skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people do BSD because they actually want corporations to actively use their instead of "shitty version that corporations wrote from scratch".

Some people, like me, just don't feel like we have anything to lose, but we also accept the fact that somebody might make a million bucks off my work and be totally fine with it.

In fact, I mostly evolved a sort of indifference as I diverge from the BSD and GPL hardliner positions to "hey, let just share!"

I live most of my formative years immersed in open source software. It just feel icky not to give anything back for so much of the free education that they enabled and provided for me in addition to all the great tools that I have the privilege to use.

The author obviously come from a very different culture, a culture that doesn't automatically share its capitals and works, that of which is clearly alien to me, if not to hackers in general.

For me, money and sharing isn't something that belong to the exclusively of one side or another, like charity and jobs. Money and sharing isn't in conflict at all. In fact, I like to think more sharing lead to more cash.

It's a clash of cultures really, but it doesn't mean each culture is equally good, just with a different perspective. What's really happening is a conquest and battle of ideologies, heart and minds, and which make more money. If one culture is clearly better than the other at this, then they are truly the superior culture.
> 1: I want music artists to stay about, because I like their catchy tunes.

Do you dislike the hundreds of thousands of existing tunes? Is it somehow not enough for you? Not even combined with the music people would produce even in the absence of IP?
Well, your first suggestion is as equally impossible to carry out as the actual law.

I think you have to prove that the sales are lost, if you're making the case that someone is being harmed by piracy. Based on my experience with a ton of friends stealing media left and right, piracy seems somewhat orthogonal to sales. Folks seem to mostly steal things that are either very hard to get otherwise (old, out-of-print, not yet released) or that they would never be willing to pay for. A lot of pirates end up amassing a tremendous amount of media, more than they could ever afford if they were to buy it all. Often they spend a lot of money buying what they can afford.

To complete this rehashed discussion with a repetitive anecdote, I can say with total certainty that I have spent literally thousands of dollars more on music than I would have ever spent if I did not steal any. Like the girl in the article, I was a teenager with no capacity to pay for music for years as I discovered and stole from all the artists from whom I have been buying since.
With the piffling matter of having a sustainable idea and a business model, and being able to execute, in between all of that.
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I've struggled with trying to make a success of my company too and my family is far away and I've had thoughts similar to yours.

But I always came back to the fact that I can always do something different. I can drop everything and go back to where I grew up and just take an ordinary job.

Remember that there is nothing more important than your life and desire to succeed at a startup or in corporate America or anything else is just conditioning and not necessarily important at all.

Personally, I took a contract job recently where I can only work 8 hours a day. Its great to hang it up at the end of the day like a normal person.

There's nothing wrong with taking a break from struggling with a startup. Things will come together later. Its not supposed to be so hard anyway. There's a difference between intense creative collaboration and solitary unhappy struggle.

I truly hope this helps.
When you're coding, progress is immediately rewarded by a mechanism in the brain that releases pleasurable chemicals whenever you hit a milestone. It's like playing Diablo II and hearing that "ding" when you level up. (At least, this is the case for me. Especially when writing new features or refactoring.)

But the reward system for the other work (release) isn't built into your brain yet. You can trudge through it, or you can try to hack together a reward system for your brain until it's burned into place. You can promise yourself that when you ship, you'll go out to a fancy dinner, buy a video game, or go to the beach. If you have a spouse / significant other, you can ask them to take you out to dinner if you ship (this is, in my opinion, one of the best perks of not being single).

Your brain isn't a bulging mass of sheer willpower, although it's pleasant to pretend it is. You've got to figure out a way to get yourself to do the things that you want yourself to do, as much as that sounds like it doesn't make sense.
From the article:

Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life -- the life you author from scratch on your own -- begins.

How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?

Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?

Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?

Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure?

Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?

Will you bluff it out when you're wrong, or will you apologize?

Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love?

Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?

When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?

Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
Great rule of thumb, but this also goes for a whole bunch of auxiliary Django applications and libraries like Piston, Evolution, South etc.
> People working in health-care have an easier time believing in God

I know a great many doctors, nurses and other health-care workers and I don't know a single one who believes in any gods. Maybe it's just a UK thing, but watching good people die painfully and slowly is fairly destructive to blind faith in an allegedly benevolent god.

> miracles do happen

[citation needed]
There is a reason why there was no performance degradation: They ran the tests on "dirty" disk both times.

