skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm almost entirely in agreement with you, although I would say that the important distinction is between being able to access/modify the source code on one hand, and to redistribute it on the other. The right to access source and modify it, but not distribute, puts code in a similar category as books; certainly there is no restriction against making marginal notes or corrections in my own copy of a copywritten book, but putting the original or modified versions online for free download, or selling copies, would be illegal.
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> it is a regime, and really, a nation, that is entirely predicated on petro-dollars

There was a HN article[1] a few months ago, on the efforts to move Saudi Arabia away from reliance on oil income. Although who can say how successful that effort will be.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11540776
> I've not heard of a modern country where debt is inherited by the children.

In Austria, you can opt-out and have 2 more choices: inherit "unconditionally", which means you inherit before even knowing the net worth / debt status (creditors may surprise you with bills afterwards - it happened to me personally, an uncle demanded €25k for nursing my mother after she had died), as well as "conditionally", which means creditors get a time frame for disclosing their demands (demands made later are void) and at the end you know exactly what the net worth/debt is and you can choose not to inherit it (this takes longer and is more expensive).
Back when I was very young, my dad told me of honest journalists who had been tortured by India Gandhi's regime during the emergency while some did really well. So its not fair to judge all of the Indian journalists as equally inept. Instead of casually dismissing their contribution, look within yourself and ask yourself why you are not able to find a single Indian journalist worth knowing.

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Your point relies on a significant number of users caring about such things, but empirically, they just don't. No number of car analogies will make GPL-style software freedom meaningful for the vast majority of people.
I dunno about the ESP8266 being a Arduino killer- it doesn't handle analog very well last I checked.

But as for details over what happened, check this [1]hackaday article.

[1]http://hackaday.com/2015/02/25/arduino-v-arduino/
The ruling makes sense. FCC is about federal regulations, and municipal broadband is about local law. If a city wants to build its own infrastructure, then it should challenge those laws itself, not through a federal proxy.

However, since the FCC controls the airwaves, I could see localities getting started by using a wireless mesh with their help, and then once established branch into fiber.
Github link: https://github.com/phretaddin/schemapack

Hey all,

Posted this a bit on reddit to get some initial feedback and do some inevitable bug fixes and feature additions. I think it's finally ready to showcase to Hacker News. First submission/open source project and am looking for some feedback. Thanks!
Open source solutions can sometimes have the same level of 'lock in' as closed-source enterprise solutions.

Most OSS software has a certain degree of 'evil' behind it (particularly as they get older and the community becomes increasingly financially-motivated).

I still think that OSS is better than enterprise software most of the time. At least with open source, you open the door (just a little bit) for others to profit from your work (as you do yourself) - There is some sharing an cross-pollination happening.

For example, I spent 5 years working on my own open source project, now I want to use my OSS project to build an application platform; I'm also going to be using Docker, Kubernetes and Rancher to build it; all of these are open source projects and my platform could not exist without them.

So there is definitely a lot of give-and-take happening in OSS. The real tragedy in open source is that some people are takers only; they keep taking but they never give back. I find this somewhat unethical - Especially coming from big, highly profitable companies.

I think the FSF's GPL strategy is actually a decent solution to prevent people from exploiting OSS for personal financial gain, but unfortunately, it also prevents sharing and cross-polination between projects (with the FSF/GPL approach, the only people who benefit from the software are the users; the makers of the software get NOTHING; this is not very motivating in the long term).
We can level the human population off--and ultimately shrink it--long before that point, simply by growing the percentage of women with access to education, contraceptives, and equal legal rights.

We don't know what the "natural" human population is. By that, I mean the human population that would exist if every human had free choice of whether or not to have kids.

What we have now (globally) is still largely the "accidental" human population--the population we got because the pleasure of sex leads unexpectedly to reproduction.
Bah! Arduino is way overpriced for the specs anyway. Raspberry pi and others are where it's at now. But I do think there is a massive power usage difference.
It's more like trying to reconcile "climate change" and "global warming". Two terms for the same thing with different political slant.
Because something has less legal text does not imply that it is _more_ free. It implies that it changes the default behavior of the law _less_ than a longer text.
The BSD license defaults to however the law would otherwise resolve copyright issues. The argument of the GPL is that the default of the law is not sufficient.
Considering a lot of people use Gmail for email, I would be curious as to why you consider web clients to be unreliable.

(I don't use Gmail, but a ton of tech people do. Something like Mattermost is rather harmless, since less critical than email.)

