skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically the issue is software patents -

Not a lawyer, but MIT/BSD ignore patents,
(software patents IIRC didn't exist when these licenses were created)

whereas Apache2 provides indemnity against any users from related patent suits by contributors.

(Sort of 'copylefting' associated patents, in a limited sense)

This isn't really an 'edge case' at scale - many large tech entities have patents.

Again, not a lawyer, I'd suspect this is 'best' here for adoptors of software using this license at smaller firms because lawyers reading the license know they are clearly protected from patent litigation by other contributors - that doesn't necessarily imply it's best overall - e.g. large companies with a large patent portfolio which is largely unrelated might not wish to even theoretically weaken their ability to use patents, or this might be a block to software adaptation/contribution due to bureaucratic reasons (e.g. all licenses must be approved by legal, who won't consider anything that mucks with their patents, even if it's not an issue here).

Further, there is potential for the patent indemnity clause to make litigation murky - for example, if a patent is covered by this license, but a user further expands the code in an 'infringing' capacity, or infringes elsewhere, the indemnity provided by the base code might protect them against litigation where it is actually warranted..

Probably some things on the flip side too - e.g. by accepting the indemnity clause, you might be recognizing the validity of the customers patent which could then be applied elsewhere against you, etc.

And as best I know (again, not lawyer and not up on details here) there isn't much case law around these licenses to clarify the murkyness.

Again, not a lawyer at all, but 'best' is dubious - I do have a preference for the BSD/MIT because they avoid this whole quagmire - although I'm somewhat anti-software patents for most cases, and licenses such as this also legitimize them, the biggest thing for me here is that this clause makes the 'free use' of the software itself much more dubious and less clear cut.

It would be interesting to have some more fine-grained information about biases/perspectives/rationales in this survey to help quantify the summary data..
e2e on Riot/Matrix is in beta. I've had some experiences with someone else in a group chat only being able to read messages on one of their devices, and this is apparently not uncommon.

I'm a firm believer that Matrix is the future. But right now I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that isn't an early adopter.
Most health insurance is provided via subsidized employer plans so consumers can either take the plan they're offered or pay 2-3x as much on the open market.

The healthcare system in the US is fundamentally broken, overpriced and cruel. It is one of the worst things about living in this country.
Thanks, we've reverted the title from the submitted “EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Chooses Not to Ban Insecticide Despite Autism Risk”.
My apologies. I don't use HN that much and it seemed like the developer was asking for feedback in this forum.
Qt classic (C++) apps run flawlessly on my 4K desktop (150% scale in Windows).

QML/QtQuick apps only support integer scaling for whatever ridiculous reason ("fuck your monitor we need to be pixel perfect" or whatever) so they're either tiny or huge.
Is Kiln from Fog Creek dead, dying, or what?
I use Kiln at work and I have (had) my own personal account; both connected to FogBugz.

I just got an email from Fog Creek stating that they were no longer going to be offering Kiln for free. Previously Kiln (and FogBugz) were available for free for accounts with up-to two active users. The email states that Kiln accounts will need to be upgraded to a paid subscription plan by May 1st.

Very annoyingly, when I tried to access my Kiln account last night, so I could download all of my repos, I discovered that my Kiln account had been disabled. I probably have all of those repos on one of my computers, but maybe now I'll never really know.

I checked Fog Creek's site and Kiln isn't mentioned or listed anywhere I could find.

Is Kiln being rolled into FogBugz? Is it going to be killed off completely?

I've generally enjoyed Kiln tho it has had pretty consistent performance problems over the past few years (that I notice mostly in FogBugz when it tries to list commits related to a 'case').
Because the majority of people -- particularly a technically oriented crowd like we have here on Hacker News -- are seeing the bulk of their costs going toward channels we never watch. Like ESPN. The amount cable providers pay ESPN per viewer is ridiculously high compared to other channels. And for folks who never watch this stuff, we get a bit annoyed that that's what is causing our skyrocketing cable bills.
Thank you. I don't use HN that much and it seemed like the developer was asking for feedback in this forum.
Before you do any of this: in many countries it is illegal to store/copy ID documents of your Clients.
My guess would be concerns about spreading around the keys being too easy, so you might end up with a compromised end point.
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I think blaming drug companies and wholesalers just misses the point.

