skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When people use the Free Basics mobile website, information is temporarily decrypted on our secure servers to ensure proper functionality of the services and to avoid unexpected charges to people.

edit, source: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/internet-org/platform-t...
Heh. I did that once (with financials, I do learn what I can before going in). It was astounding how uptight and offended the interviewer got. Pretty sure he was an outlier, but it was very satisfying. I ended it by telling him I wasn't interested, and the reaction was even more satisfying.

That's the only time I've been that intentionally rude. He really deserved it, though. And (consistent with my other comment in this thread) I'd name them, but (a) they went out of business a long time ago, and (b) I can't quite remember the name of the firm. Something "clever" ca. 2004, missing a vowel.
Ok, I'll check that out thanks. I've gone to the weekly Js meeting at L & F.
NFS is an old (some would say legacy), idiosynchratic piece of software with multiple revisions that affect how you run it, depending on what kind of backwards compatibility you want. As the article points out, some of the problems could be eliminated by only enabling NFSv4 support, for example.

If anything, the article is a good example of adapting new tech to work around the many odd behaviours of old tech.
"I love deadlines. I love the swooshing sound they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams
(I'm one of the purchasers of Codetree) I had also thought that banks wouldn't be interested in lending in cases like this but surprisingly enough when we talked with our bank after we made the purchase they mentioned they'd be very interested in financing us if we were looking at buying other software businesses in the future. When I had talked with them a few years ago there was no way they'd have loaned money for a purchase like this because it has no tangible assets. They told us straight up that they understand the world is changing and they are now interested in making these types of loans. They get that small businesses owners today are just as likely to be software companies as they are to be restaurants. We're Canadian and our bank is TD.
Maybe he was an idiot, but everyone who lived in the previous 4 billion years was a worse idiot. In the land of the blind and all that.
(my understanding, IANAL)

Yes, that's generally the spirit of both the LGPLv2.1 (5.6 and before) and LGPLv3 (5.7 and up). Link dynamically to the LGPL covered libraries, provide the source, and you're good.

But there's a commonly-used loophole: the LGPLv2.1 does not state that the user needs to be able to actually replace the covered library with their own built binary. In 1991/1999 this may have been assumed (given dynamic linking and desktop OSes), but for embedded devices and newer platforms it is not a given.

Digital signature verification can be used to prevent the user from loading their own firmware (the only way of replacing the LGPL libraries). This is why the GPLv3 added the anti-TiVoization clauses, requiring that installation instructions be provided with the source code, so the user can actually install the libraries onto the device.
It's a story about students with some internal desire to be good at pottery, not just to get good grades. The grading system forces them over the hurdle of hesitation, to produce quantity without being paralyzed by anxieties over not being good enough, and then their own desire to improve nonetheless uses that imposed practice productively.
> "As opposed to fox-and-hare looped link lists or implementing a binary tree or something else I’ve done a hundred times in an interview and not once in my actual job."

This. Interviewers, stop asking questions that only a fresh college grad should have at the forefront of their mind.

One of the best interview's I've had, was actually for a job I didn't get. It was for a game development company, and they actually posed problems and questions one might face in their day to day work. For example, writing an efficient collision detection algorithm.
I do noisli with noise cancelling headphone, works the best
You think software for those computers that are better at diagnosing was created by engineers who don't know the difference between a stable and unstable sorting algorithm?
You may have noticed this phenomenon of 'browser bloat'.

Well, its gone way beyond bloat. Basically the idea of adding features to web browsers started snowballing years ago and then turned into a new animal.

That new animal is the web platform. The leading browsers now basically contain features that cover just about every single API a programmer could want. That even includes recently added experimental support for accessing USB devices.

So its an operating system that lives inside other operating systems.

