skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the article?

"The GNU Affero General Public License is a modified version of the ordinary GNU GPL version 3. It has one added requirement: if you run the program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the program that it's running. If what's running there is your modified version of the program, the server's users must get the source code as you modified it."

So if I write a program that is a front-end to a server that uses software with this license then my front-end program would also be affected by the license and will need to be open sourced. That seems like a straightforward implication.
never put much thought into it, but I've assumed that they changed based on whether I was logged into my google account at the time, since I noticed that the non-notable town i'm from usually shows up when zoomed out pretty far, to put it amongst labels of much more populated places.
This page describes what the "experiment" is all about -

http://barabasi.com/bursts/

You're basically revealing the actual book one word at a time as you adopt them.
...the only system capable of running the three major desktop operating systems easily and legally...

So their contribution to open systems is being kind enough to only legally allow you to use their OS on their hardware?
Very nice. It'd be cool to see the same approach taken with a Python or Haskell interpreter written in JS, too.

Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know what keeps this IDE from working in Firefox 3.5?
And the rest of the time, nonsense is revealed.
It might be worth noting that those are still hypotheses at this point, and a whole range of things don't appear to be localized. In particular, showing that disabling a certain part of the brain changes an outcome doesn't show that anything was localized in that part of the brain, only that it was necessary to the outcome (but not necessarily sufficient).

In addition, there's often a sleight-of-hand, where the neuroscientist takes some term for a high-level concept (like "morality" or "intelligence") and uses a specific operational definition of it that seems rather suspiciously tailored to make their experiment work, as opposed to choosing a formalization that's already in the philosophy literature. Sometimes the operationalization is even chosen after the experiment, i.e. the researchers find some interesting feature in their data, and try to find a way to map it onto concepts like "intelligence" or "morality" or "motivation" after the fact. (To be fair, that doesn't seem to be the case here; and sometimes when it is the case, it's the fault of the university's PR office.)
> I don’t personally use gmail, and I never will trust my email to a mail service that actively searches your email and tries to give you ads.

Do the people still complaining about this six years later not use spam filters?
In the Jakarta incident, the pilot descended 6000 feet because the copilot's oxygen mask had a problem.

Was this a wise thing to do? What does the physics say?
For all the Apple bashing I do around here, even I have to admit that this is a stellar list of many of the things Apple is great at. I would like more of this kind of Apple in the future, not the kind we've been getting lately.
Don't use words like cool or stoked if you want a job with me. I need people who can write public-facing content.
I think he's saying there is so much clutter with ads that users just ignore them completely. Imagine if there was one ad at the top of HN's main stories page: it would still have to be engaging to be effective but even if it is not engaging you would still notice it and be more likely to remember what it was for.
The important thing to recall here is that BioTime is the current home of Michael West, who is a superbly skilled publicist.

In terms of the science, this isn't by any stretch of the imagination a reversal of aging in cells. It is what it is, which is generating useful cells with longer telomeres - if you want to define age as the length of telomeres, then sure, let's say you've reversed aging. But that isn't a useful definition.

The question of how telomeres fit into the bigger picture of aging is still very much debated. Their average length in some tissues decreases with age, but that might be a secondary result of other processes such as accumulated mitochondrial DNA damage. Lengthening telomeres with telomerase in conjunction with cancer suppression genetic engineering has increased mouse life span by 50% - but here again there is the possibility that the telomerase isn't extending life by extending telomeres, but by doing something else.

Biology is complicated.
I think it's more like: JavaScript is cloud assembly.
So... it turns Tornado into Diesel[1]+an-extra-layer-of-abstraction?

[1]: http://dieselweb.org/
I remember seeing this before... Humans have very malleable morals. Even just the phrasing of moral questions can alter judgments far more than these magnets: http://books.google.com/books?id=igN6Q9weoYQC&pg=PA39...
Apple sources their components more carefully than other vendors when it comes to child labor, fair trade, and environmental degradation.

Documentation? Especially, consideration recent revelations about abuse of Chinese workers at an Apple subcontractor.

http://www.tgdaily.com/consumer-electronics-opinion/43340-ip...

Apple sometimes stopping the use of child on their own shows that they are better than the very worst they could be. It doesn't show they are better than their competitors. Since none of these companies is allowing any independent verification of good or bad behavior, a few press release don't matter either way.

See link to Apple child labor use: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/apple-admits-usin...
Last time I checked, real people make up the public.

What's wrong with those words exactly?
Not if it's a generic webpage that is viewed in Safari. If I'm not terribly much mistaken, that's the whole point of this project-- it gets around 3.1.1 by using offline support in Safari. After all, Processing.js is not technically pure JavaScript, and so it would fall subject to 3.1.1 were it not for this method.
By your philosophy, we should abandon research on the brain because its complexity is overwhelming.