Drugs are really good today. Not even the life saving types, but also things like migraine medication or acid reflux relief. If you suffer and have the means, you'll pay what the market demands for relief. And we live in a wealthy country.
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Free as in "anyone can go to the URL," not free as in "free speech," and it makes a difference here. When I say free, I mean that the law is not a Disney movie. The state's interest is in enforcing it, not preventing people from copying it.
http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...
This is one of the rare stories about game development I managed to find and read. It is not about 80s, but 1994 was much closer to 80s than it is to today.
> I mean, what 400,000 sites do you think Chase was advertising on? Ones that really have to do with banking? Or just ones that, by some idiotic metric, have a keyword that ".equals('banking')"?

The reason a Chase ad ends up on 400K sites is not because all of those sites are contextually relevant, it's because of retargeting. A user goes to chase.com, gets pixeled, and then shown retargeting ads on what ever websites they happen to visit that are hooked up to the exchanges. This could be either a good or bad thing.
I don't remember dialup latency. I only remember it having low bandwidth. I'm talking about ADSL latency in the 90s.
How does this tracking really works? Is it really this sophisticated behemoth of AI research that makes it impossible to avoid?
Why is it that I get targeted as an balding middle aged man with erectile dysfunction when I'm not?
why are you talking about the basketball example? post you responded to was talking about consumer choice in sectors that suffer from monopolies or oligopolies such as internet (or mobile data) service provider.
As someone who is part Cherokee (on the Dawes' Rolls), what do you mean by 'original inhabitants'?
http://tleyden.github.io/blog/2013/11/21/a-simple-data-race-...
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I'm a bit sceptic of this claim. You can also produce acceleration structures for reasterized polygons, create hierachical level of detail representations of your scene and render whatever LOD is necessary. This reduces the number of polygons that have to be rendered considerably. It always seems like the claim that raytracing is faster for tens of millions of polygons due to acceleration structures misses the point that accelerations structures can also be applied to rasterization.
I agree that the problem as far as I understand it is not really that related to copyright: the law (unannotated) is freely available, as it should be, and of course value-adding annotations by private enterprise can hold enforcable copyright. (The references in other comments below to EU regulations etc. are thus not really applicable, as also in the EU you have freely available laws but privately copyrighted annotations and comments to these laws.)

What I gather from the article, though, and which I do find in a way even stranger than the copyright question, is this: Apparently Georgia has made the annotated version of their law "official"! Can this be right? For me, this sounds far worse than the copyright question - it would mean that you give an official stamp of approval to privately prepared annotations?

The article is not that clear on this question. Wikipedia [1] has some more on it, but not being a lawyer, I also can't answer the question I would have about it, which is this: What's the role of these privately prepared annotations for the judiciary process? Are they treated like law, because they are published together with the law? Or are they treated like any other private comment / annotations out there would? This, for me, seems to be the crucial question. If it is the former, they should be freely available (and, more importantly, not be written by a private company!). If it is the latter, then I think LexisNexis has some point claiming their copyright, no?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Code_of_Georgia_Annot...
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Also an excellent bot platform.
ESPN is at the dangerous point that Kodak was at some time back - and made the wrong decision about.

When the mass popular switch to digital photography was imminent, Kodak still had enormous sales from film - mostly sold & processed thru retail stores, which relied on the product/service to generate foot traffic (one visit to buy film, one to drop it off for processing, one to pick up prints - with likely tangential purchases while the customer was there). Retailers saw Kodak starting to make noise about switching to digital, which would have (and eventually did) destroyed that very lucrative sales model - so the retailers threatened Kodak with "if you push digital, we'll drop your products" ... so rather than sacrificing the cash cow, Kodak slowed the digital roadmap to >5 years to keep retailers happy, failing to notice that retailers weren't the actual end customer making the actual decision to buy film. Competition emerged from bizarrely non-sequitur competitors, like printer & computer manufacturers Epson & Hewlett-Packard - leaders in markets that had nothing to do with photography. Bottom-end digital camera prices fell to around $100, UI/UX improved, picture-takers discovered that "digital film is free", and the whole market switched from photochemical consumables to digital capital equipment practically overnight.

ESPN and other major specialty content producers are facing the same problem. The bulk of their customers still watch via "cable TV", and cable TV providers are likely threatening to drop the ESPN-type packages entirely if they start providing serious streaming/app alternatives. That's a LOT of revenue to lose fast, so they're avoiding the big push to new media. Unfortunately for them, some other content delivery companies (like Netflix and Amazon) are seeing the potential, and putting big money into producing or negotiating highly desirable alternative content. Remember, there is a new generation coming of age who were raised playing soccer or other engaging sports instead of American football; they're looking for content that's not necessarily NFL etc, they're not so mentally tied to "TV", they want mobile content, and other non-sequitur competitors are making serious progress toward capturing their dollars where ESPN et al are reluctant to go under threat of old-model revenue being abruptly cut off.

