distro.
Nothing seems especially horrible here, they're basically saying that if you submit things to their distribution network (whatever it is, I honestly have no idea) that they can then distribute it worldwide. A little strange that they don't allow you to terminate it at some point but that's probably to ensure growth of whatever this Store thing is going to be.

But I mean, no one had a gun to your head about writing Oculus software anyway, so...
> To flip your force model around, you cannot force people to create for you. But the hope of future money does provide incentive to many of them.

But who says that this future money has to be enforced by copyright laws? It is also possible by either asking for donations (from which for example Tarn and Zach Adams, the creators of Dwarf Fortress, live) or something similar to Kickstarter/Indiegogo (the product won't be created/released until some money is donated).

So in other words: Even this incentive wouldn't be killed if there were no copyright laws.
Yeah, that app is decommissioned. I'll update that working app soon, thanks for reminding me about it! :)
> I think any person in the "west" would be delighted to see free elections in Russia. Why wouldn't we? Since it would be a missive influence on our lives, of course western media should care!

In practice, that's not true. Take Egypt as an example where the US government tried to keep Mubarak/Suleiman in place [1] until it was unfeasible during the Arab Spring. When it was time for elections, they pretended to be for them (And so did the western media and public) until the Muslim Brotherhood was elected. That was not well received because democracy is only good if people elect who we want them to elect.

The military coup [2] happened, probably with foreign intervention, and the US government couldn't be more pleased with it. Most of the western public either doesn't know, doesn't care or thinks it's better that way and the media will go along official US lines and not call them dictators like they don't call US aligned governments authoritarian or non-democratic. That's strictly reserved for our opponents.

[1] - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/05/hillary-clinton...
[2] - https://theintercept.com/2014/10/02/feigned-american-support...
I take your point, but India is not exactly unique here.

To name but two, China has similar one-sided regulations and Switzerland has companies that can aggressively mount hostile takeovers of foreign competition, whilst being effectively protected from same (Nestles being the obvious example).

Contradictory attitudes seem quite common!
So you're saying Wessley is safe? Is that your opinion as a Dutch law expert? Maybe before making such dismissive comments you should consider that maybe Wessley is reading this and forming an opinion on whether this silly little github project will have any significant impact on his life.

Despite what many people associate The Netherlands with, we're not a liberal state. We're a democratic bureaucracy that leans heavily towards pleasing our trade partners and making sure the country is pleasant to live in for our citizens. That means we will extradite hackers, spy on our inner cities with cameras and force our ISP's to keep communication records of everyone.

Every once in a while citizens get pissed off and some policy is reversed or diminished, but usually they don't care enough. I'm not saying Wessley will be fined or worse, but just that should this small app draw the ire from whatever big publisher corporation, he definitely is not 'safe' just from being in The Netherlands.
Israelis
His wife is not called "Miguel Arias Cañete" though.
Triton reboots its widely vexed campaign for “artificial gills”
I'm glad you're using https =)
> He's not wrong though

I have yet to a shred of evidence for this 20 year theory
Monetization is not great, but I think the biggest culprit in this case is a mix of competition, ad agencies and classic greed.

The number of impressions is limited and declining (moving from the desktop where you can put 15 ads on each page to the mobile where you have max 1 or 2 ads per page) and companies are fighting for the attention of the user while content providers try to squeeze as many adspaces they can in their pages to incrase/stabilize the declining CPM (cost per thousand impression), so they ask their ad agencies to create more inventive and engaging (attention grapping/annoying) banners.

When they ask website to do their new and improved format, they usually get a no in response. Then they shove more money at the problem until some website can't say no anymore and accept the new format.

Once someone else has accepted the others can't keep saying no or the company will only do banners with the competition that actually accept the new format, so everyone does.

All new invasive formats usually start with clear and strict rules: only one each day, for a max of two per week. And we can show the ad to each users a maximum of twice a day.

But this "rules" become progressively less strict as more and more companies want to purchase the new format that has a much higher cost and some ad manager will come to you faking sadness (while actually counting his cut behind his back) and say the magic words: "I don't like it either but it's how we paid your salaries and it's too much money to pass up."

And this is how banner "standards" are born.
Feedback from Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4daew9/why_i_w...
> If you're trying to get paid for creative work, donations simply don't work as a model.

Counterexample: Tarn and Zach Adams (Dwarf Fortress).

> You can't place a market value on [...] the Theory of Relativity.

