skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this link and am surprised to see that it's been flagged. Sean Hogle's interpretation is not at all unreasonable. (I've been an IP lawyer for longer than I care to admit, and I teach a law-school course in contract drafting.)

In particular:

1. A court would try to interpret the AWS TOS so as to give effect to all of its provisions.

2. Of the provisions that spdustin cites, [0] the important one says: "We will not access or use Your Content except as necessary to maintain or provide the Service Offerings ...." (Emphasis added.)

3. I can easily imagine an edge-case scenario: Suppose hypothetically that [i] Amazon's engineers decided that they wanted to borrow an idea or technique or method from a customer's code for use in the AWS feature set, and [ii] they came up with arguments why doing so was supposedly "necessary" to "maintain" or "provide" the Service Offerings.

4. The question would then arise: Does the term "maintain or provide the Service Offerings" encompass the making of improvements to them? Many would say "no," but that would most assuredly not be a slam dunk. Here are two arguments I would make in favor of "yes":

A. I haven't taken the time to look, but I would bet money that the term "Service Offering" is defined so that it encompasses AWS's future features as they're developed, not just the existing feature set. This would support the argument that "necessary ... to provide the Service Offerings" encompasses using Your Content to further develop the Service Offerings.

B. Enterprise-software customers usually buy maintenance as well as licenses. Traditionally, as long as you're on maintenance, you're entitled to whatever upgrades the vendor releases during your maintenance period. A court would almost certainly consider that as weighing in favor of saying that the term "maintain ... the Service Offerings" encompasses further development.

Both A and B above would weigh in favor of interpreting Section 3.2, cited by spdustin, as expressly authorizing Amazon to use Your Content in doing further development of the AWS feature set.

Arguments A and B wouldn't be a slam dunk either, in part because of the contra proferentem principle of contract interpretation, which says that other things being equal, an ambiguous contract provision will be construed in favor of the party that didn't draft the provision [1]. But it'd be an expensive proposition for an AWS subscriber to try to duke it out with Amazon on that point.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11889449

[1] http://www.commondraft.org/index.html#ContraProf
The article's title is misleading in that it implies millennials are the source of the movie industry's problems. But the content of the article is correct in that there's other sources of entertainment these days that capture millennials' attention far more.

What's the article didn't mention was the role of copyright law in all these sequels. The length of time a copyright can be held on any IP has been continuously lengthened over the past 20 years, making sequels a more tenable venture for movie studios.
That's a shame. Given that Vancouver and Toronto both have higher rents and are less attractive cities than Montreal, I was hoping that it'd be heating up in terms of jobs.
I wonder if Chinese price manipulation has anything to do with the upcoming Australian Bitcoin auction in late June.
I find that my definition of for instance "primarily opinion based" or "not constructive" differ by a wide margin from some people at SO.

So no, just reading the rules might not help everyone I'm afraid. This is more like case law than physics I'm afraid.
EC2 was only in limited beta back in 2006. It wasn't in full production until 2008.
Watching the Reddit readers falling
Someone posted that people are unsubscribing from https://www.reddit.com/r/news/ so I set up a script to watch it.

Output has been as follows:

20160612195100 8957564
20160612195200 8957356
20160612195300 8957145

...

20160612222900 8936378
20160612223000 8936240
20160612223100 8936094

So from 19:51 (BST) to 22:31 (BST) there was a loss of some 21470 readers. That's roughly 0.24% in just 2 hours and 40 minutes. For reference, for the past (nearly) three hours they've been losing over 140 readers/minute.

Does it matter? Is it significant? It will be interesting to see what the numbers tomorrow morning (BST).
It wouldn't have happened without him spending millions, so his action is entirely relevant.

His goal, depending on who you talk to, was either to destroy Gawker or destroy the business model that funds Gawker, so as to prevent the general problem. I find it very weird that someone would come to a site about startups and suggest it irrelevant that a billionaire is secretly trying to destroy an entire business model (or maybe just a company).
All claims need evidence to support them, its just that the poster said that the government is doing great work, too bad we cant show or prove that they are(citation needed, big time.)

There is no need to argue for balance in the discussion to protect our government, they clearly can operate these programs without our approval or understanding.
This kind of cuts both ways. I stopped answering Stack Overflow questions because now there is such a huge amount of trivial questions that are easily answered reading manuals or tutorials that it became hard to find interesting questions to answer. There are certainly other factors at play like me getting more experienced and therefore what I consider interesting shifted, Stack Overflow already has answers to a huge amount of questions and so on. But I am pretty sure that the kind of questions asked objectively shifted quite a bit towards trivial questions.

Now it depends on what you think about what Stack Overflow is supposed to be. I personally think Stack Overflow should be focused on providing information that not already exists, I don't think it should try to replicate or link to every manual and tutorial out there. This stuff already exists and is hopefully actively maintained by the language and library developers, so what is the point of duplicating it? I think Stack Overflow should not be about teaching people how to code but help them to solve hard problems.

