skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I can follow how you interpret my statement. I'd like to clarify that what I was reaching for - and maybe missed - is establishing a "motive." As in, what is the "motive" to change the law? Is it completely altruistic? Is it capitalistic?

I'd like to think you'll grant me that the article is very one-sided, in that there's not a single mention of the arts industry's concerns with why they would fight so hard (almost psychotically hard) to establish and maintain the existence of DRM. Thus it felt, to me, extremely one-sided and, perhaps unwisely, I questioned the motive for such a framing.
You're trying to hold back the tide. If anything PR seems to be driving this sort of thing now.
Measuring that value precisely may ultimately consume more value than a crude metric like hours.
> Absolutely any statement, no matter how provocative or hateful, can be excused on that pretense.

Yes, that's kinda the point of free speech: the State doesn't get to send men with guns and truncheons to silence people who are merely saying things.
I think the correct ergonomics would be if you saw:

$ curl http://example.com/foo
Fetching http://example.com/foo by emulating curl
This command is an alias for "...".
If you've installed a real curl command, disable this by typing...

so that you could still use muscle memory to type the commands you know, could see what the actual underlying command is so you could adapt to it, and would know how to use the Real Thing if you have it.
Which human right would that be? The right not to be made fun of?
I'm not clear what 'commercial product' means in this context.
Uberlândia
Clare Corthell, the creator of the Open Source Data Science Masters project, is interviewed in the 2016-07-30 episode of This Week in Machine Learning & AI (TWiML):

https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-1-clare-corthell-open-source-...
What I find exciting about this is:

1. They were "forced to prototype on existing lithium ion manufacturing equipment". This brings them much closer to actual, scalable manufacturing.

2. Hu's ability to develop solutions when challenges arise. He figured out how to get the battery working at room temperature. He was able to adapt his approach to work on existing manufacturing equipment.

Hu sounds like a world class talent, and I admire his ability to overcome challenges. Here's hoping SolidEngergy succeeds!
Somebody mentioned a few days ago some rural areas outside of Portland with co-op fiber in gigabit speeds...

Can anybody comment on the location of these areas and travel time to Seattle?
A Letter to Peter Thiel (email Req'd)
Fair enough, but how about GPSD?
So, if you disagree with an HN celebrity, you can get banned?

good thing my argument with tptacek happened before you came on-board.
5 Mental Models to Help You Create More Leverage
Named parameters are much simpler to use IMO.
There is no Hiya for iOS?
Usually, non-english sites have lower payouts but there is also less competition generally.
This is found at the very end of the Vice article, still on the front page of HN: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/72-hours-of-pwnage-a-paran...
Bulk data collection vital to prevent terrorism in UK, report finds
Show HN: A Scala library to dynamically generate JSON from objects
This headline is very editorialized.

This comedian Mike Ward has made this kid the centerpiece of his repertoire for years now, and the ruling has to do with harassment more along the lines of the "Star Wars Kid" variety, where the consistent abuse heaped on him was making him hard to live his life.

https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/4wod9b/david_mitc...

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> In context of Jeremy signing for the pope and along Celine Dion. Lets just say it; A kid sang a song, was not much of a performance and was looking kinda funny at the time no one knew about him. It was something that Ward refered to in once, twice...Again and again. Mike ward's bashings can be ruthless and he somehow though that this gag was shocking enough that he made it it his signature basically.

>> Have any people commenting on this ever listened to the entire bit? The only bit that people talk about and seems to get translated is the first part where he makes fun of his appearance. Nobody seems to talk about the second half of the bit where he launches into "Fuck, he's still not dead! The little fucker just won't die! [...] I defended you, you need to die now! Fucking heartless asshole, die already[...]"

https://youtu.be/zYrsECWQuM8?t=1m40s

I am in no way for this kind of ruling. Nobody has a right to not be offended. But, is someone repeatedly calling for the death of a child acceptable satire/humour?

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Also worth reading:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mike-ward-comedian-hu...

It's yet another fairly complex ruling being coopted into the "omg the PC police are after us" boogeyman.
In my opinion, bad taste joke would go along the lines "Disabled kid enters a pub and...". But he targeted one specific kid, so apart from being it a joke, it could also be an insult or other offense. (I am not lawyer, though).
I agree that the fine is ridiculously large, but the US concept of almost total freedom of speech is unique to the US. And even in the US there are large groups of people who think freedom of speech doesn't apply to hate speech.

