skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but surely even they understand source code you're not allowed to run or modify is not "open" in any meaningful interpretation of the term :)

"Run" or "modify" are not requisites in the common understanding of "open source"; legality of viewing is. "Open" to them usually means it can be distributed (to them) and read without breaking the law.
I find this hard to believe considering how strongly sama has come out against exploding offers:

http://blog.ycombinator.com/exploding-offers-suck

Even characterizing them as "terrible behavior"
https://sci-hub.io/10.1038/nature14432
A bot that recognizes approximately-quoted pop culture references and provides their source would be a hell of a bot.
Claim 27 of this response enumerates the (claimed) consideration.
Yes, I'm the (lead) developer of the OS.
Partly in answer to my own question, they don't plan to disable Android's connections to Google.

https://github.com/copperhead/bugtracker/issues/184

https://github.com/copperhead/bugtracker/issues/194

EDIT: To avoid any possible confusion, Google Apps / services aren't included in Copperhead; I'm talking about other connections to Google.
Presumably the money raising came from Vogt. And there are other engineers at Cruise capable of assisting with the rest?
I've been wondering about this for years now, I wonder if it is related:

"While performing immunohistochemistry on rabbit brain sections, we noticed a small number of neurons that were stained with only the secondary antibodies to rabbit IgG. The staining was distinctively localized in the dendrites and cytoplasm of cell bodies, in a Golgi-like staining, and was obviously different from a ubiquitous ‘background’ staining."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12426046

AFAIK, that research has gone largely ignored. It could mean a lot of immunohistological results are inaccurate.
Okay...so we are firmly in Mad Max territory already before exiting the 21st century.
Would it be pronounced Check-ia/ʧɛkiə or more like Sheck-ia/ʃɛkiə? The second is much easier for me to pronounce, personally, though if they removed the ending dipthong in favor of just ə they both roll off the tongue.
IANAL, but wouldn't Jeremy's 50% be relative to the time he left the company? No reasonable person would assume a co-founder leaving a startup would retain 50% equity.
I agree that the source documents are important. But the question shouldn't be whether Jeremy's side can produce them. If they couldn't, this lawsuit wouldn't be happening right now. Clearly, they think they have a significant chance of winning. Otherwise, Jeremy wouldn't have turned down $4.5 million.
you are making assumptions (while are all are here too)... clearly something was overlooked to be in situation now.

but as he alludes to no agreement exists, there is no "standard" in contract terms to rely on.
And if it ever gets Higher-Kinded Types worked out... I'll have to get a drool cup.
That's not what the response to #184 means. #194 wouldn't be open if removing that connection wasn't planned.

CopperheadOS is not going to outright prevent connections to Google. That doesn't mean the OS is going to have Google services.

The only known case where AOSP connects to Google is an HTTP GET to test if internet access is available. It could just as easily use something like example.com but Google's domain is known to have effectively 100% uptime. All that switching it would accomplish is pinging a CloudFlare/OpenShift server instead of Google. And CloudFlare might break it for users behind a VPN... so in the end, what would that really accomplish?
While I agree on some points, I do not agree in general. I think too much prescriptivism in protocol implementation is a naive approach, and assumes that we can always get things right initially. Sometimes real-world concerns and needs drive changes, not just sloppiness.
Thanks!

Every FOIA request and associated data is available at a link at the bottom of this page:

http://austingwalters.com/foia-requesting-100-universities/
Don't think I agree. Rust compromises between FP and OO, and I think it's awesome for it. You get the best of both worlds.

I don't want just FP, personally I find it too restrictive.
Yes, I know. I was only pointing out that the issue is more complicated than having an agreement that lays out a 50/50 split.
Fair enough. And my (flippant) comment was on two very large, very successful projects written predominantly in C with thousands of contributors.

Whether >3 level of indentation is "good", IDK. But it happens a lot. And I'm a practical man.
I'm sorry, but you're flat out wrong.