What constitutes a hard problem of course heavily depends on one's experience and abilities so the line is kind of arbitrary but I would say that if it is in a beginners tutorial or the manual, then it is not a hard problem. I certainly unterstand the desire to get problems solved within minutes but I also think that is not really a good thing. No matter how good and experienced a developer you are, you will come across problems that take hours and days to solve again and again. Reading ten pages of a manual should really not be considered an annoyance but a valuable skill.

Very often you will already have a rough idea of how you want to solve your problem and just look for some very specific information, but if you take the time to read about it you will often find that your initial solution is actually not that great and there is a different preferred way to do it. So if there is one advice I would give to beginners than it definitely is »Read the fucking manual!« and probably read it twice.
Probably having to move to Kazakhstan. (Lame joke)

This link implies there is no 4G in Kazakhstan
http://m.gsmarena.com/network-bands.php3?sCountry=KAZAKHSTAN

This link mentions there is "4G LTE ALTEL 1800Mhz" available (although it doesn't specifically nail it to regions of the country)
http://www.worldtimezone.com/4g.html

Since Kazakhstan is so huge, I expect there to be decent coverage in larger cities but next to no coverage in rural areas (especially newer technology like 4G)
If it was just about the reduction in Terry's expected future earnings, then sure. But Gawker also disobeyed a court order. Then they didn't take the proceedings seriously. They even at one point claimed Gawker had the moral high ground for freedom of speech because Denton's mom fled the Nazis. One of the editors made a stupid joke about only infant child porn being taboo to host at Gawker's website. All of those things and more I don't have the time to look up antagonized the judge. It's safe to say the result exceeded even Thiel's expectations.

There are cases where people go to prison for contempt of court for less than this. Nick Denton and/or his staff could have faced up to a year in prison.

"A finding of being in contempt of court may result from a failure to obey a lawful order of a court, showing disrespect for the judge, disruption of the proceedings through poor behaviour, or publication of material or non-disclosure of material, which in doing so is deemed likely to jeopardize a fair trial."

There's like 3 counts of contempt of court that could have been brought against Gawker. Instead of drawing it out and turning Denton into a martyr the judge decided to hammer them financially.
I bet $500 USD it doesn't become bigger than the bay area in the next 10 years.
I can't count the number of times I've seen the "[INSERT CITY NAME HERE] is poised to become the new Silicon Valley!" headline.
In defense of big-budget productions, look at the Marvel franchise. Those movies, which are all sequels of each other, do very well. They are massive CGI exercises but they are well written and executed. They are movies for movie fans, full of jokes and themes you have to work at understanding. Millennials may tweet hatred, but they show up at the theaters.

On the other side are horrific CGI messes like the latest Fantastic Four. Everyone knows will flop because they see the overly focused-grouped "reboot" coming. Fans tolerate new political or religious themes (Batman) but you cannot rewrite an established backstory (Catwoman) or belittle a character's cartoon origins (Ninga Turtles). The Marvel franchise does well because respects its fans.
Meh, I'm an experienced dev and no questions that I might consider posing would get past the filters, either for being too vague, too specific, asking for off-site resources or asking for opinions. To be honest I don't even know what a good SO question is anymore, and i have 8000+ rep.

You may believe the current rules and moderator brute squads work to keep the site clean, but from where i'm standing they work to make the site useless.
i tend to think the two sides of the bitcoin: currency and tech; are at odds

when one is useless the other is valuable

there is value to bitcoin because mining is expensive

expensive nonce detection renders the blockchain inefficient

if we had superficial nonce detection the currency would be useless but the tech would become practical
Agreed. The title is misleading because it gives the impression that these people have some supernatural awareness of the timeline while that's not what's happening here.

What this article depicts doesn't seem all that rare looking at this thread. I can relate to some of these experiences as well and while I am a spatial thinker, I definitely don't have synesthesia, I wish I did.

And here is a (non-exhaustive) list of people with synesthesia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_synesthesi...
I have found that as a beginner programmer, one thing that is really important is to have patience and persistence. I have observed other beginners who want to rush to become a good programmer in X language and basically throw every question into Stack Overflow.

Slow down, learn how to read technical manuals, and in the long run you'll thank yourself as you go on to learn more complex languages by reading technical documentation with patience and persistence. Build that foundation of how to learn and things will pay off in the long run.
Trudeau is a lot better than Clinton, but you're going to be in for a shock if you're a conservative in Canada. This place is pure socialism.
Views differ, but personally I don't think this counts as "outing". Thomas's article was mainly about Valley culture's implicit support for homophobia; Thiel was just an example. And many people around in that era say that Thiel's sexual preference was widely known at the time in the Valley. Since Thiel wasn't closeted, I think "outing" is the wrong term here.
I think the point the author is making is that what can be easily found in a language's docs is subject to the same learning curve as what can be easily done with the language. Skill in docs reading comes with skill in the practice and understanding the concepts of a technology.

