skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By these metrics are we doing so much better? And let's not justify the unfortunate conditions of the present by the worse conditions of the past.

Yes. Yes, we are. Realize that in the 1910s, electricity was not in widespread use, millions died each year from diseases now treatable or totally nonexistent (e. g. smallpox), and we were on the verge of two of the deadliest wars in human history.

It's frankly absurd to suggest that the only benefits of technological and scientific increases over the past century have been flatscreen TVs or creature comforts, or even that these are the primary innovations. Humanity's inventions over the past century have been a big, massive deal. Not dying from things as simple as influenza, being able to cross the country by plane in just a few hours, and near-universal (in the US) access to indoor plumbing, electricity, clean water and at least basic emergency medical care have already put us well beyond the level of those times. I won't even get into live birth rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, or overall risk of death due to accident or disease.

But overall, I'm not justifying current problems as being OK because things used to be worse - I'm trying to remind everyone that society is a process, not an endpoint, and for as far as we've come we've got to be willing to take time and withstand some suffering to go further.
They still got binding contracts. For example they have to have PayPal as a payment option till 2020 and a decent amount must be processed through PayPal. It might change after 2020.
http://www.fosspatents.com/2016/05/googles-fair-use-defense-...
"Exciting backups" is pretty much thing I want the least.
If you don't like maven, you're going to need a padded cell when you move to nuget.
Las Vegas casinos have started charging for parking after decades of being known for not doing so. This occurred after the newest large projects were built without large/any parking to accommodate drivers visiting those projects. I cannot speak for the impacts on locals visiting the Strip as this is still a new thing, but I do know that:

- The casinos are making an additional $7+/day from every vehicle parking on their properties (those who haven't found a way to get free parking, including being on a higher than lowest gaming tier).

- MGM Resorts started the trend, and within months Wynn and Caesars followed suit. The increased revenue in MGM's case was to fund an additional paid parking garage.

- All future projects will probably follow suit and limit the amount of spaces.

Throughout all of this, the only big improvement in public transit discussed has been some kind of rail option going down the Strip in the future. Otherwise, it seems to be that locals will pay more by either paying to park or using ride hailing/taxis. In other words, not necessarily moving us forward in transit efficiency and additional revenue to the benefit of a few companies.
The guy is Asperger.

I wonder why twitter still can't have a filter that changes the phrase "I will rape you" for "this was against twitter policy. One more and you are out for 24 hour" or so? Maybe its time to implement the "wash_your_mouth" filter.
>it's almost more of a "plagiarism" case than a "copyright infringement"

Do you know what the definition of plagiarism is? Google it, "copyright infringement" is listed as a synonym.
I sincerely hope that you followed up and did everything you could to see that [expletive deleted] in jail.
> bring inherent stability and progress to society.

I would classify this sort of thinking as "whig historiography." It's a popular meme, but there's no evidence that it's a good model of reality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history

Embracing "diversity is strength" feels good in an abstract sense, but it seems to fly in the face of evidence. The chaos and conflict brewing now are a direct result of this motto being played out over the last fifty years or so.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1280266...
> Got hellbanned

HN rarely hellbans, and not in cases like this. I'm not a mod and I'm not speaking for them, but I'm pretty sure they usually warn first, and that they announce bans.

You haven't been banned. You have been i) heavily downvoted and ii) not upvoted.
Topology and Infinite-Dimensional Linear Algebra
> * Most of the time _something_ doesn't work... then you come back and it suddenly works, then it's broken again

It does say, "Move fast and break things" on the walls there.
Oracle owns copyright on OpenJDK, so it can't 'violate'.

Maybe more precisely, if you regard the API in question as copyrightable, Oracle has clearly licensed it under GPLv2 plus the Classpath Exception.

Also, the issue of copyrightability of the Java SE API has already been definitively decided in this case, in Oracle's favor.
The Lost Cause tries to paint the Civil War as about States' Rights rather than slavery. This reinterpretation began immediately after the war, arguably by Robert E Lee himself. The War of Northern Aggression et cetera tries to paint the South as the victims.

This revisionism avoids the text of the Constitution of the Confederate States, the writings of Calhoun, the 1860 census of South Carolina, the secession of the Southern States and the firing on Fort Sumter.
I use https://www.softether.org/. Setup of a VPN server never was easier.
>> someone complaining that their local beach is full of trash when they themselves never bothered to help clean it

Here you're shouting others down by trying to shame them. Please don't do that. Being unwilling or incapable of cleaning up the messes others make does not disqualify one from criticizing the mess makers.
I suspect the sentence "A handful of 'highly toxic' <members> cause <overly large> amounts of abuse." is true for all groups.
Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writers
Nice!

I recently re-did my business cards. Pretty happy with how they came out: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C25LX0bXAAAWWYL.jpg:large
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13615978
A fan of pfSense, I've used/deployed it a number of times to customers, and for some previous employer bits. Current version doesn't have an API, but is fine for what I do with it.

