skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's not how open-source licensing usually works.

Assuming Oracle own all the IP rights (having purchased them from Sun), they aren't bound by the terms of the GPL. The GPL grants certain permissions to others if they comply with its terms, but the person who offers the license doesn't lose any rights they already have. They have no obligation to keep successive generations of derivative products open source.
I wonder if PG will update his "Microsoft is dead" prediction. Nadella seems to have resurrected Microsoft. I can't imagine them doing this under Ballmer or Gates.
> A Basic Income from Govt comes at a huge price of loss of individual liberty.

Funny, I always thought of UBI exactly the other way round. More precise I'd even say it is the most valuable opportunity at hand to generate sustainable values not degrading the planet in the aftermath.
I run MotionEyeOS on a raspberry pi and store my images and video on a NAS. Doesn't have to be a Synology.
(Fan of sprocs here, but) Parameterized queries can give you the same level of protection from SQL injection as sprocs.
NIC is analogous to basic income. At a certain point, the taxes you pay in a basic income scheme are equal to the basic income you earn. Those who earn less than you are earning a NIC, those above are paying income tax.

It is the same thing.
> Why would I put down someone I don't even know

I share your question, yet it seems to be what most internet forums are for.
This title is incorrect. $1.4M was not for the randomizer app.

Also, original post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11424873
Ask HN: From a regular consulting job to a remote startup worker – thoughts?
I'm current working at a IT services company in the Netherlands as a consultant for everything Microsoft for 3 years after graduating with honours from a local university. I'm mainly specialized in the Microsoft Web stack and Xamarin: got my MCSD's for Azure, Web Applications and I am a certified Xamarin developer. This means I know my way in full-stack architecture, DevOps, ASP.NET MVC, but also stuff like PHP, Angular, React and D3 aren't unfamiliar to me.

My consulting job takes 50h/week (with traffic), I moonlight another 24 hours a week as a freelancer, honing my skills as broadly as I can. As long as I learn something (and the pay is reasonable) I'm up. I've always been driven by passion and ambition, and by the need to do something new (preferably impossible at the time of saying 'yes'), and I'm thinking about applying for a remote worker position because my consulting job no longer triggers my passion and amibition....

I've been doing lots of jobs on the side, learning new technologies as they appeared, and that makes me think a 'remote' job as a worker for one of the "who's hiring" companies would be a good bet. Something new every day, being pushed to the limit by your teammates, working as a whole to crank out those awesome features for clients every day. I think I can be a a great asset with my knowledge (I'm full stack after all), allbeit knowledge of another stack (MS). Obviously I would only choose a startup if a) they would have me and b) I believe in the product (-:

I'd love for some of the readers to share their experiences with working for a startup (especially remotely). Some questions out the of the top of my mind are:

- Would you want to go back to your previous job? What if they paid you double?

- Working for a startup means putting in a lot more than the regular 40 hours / week we're used to in Europe. Is this hard on you? Does this affect your social life much?

- What are some of the downsides to working for a startup?

- Did you find your passion?
Whereas universal income means that everyone in society can tell terrible bosses that they can take their shitty job and shove it, and still live with dignity, a greater dignity than having to work at the absolute minimum of pay, regardless of whether 51% of politicians choose to call it a "living wage."
Don't people already do this with Synology NAS boxes? Just a normal IP camera, writing to storage and with remote access set up it should work. Not consumer plug and play, but I swear I've read about people doing this...
It's like a darknet market (Silk Road, AlphaBay, etc) that can't be taken down by law enforcement. Or it's like a clearnet market (Ebay) that doesn't take a cut and works with bitcoin.

It looks like it uses multisig as a form of escrow [1], but the third party isn't in any way affiliated with openbazaar, just whoever the vendor and customer can agree to trust. It looks like users have to find a third party on their own, out-of-band [2]. I can see this working for small vendors, but I don't see how it would work with large vendors without the emergence of 1–3 large escrow services, which would diminish some of the benefits of decentralization.