For what it's worth, Mattermost also package native desktop applications for Linux, Mac, Windows and iOS/Android. The desktop ones are basically a wrapper around a standalone browser. Has better native desktop notifications integration.
Which part? Why do I do it?

To make myself more efficient. Automate things I have to do but that don't make me happy. Improve my physical health (I'm motivated by numbers... they get me to the gym). Make more informed decisions.

Basically I run my life like a business. I track KPIs[1] and use them to plan and act.

For example, right now my app is telling me I'm spending more than my average amount of time on Hacker News. And based on that, I can make the decision I should probably get some work done :)

Also, if I ever get murdered, unlikely for sure, the cops will have an easy job ;) (joking, this isn't a primary motivation but, certainly a side effect).

Edit: plus I think it is fun, it's a hobby. Everyone needs a hobby :)

[1] Key performance indicators
By receiving GPLed software (with sources), compared to closed-down software that contains non-copyleft code?

- No lock-in, no artificial obsolescence. This is huge.

- Better security: Much lesser risk of backdoors, homecalling "telemetries", weakened crypto, adware

- Ability to pay 3rd parties to perform auditing, bugfixes, improve compatibility, even resurrect dead projects if needed
I know for a fact that some manufacturers (check wikipedia) ship all cars with this system enabled. It might not be connected to the "real eCall" back-ends, but rather to the manufacturer back-ends, but it's there.

My current car has it. It used to be optional before 2015, but then they made it mandatory with the expectation that the law comes in effect.
That's fine, but it is not the same thing as saying gamers drive the hardware. Gamers are benefiting because their games need the same things the big clusters do.
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SSL Certificates are a legal tool these days, Microsoft doesn't want to deal with it, the insurance and validation is handled by Verisign/Symantec it's a business decision.

Bluecoat is hardly an "interception" technology it's a mid 90's enterprise grade proxy and internet policy management box that can do SSL interception their early boxes used SSL strip the newer ones probably still do.
They don't have a magic backdoor to break SSL all you can do with a Bluecoat box is to install your own enterprise certificate and make it act as an SSL proxy to ensure that your employees do not surf pronhub over SSL at work.

So as far as tinfoil hat rants goes i give this one 3/10 it's not even that creative, you might want to look the "PRISM" partners slides again might give you some inspiration.
Linking Huffpost exonerating itself...

Google harder.
We've got almost a third of the US population that has dropped out of the workforce completely[1], with another 5.5% unemployed but still trying.

[1] http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/americans-not-...
So the girl I dated awhile back who said she had $90k in debt because she inherited it from her mother when she died, that wasn't legit? She mentioned something about signing something and not realizing it at the time, though. This is in the U.S.

It wouldn't surprise me too much if it wasn't true, as there were other things she said and did that didn't seem completely honest and straightforward, but I didn't see any reason for her to lie about that.
As a developer, I have been so impressed with the Obama Administrations efforts to put everything online. There is a .gov for anything now and I've been watching organization after organization digitize our commons and put them online.

This "Federal Source Code" policy is a great extension of the project-open-data initiative released a few years back:

https://github.com/project-open-data

I found the db-to-api project in this repository incredibly useful for quickly and safely exposing data from one of my applications to clients.

The only failing I see to these many many initiatives is that so few people realize these powerful free resources are out there to be taken advantage of. I hope that changes in the future.
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IMHO you can always travel without a car if you want to
So they postponed it? Some manufacturers have decided to be proactive and have enabled it with their own back-ends. :)
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Question for you:

Have you done any analysis on the data? I'm wondering if you can find out if you're coming down with an illness before your body even exhibits the symptoms.

Here's the implication of why I say this: IoT companies who sell this data to third parties will then have this bit of leverage over you. The next time you browse Amazon/FB/News your browser, sans-adblock, will be just as infested with ads as your body is with the cold.
> The initial execution was not beautiful

It was "beautiful" because you were watching it on TV and marveling at how we manage to drop bombs from a distance through a building's smallest opening.

For the men, women and children of Iraq, it was hell. It was not fun, and, most definitely, was not beautiful.
So, excluding the "as you wish" part. You are not free to distribute it as you wish, but as the GPL directs you. (I support both GPL and BSD style OSS, and I am usually pro-Stallman, but the OP really has a good point here)
I was talking about being disturbed by existence/collectability of such data - not by collection by third parties, which is disturbing for privacy reasons. You radiate tons of data every second of your life. Your every interaction with every thing is recorded in the fabric of reality, and progress of technology gives us ways to access more and more of that information.