Copyright does not help here.
Don't forget Google's free hosting of Javascript libraries and webfonts. The cost of serving those is recouped by dropping a cookie on you. Also Google DNS can give them great insight into domain popularity.
Mailtrain – self hosted Mailchimp clone in Nodejs+MySQL
I'd pay if they

Try being in not-the-USA and paying for content. Add "Linux" in there and you can forget about it.
I think rather than going back and forth, perhaps someone should explain the difference between average and median?
I love how you think leveraging your retirement savings to be a commercial landlord with zero experience is a good idea.

That's a highly competitive market filled with deep pockets and thin margins.
And discussion here about an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11420853
> On Google search sometimes the people who will pay for ads are sometimes a better signal than those that SEO their way to the top.

Are they?

If you have 2 products that sell for X, one company spends Y on ads and X - Y on product, the other spends X on product. It would seem that the second one should be SEOd (by good reviews and recommendations) to the top, and that would be the more important signal.
So their definition of "service" is "physical goods, platform services, software, websites, applications, and content". Does this mean that if I wrote, say, a 3D modelling tool for the Rift, than anything that my users create could be grabbed by them (and given to others) for free?
and this is also exactly equivalent to distributing profits in the form of a dividend.

I don't see this equivalence. I guess It's rather like settling debt since after a buy-back there will be fewer future dividends to pay. But nothing changes for continuing shareholders, does it?
Huh? This paragraph

> By submitting User Content through the Services, you grant Oculus a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual (i.e. lasting forever), non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free and fully sublicensable (i.e. we can grant this right to others) right to use, copy, display, store, adapt, publicly perform and distribute such User Content in connection with the Services

is pretty much standard in terms of service for virtually any type of online service or, well, anything which involves user-created content. They're not asking for control over your work, they just want to be sure you can't sue them for copyright violation simply by virtue of you using their service and them distributing your content for you.

It's legal boilerplate and should not be worrying. Read the ToS of your favourite social media service, it probably has the same paragraph near-verbatim.

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If you don't believe me, look at the individual provisions, they're quite reasonable:

“worldwide” – Oculus want to be sure that they're able to distribute your content in not just your home country, but all regions they're distributing it in.

“irrevocable” – Oculus do not want you to be able to revoke their ability to legally distribute your content while they're still doing so. This doesn't mean they won't give you the option to stop doing so.

“perpetual” – Likewise, it would be problematic for Oculus if in a year's time they could no longer legally distribute your content. Again, if you wish to stop distributing it, you can ask them to.

“non-exclusive” – You're not giving up your rights to let other people distribute the same content.

“transferable” – Oculus themselves might be distributing the content, but what if they later merge with another company? In which case, they need to be able to transfer the license.

“royalty-free” – Oculus do not want to have to pay you for every single time they make a copy of your content. This doesn't mean they won't pay you if people, say, buy your game.

“fully sublicensable” – Oculus, in the course of distributing your content, might use other services (for example, Amazon AWS). In the course of doing so, they need to be able to extend this license to them.

“use, copy, display, store, adapt, publicly perform and distribute such User Content in connection with the Services” – Covers every possible use they can think of, because laws may consider each of these to be different.

The reason they ask for this license is because otherwise there's only an implicit one, and being outright about it saves them potential legal headaches. Each of these provisions is not necessarily implied in an implicit license grant. It's an unlimited do-anything license because that covers every possible use-case.
> You're essentially pirating content now.

Earlier, the websites were "pirating" his/her device & browser.
See, now you know that the applicant knows the basic skill set AND is a quick learner.
Land-value taxation has much better incentives. Income taxes provide an incentive to be "poor", while land-value taxes provide an incentive to not use valuable space.
Well, Trump was my first thought seeing the headline. He wants to ban Muslims from the US. Turkey is a Muslim country.
Hotz is clearly talented, but it's hard to believe that autonomous highway driving is an example of being able to complete anything more difficult. On a side note, i love the tagline put on comma.ai, "ghostriding for the masses".
>who says that this future money has to be enforced by copyright laws

I certainly didn't. I don't think there's anyone who says that copyright laws make it illegal to commission an artist.

> Even this incentive wouldn't be killed if there were no copyright laws

Yes, there are at least three systems (patron, tip jar, and copyright monopoly) to make money as a writer or artist.
The lazy way (which is still arguably better than answering truthfully) is to use the same answer for all the security questions. The better way is to treat each answer as another password and encrypt and store the answers somewhere safe.
I don't see how this helps Apple. They offered cheaper versions with 8GB ROMs in India before. It backfired because though they were cheap it was a shitty experience. With iOS 9 underperforming even on iPhone 5S, I don't see how this more will do anything but tarnish Apple image further.