This kind of multisig-based escrow will never be able to compete with Ebay. On Ebay, customers don't realize that they're paying Ebay to be a moderator because it's included in the price tag. On OpenBazaar they will be forced to pay attention to the escrow fee. I also fear that it will be impossible for escrow services to develop the necessary level of trust without being forced on vendors by the marketplace and still compete with the customer-favoring escrow that Ebay has.

It competes much better with darknet marketplaces, since it eliminates the possibility of sudden cash-outs or FBI raids on the scales that other markets have seen. They should accept that that's where they'll be successful and integrate some kind of anonymizing layer, probably tor, maybe i2p.

[1] https://blog.openbazaar.org/what-is-openbazaar/

[2] https://openbazaar.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207548366
I have coded an if statement spanning a few thousand lines
You mean the pace at which you adopt new node features, right? Because the pace of node development does not dictate how you write code.
Things you couldn't cut: (1) Medicaid and Medicare spending and (2) all social security payments greater than $10K per year [of which there is a lot].
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take your arabs base

investbank.ae + full military

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11424606
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"Third, note that Bash and Linux tools cannot interact with Windows applications and tools, and vice-versa. So you won’t be able to run Notepad from Bash, or run Ruby in Bash from PowerShell."
I have gotten a couple ads recently that I appreciated, in that they reminded me of something I meant to buy but forgot about.
Is this in Insider Preview Build 14295 or is there an estimate on when the next preview will be out?
I've never understood that. Boarding early and having to have the entire plane trudge past you with their luggage is just not pleasant.

Is there a reason airlines don't board from the back of the plane first? As a first class customer you are assured of your overhead bin space anyway and you would spend the least amount of time on the plane. You would be the last on and the first off. But this would actually be thinking outside the box, not something you would expect of this ridiculous industry. What's the last time an airline did anything innovative?
I've been using App Engine for many projects since 2008. Like any tool, it's not the right tool for every job, but for its intended use cases, it's great. Being able to click Deploy, and not have to deal with sys admin is really convenient.

The one area where App Engine falls a bit short is lack of support for some widely used libraries like Numpy. It would be nice if The Google would add support for those (support for some transcoding libraries would be nice as well). Even better would be an interface to TensorFlow.
I live in a major metro area and use major interstates for most of my long trips. But the network is still a long way from where it would need to be to support all of my trips.

Here's an example that I've actually done twice in the last two years: Denver, CO to Austin, TX. That's about a 900 mile trip, and a long but tolerable day -- from Denver south to Raton, NM and then southeast through Amarillo, south to Lubbock, and then southeast again. To stay on the supercharger network I'd have to go all the way over to Oklahoma City (on either I-40 or I-70 to I-35), adding 150+ miles to the trip, not to mention longer and more frequent stops that would likely necessitate adding an extra half-day of travel time each way.

My brother lives in Chicago. His trips to Indianapolis would be covered, but not his trips to Denver.

Dallas-Fort Worth is a huge population center, with great supercharger coverage leaving north or south, but not east or west. If you're heading to Atlanta, Memphis, or St. Louis the supercharger network is going to be really inconvenient.

And while the majority of the US population does live in major cities connected by interstates, the majority of the US population has at least one close friend or family member they'd like to visit, who isn't connected by one of the supercharger-served routes. If you made graphs not just of population centers, but of close personal connections, your "graph of graphs" would have quite a few connections that aren't covered by the network. (While truck traffic and passenger traffic are not identical, figure 2.8 of https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/otps/bottlenecks/chap2.cfm suggests quite a few heavily-trafficked routes that aren't covered by the supercharger network.)

It's not my intent to be overly negative. I'm just being realistic, presenting the analysis I did myself about 6 months ago after my old car got wrecked in a hit-and-run. The majority of the time, I'd be happy with a Tesla and the supercharger network, but a couple times a year it would be a massive inconvenience. This is an area where the difference between 95% and 100% is huge. Tesla/superchargers are getting there, but it'll be several years before the infrastructure is in place for a pure electric plugin with a 200 mile range becomes a truly viable vehicle for the majority of people.
The information density of this article is very low.

> For the first time in its history, the W3C is adding encumbrances to the Web, rather than removing them.