Someone can make an honest and unsuccessful search for something that is blindingly obvious to another. If new users have difficulty using the documentation, that is sufficient proof that the documentation doesn't adequately serve new users (besides new users who magically know how to learn like experienced users) and that's where Q&A communities come in.

The rules say you have to do research and you have to show what you've tried to do. It doesn't specify a standard skill level you need to meet.
...and fiat currencies
Cultura+-+VI+edizione+del+premio+alle+eccellenze+remio+Lunezia+da+Bere+(Lunezia)
If they would search for the answer to their question, they would get it right now instead of waiting for someone to come in and answer the same question yet again.

If you are starting out with something new, someone has already had the same problem you are. Your question has already been asked and answered.
I take it you're a fellow former reader of The Last Psychiatrist? There's an author I miss.
In Canada it's MasterCard. They negotiate different deals for different countries.
I find that half the time I start typing up a question for SO I answer it myself.

I'll imagine someone trying to answer it, but asking if I checked site Y on the topic first, so I'll make sure to add "Site Y only says <blah>" to my question. Only once I have added proof that it's not a trivial mistake on my part would I actually post the question, but sometimes I find out what was causing the problem in the first place.

Or maybe I'll be trying to reduce the problem to a minimal C file and the invocation of gcc that causes the error. And in doing so I'll realize what's wrong.

So I don't think it's a bad thing to get people to go over the question a few times before asking, and try and make it as easy as possible to answer the question.
there is no such thing as price manipulation.
Running Java inside a Windows container on a Windows server
> Americans buy only four movie tickets a year [..]

Four a year? Really? Sunday matinee tickets are super cheap, I go to the movies 2-3 times a month!
SO is a bit of a culture shock from other places. Its not a forum, it's a little bit wikipedia ish. Having your question closed is not a hostile act, it's part of creating crowd sourced editing of content. Sometimes questions that could be good get closed, sometimes questions that are bad don't get closed ( at least for several years ). While you may wish it to be a little more friendly, its main goal is to provide high quality content especially for professional developers, and the thing is, it is very successful at doing that, so be careful to understand how it gets a lot of high quality content because a lot of other sites tried and failed to do the same thing. Be very careful to fit into the culture of SO, if you want to chat about problems, find a forum, go on gitter, or some other space. On SO, best thing you can do is edit the original question if its badly done and you care about the question. Make it better.
Show HN: Building/Scaling a Side Project for Education
Hollywood has been making crap movies for a long time. Why is the last six months special?
Yet SO is filled with people asking "how to homework" or want something they can copy/paste into their program. I've seriously seen an OP ask why the answer's code didn't work because it used variable names not present in the OP's code. Yet there was no way to know what the original variables were called because the OP didn't provide any code.
I have a smartphone, but no mobile data plan. I am always reachable on the phone (mostly because some people I care about really disliked that they could sometime not get in touch with me) but a lot of the time if I'm out, I don't have the internet. Being connected all the time makes me a into a person I don't like as much as the one I am when I can actually disconnect a bit every day. There a "zone", or maybe a rhythm, I get to when I'm walking outside where I can focus on myself or in whatever I'm working on. It's much harder to get here when I know I could be on the internet instead.

It's not the middle ground I'd chose in an ideal world - I'd rather not have a smartphone, maybe not even a dumb phone, but I develop for mobile a lot.
The trial has been fascinating in its own right for the debate around the principle of freedom of the press vs a person's right to privacy, regardless of everything that has happened since and the other issues surrounding the trial.

Sex tapes seem like a clean cut invasion of privacy, but what if the material in question wasn't a sex tape but a phone call being taped (such as the audio from the tape which revealed that Hogan had made racist comments)? Are the contents of that audio in the public interest?

I think everyone who knows what Gawker are like feel like they played with matches and got their fingers burnt. Whether an invasion of privacy is worthy of a $140m fine is questionable, but it will definitely deter other press organisations from making similar moves to what Gawker did. The implications of that for the press aren't necessarily good, but if the guidance is clear that Sex tape are a no no then I think we can find a sensible middle-ground to the whole issue of the freedom of press and the right to privacy.
California is really unliveable if Toronto is able to keep and capture talent now. Honestly it has to be really bad living in Silicon Valley at this point.
From Wikipedia:

Note that juncture loss may have occurred in a different language before a word reached English; for example, orange did not develop in English from *a norange, but rather the juncture loss occurred in Old French and Anglo-Norman orenge, or possibly in Italian.
How is GNU Make tested?
Spot on. 10% of [theater-goers] buying 50% of all cinema tickets ought to be a wake-up call. If they simultaneously released to streaming services (at a palatable, yet-undetermined price point), studios could make a killing at the expense of the theater industry.