Indian customers do not want to spend less. They want to spend as much as they can but expect longevity and quality. Historically Apple has provided that.

Apple's iPhone 5S is 20K in India. Fairly affordable for an iPhone. If they are selling refurbished, they are trying to probably nibble at Moto G buyers. Even if they succeed, they are not a segment that is expected to exceedingly spend on App Stores or iCloud storage. That is the segment expecting things like Bluetooth file transfer. That is the segment not paying 1500/month for a decent plan which has enough LTE.

All of Apple's moves these days are operational. It almost seems like COO has a complete run of the brand. Move the inventory. That's all that matters.
I thought about downloading all the youtube videos that I consider have future watching values but then i realised it would take way too much effort and storage space to download and tag/categorise them and that there is no limit to my hoarding tendency.
I would have agreed with you to some extent (Adblockers are STEELING!!! Really... companies deserve to earn money for what they provide)...

Until 30 after 30: http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-say...

Block users who have adblock? Okay...

Serve those users pop under malware for over a week to users who was kind enough to disable ad blocking? Not Okay...

I lost my inclination to feel guilty after that... Ad Blocking is a SECURITY measure at this point, since ad networks can't seem to protect me.

I'll protect myself to the best of my ability.
I think the point is that Linux gets that stuff first, since it's a more open system which makes it easier to hack stuff into.
Unfortunately due to the large occurrence of malware being served over ad networks I will never choose to view ads even for trusted sites.

I will and have support people in other mediums(donations, patreon, etc), but the advertising model serving bad actor's code to my browser is not going to fly.
What+Everyone+Ought+to+Know+About+the+StratoSpindle
The key to why the obvious algorithm of "half a Fisher-Yates shuffle" isn't enough is that it uses O(k) memory, whereas Vitter's algorithm is constant.

http://play.golang.org/p/UqC6XWrPLB
Among other rights it includes the right to "adapt" (i.e. modify), so it isn't just about distribution rights.
The same way as you keep track of any secure password: either with a password manager like 1Password, etc, or else through some Byzantine scheme that you manage yourself.
>Companies are doing buybacks because the Fed is basically siphoning all the wealth to big business and the Government via 0 per cent interest rates.

Wow, you managed to put almost every misinformed finance meme into a single paragraph.
How does an advert deliver a virus? Are these genuine remote native code execution vulnerabilities in browsers? Or just breaking the sandbox somehow and using internal browser APIs?

Isn't what you need a security patch for your browser rather than an advert blocker?
>What we should really achieve is 1Gbps symmetric connections. Then the cloud is your LAN

jokes on you because my LAN is 100. also im pretty sure all 4 ports on my el cheapo switch are shared.
We could always try to put the servers into the center of the USA. Apart from gaming, household to household latency is not particularly important.
>You're essentially pirating content now.

No, what you're doing is reformatting content that is being openly broadcast to anyone who cares to look in its direction, to best suit your interests and device capabilities and security.

If a site literally cannot survive without ads being viewed, they should block those who use ad blockers or reconsider their business model since blocking will only become more prevalent over time.

Not a bad idea on the email though.
> It's amazing to me that I still actively seek out some legacy ads (flyers in the Sunday paper, Thursday car ads, Wednesday butcher ads) in the local paper

Those are not ads. It's legitimate information that helps you, so you seek it out. The vast majority of ads are not informative, but rather use emotional manipulation to get you to buy stuff you don't need, or that you wouldn't buy otherwise.
That approach could work, but we're on the 2nd floor and with parking spaces being tight we usually don't get to park immediately outside the front door.

I'm assuming that the council will install charging stands at some point - if these had dedicated parking (and no residents parking charge!) then that would encourage people to use them.

Some properties in the street have coal holes in the road - that might an interesting place to install charging paraphernalia.
What are you really going to do with a 1gbps residential connection, that doesn't sound as tentative and outlandish as my plan to push a shopping cart full of iPhones streaming their own episode of GoT down the street? (it's art, don't ask)

This isn't about having a feasible plan to exhaust the new standard using current technology and use cases, it's about pushing the new standard as far as possible (within technological limits), so it can last as long as possible without needing to be redesigned. Also, reality has a nasty habit of catching up to the possible much faster than anticipated.
For simplicity, assume that the company buys back stock from all shareholders equally, and then the shareholders trade amongst themselves.