I did see people hating on it here, and while I cannot/will not speak to their specific issues, I look at it as a much better tool than the integrated hardware units you can buy online for ~$100USD, with also integrated back-doors, courtesy of the development effort.

I know perfectly well that I could build what I need using IPtables ... but have you used IPtables? I'm a CLI guy, and heck ... I want a GUI for IP tables ...

I've not yet played with the nftables, and frankly, I am looking for a generally simpler model of putting some of these things together. pfSense does a pretty good job of this.

One note on the php on the stack ... yeah, this is a concern for me as well. So I don't generally expose the admin access to the interwebs. And I lock that aspect down pretty hard (only specific addresses are allowed to even connect to the admin port). This isn't perfect, but its far better than setting up a web port, and suddenly presenting the pfSense gui out (yeah, this sorta happens by default if you don't move the gui to a different port, and do some other config).

This all said, it is pretty good for what it does, and a few of my previous customers have bought the support for it directly from the team.
https://outweb.io
I'm really looking forward to the next 5 or 6 years, when all of the software patents created in the 90s and 2000's expire. It can't come soon enough.
Thanks for that data!
So you want to work less but get paid more than double you are currently on? You don't seem to be motivated to learn anything new, so how do you justify the more bucks you'll want to earn?
Job trends for R and Python
Really? It didn't work for me, even switched to a different browser and to private mode. The flag stays.
> I want to make big bucks 300k or more.

First of all, 130k is already 'big bucks'. If you want 300k+, go to medical school or start your own business. You're upset about the time you spend working, yet you also want to make more money? That is not going to happen soon. You can keep working and make more money, or work less and have more free time.
Something similar happened with me. I don't have Facebook's app but I use Messenger (location - allowed), So I'm guessing this is location based. You went inside a restaurant, spent time there. And Campari turned out to be a hot selling thing for restaurants.
You don't need money to get out of the grind. The best way to win is not to play. Why exactly do you want more money? If you worked at a place that paid you 300k like Google or Facebook you'd likely just become even more dissatisfied. When it inevitably doesn't change your life as you're thinking you'll just wonder how you can have even more money yet people who make significantly less appear happier.
What's wrong with training in full precision? There's a huge market for efficient inference in robotics, devices, and autonomous vehicles.
San Francisco Is So Expensive Even Renters Can Be NIMBYs
Actually, plagiarism and copyright infringement are different things. For example, it is possible to plagiarize something that is not copyrighted, and many forms of copyright infringement wouldn't fit the definition of plagiarism.
"Communism is to blame for their foodbanks and breadlines, but capitalism has nothing to do with ours (or vice versa)"

Just read 10 or more pages of detail from Stalin's 'Communist' Russia, or visit Eastern Europe today where you see that it is still 'defrosting' from that era ... and you can safely dismiss this kind of moral relativism rubbish.

The debate is long over: Capitalism with some degree of social intervention has won, hands down, over and over again. So many failed 'communist' states have embraced a degree of free markets, and have in almost every case improved the standard of living of most of their citizens.

Most Western nations have some negative attributes of all of these 'Dystopias' surely, but none of us live in 'Dystopias'. :)
I don't know QNX, but for IPC you should also take a good look at the L4 microkernel IPCs. It might be what you describe here. The point is that they are fast. Nearly function-call-speed.

The should probably a more complex IPC layer on top or beside it. Something like DBus with schemas, names, groups, broadcasts, etc because otherwise people will reinvent it poorly.
They also thought she coined the term "bug".
Just like engineers, they think they are smart and they are changing the world and blablabla but it is actually all about billions and power going to the big guys
Oracle is set to repeat the trajectory of SCO. Their primary product (the Oracle DB engine) is being displaced by the NoSQL and things like Postgres. The "next generation" of developers equals SQL engines with "old and bad", and when forced, it ends up with Postgres anyway.

Oracle used to survive in significant part by the support of the "database administrators" class. This layer of support is also becoming thinner and older.

There's essentially no way forward for Oracle. They can use hostage tactics to squeeze money out of exiting customers for a few more years, but otherwise they are irrelevant in the tech landscape.

