skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dumb question: Why do we need generic TLDs at all? Why can't I associate any unique name I want with my IP addresses in my DNS records? Why shouldn't we use "https://ycombinator"?

Is it due only to the legacy of DNS? I suspect I'm missing something obvious, but even a quick search didn't reveal the answer.
This doesn't affect the overall point, but the "lowest unemployment rate" part of the headline is annoyingly unsupported. Googling "lowest unemployment city in the usa" shows a Google featured snippet listing Sioux Falls as the city with the lowest unemployment rate at 2.1%, which is lower than Seattle's rate.

Edit: turns out the "highest minimum wage" part is also wrong. Seattle's minimum wage is currently $11/hour, and Washington DC's minimum wage is $11.50. (If this is confusing after reading the article, it's because the article didn't mention that the $15/hour rate doesn't start until 2021.)
The GPL doesn't force your hand; "you have to release your code" is never the case. You can always just stop infringing :)

(IANAL, this is not legal advice)
The new MacBook Pro looks and feels so good it's unreal
Languages with one single corporate implementor obviously will centralize and standardize their library. Languages with a bunch of competing implementors stay fragmented. JavaScript is a lot like C++ in this regard.
"Personally I find that Apple Preview has always been good enough for these tasks."

OSS is a good choice because not every developer works on a Mac and with binary apps. You can hack quite a few quick/dirty tools to deal with repetitive tasks. Having said that Apple Preview is a pretty useful tool.
It's a shorthand for talking about how the ownership of everything (both current stocks and claims on future production) is being distributed between workers and capitalists. When r > g, the share of ownership of capital (by growth in capital) is growing faster than the continuous stream of claims on future production (which is what money is, and what makes up income). If capital is liquid, it can be converted into a claim on future production. That's how the units are made compatible.
Non computerized automobiles are those before fuel injection became common, which dates back to the early 80's. One option would be anything with mechanical diesel injection pumps, but those will at some point be harder to get past emissions inspection.

Keeping a car that old on the road is going to be tricky, the engines do wear out at some point and bodies will go faster depending on the climate. Anything from that era will soon be a classic with associated spare parts prices.

Tractors from the 1940's still run pretty good though, there's plenty of them and they were built to last.
Communism isn't some "radical" boogeyman, it's just a process to eliminate inequality. (Why should there be any inequality at all?) We don't need to be diminutive about relatively different ideas; that's unhelpful at best.
The fact that you held the door open for everyone doesn't mean everyone does. I think we'll all still be okay if you stop though.
> The CEO of Wix admitted that the derived work in this case contains "more than 3 million lines of code"... The copyright owner of the GPL'd module could sue them to have all that released under the GPL, and (assuming Wix wouldn't comply) then we would finally know if the license holds up in court or not.

The copyright owner would win, but all they would likely get out of the court is an injunction stopping Wix from distributing the infringing product and monetary damages. They would probably not be able to force Wix to release source code.

If the GPL code is just a wrapper around MIT licensed code, as has been claimed, Wix should be able to quickly change their code to use that MIT code directly instead of using WordPress' GPL wrapper.
or "writing" instead of wiring
The weird snarky passive-aggressive tone of this is really off-putting to me. "Hey dude, we'e released some cool stuff, check it out, maybe your business can use it"
Sigh, that's another one on my reading list. I thought Baxter's Voyage was a wonderful novel - quite dry, but masterfully put-together, using NASA's true history to inform how an alternate history might have gone. Titan seems irresistible, but it sounds like it might be quite bitter.
Why is this your only other comment on a 996-day old account? You didn't even read what I wrote (because you start with a complaint that I made too) and it all just seems pre-manufactured ranting.
Not really... There will be (already are) tons of devices that we do not own that can affect our safety, health or quality of life. For example: traffic lights controls or ventilation systems. Left insecure, they can/will be dangerous.
only acceptable lifestyle for a normal person is simply far more expensive than most can afford

This is the ginormously over-sized glowing fluorescent pink elephant in the room.

"Fix the economy" isn't going to work because the economy isn't a thing you can take in for repair. The Economy is a confusing thing because we talk about it like it's a noun, but it's really a verb: The Economy is something humans do, like sport or recreation.

The US needs to do some deep re-thinking about what it values. I'm in Australia and we seem to be doing a fairly good job of adopting the US model, despite there being some, in my opinion, better models to choose from.
Emergence of herbicide-resistant weeds due to increased spraying of herbicide on GMO crops is one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Effects_of_use
To be fair, this is an absolutely essential thing to be a stickler about in C. It's a dangerous language, and placement of semicolons and recognition of unititialized variables should be burned deep into the psyche of an experienced C developer.