And it's hard to say anything about this joke without actually hearing it. Maybe the comedian has some useful funny things to say about Treacher Collins syndrome?
Unlike the United States Canadian freedom of speech isn't nearly as absolute. As an example hate speech isn't protected (unclear if his bit is / might be considered that).
As near as I can tell, people who make generalizations end up making absurd statements about some person or belief that doesn't fit their narrow view.

Does Malala Yousafzai think her country's political system is broken? What would this mean for your characterization?
Voltaire was French. Evelyn Beatrice Hall used the quote to sum up his beliefs in the biography she wrote about him. She was English.
Why do people call structured governance a bureaucracy?

Being pedantic, but that's what a bureaucracy is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy

I'm sorry for being pedantic....
It's easy to support free speech for things you like. The real test is whether you're able to support it for things you absolutely detest.
That was 4 ways. The documentation identify what the options do.
It's not really like a guy at all. MS is a large organization, and can't be expected to act like its decisions are as simple as one person's.
My completely subjective experience is that Vancouver 'feels' a lot safer than SF but that's only based on living in Vancouver and visiting SF (which has made me not really want to live there).

I don't own a car but my building has outdoor parking and break-ins appear to be unusual either there or out on the street. I don't think it would be particularly wise to leave a laptop unattended in Starbucks but I'd also be somewhat surprised if one was stolen if left whilst going to the washroom.

In 13 years living in Vancouver I've never had anything stolen. I don't hear about it very often either (can't recall the last time I heard a friend have anything stolen). I also have not heard of anyone I know being mugged here.
Revisiting the Candy Japan A/B Test with Bayesian Decision Theory
Having looked through some of your other projects there is some really amazing work you have done. I was wondering the graph node code you wrote. What does it use for library to render them to the screen?
Birthday paradox.
I would suggest looking at Rancher http://rancher.com/ - It's a great way to learn distributed container orchestration.

I was in the same boat; I started getting interested in distributed systems about 5 years ago but I never had the opportunity to play with those cool tools while at work so in my own time I built an open source project with a focus on scalability: http://socketcluster.io/

More recently, I've been implementing open source stacks to run and auto-scale on Docker + Kubernetes (using Rancher) and it's been pretty mind-blowing. I highly recommend playing around with those technologies - I don't have any doubt that this is where the software industry is all heading.

Already, I noticed some Kubernetes-related job postings coming up on various online job portals and they tend to pay REALLY well so it looks like a good area to work towards.

I think also it's important to read stuff online about CAP theorem and also various popular algorithms for building distributed systems like Pub/Sub, Message Queues, Raft (consensus), data sharding (e.g. consistent hashing) and others... I think if you start with those, you will stumble upon new material as you go along and you can gradually build up your knowledge.

I think playing around with the advanced networking features offered by IaaS platforms like Amazon EC2 is also a good way to put your theories (and code) to the test.
It wasn't just some random child -- it was a public figure. Where do we draw the line?
Vegas smells like cigarettes and garbage. Skip the long lines and absurd Vegas expenses and watch the talks from YouTube.
There is so much weight of history for Microsoft to overcome if they want to now be accepted and trusted by the open source community. I'm willing to believe that at least parts of the company are sincere and serious about achieving that, but they need to have a thick skin and be understanding when people don't immediately trust them right off the bat.

Many long years of name calling and Embrace and Extend (which this particular issue feels a lot like) are going to take some time, patience, and long suffering on their part to counteract.
I was going to cover this topic (the cost of starting/forking a process) in my original comment but decided it would be a bit tangential since I was able to make my point without it.

On Windows the cost of forking a process is high whereas on Unix/Linux it's low but on both platforms every application has a nontrivial startup time that will be significantly greater than a native call within an existing process.
I think you missed the dripping irony that the person whose sole topic of conversation during the 1980's was the newsreader software he was developing, but he never shared it or collaborated with anyone or ever even published it under any license, also wrote "The Cathedral and the Bazar".
Then again I find it annoying how media in Canada has become so "Americanized".

Censoring product labels with blur, bleeping out the word ass I mean come on even my conservative grandmother said ass. Then there is censoring of any and all nudity which was rare when I was a kid you'd often see bare breasts on TV at 8pm in the evening.

Now every damn show has "warning some viewers may be offended by strong language or adult ...blah blah blah.
Unless what he said resulted in direct abuses of the person from other people, I can't think of what he could say about a person that could possibly constitute a human rights violation.
There were definitely elements of 'significant attempts to mislead'.

The most glaring? The copy of the original score supplied during Discovery by Warner? Perfectly clear and legible. Except for (shocking) the Copyright/Authorship line at the bottom, which was smeared beyond recognition.