Dividends and buybacks are simply a way to get money from the company to the shareholder. The total number of outstanding shares is of no import---as you can see in stock splits.
The Guardian newspaper in the UK (y'know one of the newspapers Edward Snowden reached out to), are exactly that.

Except you can read it for free online. You can consider signing up as a Guardian Member if you want to support them.
The landing page for that link: https://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/534.en.html

Video part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l2rlRjkGhk

Video part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1-ZyiY5z48

The above two videos cued up in a giant "BSDCan" playlist, as linked from the first page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l2rlRjkGhk&list=PLWW0CjV-Ta...
The atomic bomb is the sort of scientific knowledge that many regret to have created - including the people who were in charge of their creation - Oppenheimer in the US and Sakharov in the USSR both spent their lives fighting for nuclear non-proliferation, after having seen the bomb in action.

A much wiser approach would have been to not create these weapons in the first place, but that's a long and complicated discussion.

Now we have books like "Unmaking the Bomb", which are interesting to read but are impossible to implement, because scientists are no longer in control of this knowledge.

And this is the point I was trying to make (probably in vain, I know), that it is wiser to not open some boxes, than to squeeze the monsters that come out of them back inside.
Exactly. If number of shares would matter, share splits would matter.
Ask HN: What compensation to expect as new CTO?
I'm trying to get an idea of what to expect in terms and salary and stock for a CTO/Co-founder position at a startup.
This is a startup that has raised money and working towards series A and is earning some revenue already.

A few searches online show wildly different figures so I thought I'd ask here and see if anyone has experience in this area to share?

While I'm really looking forward to working at this startup and in a new role, obviously I want to make sure I'm compensated fairly and have a good chance of doing well in any liquidation events in the future.

This is in London, UK by the way.
Why is that? I think there's nothing wrong with mentioning the EFF without linking to their donations page.
It's not just David Chang complaining about the slim profit margins that most restaurants operate with. Anyone who browses Eater on a regular basis will have come across multiple restaurant shutdowns almost on a daily basis. Does this mean that ALL restaurants struggle? Of course not, but you can't deny the fact that restaurants are extremely risky investments. This is why many well known chefs have started doing things like food trucks or pop up restaurants to test out new concepts rather than invest millions of dollars on signing a new building lease.
If they can't get paid without manipulating the public into buying stuff (i.e. ads), they don't deserve to get paid.
10K-LOC just wrote an article on this titled Effective Code Reviews:

https://10kloc.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/effective-code-revie...
the cartels in northern mexico have been known to run their own rouge cell networks

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143442365/mexico-busts-drug-ca...
That's because interest payments on debt are taxed at a lower rate than dividends. Fix the tax system, and the leverage will go away.
Dividends also signal.
Our coding test is quite long (3 hours) [...] This is
significantly less commitment for most than taking a day
off work for a day of working/pair programming/etc.

Whether that saves candidates' time depends on the stage in the recruitment pipeline when companies send the test out.

If a company sends me a 3-hour test, then the hiring manager rejects my CV because I don't have enough Foo experience, they've wasted 3 hours of my time with the test as I wouldn't have been invited to interview anyway.
As Valk Fleet is put into administration
Since the alternative would be "there is no market for reuse of once-used phone", the recycling policy would not deter me. Apple as a seller and I as a buyer are making the world better by providing a secondary market for high-level re-use rather than component/elemental level recycling or landfilling.

IOW, the recycling policy DOES apply, IMO, even if there is no downstream from my use recycling intent (which I think is still an open question from the text and the overall good results Apple gets on recycling).

As a US consumer, I generally buy and use 13-18 month old iPhones until they no longer reliably function or until the battery life is too poor, then I go buy another one-generation old phone. Apple has nothing to do with this, other than keeping the upgrade treadmill going for everyone else so I can get my $200-250 used phones to put on an MVNO (Ting in my case).
I agree in theory, but in practice, it's impossible unless the entire world agrees on the same VAT rules, otherwise shopping across country barriers is bound to happen.
This is really one of the worst submissions I've seen in the many years I've been on here. It offers no cogent, insightful argument why as a developer I should be afraid nor anything particularly useful other than give up the opportunity to develop for a lucrative, ground breaking platform. Brilliant.

And as a developer surely this person would understand why this clause is necessary. Because when a user uploads a photo to a service they will use it, copy it, adapt it (e.g. re-encode, make thumbnail), display it and distribute it (e.g. to CDNs). All of which needs a sublicense in order to do.