This is why people advocate for alternatives like Rust where the compiler can be precise on your behalf. But as long as C is still in use, its practitioners need to be exceptionally pedantic with their code.
It is also indisputable that increasing the minimum wage puts more money into the economy, it's a clear stimulation. And our economy to a large extent is dependent on consumer spending. The increase in spending, vs the fewer jobs with higher minimum wags - that's the complicated question.
Apple has a "long" history of differentiating ports by left and right (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12711127) which has been frustrating to me. For instance sometimes the left USB port "dies" after a sleep, while the right one keeps working.
I agree it's going to be a mess for a long while, similar to HDMI cables that work or don't without any clear reason for the casual buyer.
When I was 18 I did what I was told. Mostly, anyway. If my parents told me my future depended on taking a 250'000$ loan, I might have just done it, especially if they raised me in that belief.
I'm a huge fan of Piketty, and have been slogging through his terrific (but long) book and it's change my perception on a lot of things.

I don't want to challenge capitalism - competition drives innovation, and the need to survive and to make a better life for oneself is at the core of that. However, we need to admit that not all people are driven by this, and in our world (at least in the United States) it's not about survival in terms of life and death and hasn't been for some time.

The people on our streets are not there because they deserve to be, neither are many of the people in the boardrooms. Today, there's a disparity between the have and have nots and it has less to do with capitalism than the reality of growth which Piketty outlines really well in his book that's definitely changed the way that I look at it. It's hard to see value in supporting the status quo when it's only going to return 1-2% year after year - especially after an excessively long period of unprecedented growth due to the devastation and rebuilding through the 20th century. However, this results in a lot of the wrong things being valued in my opinion.

I feel like we're at a pivotal point in human history. We're at income disparity levels second only to countries scourged by ISIS, we're at wealth concentrations comparable to Europe pre-world war one. Marginal income increases have little to do with marginal productivity increases of either companies or employees. I feel like the fundamental definition of value needs to be re-evaluated.

I really think that the nature of capital/wealth have really changed. When cost of living dominates anyone's ability to be a productive member of society, that's when we should reconsider how to go about either distribution of wealth that's leading to that (that hardly ever works) or instead how we quantify and define wealth. Shifting this balance in favor of what we as a society value, I think is the best way to start to really change things.
Plants are faster to duplicate. Assuming the astronaut falls on a world with air and water, if s/he ate some vegetable food containing seeds before dying, they could grow on soil fed by his decaying body.
The question then would be: what happens when all nutrients from the body are depleted?
Ask HN: How to challenge a patent?
We have developed a 3d try room [1]. It is one of its kind. Today, I came across this patent [2] which seems to be very generic. It is like patenting a laptop with a keyboard and a charger. I would like to protect our startup.

Applicant's site is not working as per their patent. Seems like they just wanted to patent their dream functionality.

Please let us know what are our options.

[1] - www.SenseStyles.com
[2] - https://www.google.com/patents/WO2012110828A1?cl=en&dq=metail&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsu7XFloHQAhUQT48KHd6RCtkQ6AEIIjAB

Update 1 - Added more detail
Dulling psychic pain with physical pain seems to help me. (I mean working out, getting a tattoo, etc, not self-harm.) Treating the body brutally backgrounds your mental processes for a while, and gives you time to process things subconsciously.
Many have Github's, FOSS contributions, and such with their code in them that can be reviewed. How serious the project was to them will vary. However, I would ask that they tell me which they put real effort into and how. I'd look at it to verify. That's a start as it tell me directly how they code supporting real-world work.
Bicycle actually needs very few metal parts, if any.
That should be possible, because IMHO Postbox (as a fork) also works with Enigmail.
In the spirit of hyperlinks, https://repair.org
Is this like a non-profit wing / initiative of the ifixit.com company?
Review: Iraq and 100 Ed. Hassan Blasim
Or someone else buys them...
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/double-dip-internet-...
Herbicide-resistant weeds are not unique or new (natural selection is not dependant on GMO's ;)), there is now ones that are also resistant to Glyphosate/Roundup...
Bixi chasing a gesture-controlled future
Most disappointing: It doesn't work in safari right now.
> I paid for the VMware plugin and the support was awful

I paid for the plugin early on, when it was Hashicorp's first monetization effort. Having good experiences with similar projects like Sidekiq Pro, I was quite surprised when an issue I ran into was summarily dismissed. I can't imagine what it's like post-funding.
Sigh. I have a dream when one day people learn to use that quote correctly. Correlation does not imply causation, but a lack of correlation does suggest (not prove, but suggest) a lack of causation.

In this case, the relevant claim is the claim by minimum wage opponents that the unemployment rate and the minimum wage are positively correlated. Seattle's situation does NOT imply that a $15/hr minimum wage decreases unemployment (if someone were to make that claim, then your quip would apply), but it DOES suggest that a $15/hr minimum wage does not increase unemployment; this distinction is subtle but vital.
You forgot the owners of the company. Presumably taxing the company would equate taxing them, which is separate from workers. But such is not how tax incidence works.
You're just being pedantic. He said "largely banned", which is more or less accurate.