Warner resisted supplying the original, saying the copy was a perfect facsimile. When eventually ordered to do so, (shocking), the Copyright/Authorship line was perfectly legible too, contradicted Warner's claim, and showed that Warner had had no authority or right to be licensing performance.
I'd love to see you point out where League of Gentlemen "punch down" to single out an individual child with a profound condition like Treacher Collins Syndrome.
Wait, so now you're attacking me? The ESR post was entirely justified given the context. And I'm not an anti FS zealot by any stretch.

Also, ESR actually is a bigot. I mean, seriously, have you READ his blog?

In addition, I still do remember a lot of usernames because I trust them. and in this case, I remember site names because I don't.

And I'll remember your name, because it's one that I'll take less seriously from now on.
Urgh. What Hacker News doesn't need is more right-wing misogyny cluttering it up. Has nothing to do with technology whatsoever. Flagged.

If you are curious about this decision, the CBC has an excellent explanation of it. Read this, and then decide if what happened is a travesty or not.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mike-ward-comedian-hu...
> It's a poor "manifesto" too. What exactly are the aims of The Hacker? "Exploring", "Outsmarting you", and "judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like". Platitudes, really, if you set aside the emotional outbursts surrounding them.

Platitudes, yes, but they're platitudes because everyone assumes that those are goods that everyone values. The thing is, while most people would say they value those things, very few people actually follow through on it. But hacker culture is all about what you actually follow through and do, so they actually follow through.

Take, for example, a social justice movement that pulls women out of STEM and into women's studies and related fields, and then complains that women don't get into STEM fields. Meanwhile, women are actually much better represented in hacker culture than in most of STEM, because hackers, unlike the rest of the conversation around women in STEM, don't give a fuck about women. They only care what people do, and it turns out women do about the same amount of stuff as men.
>How did we end up here?

MBAs and MBAification.

When management is treated as a generic function that can be performed by a particular class of people in any field rather than the most senior expert practitioners in their respective fields, this is what happens.

You get insecure authoritarians who latch on to (utterly wrong) metrics as a means of "understanding" what it is their subordinates do without actually understanding what it is they do.

With software developers it used to be SLOC (thankfully that died). With GPs it's "number of patients seen". With teachers it's standardized test scores.

There's a direct correlation between managerial technical ineptitude and insistence on working long hours.
If you care about not having your data locked-in to Google's ecosystem or think BigQuery is too expensive, please consider to give the open-source EventQL [0] alternative a try.

[0] https://eventql.io
I work through lunch, eating at my desk. I prefer to do this over wasting time away from the office. 1 hour is not enough for me to go home and see my kids or work on my house or do anything legitimately useful or meaningful. Instead, I find myself being forced to fill it with something I wouldn't otherwise want to do. Therefore, I just grab a sandwich and eat while working. Officially, we aren't supposed to do this. Unofficially, no one has stopped me yet.
Could work, though I think it would add operational complexity ("hey, I paid to swap in good batteries, but these barely held a charge!").

I wonder if it's possible to have a battery go into a low-current mode when it gets down to $n percent charge ("Warning: time to recharge or swap! You have $x Amp-hours left! Going into econ mode."), then disconnect itself completely when down to $m (where $m < $n, and going lower than $m would significantly affect the life of the battery).
I am not a lawyer.

A common dual license is GPL and a license that removes the copyleft requirement and allows modifications to the code to be distributed without source code.

There are a lot of implementation details, for example if part of the code being licensed is GPL, then dual licensing the project can easily run afoul of GPL.

My advice is if the project is going to be open source, focus less on a custom license as a way of making money and more on providing valuable service to the people using it. If making money off the license is the goal, then start with a proprietary model and work backward form there over time.
I have heard managers respond that if you can get your responsibilities done in half the time, you should be getting more responsibilities.
That's not what I'm saying, although the whole thing would feel less scandalous if Peter Thiel's name wasn't attached.

Commenting on the legality of what Gawker or Hogan did is above my pay-grade. But a nine-figure judgment that might be overturned but has nevertheless destroyed the company is not a just response to the purported crime.

How can it not chill any journalistic organization?
A corporation has no incentive to give you (let you keep forever) the best possible tools.
As I said, I didn't want to mean that everybody should work hard or that professional success is the only important thing. But I think that in order to succeed in a competitive field, one has too work hard and it's definitely doable.