Except for Java, that is. The current tech is powered by Linux and there isn't really anything as big as Java on Linux. Python has been pretty significant and Go is making inroads, but the default is all Java. It is going to be interesting to watch how this will play out.
Anecdotal, but what here isn't now: I used to edit as well after noticing how incredibly wrong some of the less popular but obviously wrong articles were. Until one day I made some anonymous corrections with proper sources properly cited. I would see my edits immediately undone. I went back and re-did my edit, rewording it to be clearer, and explaining my citations, assuming I was at fault and if I simply corrected MY mistakes the edit would go through. It did not, and this time I was notified I had attempted to vandalize said page and would be banned from making further edits if I persisted. I went on to create an account and try and argue my points civilly in the talk page, to no avail, and being attacked by the article's caretaker (who by the way knew ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the article's underlying facts/science, anything). After this I left the editing of wikipedia to people with far more patience than I, and I really believe after seeing other talk pages with glaring errors on the wiki article, that this is the modus operandi for many of these "caretakers". You step on their territory and they shoo you away as quickly as possible(they get so bad and pedantic with their arguing they call themselves "wikilawyers"). Still upsets me to this day that when I see an obvious mistake such as a bad date, misspelling or other easily identifiable misinformation I can't be bothered to do more than wonder about what the poor soul who tried to correct it went through. /rant
Disappointed: http://i.imgur.com/1Z0KC35.jpg
Well thanks a lot for the useless meme...
Here is exactly what I tell people like you. In life we're all chasing for the same things. The only difference between the top %1 and the rest is the order of priority.

You, like %99 of the people are looking for 1. Job Security, 2. Comfort, 3. Becoming Rich

The other %1 go like that: 1. Becoming rich, 2. Comfort, 3. Security. It's all about focusing on what you want in life while getting rid of the extras...
> Calhoun himself writes in 1837: ...

What do you mean to imply by this quote? It's horribly discriminatory and it's actually pro-slavery.
5.4M code results (and counting) for “Copyright 2016”
I honestly don't understand this argument. People brought up the same kind of snide remarks when BLM pushed to rename some college library after Woodrow Wilson, or to take down an Andrew Jackson statue somewhere.

Erasing history means erasing from history books, pretending it didn't happen. Taking down monuments is not the same thing. It is a big, overt statement that the contributions of those people are no longer respected. I don't see why this is so controversial.

I presume you are not outraged when statues of Hitler or Saddam are taken down?
> This revisionism avoids the text of the Constitution of the Confederate States and the writings of Calhoun and the 1860 census of South Carolina.

It avoids a lot more than that. The Confederacy themselves could have freed the slaves at any time.
While funny, I still cringe because of the http://www.dict.cc/?s=fremdschaemen
Russia reportedly considering sending Snowden back to US as a ‘gift’ to Trump
First ask yourself why do you want to make $300k/year. I had that opportunity once, but upon rapidly introspecting on what I wanted during the interview, I decided that I valued my time/comfortableness much more than $350k-400k.

If you already know what you want and it is indeed to make big bucks, then carve out time to study to get to the place where you are qualified. Then demonstrate the ability, i.e. open source, work, etc. Relentlessly iterate on becoming more efficient at all areas you fall short in.

The secret to professional success isn't really secret - smart & hard work gets you there.
Yes, this is traditionally a big effort in the neuromorphic community originating in Carver Meads lab at Caltech.

Perhaps the best success of such analog computation efforts are with Neurogrid (full disclosure I worked with this group): https://web.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/

One thing to keep in mind is that communication is often still in digital spikes, which some may argue is more neuron like than an analog encoding.
Harmful Communication – Intent
FCC can't repeal the TCPA, only Congress can do that, and it's unlikely given the way even modest amendments to the law have been roundly criticized. Last try in 2013 was the only time I've seen Mother Jones, NYT editorial page, Bill O'Reilly, and the Wall Street Journal agree on something.

The new chair of the FCC could whittle away at many of the consumer-friendly rulings of the agency, but those date back to 2003 and it would be hard to throw all of them out. Any new regulations could also be challenged judicially and that would delay their effective date. So I don't anticipate a major, sudden change. It also seems like Pai's agenda puts a high priority on reversing net neutrality and other telecom stuff and not the TCPA.

This ruling against Facebook is not that important. Article itself says that the Ninth Circuit has shot down constitutional challenges to the law in '95 and in '14, the latter went to the USSC but not on those grounds.

(to answer your first question, it's about 3-5 years from filing to final settlement.)
Watch also the "Deathbed Vigil" video by Dave Haynie, an interesting and moving account of what was happening during the last days of C=.
I would recommend to watch it especially if you never touched an Amiga and always wondered why those nerds adored it so much.
Thanks for pointing this out, I should've done my homework better with Sahi pricing. I've fixed the issue
True, but the parent seems to think they wouldn't have been plagiarizing if they had "paraphrased" the declaring code so to speak, which makes the relationship here explicit. If they had paraphrased the declaring code, it would have been much harder to say they were infringing on copyright, but instead, they copied it verbatim.