Germany is generally moving in the direction of further restricting GMOs: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-grain-germany-gmo-idUSKCN0...
$10 a month during college football season of course...
Who are you trying to fool?
My guess is that they want French Literature and theology degrees from Stanford/Ivy/etc schools. If you go to Chico State you're much better off with a CS or accounting degree. I can't imagine the average state school liberal arts degree holder has a viable white collar career field with just that degree.

Sorta like its better to have a Stanford law degree and have had mediocre grades, than it is to have graduated at the top of your class from Santa Clara.
Some insider money ball:

Neil Day started a company called Perfect Coffee back in 2014, mission to disrupt distribution by creating a vacuum sealed individual package of ground coffee. He tested it with one of the top coffee roaster and retailer in Silicon Valley (not Philz, Philz is just bad coffee) then sold the business to Blue Bottle in 2015.

Blue Bottle around the same time was experimenting with mail order coffee like other companies as a sizable chunk of revenue from a steady and stable monthly subscription is too hard to pass up.

Fast forward to now and the goal is three folds with these third wave hipster cafes: adapt or die.

The hipster cafes create innovation but Starbucks sets the pace in the coffee QSR world. Things like dialed-in coffee extraction, mobile order ahead, fancy half a milli renovations, gift carding, all of which are opportunities.

Two main trends are cropping up with mail order coffee: one is freeze drying (like what the preppers do) and the other is going with expensive investments into equipment like what Blue Bottle is doing at the ~$3 price point.
That is true, but my point is that in the context of an interview, the purpose of "char *p;" might simply be to indicate the type of p, but not necessarily to indicate that it is uninitialized. It's hard to know what the interviewee thought without asking them.

Though it might be a good thing to say "well, p is uninitialized," it might also come across as obnoxious if that wasn't what the interviewer intended. So it comes down to guessing which response the interviewer is looking for.
So you should let Russia do whatever they want? When did the US became a country of pansies?
I also suspect it's drive-by commenting, drawing conclusions based solely on the article title and personal bias.
> Another aspect of life has been politicized for no good reason.

Life is political. If you have the relative privilege to think that parts of life can remain completely neutral and value-free, it's probably because you are relatively privileged and not directly affected by the issues that people feel compelled to speak about.

In any case, I'm nearly 100% sure that ESPN's drop in viewership doesn't have to do with SJWs peeing in people's Cheerios, but rather the overall trends towards cord-cutting, tv-shedding, etc and ESPN not yet jumping on the train of ala carte tailored sports packages.
Other than the pro-military how is any of the rest right wing?

Do you think the NFL's refusal to allow Dallas' players to honor slain police officers is also right wing?
You're just being pedantic. Technically speaking, antibiotic-resistant bacteria have always existed to.
That's how user generated content works.
Ah Bill Clinton, that famous governor of California in the 80s and 90s!
Messages from or to a contact can also show red, I forgot to mention, if the user decides that the key pair used by that contact is not trustworthy. That can make sense if you see from the contents of a message (and subsequently perhaps by a phone call, adding evidence to that) that someone's in between or the key pair in place is not really belonging to the contact, but made up.
Thanks, was wondering if this came from a specific language pain or not.

Since all of this requires being on a newer kernel anyway, I'd do that first, then try the existing bcc tools and see where you are at. You might discover that you can do everything you want to with the existing tools, which include some powerful ad-hoc analysis tools (trace and argdist). Or, if you're missing one or two tools and let us know, and we may develop them for you and add them to bcc.

Many work on the current Ubuntu Xenial 4.4. A few more on 4.6 (stack tracing), more on 4.7 (tracepoints), and all work on 4.9.
> Very few programming jobs actually require the more mathy end of CS

I disagree. I'm a lowly web dev who is not in Silicon Valley, but I do know the practical benefits of applying the right data structures and algorithms, even though I don't apply this knowledge every single day.

Yes, nested for loops and a hash table will "solve" almost any problem and you can push the release out the door, but how much will that sloppiness cost the employer/customer in hardware and the maintainer and users in time?
That would still be a major victory for the GPL. To my knowledge it has never been tested in court in the USA.

Everyone knows that the GPL is being commonly violated by companies that just don't care and developers who don't understand it. Any US legal precedent around GPL would be welcome.
But is it due to genetic modifications?
Works for me (using Safari Tech Preview 16).
I agree with you, but it is also IS income inequality. The amount of marginal income increases (or new income) is going to the top centile and decile and is not proportional at all to the distribution of either income or wealth.

"
The average income for the richest 1 percent of Americans, excluding capital gains, rose from $871,100 in 2009 to $968,000 from 2012-13, he wrote. The 99 percent, on the other hand, experienced a drop in average incomes from $44,000 to $43,900, Wolfers said. The calculation excludes government benefits in the form of Social Security, welfare, tax credits, food stamps and so on.
"

From http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/apr/...