To clear an SSD, specials methods must be used: They are vendor specific but the SECURE ERASE command (ATA spec) will mostly do.
Reddit questioners of Google employees find answers (at Reddit).
I think you clearly misunderstood.

The guy is a selfish and greedy person, trying to get these $4 out of this poor girl. Read the comment mentioning the
creative common license potential usage, that's the right way to share to people and earn a decent living.
I wonder how well the iPed is doing.
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Link is broken now, should be: http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.7.html

(Which is actually from the future! "Python 2.7 was released on July 7, 2010.")
India, country of 1.2B goes for a one day off.Loosing billions of dollars.
I'm trying to answer your question, but it seems a little vague. In general, I'd say this a good rule of thumb that doesn't apply in Google's culture/implementation of cash awards. To be more specific, I'd have to speculate about why such policy would be "generally considered a bad way to motivate". Maybe it would be better if you gave some specific reasons, instead?
Dawkins' scale of belief is at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_of_theistic_probabilit...

He describes himself as a 6 - that's an agnostic atheist. That means lacks belief, but does not entirely rule out the possibility of a deity.
I belief the Fields Medal is not only given to people below 40 b/c there are no older people deserving; I belief it is given to younger people b/c they can most benefit from getting such recognition.
Ha! I actually just finished arguing with somebody about the possibility of an agnostic Christian.

(I think this is possible)
I'm exactly in this position myself. I'm 80%-90% done with a product but there's the last things that needs to be finished before I can launch, like configuration, setup procedures, small details etc.

I find it extremely hard to finish it. In my case I think it's simply because all the juicy problems have already been solved. It's darn boring coding when you need exactly what needs to be done, but you still need to do it.

A couple of tricks that worked pretty well for me. Change enviroment, if you work somewhere "fun" like a café or other public place that might give a much needed boost to finish it. Listen to interesting stuff while working, like podcasts and audio books. Visualize your product being done and all the positive things that will lead too in order to get some motiviation
It's a good one, no doubt. And it's true that the resources of the linked site go beyond the world of drawn panes.
Right, there is also resolve=endpoint, i.e., the "Running Dog Lackey" configuration. And others will also be possible.
Yeah but why should I do that? I have no business (in the personal, administrative sense of the word) in Canada.
/"horny-ness" (is there a better word I could use?)/

-> level of sexual arousal

Leave it up to me to transform a perfectly understandable and conversational word into something abstract and clinical ;)
How did you know it was god? How did you rule out being mad and hearing voices?
>God is an easy solution, but then where did he come from? Same problem.

God isn't made of matter and does not experience linear time.

(We can't comprehend the answer to this question).
Warning: App Store scrapers can discover apps before their release
I just received a startling email from a user of my company's first iPhone app, informing me that they'd learned of our new app on AppMiner and wanted to know why it was only available in the U.S. App Store. The problem? The app hasn't been released yet!

After a few minutes of panic, checking the actual App Store and confirming the app hasn't accidentally been released early, I realised that websites scraping the App Store listings can apparently pull information on unreleased apps. A quick search shows up three other app listings sites which have info on this unreleased app.

A lot of effort's gone into planning the release of this app, and it's frustrating to have information leak early. Not a disaster in this case, but not great - for example, the price point listed is wrong.

So be warned: make sure your app metadata is ready for public consumption before your app exits the review process - whatever you've set its release date to!
I think it is great that one can take an off-the-shelf video camera and make a movie. And this sparks a whole world of creativity. Each day a 100 years of video are uploaded to Youtube.

What we need is a way to compensate professional artists and performers in a world where the cost to distribute is effectively zero. Some stuff (for example a "Michael Moore"-style documentary on the oil spill) is complex enough that it is difficult to produce it without having a way to cover your costs. Does Cory Doctorow's way of doing this scale to movie production?

Oh, and we need camcorders and the like to integrate free codecs - the ones currently available by default often produce H.264-movies which need a license if you want to profit from your work in any way...
Na. Chinese pay good money for high quality stuff. They'll pay a high proportion of their income into a few well-targeted purchases. If they don't want a good item, then they pay next to nothing for a low-quality knock-off. But high-quality stuff sells well.

Mac is losing because QQ (IM client) works better on Windows, and Xunlei (torrent client) is Windows-only.
1907 - 1962: Jim Casey does UPS-work.