Anecdotally, as a 18-34 year-old, peer pressure and fear-of-missing-out contributes to which movies I'll go see. If I could watch them on my own time, from my house, as it's being released, I'd spend more on movies, and would be more adventurous with my movie-watching choices.
Not sure I understand your comment. My take is that would be a good thing if beginners learned to search first.
He mentions that 80+% of his assets are now in startups. Having that much money tied up in assets that have no scheduled exit events seems like a pretty strong argument by itself.
Isn't Toronto very similar to NY, except with worse traffic?
The other StackExchange sites are just as bad. I once had a physics question (I'm not a scientist, I was just curious) and I asked it on the Physics SE site. The result was a torrent of intelligent, articulate people telling me my question was stupid and that I should not have asked it. Imagine if a curious schoolkid had that experience, they could be put off physics for life. StackOverflow etc. can be useful at times, but it has a pedantic and hostile culture that is anathema to learning.
The grocery store I work at does.
The post author has a reading comprehension problem.
No mention of 17 Bit / Team 17 is complete without mentioning they got their start by publishing a hugely successful disk magazine. Initially quite amateur but became a fairly slick presentation, and very popular. If memory serves a few of the magazines gave away their disks a time or two. Pretty much every UK Amiga owner knew of them from this.

Worms was also notable in that it was one of a very few decent games produced in BASIC - Blitz Basic. Not sure if other 17 Bit output was also Basic.
I find that in preparing a question that is specific and answerable, includes everything needed to resolve it and anticipates criticism about not having done enough research myself, I'm usually able to answer the question I had myself, and even find stupid typos or or other silly little details.

In the cases that this process doesn't lead me to an answer, oftentimes I discover that either my question is too broad to be answerable, or that I am missing general education in the area and my actual question is somewhere further down.

So really the impatience and hostility towards bad questions, is a tool I use to aid me in finding answers myself.

That all sounds a little smug, but when I am stuck even after this process and actually post my research on SO or IRC or to a mailing list, too many times I get one-line answers about the tiny thing I was missing... but at least then nobody thought I was just being lazy.
Flagged for back button marketing hijacking.
Sure, please wire us 100bn $ so we can phase it out!
Right. How would your manager know to berate you personally for a slow line? The responsibility is spread around.
A movie was made about the Boyce case, The Falcon and the Snowman.
What I think the experienced users are missing is that newbie questions are an opportunity to let a newbie answerer learn to teach. When I decided I wanted to start helping out on SO I found it almost impossible for months because the easy questions were instantly shut down with a frustrated response from an elder statesman user.

It's like when there's one guy who has maintained a system for years and won't let anyone else touch it but also complains about having no time for other projects. Eventually he has to let someone new take over parts of it, even if it means that at first it takes a little longer and it's not done quite the way he would.
Do you think there'll be opportunities to start terrific technology companies in Toronto ~5-10 years down the line, when "everyone moves back"? Especially if they pay better?
I like to think of this as the opposite way.

The identify of the person is the mind; the being that thinks.

If the body is not a match for the mind, then the correct solution is to repair the body.
One correction:

> "In other words, you are not supposed to apply for a green card while you are on it."

You can actually do this, it's very painful but it's not rare. The gotcha is that the moment you leave the country your TN is kaput, so you're effectively trapped in the USA until the green card process is complete.
Will MariaDB Soon Replace MySQL?
Melatonin is useful for treating some forms of cancer, like breast cancer, but I also saw someone suggest women wearing bra's increase the risk of breast cancer, possibly due to the restrictions placed on the lymph nodes under the arm pit. Moving and exercising to flush/pump the lymph around the body to the nodes which are all pretty much located where folds in the body occur, ie pits, groin, backs of knees and so on seems to be the way this works. Bra's restrict the circulation under the pits, hence the increase in breast cancer, but not the only factor as seen with women doing late nights, more alcohol and drugs compared to a generation ago.

Lymph seems to be a passive system ie its not pumped like blood is.

Melatonin is good for a variety of reasons which is probably why its called beauty sleep, its also one of the few substances that can cross the blood brain barrier like caffeine does, and that in turn increases dopamine.
SXSW was in March, so not at all. By the time next year's festival comes to town, the companies mentioned in this article will have reached critical mass.
Serious attempt to prove P!=NP
Companies do exist that are owned by their employees, and yet people do also get jobs at other companies that are not owned by the employees.

These facts would appear to contradict your statements.
Think Norway still has Bankaxxept (or something like that)
"The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5" and "Spycatcher" (the very unauthorised book, which again had to be written overseas).
You just described how sequels work...