However, the research in Piketty's book also shows this up through 2010, and I remember the figures he was drafting showing 50% of new income going to the top decile going through 2010 - so Bernie might be a bit aggressive in his numbers, but even 50% of new income going to 10% of the population is just bad. I remember in the book he outlined how only places like Colombia or otherwise Fascist regime countries are worse than the US.

I can dig up the numbers from the book - I read it on ebook so it's always a hassle waiting for the pages to refresh looking for info :/
Can't edit my post but it should have been $7.

This is a good blog post [1] to understand the economics of bundling. It's straight out of every 2nd year microeconomics textbook.

[1] http://cdixon.org/2012/07/08/how-bundling-benefits-sellers-a...
> I find it curious though how some can think raising pay by fiat will help the poor.

Er, I don't know how much time you spend around "the poor", but I can guarantee giving them piles of cash money will help, regardless of how much ivory tower logic the average HN reader can spin on it from their $3000/month condo with a Tesla in the garage.

I will admit I stopped reading your comment after that sentence.
Dell EMC World 2016 – through the product announcements
Did you read the article? The measurement is against places that do not use GMOs. Nowhere does it say there has been no absolute increase in yields.

> An analysis by The Times using United Nations data showed that the United States and Canada have gained no discernible advantage in yields — food per acre — when measured against Western Europe, a region with comparably modernized agricultural producers like France and Germany.
Thanks everyone. My mom suffered a massive asthma attack and is in the hospital on life support. She was without oxygen for too long and lost all brain function. I'm 22 and this is just so unexpected and hard.
Previous paragraph: "I stand against ... the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual"
https://www.engadget.com/2008/02/22/optimus-maximus-at-long-...

The Optimus was also not very comfortable for actual typing use, which probably put off a lot of potential customers.
That's a very gracious interpretation I think. The snippet illustrates a kind of trivial bug (uninitialized variables) that should really jump out at anyone who is used to writing C code. (And I think it's clearly C code, and not pseudo-C code.)

In fact, it will generate a compiler warning (with -Wall).

The conversation (which OP said was condensed) clearly demonstrates that the interviewee does not understand that the pointer is uninitialized.

To suggest that the interviewee confused it with

char *p = ...;
*p = 'c';

makes no sense, because he said the memory was dynamically allocated 'by the compiler'.

Also it would still matter what ... is here.

For example if it was a constant initializer like "string", then the memory would be statically allocated and write-protected.

If on the other hand it was a call like malloc(1), then you would expect some error checking to see if malloc failed.

It's actually a pretty neat little snippet.
VMware on AWS: Thoughts, Wins, and Challenges
You are using unclear terms, but you are getting to some of the confusion on this thread.

Most art schools offer concentrations in areas that could allow you to pay back the debt you incur -- industrial design, film/animation, graphic design. But you have to be very lucky, or move laterally, to pay back those debts if you concentrate in painting, ceramics, or glass (all offered at RISD).

And, especially as you go from the BFA to the MFA, there is an increasing split between these two tracks. Different people on this thread are talking about different things.

My wife has a BFA and an MFA in sculpture from very well regarded schools. One of her classmates moved laterally and is now very high in the creative apparatus at Facebook, a couple are doing well with gallery sales, museum shows, and commissions, a few others teach (especially the ones with strong technical skills).

But, it's a hard path. Probably half her class pays the bills with earnings that don't use their skills. They almost all still make art.
http://codeforces.com/profile/Petr
Two pieces of advice:

1. Value optionality. $300k in debt takes too many options off the table, $50k not so much.

2. College, even (and in some cases especially) art school, is extremely valuable and increases optionality. consider Virginia Commonwealth University. It's a cheap, public school with one of the best and most functional programs in the country. Especially if you're in Virginia, take a look.
"I can neither confirm nor deny this will work." :)
Possible and does are a little different :)
I knew a doctor who did admissions at a well-regarded med school. They said the best applications didn't come from the kids who studied bio or chem as an undergrad because they figured a field related to medicine would make them competitive but from those who studied what they found interesting (including bio or chem). These applicants not only had better grades on average, but they tended to have much more interesting applications because they really dug into something because they loved it, not as a means to an end.
I'm trying to understand what this statement is implying. It's it saying Seattle is booming because it is mostly white? Is it saying Seattle can absorb a higher minimum wage because it is mostly white?
I can I'm trying to understand what does the diversity (or lack of) have to do with the financial well being of the entire city?
I wanted to watch the world series, so I'm using MLB.TV via a foreign VPN. Its not something that would work if everyone did it, and its really an inferior experience. Its similar those totally illegal streams in quality, except that I'm paying for it.