The PhD's that you are undermining are not intimidated by its complexity, and are trying to better understand functioning within the brain. Bottom line. In my opinion, that is respectable and worth the effort.

The better question is: In your opinion, how could research on the brain be improved? How should it be performed? Do you believe research on the brain should be encouraged?
Hi. I'll try to clean my language from the site up a little. I do use the RSS feed for the stories however most hits came direct from the website.
IANAL, but "duress" wouldn't be the applicable legal doctrine in that sort of case. There is a concept known as "unconscionability" or "unconscionable clauses" that is relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionable.

The common description is that you can't sign away your rights. A clause that says you can't sue your employer at any time for any reason, even after you quit, is obviously not going to fly with a court of law. That's the common idea, but it seems to go a bit further than that.
This is amusing. I did my undergraduate thesis on expanding my professors work on block truncation coding for image compression and this is the image that was used. I always figured my prof used it because it was a pretty woman and I even recall the filename was lena.raw.
The modular theory of brain function has given way to a more nuanced understanding. Some functions are very localized, while others are quite variable between individuals. Functional localization depends on many factors, such as the wiring of afferent and efferent neural tracts, gene expression, and plasticity. For some functions, this strictly constrains the location, for others it doesn't.

But, the point is that it doesn't matter if it seems absurd to you that something "high-level" like morality is localized. The evidence says it is.
The WAM (a VM design for Prolog).

Also, Joy.
Perhaps, or perhaps it's just a return to a more normal pace of cultural evolution after the rather unusual 1940-1990 period where an awful lot of stuff changed rapidly.

After all, I can't see much difference between the fashion and culture of 1910 and 1890, though perhaps they'd seem larger to someone living through them.
No, actually, that's part of what makes this question interesting to me. The situation I envision is a machine that can be programmed to produce some set of "morality" as it were. Who gets to decide what the moral system is, and who it is applied to? Certainly we wouldn't want a corporation or an unelected body to do it. But we also think the machine would be useful in reducing senseless tragedy like murder.
And corrected. I mis-titled the picture.
>At that point, the cell can no longer copy itself without losing information, and so it doesn't.

I was under the impression that the cell can no longer copy itself because the telomeres are 'caps' that hold the chromosome together, and without them, the chromosome unravels.
Well, this is my fault. I'm very sorry. The current site is http://www.conceptive.be/projects/camelot/ but i linked to the "under construction" site instead. You will find a lot more information there.

My bad.
Maybe you're less interesting?
Precisely why targeted advertising networks like The DECK are working.
You're right, and it's a pity when good research is spun to make it sound further along than it really is. It's even worse when the scientists do it themselves. Thankfully, that doesn't seem to be the case here; their definitions are specific and the hypothesis builds directly from prior results (one author's PhD thesis).
I see your quote, and raise you one more:

"We should be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brain falls out." Richard Dawkins
Steve Jobs email hints at no upcoming Blu-Ray support on the Mac
I mean, I totally hear the point about the importance of a "computer defense department", especially in the context of the recent shots fired between google and china... But to conflate explicitly-installed software that allows admins to watch peoples' screens and monitor their activity with the existence and everyday use of devices like the iphone and kindle seems like a stretch. I think if anything, the case with this school will bring more attention to the issue -- and with any luck -- greater understanding.
Using binding to mock out even “direct linked” functions in Clojure
A good CS degree will force you to do some things "for your own good" that will be valuable later. Working on the problems with others makes a difference, especially since you'll generally be working with others in real life projects. Just totally immersing yourself in the subject for a solid 3 years is significant, as is being around people who are doing serious research in the field (and ideally joining in). Having someone with a clue on tap to help you through difficult stuff makes a big difference. You need people to tell you what you don't even realize you're not getting.

On the other hand, the CS degrees at many, probably most schools aren't worth much. E.g. look at Joel S.'s essay on Javaschools, he makes the point that if you aren't taught both pointers and recursion you're wasting your time. But of course you have to learn a lot more.

To address the one school I'm familiar with:

MIT's old (and much better, in my personal opinion) curriculum is all on line at OpenCourseWare. At the very least you should do 6.001/SICP and then go from there (and you should do as much of the book as you can, the single semester course can't cover it all, especially after they had to add trendy OO to it). UCB is still teaching SICP and as I recall the lectures by Brian Harvey are on-line (and up to date, unlike the ones by Ableson and Sussman (for a class at HP), although learning 6.001 from Sussman is ... very good).