How, specifically, so?
Where does it say this can't? I understood the opposite:

...we decided to grow our command line family by adding real, native Bash and with it support for Linux command-line tools which run directly on Windows in an environment that behaves like Linux!"

edit:

note that Bash and Linux tools cannot interact with Windows applications and tools, and vice-versa. So you won’t be able to run Notepad from Bash, or run Ruby in Bash from PowerShell.

So, which is it?
Indeed, it struck me as very awkward and sexist.

I enjoyed flying Virgin America, but losing this part of their culture will not be a bad thing.
Plus, everyone doesn't need the income and we cannot afford it anyway. I'm partial to trying pro-rated guaranteed minimum income paid weekly or nightly (one can dream). I have seen several proposals that include a clause affecting voting rights of the receivers.
I agree, but the theory goes that eventually tax havens will disappear. Europe would probably adopt UBI along with us. So those lower rates would go away. China would do something similar or would be too scary for westerners to fully flee to. Right now many companies are fleeing to Europe for better corporate rates while their C level employees benefit from lower personal tax rates in the US.
take arab bank bases

investbank.ae - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11424606
What commercial event wouldn't want to shield itself from the opinions of the market by claiming some amorphous "technical conference" status? I have no trouble understanding why De Goes prefers to frame the issue this way.
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Of course not, but the stability of such a state is becoming a concern with the current migration situation.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/wel...
I hope you can see how other people see it very differently. First, basic income can be implemented different ways, including a base that everyone gets regardless of income, fair in the same way that everyone gets equal access to the roads regardless of income. Anyone can get to where they're going, but how enjoyable that trip will be depends on what kind of car you can afford. There are still huge advantages to being wealthy.

Second, there are a lot of indications that the way to make money in modern capitalistic society is not to add value to society but to extract value from it. The more surefire way is to game the financial system, and you see huge firms that nearly crash the worldwide economy making billions. There's also a ton of money in gaming the legal system, which is why patent trolling is such big business. And that's just the beginning. Look at the Panama Papers! When you look at the worldwide economy, corruption is everywhere, and the most corrupt make the most profit.

You may disagree, and I hope I'm wrong and your right, but to a lot of people the viewpoint that the economy is essentialy fair and beneficial to society looks naive. When you get into the messy details, it begins to look to a lot of people like the more damage you do to society, the more money you make.

I sincerely hope that there's something I'm missing that says that corruption is just a small problem, the wealthy are getting what they deserve, and that the system is working. I'm still open to the idea.
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Half of Scotland's electricity consumption came from renewables last year
Ask HN: Data questions for YC?
Hi Hacker News,

I'm Jared, I work at Y Combinator. We're going to be talking and writing about how we use data at YC, and I'd like to get the community's feedback on what would be most interesting. For example, some topics we're considering are:

- What data you should have before applying to YC

- How YC uses data to help evaluate applications

- What mistakes we've seen early stage startups make with data

We'll be hosting a talk on this and then writing a blog post to follow. What would you like to hear about?
And borders are just imaginary lines. They are however a based around the underlying reality of geographical, cultural, and political factors. We could make a law that all airplanes must slow down to 50 miles per hour over crowed areas but that doesn't matter if most planes can't fly any slower than 120mph without falling out of the sky.

Laws do have to take into account things like physics and economics. The latter is the study of scarce resources that have alternative uses and specifically addresses things like the cost of labor and the affect of artificially manipulating it.
"Among other things, that permission can be revoked at any time for any reason."

BOOM! They can charge you for it and they can revoke it. Many companies did "open" platforms or software that later closed things off. Plus, they get more information about you than they even need.

So, we can choose between a security standard that's in our control or theirs. And by theirs, we're talking about companies with a history of real scumbaggery. The design should default to us with no asking for permission. Numerous ones in CompSci and I.P. markets can do that. No excuse except Microsoft and Intel's profits and schemes.
> For the sake of argument, think about businesses with razor thin margins like restaurants. In the presence of increased taxes, their margins significantly diminish, if not vanish, and it becomes increasingly unviable for the business to stay in business. Once they shutter their doors, the tax base and employment decreases.