If ESPN et al really want to survive the pivot that killed Kodak, they need to call Comcast et al's bluff, pivot into on-demand streaming, and partner with Apple, Amazon, Netflix, etc for future survival, and make an ESPN-branded push for viewers to spend the one-time $50-150 already for a superior & enduring viewing experience. Otherwise, NFL on iTunes and World Soccer on Netflix etc will become not just a thing, but the thing. Kodak doubled down on retail, instead of leaping to the seemingly non-sequitur future, and died. ESPN is doubling down on cable, with no reason to expect a different result.
> When it is run on your router, they (vendor) shall give you the source code, but may not allow you to modify it.

not at all true..
not being able to easily modify the binaries on your router is not the same as modifying the code which they distributed to you..

it is a license for the source code - not the runtime application of the source code.
In way I am getting so annoyed by the ad blocker blocker that I am almost motivated to create a ad blocker blocker blocker.
Interesting and rather specific and niche perspective. Would you agree that the biggest problems in our healthcare system are transparency, i.e., no way of telling how much something is going to cost in spite of all the data existing to provide just that, and the crushing administrative costs of a system that seems to incentivize massive administrative burdens?
"Paraphrasing" is not a convenient word for writing something that tries to masquerade as a direct quote—things that are paraphrased don't try to hide the fact they're being paraphrased.

And you've failed to address the parts of my comment that are most relevant to the discussion. Why?
Because nobody likes to pay for something they don't want? No, incremental cost is not zero, or there'd be infinite channels.
I think a great feature addition would be a planned watch party so you can invite friends and all start an episode at the same time
Fun with vi-mode in your shell
Easy to do when you've got a shit-ton of hydro, which is the case of Scotland (85% hydro, and pretty much the entire potential capacity is installed).

For instance Iceland is 100% electricity and 85% primary energy from renewables, not exactly hard when you've got massive amounts of geo and hydro (respectively 27% and 83% for electricity, 65% and 20% for primary energy). Good luck applying that to Belgium or Florida.
That is what multicast was meant to address. Sadly, it did not catch on.
For this campaign. It's reasonable to suggest that there could be similar malware affecting OSX assuming the group have a general target in mind and not something specific to windows using developers...
Someone else mentioned the version made available to the public is not the annotated version, and apparently the annotations are considered as official parts of the law.

This I think was the sticking point for the article.
Newest version has improved quality immensely.
It will probably work like it works in Vietnam now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpsybD1MsNQ
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Given how many comments here lament the requirement to live in SV, this makes perfect sense. It's sort of shocking it hasn't actually started to happen, based on how much people talk about wanting to leave.
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In a simplistic sense, the "esteem" and "self-actualization" levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
you're coming dangerously close to the precipice of far-right libertarian "all taxes are tyranny" ideology here.
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And this is why people should move if at all possible to states that took the medicare/medicad expansion. You can either vote out the government or move to a state that offers a better deal. It's almost an impossible choice but it is your life and your families lives. With respect to health care there are a lot of Americans leaving the US (who can) for other countries with health care.
That would be because that quote inspired the research. However the mechanism that they discovered is actually somewhat more subtle; it is that "rockstar scientists", intentionally or not, suppress radical new ideas coming into their disciplines. Since radical innovation is by and large something that the community-as-a-whole has (in the sense that each person has a tiny probability of coming up with the radical idea so the actual idea-havers are kind of randomly selected from the community), either implicit effects of "oh things are moving so fast in that field, these people are so smart, I will never measure up" or explicit effects of people in the field saying "why the heck would you pursue that path, it's obviously bonkers and we're doing so much better with this other approach..." convince those community members to not come forward with their radical innovation, even as it's sorely needed. Rather than the opponents of the idea dying, they are interested in the cases where the supporters of an idea die, which allows these radical ideas to come out of the woodwork.
Some people on this thread are using "pensions" (which typically refers to a defined benefit pension based on number of years of service at a company) to also mean 401-Ks (defined contribution). Pensions have become pretty uncommon in the private sector and they're largely unknown in US tech companies at this point.

401-Ks have no underfunding problem. Of course, they expose you to market risk directly.
The article isn't entirely focused on scientists either. Many writers and other creative professionals are discussed.

I think with Jobs et al, for however long they work, it's likely they still only do a limited amount of focused creative work in that time. The rest is spent doing the every-day politicking, intuitive decision-making, and administrative stuff that goes along with being a CEO.
So Survivorship Bias in play in this article?
I still vote Wire. It used to be buggy, but much better now, plus completely Open Source (Telegram is not).