The appeal of Hyper for me, as a JavaScript programmer who has been working with Linux for at least 15 years and likes the terminal -- (I do everything in zsh or fish shell, use vim to program, was playing TradeWars 2002 on telnet last night) is that now I can keep all of my cool ANSI and linux command-line workflow etc. PLUS I can add just about any fricking thing I can think of into my terminal. From sound to SVG to 3d graphics. Or just testing my JavaScript application or component.

But really it comes down to whether your belief system allows for the possibility of a terminal to have any feature that isn't in a classic terminal -- i.e. anything that isn't monospaced colorful text.

Also, if you don't like JavaScript, and ever consider expanding the capabilities of your terminal or integrating some other application somehow, there are tons of languages that can compile to JavaScript and therefore plug in to Hyper.app, including C or many languages that compile to C via emscripten, LiveScript, Haxe, TypeScript, Dart, Elm, RubyJS, Pyjs (Python), Nim, Shen (Erlang), Perlito (Perl), GWT (Java), Scala.js (Scala), Script# (C#), ClojureScript, Moby Scheme, OCamljs (OCaml), ghcjs (Haskell), Go2js (Go), jsForth (Forth), etc.
I don't mean "irrational exuberance", I mean irrational pricing.

If Twitter is overvalued by 10x, some models for valuing established tech companies are way off.
Huh. I wonder what the implications are for Play Store's DRM.

Specifically it seems like this board could be used to strip DRM from media.
Also misread intelligence and allowed themselves to be manipulated by Neocons into invading Iraq
not if you access the site from a laptop/desktop
Any book or resource to learn the financial projections etc?
See my comment up the thread. It seems like that might be changing at least in Canada. I've heard similar things about SBA loans in the US though so perhaps similar changes are afoot in the US as well.
Hm, you may be right. I though that was going to violate:

> Each recursive function call must be on a syntactic subcomponent of its formal parameter.

But it doesn't. But you can't actually use that to get a nonterminating program, because you can't recurse over it:

> Ordinary recursion is not legal over codata, because it might not terminate.
In the short term, economic (that is, market exchange) value is determined by psychology. In the long term, economic value is deteŕmined by thermodynamics.

Georgescu-Rogen, Daly, Soddy, Bohm-Bawerk, Marshall, Smith.
Seems unlikely. It's a very popular app with a focused niche. Gaming the system doesn't really get the developer anything. He might have, but it would have been foolish of him — lots to lose and not much to gain.
Oh and didn't really do a great job about preventing 9/11...oh and stupidly helped turn Al-Qaeda core (about 120 people) into an ideology...oh and didn't really do an awful lot to predict and prevent ISIS.
Compose didn't offer only RethinkDB. It offered many other databases as well.
Jersey City was very scary in my motorhome, and I'm unlikely to go back in a big vehicle...but it was because of how dense everything is and how small and busy the roads are. I didn't actually find the drivers all that rude. They were kinda pushy about merging and such, but I didn't feel targeted the way I feel when driving in Atlanta.

That whole region, in general, has nicer people than their reputation would indicate, in my experience. New Yorkers and New Jerseyans (is that the right word?) were all pretty nice and helpful. I spent a month parked in Ridgewood, NJ (it was the closest I could park the RV to NYC for that long), and was struck by how friendly folks were across the whole area, given the reputation for rudeness. Riding the train was fun, asking for directions was rarely problematic, etc. Driving the house around sucked, but the people were fine.
In my experience distributed company is best if you want diverse team from start. I worked at company where 70% of engineers were women.
What do you mean by "Noto web fonts behave like this"? Whether dead keys are enabled is a property of your system / input method.

The standard en_us linux config does [alt+\] [a] = à instead for example. (unless you choose a keyboard layout)
This video made me vegetarian eight months ago. Then I watched Cowspiracy. And then I started to read more about the meat industry.

There is no going back when you realise how fucked up this industry is. HN fellows, we are willing to make the world a better place, right? How about not taking part in one of the worst crimes in history?
Yey, I wasn't talking about "infinite substitutability" here. Although it's part of the equation. I'm talking about productivity. How you can derive way more value now from the same quantity of resources than you could 2 centuries ago.

