skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it presupposes that artistic output is a commodity that can be copied.

In the Marxian sense, artistic output is a commodity, however every subsequent copy is a commodity with very little value, depending on the value of the copying machine etc.
>Same goes for libraries, you can link to a GPL library in your commercial application as long as you distribute the library as is but you couldn't just steal or modify the libraries' code and call it your own.

That is not actually true. That's why LGPL exists.
> And yet, the idea that the whole culture of producing and consuming photography – the culture of photography itself – can be scrutinised critically is one that we should not be so eager to discount; our age of ‘fake news’ and reality television politics probably needs it more than ever.

I'm certainly not eager to discount the idea of a broad institutional critique. But I am eager to discount a broad institutional critique where the methodology requires little to no hard data or even secondary sources of research which themselves may be scrutinized to weigh the conclusions the author puts forward.

Also, this:

> “Naïve or commercial or merely utilitarian photography,” she says, “is no different in kind from photography as practiced by the most gifted professionals: there are pictures taken by anonymous amateurs which are just as interesting, as complex formally, as representative of photography’s characteristic powers as a Stieglitz or an Evans” (OP, pg. 132.)

What does "no different in kind" mean here? I can't think of a definition that either makes the entire statement facile or else is so obscurantist as to be invisible.

Anyhow, it's not enough that an unknown naïve amateur can take a photograph that is as powerful visually as an expert. That could mean the "masters" have no clothes on, but it could equally mean that photography as a medium and technology has a democratizing effect. Or even a little of both. But I hope the modern human would have already known that before reading the passage.
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IIRC, they were also the first to get a card reader into that form factor. They were the first to make mobile credit card payments feasible.
My GPA when I dropped out was 3.3! Where are my millions!!??
Ask HN: Web Devs: What do you use for project management and billing?
Curious to know what other web design and development teams are using to manage their and projects and bill clients?

Our team charge time at an hourly rate. We only estimate, never quote, so it's important to keep clients updated on where things are sitting and let them interact on tasks when testing and reviewing.

In the end, after trying a few of the popular apps, we decided to build our own. We've been using it and evolving it for 5 years and are just now launching a beta and trying to see if others might be interested

https://tasman.io/

https://vimeo.com/223398703

In my experience, all the features can be met by different apps but I haven't seen anything yet that handles the end-to-end workflow and has a nice user interface for users and end clients

What do you use? for client interaction -> project and budget tracking -> task tracking -> time entries -> billing
Maybe.

afaik, most elite cyclists do not squat. I'm guessing endurance and low body weight are more advantageous to the sport.

I'm sure there are studies. Can anyone else chime in?
To be fair, its different for every product. If you aren't a social network, I don't see how you could go viral. Search ads wont work if nobody searches for your product, ie if it is something completely new. You can't get users to refer friends if you have no incentive to give.

This is why I pay closer attention to advice that is descriptive, rather than prescriptive. Tell me what your situation is, and what you did that worked, and let me extrapolate. Bonus points for what didn't work.
"...dropped about 40 pounds without ever worrying about the diet side of things"

"... [I made] an effort to avoid sugared soda, fruit juice (has a ton of sugar), junk food, etc."

Important contradiction to point out there. I'd say you did worry about the diet side of things given the effort to avoid sugar and junk.

It's a common and widely accepted saying that "abs are made in the kitchen." That's to say, if you want to loose weight, you must change your diet. A few days of cardio or strength training per week won't make up for a bad diet. In fact, if all you're trying to do is loose weight, you're better off working on the diet than the strength training. You could end up being very discouraged if you go the opposite route. Ideally, do both and you'll see results very quickly. But think diet for fat loss, strength training for...strength.
> The compression you talk about is called tone-mapping and is used to make it possible to view HDR images on a non-HDR display.

Yes, and it's exactly how audio compression works. You have a fixed dynamic range and in input signal that doesn't fit in that range. So you attenuate the values near the endpoints (shadows and highlights in the case of imagery) to fit within the range while still leaving values in the midrange with their original spread.