There has to be a definitive and clearly stated offer to do something in exchange for valuable consideration to make a valid contract. A document that simply says what the proposed ownership is doesn't make said ownership legally valid.
Ask HN: Revenue model ideas for a website?
Me and my two friends have started a website where we upload our college syllabus, practicals, previous years question papers, notes and also posting video lecs from youtube... We're getting good response from the students.
Currently we're getting 100-150 page views per day and during exam time 300-400 pageviews.
We've plan to extend our site to more colleges...

So I'm asking some ideas on how can we get revenue from this site?
Recently we've added Adsense to our site... but not sure whether it will work or not..as we're new to adsense.

Here is our site - http://www.myclgnotes.com/

Thanks.
Confession: I Don't Think Uber Is Actually a Great Business (Yet) – Wait but Why
So where does a technical end-user find a relatively secure solution for a phone/small tablet, even if they have to pay a little for it - even $500 extra?

> With exception of Blackberry that tried something decent by integrating QNX with stellar results.

Are you saying Blackberry 10 is significantly more secure than Android and iOS?
If there were an existent contract providing for a cliff, this would have been the place for him to say so. He didn't; he referred to the "standard 1-year cliff". The remaining question is, absent the signed stock agreement, what was the disposition of ownership? That should come out pretty soon here.
Consideration takes many forms. Just because a small, niche population like HN thinks something isn't consideration, doesn't mean a jury of 12 is going to see it the same way.
Many of the problems faced by Facebook, Youtube and others is that they own the digital commons and manage and curate it for the people trying to communicate with one another.

These issues come up for companies whose business models are deciding what people should see and hear. This makes them incredibly powerful, but it brings them into the bog.

This isn't a new problem, other than internet scale. Media companies have long - in having to decide what news to print - been faced with content moderation.

Finally, content moderation is inherently political. ModSquad - one of many booming companies in the social media moderation space - serves the US State Department, who makes no bones about the fact that it uses all elements of national power to affect what populations think and what access to information they have (it also runs the Bureau of International Information Programs - the State Department half of the US propaganda programme).

Like newspapers, TV shows, cable companies, and radio programs before it - this new media sees itself filtering content for the public - with all of the complexities, power, and grief that entails.
I thought it looked cool when they said "nginx-like". But then I remembered that nginx has annoying string semantics and converts things to arrays in odd circumstances.
The UNIX Hater's handbook was written a long time ago. At least on Linux, rm -rf / does not work unless you also pass --no-preserve-root.
i'm just reading the case as i see it. there might be more or less to this - but there were multiple opportunities for the guy to come forward especially after previous rounds.
Not really new, research came out 10 months ago, discussed here on HN previously with 131 comments (but it is incredible):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9647253

Full link to the original study: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2mmdmty3nxfe5u8/2015-louveau.pdf
OS X, just for example, hasn't allowed users to cut and paste files for years and years, for fear that the poor darlings might be confused when cut files, unlike cut text, remain in place until pasted. This isn't just a default setting; they removed file-cutting from the OS.

I love my MacBook, but Apple makes stupid decisions just like anyone else.
myEDU and Koofers offer the same service and have pretty good market penetration.

They make revenue off ads, and a premium service. If you do something like, "pay $20/year or add your notes you get premium"
If this is true (and given the obvious biases being displayed by both sides, I'm not sure it is), but if it is, it would really lower my opinion of Sam Altman.

He knows exploding offers suck[0] and he knows they are used to exert time pressure on people rather than letting them make informed decisions.

I know he said in his Cruise post they had no choice because they were under time pressure themselves from the merger, but to not give him sufficient time to consult his own lawyer and to suggest instead to choose one from a list he provided, doesn't really seem like someone acting in good faith.

Whatever time pressure they are under due to the merger is only going to be intensified due to this matter and I can't help but wonder if it's made things worse.