On the other hand, MIT teaches CS combined with EE; if you have no interest in or need for the latter, you can skip courses like 6.002-4 without too much harm (you do need to learn some basics, and there would be serious value to doing 6.004, it's just going to be a lot of work including the prerequisites, which include differential equations). But do 6.001/SICP first and then see what you think.
The situation surrounding the open-sourcing of Theora (née VP3) is remarkable similar to what would happen if something similar happens with VP8: neither codec was ever licensed to a customer.

The quality of the code released in the VP3 dump was abysmal, and while the Xiph people cleaned it up structurally, they didn't fix any of its warts, and they introduced new ones with their awful container format. Hopefully Google won't repeat that history.
And how is that NOT a good thing? Nice way of mother Nature getting back at our global economy by 'internalizing' those pesky economic externalities like pollution.
Yay! That would be a boon for my local economic region (Bodensee, home of the Zeppelin!)
The GPL is tactically less free, but strategically more free.

It restricts you from using software to build non-GPL software (including BSD-licensed free software), but it prevents software from being "taken private" by commercial developers.

I (again) don't so much care about the ethics (BSD's just fine) as I do about the commercial impact. The GPL is far, far more author-friendly than the BSD license is.
A huge amount of On2's revenue came from Adobe paying them for VP6.

Perhaps Google can come in and say "it's free if you include VP8 too"
As stated, it really is the defacto image used in image processing communities. Much like the Utah Teapot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot), which you might recognize from using 3DSMax or similar software.
The closest thing we'll ever get to an official Apple blog
There is one area where I don't have a problem with massive compression, duckers, limiting, and so on, and that's in concerts and dance clubs. Using duckers and limiters to "pulse" parts of the audio track between beats simulates the ear's own gain control, and makes music feel a lot louder than it is, so more dancing can be done at safer volume levels.
I thought the URL for that was http://daringfireball.net :P
Yes, the GPL is as you describe.

But the AGPL is anything but — It takes away Freedom Zero: The freedom to run the program for any purpose
I gotta be honest with you, I only upvoted you because you somehow managed to say gesamtkunstwerk in a casual way.
The sound effects were over-the-top; I had to turn it off.
But they did not say they won't entertain acquisition offers.
Proposal for a Final Theory
Very simplistic to just look at CO2. And how do you define what is good for nature?
And I was just wondering if someone was going to think to compile all of those. And now that you are, will he stop answering them?

And oh, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple PR decides to do an "Email to Steve Jobs" section of the Apple site now.
Dear Foursquare
As far as I understand, the volcanic ash melts in the combustion chamber (where temperature is like 1000 C), and then later can solidify on surfaces, and may block cooling ducts and such.
Any data on this? I like the idea of The Deck, but I've never read any data saying, "Ads on the Deck boost sales." I'd love to hear if that's the case.

edit: took a look at the Deck's page and they talk about "cost per influence".
History lesson: Book Underground
isnt it void in CA?
But he only cares about whether your application code generating responses on the server and the javascript running in your browser is Free under his definition.

That in and of itself is not unreasonable — except that unlike every single other user on the planet, RMS doesn't give two shits about your data in a SaaS environment. The AGPL completely ignores what users actually care about the freedom of (data export), and focuses on stuff that's completely irrelevant (backend data munging).

It may be simply because he has never used a rich web app, out of abject fear. He normally surfs the web via emacs+gnus+smtp+aliases+wget — he is not one of us, you can't argue with him on normal terms.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/08/07/contrails.cl...

It has nothing to do with global warming, but it's a true story.
Because an object does not match the definition of a hash key in Perl, viz. 'Hashes are unordered collections of scalar values indexed by their associated string key'. You can also use a number or filehandle as a hash key, but don't expect to use the keys as anything other than strings without some manipulation.

Just like with ordered hashes, using hashes with non-string keys needs programming on your part (perhaps overloading stringification for your object and providing a way to get your object back from the string) or others (CPAN). Or you could overload (or just add to) the object and provide an accessor for your value so you can set it on the object itself.
I entered the software industry during a recession and far before the dot-com boom. I didn't think it was going to be much of a career. Geeks were much more ostracized. But I didn't care--I have to do what I'm doing.

> There’s a really strong image of what a computer scientist is[....] It makes it hard for people who don’t fit that image to think of it as an option for them.

If anyone with a computer can be dissuaded by such trivia, programming is not their calling, and they should go find it rather than waste their time doing mediocre work.
The secret to Farmville isn't gameplay or aesthetics
Indeed. Formal degrees make a big difference there and in doing work for the government, or government influenced things/the D.C. area. Or various sorts of "mass produced" consulting, where the company is selling resumes more than anything else.

As an entrepreneur the latter shouldn't be much of an issue any time soon.
This. HR Never works for you. HR works for management.
D-Term: Mac app to automatically contextualize command line with focused window
Thank you! I've been making exactly this point over and over (http://searchyc.com/agpl+eula), it's nice to see someone else noticing the same bullshit.