That's a big assumption. As long as there is demand in a free market, they will stay in business and prices will adjust accordingly.

Or not, since they might get more business from all these people who now have a minimum income. Also consider that the trend is for operational costs to go down with continued automation of the whole production chain.
Do you think I can get the check in America and go and spend it outside America?
It's interesting that the data doesn't have values with the Turkish dotted or dotless I, ie the one in İstanbul, İbrahim, or Diyarbakır. Seems pretty important to store people's names correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I
That just means you need to login to see the page
It is not in the current Preview Build; they have said it's coming soon but did not give specifics. Preview builds are pretty fast-paced now (about once a week) so I suspect it won't be long.
did we ever try no taxation?
No, UBI is everyone receives X amount of money, no questions asked. The theory is that the tax increases etc balance this out for the middle class so that they effectively earn the same amount of money with the UBI income
Sorry, you're right. I must have been aggressively misunderstanding in this case.
Really? I read complaints about the mortgage interest deduction all the time. I mean, subsidizing home ownership isn't exactly an obviously worthy goal in and of itself and it creates weird incentives.

The difference in popular discourse is threefold: the mortgage interest deduction is less of a blue/red team tribal marker; it isn't as morally charged an issue (the arguments against it are more economic in nature than moralistic); a disproportionate number of the people who would be complaining about it are homeowners themselves and therefore heavily incentivized to keep it around, regardless of its economic effect.
Right because we need yet another fee from the airlines.
Anyone have the download link? I can't seem to find it.
The effects of Quantitative Easing can be reversed by the central bank because it's merely an asset swap. It's only a temporary measure.
I meant that most of them didn't get any downvotes in the first place. Two or three did, but only barely.

We appreciate your vigilance in watching out for a fellow user. It's better to send these to hn@ycombinator.com though. That way we're sure to see them, and the threads don't go as off topic.
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And most PPC distributions are building for little-endian mode as well. OpenSUSE Leap is only available for ppc64le, Fedora only builds for ppc64le now as well.
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Wait, are you really suggesting that people decide how many children to have based on whether they believe those children will have to work when they become adults?
> how does he still have a job

There is a lag between management incompetence and revenue.
well you've gotta be able to test your applications locally ;)
A few years back I worked on the web presence for a company focused around doing exactly that (along with a network of charging stations).

It didn't quite work out as planned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place

http://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-pla...
I believe the limitation is 50mb compressed/250mb uncompressed. I've never deployed a Java Lambda that's bigger than 20mb though so I've not hit that limitation.

I'll admit that on slow internet connections, uploading a JAR to deploy can be a bit slow though. We have a Jenkins CI build pipeline that automates this process, it builds the JAR (running unit tests etc), then uploads it to S3 and uses AWS Cloudformation to make the Lambda point to the new JAR in S3.
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To me, that means that it's less useful than Cygwin currently.
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Mortgage interest deduction also inflates home prices, benefitting home sellers and harming everyone else. A home buyer might think they're benefitting, but in fact the seller simply increased price until the deduction was of net zero benefit for the buyer.
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None of this is true. It's a web browser and server protocol for hosting web sites that can't be crawled by google. It is trivially censored. I have no idea who needs this.
The total personal income in the United States is $14.7T (2014); so a $3.2T spending program amounts to a ~22% flat income tax.

Which is interesting when you consider that you'd (presumably) be dissolving Social Security and Welfare in favor of UBI; Social Security is already 12.4%.

What's also fun with UBI is that you then get to assign a numeric value to how socialist your country currently is, eg, 22% socialist. (Personally I'd go for something closer to 30% socialist.)
I for one would LOVE to see what an ME3 carrier could do with, say, American Airlines.

Depends. Is that an ME3 carrier on its own, or an ME3 carrier with an unlimited government subsidy to keep it afloat no matter how much money it loses? Because the latter is what really exists -- those airlines aren't run as for-profit businesses, they're run as vanity projects by the backing governments.
It changed the amount you paid.
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