So yes, there is a ceiling in available resources (although there's a whole lot of resources that we can tap in the solar system alone), but as long as you don't see a ceiling in productivity improvement, you don't see a limit to growth.
It's a good idea to have that policy and be careful.

I submitted a comment in a similar office survey service and despite my submission being anonymous, shortly after submitting it, a superior had a meeting with me to address what the anonymous complaint was about, having determined the comment was from me.

In this case I was very glad they figured it out because it ended up being a low risk way of bringing up my concern, but had I not had such a great employer, the result could have been me getting fired or something similar.

The comment was only one short sentence and there were 50-100 people employed at the company, so if you want to be honest on platforms like this, I would limit what you say and obfuscate as much as you can. It doesn't take much to identify you.
Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. Facebook radically alters its content for political and state power purposes.

Not only is this not against the law, it's either illegal or highly discouraged not to do this everywhere in the world.
Just chiming in here: in The Pragmatic Programmer it's called a "tracer bullet", not a "tracer". You'll do a lot better searching for discussions by using "tracer bullet".
I think you are missing the point.

If you do not know such things then how are you going to take them into account when you have to solve a problem?
I cannot resist: it's a plane, not a plain.
I'm not sure how much this has to do with quantity of x as opposed to quality of x.

Quantity matters. Everything is contextual. If one is in a "hypo-minority" situation, then one is more likely to stand out. Being unique can be nice, but being irrevocably marked as unique, with no respite can feel like being trapped. Being singled out is simply more likely if you are truly singular.

Like if a company is predominantly composed of white men, does adding a white female make it more diverse than adding a black man?

I think that very much depends on the people involved. So in this, you are right. But quantity does matter a lot.
Isn't this when they start doing controlled burns? Or is that not a thing.
More purple.
> Koestler laments that the current epistemological opposition of science and religion dates from that unnecessary conflict.

I don't think that's even remotely true; the current (well, in America particularly and to a lesser extent other predominantly Christian places) epistemological opposition of science and religion (which is really substantially more limited than that, but that's how its often portrayed) is of more recent origin, stemming from the conflict between the literalist inerrantist views of certain parts of the Protestant community and various scientific conclusions about the origin of species, the age of the earth, and cosmology.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biblical_scientific_errors#Astr...

http://biblebabble.curbjaw.com/errors.htm

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/science/long.html
There have been attempts:

FOAF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(ontology)

XFN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML_Friends_Network

There's probably more. There's always more standards :)
Is it a remote position or onsite?
Impossible to characterize without high volume silicon or accurate yield models. We can say that historically, most failures are in SRAM cells and they are limited to a few bits (core still works!) and that in general only one out of N cores will fail. For arguments sake, let's assume the while network always works, but 1 CPU may be broken. (this is what needs to be confirmed later). Does that help?
local userscript workaround: https://gist.github.com/jspenguin/11295206
We had free Facebook on mobile phones (not sure if we still do) here in New Zealand for years (0.facebook.com).

I'm not sure if it was something that our mobile providers paid for, or something that FB offered for free though.
This is an excellent analogy BTW!
Agreed, but I don't see anyone with pitchforks out protesting cell phone carriers providing unlimited media streaming... Just, crickets. I don't get it.

I have an unlimited plan, actually unlimited, grandfathered in, and refuse to change it even though there are sometimes tempting deals, because I'm philosophically opposed to anything that breaks net neutrality, including getting free unlimited Spotify streaming.
16M: NotoSansCJKjp-Regular.otf
Outdated article I think
When you select a different language from the search box, though, you see those same sentences translated into the other languages. Wouldn't be possible to get full alphabet coverage in all translation/alphabet combinations.
Thanks for the great explanation. Serious question: Can I ask how you happen to know so much about this subject?
Thresholds are often useful with these kinds of stats. Aka a drive moving one sector might mean nothing, but moving 30 in a week could be great predictor. Further they only have 70k drives across a range of product lines so what predicts drive X failing very well might say little about drive Y.