My point is - existence of such data should not be disturbing. How much of it is being collected by third parties - that's another story.
"It doesn’t feel good when your net worth is a negative number. But many of these debtors aren’t necessarily doing something wrong. It can make sense to borrow when you’re young—to get an education, buy a home, or even sometimes to meet emergency expenses—as long as you’re pretty sure you can pay it off later when you’re earning more money."
Sure, this is the same reason that nobody who smokes cigarettes has ever been successful. All those breaks they take in the middle of the day.
Number of customers is irrelevant. Number of chips is what matters.
Integromat – A tool for automating manual processes
I saw it as just a 'shifty-eyes' emoticon, but then again I don't know of said .cx-site so I maybe missing it.
The concept itself is pretty amazing to think about, but I wouldn't expect the long-term implications of intelligence to play out nearly as dramatically as the author implies. While coming from means AND having high intelligence would confer benefits to be sure, there has to be a law of diminishing returns on increasing intelligence. For sure, the short-term inequalities would be difficult to keep in check. But if the entire world has increased intelligence then those benefits will quickly deteriorate.
The biggest challenge with gene editing is knowing what to edit! If you're trying to correct a single base-pair genetic defect, it's more straightforward, but even for something as "simple" as height, we have little insight into what genes control that characteristic nor how to actually modify them.
You've misunderstood my comment, I'm asking for some good examples because I believe they exist and I haven't seen them. I don't follow regional and local language news, but I'm sure they have some good journalists.

And please don't give me this self-introspection crap.
This is what happens when a company crosses the line from being a small, hacky, indie, startup shop to a corporation.

It's a line that can only be seen after you cross it, making it especially onerous.
What do you mean the "US kept on Saddam"? Sadam was kept on initially because of what was going on in neighboring Iran if anything, certainly not because of his altruistic aspirations.

Nasser was a credible leader and Pan-Arabism was a state policy under him . This is not the same thing as a delusional dictator invoking Pan-Arabism and invading his Arab neighbors. Quadafi also invoked Pan-Arabism at time, that did not make alive and well or a credible movement either. It was just a convenient ruse for another delusional dictator. These are not the same as Nasser at all.

Pan-Arabism largely lost momentum after 1967 Six Day War with Israel in which Egypt was defeated. Nasser died a few years later which is why I said it died with him. Anwar Sadat made no mention of it subsequently.
Haha, I meant freedom to ride your own bike, although perhaps Proudhon would disagree...
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I suspect you would be surprised how much that sentence scares me.
And even before that: the epic Roman-Persian and Greco-Persian wars.
That still doesn't explain why Bavaria is ahead of other former West German states.
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It probably didn't help that the printing press was banned by the Ottoman Empire for centuries and "when they finally allowed it assigned a panel of religious experts to ensure that the books printed met with the moral and religious standards of the political elite."

From the book Why Nations Fail. http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-why-nations-fail/chapanal...
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You're comparing a microcontroller (Arudino) with a computer (pi). They aren't the same thing.
Yes, it does - filters, logging, etc all work as they do for IRC. Huge +++ for wee-slack, has made Slack much more bearable. Supports many things Slack's own IRC protocol doesn't, like the ability to see edited messages.
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This.

Also, "reducing" your net worth may be a great decision. Talking about your example, if I had $100k in a bank, it would make perfect financial sense to borrow $100k and get that degree, while getting in the red.

People already understand this when they talk about business — and a lot of companies routinely have a lot of debt without any problem, because they make this money work. Why not apply the same logic to people?
> There is also XMPP (and has been for years) which does not suffer from many of IRCs shortcomings.

In return, it suffers from its own shortcomings, mainly XML and second-system effect (leading to too much complexity & too many options).

What we really need, I think, is exactly what Slack, Mattermost &c. give: persistent, multi-device, multi-group chat. I think that solving that problem in a nice, small, secure protocol (one that doesn't imply a browser-first way of doing things — and indeed, 'secure' probably prevents using a browser in the first place) is more than enough of a problem for someone to solve.

Heck, even just the multi-device shared-identity problem is surprisingly difficult.
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It's straight from BLS data, throw it into something and graph it yourself if you want http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm
Hmmm.... not sure I agree with the definition "broke". Let's take this scenario (which isn't that uncommon):

You're a student who just graduated college and you have $40K in student loans, but a bright career ahead of you (STEM degree or similar). Overall you're net worth is minus $40,000, but you're first job is paying your $75K and it's likely to only go up from there.