I just placed my first Wire audio call from my phone a few minutes ago: great quality (better than my actual phone service), no noticeable lag.
Sure but there's no incentive for anyone to make them cheaper. The cable operators make more by creating more expensive packages and then can justify it by putting a bunch of channels in them. The networks make more by forcing the operators to take small/niche channels if they want the popular channels. And since cable networks are not perfect substitutes, you can't just disrupt the industry by carrying a bunch of channels no one cares about. Also, because the channels have a fair bit of power in the relationship, they can structure their contracts with the operators in way that it's not economically viable for the operators to unbundle.
I don't have a strong feeling about the statistics here. But I guess a $1,000 mistake on 1 in 5 of all returns does a little unlikely. Bigger mistakes on fewer returns also seems unlikely since the higher the bracket, the less likely you're relying on any default or software.

But I take the point that H&R Block and Intuit could simply start from the filled out returns provided by the gov't. Harder to understand their objections given that.
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Employers are the "consumers" in that case, and they do switch plans if they get a better offer.
How much was the Pandora when you got it new? I'm seeing the Pyra start from ~$600 USD to $750USD including tax. I think the form factor is really cool but I could buy a much more powerful laptop or even a Surface Pro 4 for nearly the same price. I fully understand how pricy custom hardware can get but that price is just totally unattractive compared to the competition.
Few weeks ago a very fantastic thing happened in my city, about live sports and so on.

Context: soccer is the main sport, TVs buy the rights to transmit, and pays a big money for the whole season. But the two biggest teams didn't sold their rights, so TV can transmit the whole championship except for those two teams.

When the confront of those two teams was about to happen, commercial controversy arose: the teams didn't accept a one-time-contract to that match because they estimated to receive 3x more from youtube live stream. The league had a say, the tv, the teams... bureaucratic problems prevented the have from happening at the expected day, but it happened a week later.

Live at youtube, enough quality, free, ad sponsored.

League wasn't happy (the championship worths a lot less without those teams, so smaller teams received a smaller share this year). Tv was more or less, as it profits selling pay-per-view or live transmission.

Public was happy. Those who wanted to go to the stadium, went and were happy too. Teams got bigger money and were happier than never.

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I cutted cable because I was paying >$100 to watch just 4 or 5 channels. Would they have some kind of subscription, I would surely go for them.

I'm still waiting when cables (or channels companies) will allow me to subscribe for just specific channels.
Wow... this is astounding.
New bill in alabama prohibits the sell of devices without internet filter
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Even more important than forming synapses is the subsequent pruning of synapses.

I imagine the same principle applies to networks of people as does to networks of neurons.
Wind, Solar, Wave, ect are causing energy markets to be distorted through the massive amounts of subsidies they receive - exactly the thing you railed against in your first paragraph as taking money from "education, healthcare, sanitation, nutrition" and causing people to "live somewhere smaller, consume less stuff, not take any days off."
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"The US government lends itself SS and Medicare funds"

And that should have NEVER been legal. That money should have stayed in the funds. Any growth from those funds should still be in the funds. If they had not effectively stolen the money for other uses, those programs would not be in the mess they are in now.
Why Immigrants Do Better at Science and Math
Of course, merely by statistics, there must be a few exceptions too, i.e. lab slaves becoming famous by accident. And the question then is if those exceptions are more abundant than those famous people going for the hard results.
> when I point to the fact that the Rust codebase itself has a lot of "unsafe" places

One of the criteria for being in the standard library is "is this something which needs a lot of unsafe." This is so it can receive extra auditing, etc.

> yes, but it's an old code

This may have been true a while ago, but in my understanding (I'm not on the library team) it isn't really any more.

> why should any other project have more time than that

Because they do not need to write their own unsafe code, since it's already done in the standard library.

Generally speaking, applications in Rust should almost never need unsafe. Libraries may.

> a fast Rust code example also typically has an "unsafe" code.

This is not really true anymore; in fact, recently some programs were contributed that are 100% safe yet are faster than their previous, unsafe-using versions.

> believe that the language should simply implement a language-level no-cost check for integer overflow

This is not viable. Not enough machines have this.

> Writing unsafe Rust instead of unsafe C is not giving you any real advantage for the existing projects, as long as the state is as it is.

Unsafe Rust still has many, many more safety checks than C.

> Also, look how Rust uses TLS. Is safely rewriting a crypto library which is useful in real project still a too big task to be taken?

https://crates.io/crates/ring ?
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