PS: Rememebr all RAM gets bit flit errors over time. Which is one of the reasons rebooting is often so useful, but also means one off errors are often meaningless.
"gratis sans libre"
I'm currently running Windows 8.1. I've got an ancient XP VM in VirtualBox I need to run sometimes and also use the Hyper-V-based VS Android and Windows mobile emulators and don't have obvious issues running one or the other. I haven't done anything other than installs to get things running.
You're right, but it's a moot point for all practical purposes. Of course there is a limit, but if the limit is so high that we'll never reach it, it's as if there's no limit.

The point is, if you can be millions of times more productive with the same quantity of resources, your reserve of economic growth is gigantic. Not truly limitless, of course, but limitless for all intents and purposes.
Exactly. I want an extra button next to the login form for "login by email". Send me an email that contains the geolocation and IP address of the requester and login link (that also logs in the requester browser session so I can auth from my phone even if I'm browsing on pc) as well as a "reject" link that they can use to determine if this is malicious.
I could understand your logic if Twitter was a private company, but it's not. Wall Street demands strong quarterly growth and anything else is failure. So Twitter trimming down to a profitable level only means that its stock is going to gradually decline as more and more investors pull out and reinvest their money into other companies that are growing.

The best thing for Twitter is to go back to being a private company and charting their own future and be free of what Wall Street wants them to be.
Can Innovation Exist Without Invention?
Larger FPGA support 64-bits with custom memory controllers.
I'm not disagreeing, I think you may just be reading too much politics into my statement. All of these patches result in unintended consequences, not just the ones that one political viewpoint advocates.
Modal? I want composable.
> asymptotes

This is brilliantly clarifying, thank you.
kareemm has already answered the questions about financing but I actually think your second question about "where to find these deals" is really the more interesting and important question. The obvious answer is places like FE where we found Codetree but that was a total fluke and it's not the right way to approach it.

The truth of the matter is that many business are for sale if you ask. The right approach is to think about the type of business you want to buy, build a list of all of the ones that fit and to cold email them and see if they'd be interested in selling. Basically the same approach you'd take if you were trying to sell B2B software i.e. Predictable Revenue style.

I can already hear people saying, "No way people don't do that" or "That would never work" but it does and people do. In fact we know a number of people that bought their businesses using that approach and it is exactly what we were about to start doing before Codetree fell in our laps. It's also the way that a lot of PE, VC and search fund deals get done.
The hidden price is advertising, platform lock-in, surveillance-as-a-service and propaganda-as-a-service.

So maybe "'free' 'internet'".
>I don't think the problem is cargo culting. Replacing things with better solutions is hard. Take the venerable ANSI terminal. It's archaic and cryptic, I think most people would agree on that. Yet proposing a better, widely useful and backwards compatible alternative is extremely hard. Which is why no one has succeeded yet.

Making a better alternative isn't hard. Getting everyone to use it is.
Voices, especially high ones, are kryptonite for NC, but the very latest models do better with them than I've ever heard before. My Bose QC35s and QC20s both do a great job of making a voice six feet away sound at least 20 feet away, and voices over 10-15 feet away not sound at all. I think the QC25s and QC30s will be similarly good. The new Sony MDR-1000X are also supposedly showing next-gen NC performance, according to early reviews.

A set of one of those will probably do the job of lessening voices to something acceptable--they do to the point that my very, very distractable self can work in an open office, whereas older NC headphones did not--but they won't completely remove it.

If you really want that, I'd suggest a set of 34dB+ reduction earplugs. If that doesn't work, put them underneath NC over-ear headphones. If that doesn't work, play white noise on the headphones. I'll be surprised if you heard anything external after that.
Sure...but probably not with all cores running full throttle. Would need to build an appropriate board.
> And, btw, why should an init system come bundled with a time client or a time client bundled with an init system?