[0]https://blog.ycombinator.com/exploding-offers-suck
Not Smart Is Not Stupid
through monetary incentives based on word count
It seems that the people who now own the company acknowledge that he was the cofounder but feel that "well he didn't do much, so he doesn't deserve his full shares".

The law doesn't work like that.

It's exceedingly strange to have had the initial cofounder depart and nothing was done to formalise the terms of that separation.

Also Sam seems really annoyed that this ghost-co-founder has turned up with this claim at the most inopportune time, and suggests that this is bad behaviour. I don't think so, it's the right way to play it. Wait until you have maximium leverage and then play your legal cards. The missing cofounder would have been a fool to play it any other way, thereby losing his leverage. The evidence that he has played it right is that so many people are running in circles desperate to resolve it - he has them against a barrel.

It appears the due diligence was pretty loose. Heads will roll.....
It's a bandaid because it covers up instead of fixed the root problems. Getting something through Softbound+CETS will stop almost all the memory errors because it tries to fix the cause. Same with pcwalton's Rust. Then, there's solutions that say leave all the problems there while trying to counter the results of an exploit in a "maybe it will work way" that are often bypassed. World of difference.

Note that using bandaids is A Good Thing if you have something broken already. It's just best to avoid what causes the breaks where possible and look for prevention measures. Our industry loves bandaids while systematically ignoring stuff that negates a need for them. So, I call out that problem but doesnt mean someone shouldnt use ASLR if it's the best bandaid they have.
Right, but he also said:

> Given the time pressure because of the pending merger, we had to set a Friday at 5 pm deadline for Kyle’s offer, which Jeremy let expire.
I think Jordan played as both a shooting guard and a point guard in his career. Sometimes be played them both in the same game. When he played for the wizards he played more of a small forward. During his comeback (and second championship dynasty) he was shooting over 40% from three point range, which is basically PG material. As a younger player he was a solid rebounder as well. He also won defensive player of the year once. That's a pretty versatile player.
I don't know enough about the Dells to comment sorry.

My current is an i5 T530 with a FHD display and 3rd party RAM/SSD upgrades. Works solidly with Ubuntu - the only time it boots are after I finally get around to installing kernel updates. It flawlessly suspends and resumes in between times.

The 15" models might be too heavy for you - mine spends most of it time docked with a 27" monitor. I didn't need much portability.
Remora: An Array-Oriented Language with Static Rank Polymorphism [pdf]
Is there a standard restricted stock repurchase agreement/ founder vesting here? If so, was it exercised?

I now have a new fear which trumps "failure to file 83b in time". I am so incredibly paranoid about doing 83b, already.
Modern versions of Visual Studio allow you to configure your project as one of ASCII/UNICODE/MBCS. MBCS (multi-byte character set) is UTF8 compatible. TCHAR becomes char (instead of the usual wchar_t) and most APIs you call via their once-ANSI names (e.g. CreateFile being #ifdef'd to CreateFileA) will actually accept UTF8 instead. Unfortunately, APIs that were created when ASCII was declared dead and without an xxxxA counterpart still need manual mapping to the xxxxW functions instead (which is just plain stupid on MS' behalf).
> Left padding is so complicated that I've pulled it out into its own file, as you can see here.

Am I just really ignorant, or is this satire?
You didn't read the qualifier: "released to the founders". It means that CMU didn't pursue the tech we invented there. So we were free to go out and do something with it as long as we gave them a small chunk (though nobody knew what that was).
Hyperloop Technologies CTO: 'This is real, this is happening'
Interesting work certainly. The patches look more like proof of concept rather than something that's ready for mainline.

I think they're better off if they post a RFC patch to LKML as it exists to facilitate discussion and testing.
Yeah, there's "FP" and there's "FP-style," and having FP-style usually gets you 80% of the way to what you want.
Yes, but what if, for example, the work that he had done prior to beginning that one month's involvement in Cruise was the majority of the IP that GM wants to buy? Would you still interpret it the same way? I have no idea whose IP is in there, at all. Just pointing out that simply stating he did "a month's work" could be quite disingenuous.
BigData examples, libraries and toolsets weekly roundup – Apr. 15, 2016
In the Lancet[0] there is also a persuasive case made for a connection between coeliac (autoimmune) and a host of neurological symptoms. The more these mechanisms are understood the better.