That being said, I'm an advocate of less working hours and more vacation. I worked in the US for a couple of years, and this is the one thing that made me go back to Europe. Free time is the most important thing in my opinion.
After so many years of Microsoft trying to do exactly the wrong thing towards Open Source, I can understand why people are a little slow to trust and accept them. It is in fact very wise at this point to be careful with Microsoft.

Microsoft needs to be patient and understanding of this mistrust, given the weight of history behind them.
I have never worked in a salaried position where this is true. Citation needed.
Weightlifting Belts: Are They Beneficial to Use?
Sure, they don't have to provide free speech to everyone. But they also have to be open to criticism when they censor it.
IMHO, I don't think Germans have that "meta-fear" you mention. I found Germans to be quite direct, and even the actual racists from the extreme right (the ones suggesting that they'll "give gas" to the refugee issue) do not seem concerned about that issue.

There is a discussion about how to integrate a million refugees, but it's less "what if they kill us all?" and more "we have no idea how to accommodate so much people all at once".
One imagines a sort of "boilerplate" at the top of every script, patiently fixing various P$ mistakes before the script actually gets to work. I've seen similar things in other challenged environments.
Housing is certainly a part of it based on people I speak with. A certain demographic--which is mostly an educated subset of 20-35 year olds who tend to write articles/posts and/or know those who do--have decided that they absolutely must live in a reasonable neighborhood of one of a handful of urban locations.

As a result, a relative handful of cities have become what many parts of Manhattan, for example, have been for a long time. Essentially luxury goods.

Building regimes is also part of it but housing stock, and associated infrastructure, tends to increase over longer timeframes than the current urban living fad took to develop.
> So that begs the question: should “jokes” be protected? Why?

Because they're expressions of ideas, i.e. speech.
Is the market even large enough?

Have you thought about trying to up sell the entire book at the end of each summary? (Might get a few amazon.com clicks with each summary.)

Do you know your churn rate and the lifetime value of each customer? I imagine it's too early, but once you have a good estimate you will know exactly what you can spend on adsense to drive more PPC traffic.
>Do they just turn off the "I'm a noob" angle, assume the standard authoritative tone they always use and cover other topics with just as flimsy of an understanding?

Yes. See [Murray] Gell-Mann Amnesia:

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

― Michael Crichton

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
Have you tried working when you feel like it (or when you really have to), and just not working when you're not in the mood? I had a three year period working freelance and it was most profitable and fun. I have no clue how many hours I was doing but for the last six months I only worked a few hours a week because I was able to automate most of my work.

I'm doing a startup now and this lifestyle wouldn't be acceptable to my partners so it's back to a 9-late schedule plus weekends. I'm nowhere near as productive and strongly feel like I'm accomplishing less, but to go back to working how I like would just cause conflicts.
Nobody with any experience was surprised by the housing collapse. The only people I know who were surprised (in the financial industry and out) were people who've honestly never considered the numbers for even a minute.

Housing prices have to track rent, to some degree, and vice-versa. One of them will change to match the other and wages were not going up...

All the ARMs and layers of CDOs are irrelevant. They multiplied the results but didn't change the underlying issue. Leverage doesn't help you when the fulcrum shifts.
No one does that. How is this comment from someone who doesn't understand the "release" concept so important?
Most Cuban computers are older (~5-10 years) laptops and a lot of netbooks, which do include WiFi and often RJ-45 Ethernet.
The actual report (Report of the Bulk Powers Review) 192 pages [PDF]: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

One from last year (A question of trust: report of the investigatory powers review) 379 pages [PDF]: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

Key points: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/investigatory-...

BBC's take on it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37130455
Me too. It isn't time off just because I'm not producing for an employer. If it requires me to commute, walk, etc. and it is work related, I classify that as working hours because those are the hours of my day that are given to my employer, even if they are not getting an immediate, direct benefit from those minutes. I realize I am not being paid for that time, but it doesn't change the fact that I am doing that instead of something else.
Uber CEO: Self-Driving Cars Wont Reduce Driver Jobs
Why do people constantly group "married" and "has children" into one change, and then assume that it's being single that's the strange case? A two-income household containing two roommates vs. a married couple vs. an unmarried couple in a stable relationship don't look all that different economically. Adding children is what causes all the rebudgeting and tax-breaks and lifestyle changes. You can get away with just doing cost-of-living analysis once for "median parent" and once for "median non-parent" without just getting noise.
No, I don't think so. That's not a critique towards design patterns. It's critique towards ANY CODE THAT IS REPEATED. If I use a certain design pattern once in my code, I didn't repeat anything. Macros don't remove the design pattern, they just allow me not to repeat myself.