That's entirely up to distribution packagers. 39k bytes and you get a dead-simple working ntp client daemon (no server) which requires literally no setup. If the distro packagers want to split it out or not include it at all, they can do that and the build system is set up to make that easy.

So it really depends on how you mean "bundled", it's good and there's basically no reason not to include it in the package.

I also figure it's a bit of a straw man to hypothesize a bug which hasn't occurred. NTP, as far as I'm aware, is mostly static structures on the wire. If there's a problem with the client, it's most likely your clock will just be wrong; bad as that is.
> The four month cycle isn't bad unless you are doing anything with JavaScript.

Whether this is an argument against the Visual Studio's or Javascript's cycle is up to the reader to decide. :-)
Almost all 8-bit computer were like that.

I was so glad when I left REPLs and then debuggers and IDEs, to compiled languages and text-editor + command-line compilation and open source-code. I just cannot fathom the trend of the last 5 years where I hear and read people who cannot live without an IDE, a debugger and a REPL. It feels like living in a jail cell for me; a cell I left 20-25 years ago.

Incidentally, I just had to install an IDE today, for HDL development. I urgently have to find a way to turn the process into a Makefile or I will throw the computer through the window before the week-end comes.
Exactly this. I want to present my business as being available for sale. However, it is difficult to start this dialog on HN because people seem to find it spamming to bring the subject up. HN could be more hospitable to finding these types of deals. Maybe a new section?
They aren't kidding: whenever these systems are deployed the agencies choose privacy-destroying versions. They could just as easily have a refillable stored-value version, but instead they have one that reports its subscriber number and is tied to a user's account. Resulting in a data stream that can be subpoenaed or simply inspected.

I guess people are just inured to this. Driver's licenses are full of info not required for driving.

Oh, and a mandatory snarky Manhattanite snicker for "Bridge and Tunnel Officers"
I threw away my 'free' unlimited media streaming when I threw away my cellphone (courtesy of the Snowden Documents).
That's a good point and I accept your suggestion. But if we are never likely to even see the beginning of the asymptote, we can just treat it as infinite. And people understand "virtually infinite" more than "potentially asymptotically endless" even though you're correct.

> Until the economy is majority fad/fashion-driven and ascribes value literally upon human whimsy, it must derive ground truth value out of those laws.

I would disagree with that, but I'm happy to reconsider if you care to explain more. Economy is based on our preferences, as economic agents. The rationality of our preferences is irrelevant to the economic system. In this way, there is no "ground truth". That's supply and demand, not a cost-driven economy. There is no economy outside of interacting economic agents performing transactions, this is what an economy is.
JetPack Aviation founder David Mayman flies in London for the first time
Shouldn't there be (2012) in the title?
See my comment above on the alternative approach. The short answer is to approach the problem the other way. Build a list of businesses you'd buy and start emailing.
Not OP, but:

Perfect predictability would obviously be beneficial, in that you could get by without any redundancy. But even imperfect predicability can help you reduce the required number of drives for a set level of security.
For Epiphany: GCC upstream already, working on GDB upstreaming. THere is no linux, qemu,uboot

For Parallella: Linux upstream, uboot might be as well? Runs Debian, Ubuntu, etc

https://github.com/adapteva
iPhone 7 vs. Leica M9-P: A Side-By-Side Photo Comparison
I didn't call anyone a dick. Though I wouldn't go on the stand and say that I never casually use it.

Also, you're probably aware that there's often different tolerances for in-group use of a word. That shouldn't be a surprise, really, it's usually not the physical presence of a word that people object to.
I find that minorities harass women in the street more than other races. And this harassment continues into the office. If we are serious about increasing the number of minorities, there should be some sort of training about what sort of behavior is acceptable and what isn't. Otherwise I don't want to see more minorities in tech.