Freedom Zero is the freedom to run the program, for any purpose
Is it sad that my first exposure to Lenna was the LenPEG "compression" algorithm?

http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/lenpeg.html
I get high with a little help from my – search engine
I get high with a little help from my – search engine
in california i hardly see any american.

Be it in the streets, in the bars, in the fortune 500 offices...

My guess is that the entire state is a piramid scheme for immigrants
It depends on the company. I have seen companies where that does about sum it up. On the flip side, I have had HR reps bend over backwards to help me when I had the slightest problem with my health insurance when I was a more junior employee.

As a manager, I have had the pleasure of working with HR departments that did the grunt work of posting the job openings for me, but simply passed on all resumes for me to filter as I choose and they have been extremely helpful in handling a lot of paperwork so I didn't have to.

In short, I have seen HR departments that are a nightmare (especially for the line employees) as you described, but I have also seen them be true blessings both for the corporate leadership and for the individual worker. Thankfully I've worked with far more of the latter than the former.
A new Chapter 2 for Ruby on Rails Tutorial is out
There's some important meta-information regarding the new chapter, so the link goes to the Rails Tutorial news announcement. For convenience, here's a direct link to Chapter 2:

http://www.railstutorial.org/chapters/a-demo-app#top
...except for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness>banner blindness</a>, anyway.
That's something I hadn't considered!

I'd thought about how you could use the AGPL as a scarlet letter: "I'm the only one that can profit from this", since as the author you still retain full copyright and can do whatever you want with closed modifications. tptacek appears to be using it this way, to keep other companies from selling it, even if he doesn't care much about selling it himself.

But I hadn't realized that in such a situation, the author would be completely unable to take contributions from others without full copyright assignment!
+1. Most of them have a rather hazy idea of what they are doing and are stuck in the last century technology-wise. Example: at least one wire releases time-critical information in HTML with multimegabyte (yes, megabyte) stylesheets which are delivered inline. And they won't change the format.
But you can still host a GPL'd codebase as a service and use 'outside' contributions without copyright assignment.
Part of the problem is that ad companies interpret "engaging" as "distracting" and "annoying".
It's better overall if you and all your users have this limited form of freedom zero, when the alternative is that only you have it and your users have nothing.
Apple's Q1 includes the winter holiday season. I'd wager normal people don't know or look at a manufacturer's release cycles. They know the gift-giving cycles.
(I'm a little concerned this may be too outspoken for my own good, but here goes..)

The first two stories at the start are horrible. Why are they being anonymized? She should just reveal identities (and compromising photos/emails) and make an example of them.

I know people are afraid of seeming like trouble-makers. Silicon valley can seem awfully small. But you know what, it can also be small for investors. Certain kinds of behavior are so unambiguously bad that with documentary proof nobody should (would?) fault the whistleblower. To do otherwise is to abet sexism.

(The third is obviously not interested in funding her. Who knows why. Just post to thefunded or something.)
#1: I agree with you. We can't just assume that it must be sexism. Discussions about gender would do better to have more hard data and scientific thinking.

#2: I'd like to suggest you give room to the idea that sexism may be both powerful and subtle. The power expresses itself in symptoms like "98% of open source software contributors are male". The subtly shows up in the large number of male programmers who don't notice that there is a problem. For example, an assertive woman in a workplace may be viewed as a "bitch" but an assertive man in a workplace may be viewed more positively. They can each be sharing ideas of the same merit, but our cultural conditioning evaluates them differently. That's the subtlety of it.
Can't speak to other states, because I don't practice there, but California law is largely governed in this area by a 2000 case in which one of its courts of appeal held that employment contracts in this setting were "contracts of adhesion" and therefore that an arbitration clause in such a contract might be held to be unconscionable in certain circumstances.

The analysis can get complex but the bottom line is that binding arbitration clauses are not automatically deemed unconscionable and unenforceable - they are only unenforceable if they are unfair. In the 2000 case, the court found the clause to be unfair because it required the employee to submit all claims for wrongful termination to binding arbitration while enabling the employer to take its claims against the employee (e.g., a claim for theft of trade secrets) to court. (see a reprint of the decision here: http://www.lawmemo.com/docs/ca/armendariz.htm) (contains a long and very technical discussion of the entire range of issues affecting whether a binding arbitration clause is or is not enforceable against an employee in California).

In practice, then, employers have adjusted their arbitration clauses to make them fair on the surface so as to make them enforceable, no matter how unfairly they might work in practice. For an updated discussion, here for example is a write-up of a 2009 case in which such a clause was enforced by a California appeals court against an employee: http://www.laboremploymentlawblog.com/arbitration-agreements....