[0] http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laneur/PIIS1474-4422(...
I'm sorry, this simply does not make any sense. If you'd take the time to articulate a well-formed case, I will take the time to dig in. Thanks...

-- Chris
Thanks for this post. Now I'll wait a bit longer before moving to an Android phone.

From a developer's point of view, Android is known to be a mess. I thought the reason was the lack of organization between the numerous manufacturers. Now I see that the reason is even more fundamental.
As a self-proclaimed expert on co-founder issues[0], I'm glad that we're hearing both sides of the story. As expected, they don't match at all. Hopefully, SamA will read both, try to find an honorable middle ground, and write another blog post.

Basically, One mistake seems to have been made: writing on the YC application that they are both founders, possibly stating a 50/50 split. That's one mistakes, two years of hard work, and one billion dollars.

[0] As the author of the co-founder equity calculator, I still receive about one email a week from founders asking for advice about co-founder issues. After several years, I think I have seen about every possible problem with co-founders.
I've actually found python3 to be surprisingly pleasant on windows (10), while go has been just ok. I think it is mostly a culture thing: python has a long history of cross-platform, and I think the odds are better that some utility written in/ported to python3 will use the various facilities python provides for "just working" cross platform. It also helps that python3 made virtualenvs part of the standard library.

With go, I think it's easier to accidentally end up with some kind of not-quite-portable thing, despite the fact that go is a new language.

Interesting (and good!) that you have such a pleasant experience with Rust too.

> The other day I wrote a tool to deduplicate my image library in Rust.

Hm, did you by any chance share that somewhere? I'm planning to do some reinstalls and consolidation of storage, partly from having several machines, and partially from dual-booting (having extra file-systems). I'll probably figure it out with find and xargs or what-not, but a Rust-binary would be a welcome change of pace :-)
I think "people from place" constitutes an ethnicity, but I'll concede that this isn't a common mindset.
You should probably not comment.
This dorm room founder went from $200 to $125M in 7 years
This seems like an area where the lack of oversight of drivers would all of a sudden matter a LOT.
Some people are motivated by things other than money and massages. Those people might say that anyone taking megabucks and massages over securing government systems which contain all of our sensitive data might need their heads examined.

This is a paraphrase of a good answer from bugcrowd's CEO when asked about why people report bugs for thousands when they could sell them for hundreds of thousands. He answered "not everyone wants to be a drug dealer".

Light candle > curse the darkness
Investor exploding offer:

"Given the time pressure because of other deals we're looking at"

Employer exploding offer:

"Given the time pressure because of other candidates"

Everybody has a way of dressing up an exploding offer. And FTR, I still don't believe that this is exactly what happen.
Was it just me or was there nothing about the structure and function of these vessels in that article?
The one thing this dispute and drama makes me wonder is if GeoHot might have a competitive advantage for a limited window. Time will tell.
no doubt Jeremy is opportunistic, but that doesnt really affect his claims legally if he was in fact identified as a cofounder when there is no contract in place to say otherwise.
When you are barreling down a highway at 65 miles per hour and are not paying attention (and you wouldn't, because the car drives itself just fine), giving you controls is much more dangerous (for you and others around you) then not.

Urmson talks about it here: https://youtu.be/Uj-rK8V-rik?t=14m3s
Ideas for Tomorrow: Marissa Mayer interview [video]
Its satire directed towards the recent npm package fiasco (there was a 'leftpad' library by the original author who pulled his packages)[0].

The authors make a few other witty jokes in the video as well.