Of course, in academia paraphrasing is still plagiarism, but it is likely no longer copyright infringement especially in this case.
I have been using huginn for more than one year and I am very satisfied. What's the difference between huginn and beehive?
So they moved from C to C++?
no they don't. The article isn't reporting accurately on Facebook's argument. The TCPA has exceptions for emergency communications and debt collection activity where the debt is owed to or guaranteed by the federal government. General debt collection most certainly isn't exempt from TCPA compliance.
Crosswalk 23 to be the last Crosswalk release
The problem is - some people never come back from their ayahuasca trip.

https://youtu.be/uzpey20hQwE
The card companies are shockingly glacial in this market. You'd think the day after Ebay and PP came online, they'd be working on an online card solution. It would have encouraged people to spend billions more on their cards and they've crushed PP in the cradle.
I can tell you right off the bat that POSIX might be better than no "standard" at all, but porting stuff between any POSIX-ish OS still means an actual port.

Practically every non-trivial POSIX-ish program is not portable. This also includes quite some supposedly higher level applications written using things like Java, Go, Ruby, Python ... since they all leak POSIX details all over the place and make non-portable use quite easy.
Yeah, TrueNorth is pointless.
OK, facebook hand-picks the authorization for an app (and its associated API access) to become public. They also hand-pick private access to more advanced API features. It's still essentially impossible to create an easy-to use program that reads public facebook posts, since each individual user has to create a developer account. I guess my first post was poorly phrased, but the main point remains that their policy forces the general public to use their front-end, and none other, to view any posts on public pages.
Also, just a sidenote, Xavier is based on Volta and is a while back.
Rather than sugarcoating and redeeming, renaming is admitting that the past is irredeemable.
The big question with IPC is what problem you are trying to solve. For microkernels you want blazingly fast cross-process function calls, but IPC mecanism that can do only that is mostly useless for Unix userspace. For example all of QNX style IPC, traditional SysV-style unix IPC and pthreads have no API for select()-on-IPC-primitive (VMS and Symbian have that and NT has mechanism for this that mostly works)
It ("The DAO") did need a mistake in how it was written though...
Stalingrad and Leningrad are not good examples. They both had other names before the Soviets did exactly what you're advocating and swept away history to make way for their new era of equality.
Why g-mail instead of a more security focused provider like proton-mail? It seems to me like the only downside of proton-mail is that it is less well-known, but I'd compare it to signal vs whatsapp. And you can get journalists to use signal.

Only other thing I can think of is google being more secure by virtue of being bigger.
I now recognize Wikipedia as the original 'fake news' or 'fake information' on the Internet. Just like all those news stories people pass around, nobody cares about Wikipedia's accuracy. It's the same phenomenon, and possibly (I have no evidence) Wikipedia conditioned people to accept unreliable information.
Yes, but the downside on a lawsuit if Oracle prevails will be much worse.

Imagine, if you will, all that Sun IP in the hands of Google instead of Oracle. ZFS might have gotten a license friendlier to Linux, Solaris could have stayed open source, and I would put money on Google having spun Java out into a completely open foundation that wouldn't have done what Oracle has done with new EE versions.
#3 is why I use Most Recent sort, which of course they boot me out of every once in a while, and I have to re-select.
Show HN: Web apps on Linux
DoReFa needs a custom scaling factor for each image when quantizing gradients.
The work Oracle copyrighted (and registered) was their implementation of Java SE as a whole, method bodies and all. Google copied only the interface.

If someone copies a paragraph of my novel and claims fair use, I won't get very far on the amount-and-substantiality front by saying "but they basically took all of the part that they copied".
> It's not appealing to chop that 1TB into a thousand PAR2 files with extra 20% redundant parity and posting it to alt.binaries.backup.

For a 1 TB archive with 20% redundancy, you're looking at a block size of at least 32 MB in each par2 file (due to the maximum block count of 32767 [1] in the official implementation). Given that the article size limit for many news servers is roughly 1 MB, you're looking at even a single block getting split into 32 article posts. par2 programs typically will generate a series of files where the smallest files contain a single block and the largest files contain 50 or more blocks. The 50 block files will each get split into 1600 articles.

For par2 recovery to work even when articles are missing, you really want the recovery block size to be less than the article size limit, so that even if one or more articles are missing, the par2 archiver program can still read a subset of blocks from the incomplete recovery file and still use them for recovery. That means that the maximum archive size would be roughly 32 GB to keep the block size under the article size limit.

Going beyond that size means that it's less likely that the recovery file would be usable if some of the articles are missing. At 32 GB, if one article is missing from a 3 block recovery file, the software will still be able find 2 blocks in that file. But, if the archive size was 100 GB, then the block size would be a minimum of 3 MB and just missing 3 out of 9 articles that make up a 3 block recovery file would make the recovery file unusable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive#Parity_Volume_Set_Spe...
I don't think that Florian Mueller is an unbiased source, he was paid by Oracle while the trial was happening
That domain name is pretty bold! I am very much amused.
dyslexia. ;-)
Google didn't use OpenJDK, they used Apache Harmony implementation
Seen the desktop surfaces? Or used an SP4? An iOS equivalent would be excellent.