I wouldn't call such a person broke.
Not sure about the exact pricing shown here, but it looks like Azure blows AWS GPU pricing out of the water.

Comparing specs:

AWS g2.2xlarge:
* DRAM: 15GB
* GPU processor: 1xGK104
* 1536 CUDA cores
* 2.29Tflops/s peak single precision throughput
* GPU memory: 4GB
* 160GB/s peak bandwidth
* Price: $0.65/hr (US East, Linux)

Azure NC6:
* DRAM: 56GB
* GPU processors: 2xGK210
* 4992 CUDA cores
* 8.73Tflops/s peak single precision throughput
* GPU memory: 24 GB
* 480GB/s peak bandwidth
* Price: $0.66/hr

I expect AWS will introduce a new GPU fleet and reduce pricing of the existing G2 fleet, in response to Azure.
> But the real problems occurred in the disastrous power vacuum and complete lack of a plan that occurred after the war was won.

No, the real problem was invading a country that posed no threat to us. That was the real crime. The power vacuum could not have happened without that illegal invasion.
The only way that works, without exponential growth, in this day of modern medicine is if you start "Logan's Run"ing off the old people. Which, I'm going to go out on a wild limb here, is probably not an acceptable solution...
I'd say I'm a heavy IRC user, and I actually tend to either RDP into my Windows setup running hexchat when I'm at another pc/laptop, or just use AndroIRC on my phone with my username plus an underscore or something and skim the chat history when I wasn't connected when I get home if I feel the need to.
Raspberry Pi and Arduino aren't comparable...
That would have been a much more interesting study. How does coming in 4th affect the lives of Olympians? You went from "glad I got on the stand" to "watching the winners".
> Federal drug agents regularly mine Americans’ travel information to profile people who might be ferrying money for narcotics traffickers — though they almost never use what they learn to make arrests or build criminal cases.

> Instead, that targeting has helped the Drug Enforcement Administration seize a small fortune in cash.

So, they're basically the Sheriff of Nottingham, or the old Central European robber barons.
Any plans for Smartsheet integration?
Title was changed to "More Old Than Young: A Demographic Shock Sweeps the Globe". Guess someone realized that calling old people a plague wasn't the best choice of words.
I'm saying the funding agencies need to create their own journals like they've already successfully done with HHMI/eLife.

It after you learn more about HHMI/eLife, and want to challenge their motivations or the success of their journal and can tell me a better solution I'm all ears. I suspect you wont though. It's a pretty rock solid organization and journal. And I know it intimately as my former boss, Erin O'Shea, runs HHMI and she is about as noble and committed to promoting good science as you could ever hope someone would be.
RedHat and Fedora:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5696
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1354708

"This issue does not affect the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

This issue affects the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 and will be addressed in a future update."

Ubuntu:
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2...

Debian:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5696

Linux Kernel (4.7 carries the fix):
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/75ff39ccc1bd5d3c455...

Arch Linux will shortly release 4.7, which is how I see them fixing this issue instead of patching.
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What 3 Fucks is by far the most functional of the word-as-address systems I've seen: it uses common words, and adjacent places have adjacent addresses.

It still has the problem of multiple similar words in its dictionary, but I think this could be solved by including more non-curse words. Many clean words become suggestive when adjacent to curses, so the addresses would still be filthy enough to be memorable.
Not really, as a sibling pointed out. The core microarchitecture is the same. The difference is in ancillary on-chip features like memory and bus controllers.
"While the prospect of longer lives is a good thing, problems arise when a shrinking work force cannot foot the pension bill."

He underestimates the power of automation and the inevitable rise of a basic universal income.
How do they know when a Citibike rider in New York takes a ferry vs. taking the bridge?
If I am programming in Python, I want nothing wrong to happen because I passed the "wrong type". That's the same argument as "don't use isinstance". It's not Pythonic. If you want a dynamically typed language, you don't check types. Period.

Type hinting would be ok for documentation only. But then, a comment is fine and introduces less clutter.
She probably co-signed on a loan.
legal: 1) of, based on, or concerned with the law; 2) appointed or required by the law. [1]

Military force was authorized by Public Law 107-243 AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002 [2].

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legal
[2] https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ243/html/PLAW-107p...