[0]http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm
Definitely satire.
This is subjective. How would you cut/paste a 200 gigabyte file anyway?
Berkeley Comedian W. Kamau Bell Visits the Ku Klux Klan
It's not just about patience, there are a lot of guidelines and hurdles to jump through to be eligible for certain contracts. Some of this is for good reason, there have been plenty of cases of contractors bilking the government out of millions with little or no accountability. But it makes the process too complicated for real competition to occur, so perversely although the government turns to the private sector for more competitive prices and cutting edge solutions, it ends up with inferior products.

Also, it's not as though the contractors themselves offer poor compensation. A lot of them actually offer at least market rate, and in some cases higher pay. It's not so easy to figure out how much something is going to cost over the lifetime of a contract. This, combined with the general opacity and bureaucratic hurdles of government contracting makes it so makes it so the government doesn't get the best deal over the lifetime of the contract despite picking what may look to be a good idea at the onset. Of course this is all ignoring political considerations and lobbying issues.

The US Government is the largest corporation in the world, I think the US Defense Department is alone the largest corporation in the world. And none of it is subject to the free market (in many ways for good reason). It's very difficult to do things efficiently at that scale, and its even harder to do it with external political influences of all sorts.
At least they didn't write a rambling letter about how happy and excited they are to be kicking their customers to the curb. That's a common enough experience when you rely on a startup service. http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Agreed, I am not gonna use it without tabs navigation either.
Wow I hope no one ever founds a company with you.
>especially Google and Microsoft's (whose e-mail servers don't play by any of the standard rules nor do they send DMARC reports)

I don't know about Microsoft, but I get a couple of DMARC reports per day from Google's email infrastructure. I also get reports from aol.com, yahoo.com, linkedin.com, comcast.com, fastmail.com, etc.
> CopperheadOS is not going to outright prevent connections to Google. That doesn't mean the OS is going to have Google services.

I didn't meant to imply that; I'll clarify.

> The only known case where AOSP connects to Google is an HTTP GET to test if internet access is available. ... in the end, what would that really accomplish?

The GET tells Google and the user's ISP, and probably a few others, that someone at the IP address is using Android, plus whatever is in the GET headers, and that they just booted/woke their phone (which also locates the user at home or elsewhere, in some cases). It shouldn't be hard to identify people by IP. EDIT: In these days of one mass surveillance overreach after another, by government and business, it's doesn't seem rational to assume these companies aren't monitoring users and collecting all the data they can.

> The only known case where AOSP connects to Google ...

When I read this I think, 'Copperhead's priority isn't investigating whether there are other cases.' That is Copperhead's choice; I have no criticism of them.

Personally, I very much would like just one OS that prioritizes privacy (which is attacked much more than the exploits Copperhead focuses on) and gives me full end-user control over the information my device sends to others. EDIT: Again, I appreciate Copperhead's efforts and free OS; also, I realize they can't implement everything at once
Ha, you seem like a dick.

Because you favor the legal specifics over the "moral" thing.
Anyone who had to deal with time zones at least once in their lifetime, provided that they have a perfectly natural habit of reading Wikipedia when they find something new to them.
What, you mean like a bus driver?

Also, "Shuddle’s main pitch point was their focus on safety: They did intense background checks on drivers, monitored drivers to ensure they stayed on route and didn’t speed or text while driving and offered real-time ride tracking to parents."
Don't think this was around when I went there, but I'm super excited that it is.

I did take a Software Engineering course while I was there that directly interacted with real-world clients and had to ship customer ready software at the end of the semester. It was intense and a fantastic learning experience. I'm biased, but they do it right at UMD. Go Terps!
I can build the software for you if you need.
Yes hopefully there will be integration for VS Code and Visual Studio. Though Microsoft already has a similar plugin, but this is purdier.
I didn't want to install QuickTime in the first place, but shitty iTunes required it.

Now I have a completely separate old laptop that I only use for bloated malware like iTunes, TurboTax, Adobe Flash, and the Java browser plug-in.

That keeps my everyday machines free of this junk.