Moral of the story: make sure you are doing what you love if you're trying to start a business, right now, because you'll do it for frickin' ever.
Wow... talk about a reign of terror. This is a great example of why governments should never, ever be involved in proscribing use of specific technologies. ActiveX chosen for the sake of security?

... or, say, anything else that involves interpreting complex technical issues such as software patents.
WTF?

The author’s sales of sheet music to everyone who buys it include an explicit contract (called the laws of whatever country the sale is done in). The girl seems to have gotten a copy from some party to that contract, explicitly against its terms, and is now re-trading the item in question (the sheet music file), on her own. Except the law, as written, quite clearly applies just as much to her as it does to the person who violated his contract with the author in providing her the sheet music.

The nature of the stuff being traded makes it somewhat different than physical goods, but in principle this is no different any other illegal redistribution of goods, for example reprinting cheap copies of some copyrighted book and selling them on the street at barely above cost.

When you talk about your “ethical perspective as a libertarian”, what you apparently mean is that you don’t believe in the concept of copyright (or other “intellectual property”, or perhaps even that society’s laws should be binding on citizens). This is not the usual libertarian “ethical perspective”, and you should be careful about implying that libertarians necessarily feel the same way you do.

> successfully earn in the market

There is only a market for sheet music insofar as that sheet music can’t be trivially gotten for free from a third party. Basically, your comment says something like “we should eliminate the market for sheet music, and the author should do something else.” Well okay, that might be what happens anyway, but that’s not “the market” deciding. For markets to exist requires a set of social structures which regulate its form and function. When those structures break down, as in this case, the market is destroyed.

(These social constraints need not be written down or enforced by an official police force, etc. They just need to be commonly agreed upon and have some social weight. I need to know you won’t take my money and run without giving me the promised chicken, or spend all your time copying the book I sold you and selling it behind my back while I’m trying to write the next one.)
How did it change your life?
How long before we see Monster branded Ethernet cables?
No idea what to do? Why, just major in cognitive science!
Ask HN: favorite HN posts?
I read HN in GoogleReader, so I often save some of the posts to the Starred Items. I wonder if you do the same. Please share some of your links.

P.S. I'm also looking for a HN post with a link to a huge multi-pages document describing how airlines set prices and handle tickets. It was very interesting and I'd like to re-read it, but I can't find it. Any help would be very much appreciated.
OT: Thanks for making me re-visit The Wire. I've uploaded a clip from it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BxRDmu6NBM - the chess scene) - which was flagged by ContentID, incidentally - that puts forth some killer ideas. That show was awesome, and totally deserves every penny it gets from folks buying the box-set :)
Seriously? $4? Would he still be selfish and greedy if it was $1? $0.10?
The nonbeliever is not exempt from having to answer those questions. The reason that Occam's razor is on the side of the nonbeliever is because the nonbeliever's answers to those questions are unrelated: on the standard humanist worldview, how the universe was created (stuff that we don't know anything about but we hope the LHC will tell us) has absolutely nothing to do with what moral choices one makes in life (utility maximization). In other words, those two answers are "simpler" because they are not linked as compared to an answer that links the two by saying "well, God is responsible for those".
You might want to file a bug report to Apple.
I don't have a Reddit account as I've never found the inclination to be part of that community, but the two thoughts on the topic I would raise here (which pertain to engineering jobs):

1) For all the perks (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/clz1m/google_empl...) I believe I can 'buy' them myself for <$10,000 year (expensive lunches, gym membership, pay someone to wash my clothes, etc). Given that Google only pays average wages, this means that so long as I am working somewhere that is paying me over $10k above average salary, then I'm doing better than a Googler.

2) On bonuses, Google will give several $million to key folks who were instrumental in the success of high-profile google products (eg Google Maps folks walked away with several $million each). Don't forget, though, that unlike a startup the tax situation on that is probably rough - normal income rather than capital gains.

I guess both of the above indicate that, for me at my stage in my career, money considerations are a key part of where I place myself as a resource over 'cool place to work' - which is a reason I don't work for Google.
A terrible article and assumption. Each resource has its pros and cons. Alot of startups will begin with virtualization because its cheaper and an easy way for them to manage resources in the sense that they can split a server for app and db specifics. As they grow and try to scale virtualization can become a pain, cpu and IO is just not the same vs a dedicated server. Its all being contended for by these virtual servers. So quite a few will move to a dedicated server model and instantly see latencies drop and performance sky rocket. I cant recall but I believe github did this and it was a major change for them.
The belief that Occam's razor is true is based on its explanatory power when it is used in scientific exploration. Assumptions are weighed positively when they have predictive power, and belief in God has notoriously low predictive power.
Some of the posts saved to my starred items:

1. Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=875686

2. Talking to God - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1122706

3. The case of the 500-mile email - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293652

4. Ask HN: I really don't understand node.js, could someone explain it to me? -
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447235

5. No One Knows What the F* They're Doing (or "The 3 Types of Knowledge") - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121775
Ok, first of all, there are no easy answers to this, but the good news is it's mostly how you are looking at things.

You need to find an environment that fits your personality, you like start ups and can't stay focused? Great you're the support guy, there are always a million little things you can do. When you're not being distracted by support emails / calls you can fix the bugs they want fixed.

Relationship? You're 23, don't worry about it, you don't need a long term relationship right now and probably haven't figured out what you really want in a partner. Exceptional partners are just that, exceptional, you're not going to meet that person everyday. A week or two? That's not a relationship thats getting to know someone.

You can't stay focused on a project for more than two or three weeks? Great, there is a new methodology called agile. It's perfect for you. Your project is now a feature. You have two weeks to implement it. The good news is you're not going to be prone to embarking on any Sisyphean tasks.

If you want inspiration I have a contract due in 6 hours and I'm sitting around posting on HN. I can't focus either.

You need to stop trying to conform to your environment and start trying to find an environment in which your traits are invaluable. Stop beating yourself up over who you're not, start embracing who you are.
I'm not the original poster, but he/she might be referring to reports like this one: http://www.management-issues.com/2006/8/24/research/bonuses-...

There's an absolutely gigantic literature in management, economics, and other areas on pros/cons of bonuses and specific bonus schemes in all sorts of contexts, though, so I'm not sure it's fair to say there's any consensus on them being considered bad for knowledge workers. My recollection is that there are some arguments about it coming from an intrinsic/extrinsic motivation perspective, arguing that knowledge workers are most motivated intrinsically (because they like the job, find it engaging, like problem-solving, etc.), and that extrinsic motivation like bonuses might not help, or might even harm motivation (there's evidence from some psych studies that the presence of extrinsic rewards can reduce previously existing intrinsic motivation).
I just did the same, probably a similar disk. If you don't use the optical drive much you can always add an SSD and keep your current disk with 320 or 500GB.

I think 240GB will be enough. If not I might end up replacing the optical drive.

It's a lot, yeah, but the way I look at it is I just spent top dollar on a shiny new notebook and using a rotational disk in it is cheating myself out of a good investment. I couldn't justify not getting one any longer, even though I know that winter will bring higher capacities and lower prices.
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Hi paraschopra. What does it do when the request using the cached DNS fails? In conversations with security experts researching DNS re-binding attacks, I've heard that pinning is dropped after one failed request, as techniques like sending multiple A records for a domain depend on this. Also see my comments to forkqueue.
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Monday: Mon(th)da(y)y(ear)
Doesn't get much worse for a mnemonic, but works for me.
the FSF would go after closed boxes containing GPL software, and not releasing sources.
Sorry for the lack of specifics. I'm thinking of Daniel Pink's book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. It references studies showing that the presence of a monetary reward in situations that require abstract thinking tend to result in worse performance than no reward at all.

Maybe my assumption that this is a widely held belief was wrong.

It seems to work for Google. I'm just curious what it is about their implementation or culture that makes this the case.

This TED talk summarizes the book:
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
Yes, but the whole God thing is just to motivate people not to eat pork. Apparently, people are more willing to do what they're told if you claim the instructions are of supernatural origin.
Mac is losing because QQ (IM client) works better
on Windows, and Xunlei (torrent client) is Windows-only.

Those are two pieces of software which would be trivially easy to port to OS X. I doubt they're the primary reason the Mac isn't doing well in China.
Requesting money when the derivative representation/usage of the work is in return given for free (as in free theater show, free movie, free mixtape, other free software) is IMHO selfish and greedy.
Not really - Apple still has the better product.

China is losing out on Apple.
while that's a great idea in principle, in practice, no one's going to lend you $120k to invest in startups. If you've got the cash and you're looking to pay out of pocket, it's a nice idea. but to my knowledge the gov't doesn't over low interest loans for education-via-angel-investing.
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