> Now, viewing HDR material on an actual HDR display, that is something different and can look absolutely stunning.

Yes, but that's not what I'm talking about.
I wonder what is the current status of the Wind River debacle.
I'm not sure I understand the Foursquare argument. Is gamifying unethical? They aren't really making users "gamble" so the casino analogy doesn't really work for me.
I think that's what the guys at Maple thought. I worked there for a bit when it started, and it seemed to me like they were growing too fast. There would be some pretty serious operational issues (from my point of view), but bang, they would open another hub to serve another thousand people, thereby magnifying the issues. I'm sure they did what they had to do, but after about a year I saw the writing on the wall and left.

But heck, I was just a delivery boy, and lots of people really loved the idea. I'm sure we'll see more delivery startups, and maybe they'll be great, having learned from Maple.
The only thing I'm aware of that Red Hat sort of locks away is their documentation and knowledge base, as well as the binary builds. It contains specific information about patches that backport CVE fixes, bugfixes, etc. The kernel sources are maintained in an internal revision control system and pushed out as a tarball (which is then integrated into CentOS and other RHEL derived distros).

There is a wealth of knowledge in there if you're looking to solve specific enterprisey problems, but it's not necessary to have access to any of it to track what changes Red Hat makes to their kernels and to reproduce them from freely obtainable sources. I don't think you're even prohibited from sharing what you learn from their customer portal resources; though copy-pasting the whole thing into the wild is certainly a copyright and/or license violation and might get you some sort of trouble.

But, the premise of the comparison that Red Hat will somehow penalize someone for distributing RH sources (which has also been alleged in this thread) is just wrong. You can get and copy and modify and redistribute the kernel sources from RH; whether you get it as a paying customer in the form of RHEL or from CentOS for free. Red Hat will not penalize you for doing so, nor will they end any contracts you have with them.

The change to a mashed together tarball rather than a mainline kernel with patches applied was a direct response to Oracle rebuilding RHEL from sources and calling it Oracle Linux. It's unfortunate (I used to maintain a bunch of kernel RPMs, and it was nice having all the independent patches), but it's not a violation of the license, and it's still entirely possible to distribute custom RHEL-based kernels; you just have to actually know what you're doing to do so. There's no more copypasta-custom kernel building, in the general case. If you follow their kernels, maybe keeping your own revision control of them, you can see what changes between each revision, and it would be possible to parse out the specific patches in a lot of cases with relative ease. But, none of that is necessary to be compliant with the GPL.

The GPL requires you make the source code available to anyone you distribute to, and under the same terms as the kernel itself. Red Hat does exactly that (and then some, by maintaining CentOS).
It's worth noting that millionaires who inherited their wealth had much less of an incentive to care about their GPA since wealth was more or less guaranteed.

Also, children of millionaires will be able to attend top colleges even with substandard high school GPA/SATs [0], meaning they'll tend to underperform once there.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1047409881995483800
I'm not sure what value that would add here...

The customer's issue seems to be that they have a very large number of files, and are trying to sync it with a 32-bit desktop client, and are hitting memory issues.

Dropbox themselves state this on their websites:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/space/file-storage-limit

> Note: The performance of the Dropbox application may start to decline when you store above 300,000 files.

I've done some comparisons across various companies sync clients, and it is a tricky problem.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google).
Thanks for the answer. Is the removal of the context of the changes generally considered acceptable? We have a Red Hat license, but frankly, I am more a BSD person and our use of Red Hat is a requirement for specific programs.
You need to be 62 as well.
Protein.
Pizza is a high carb dish in most cases. If you're getting a whole chicken breast worth of chicken per two or three slices, that's a different story. But in general it's mostly a bunch of white bread with some tasty sauce on it.
https://legiblenews.com/

It scrapes headlines from Wikipedia once per day at 8p PST. It's encrypted. There's no ads. It loads fast, as-in one request. Your activity isn't logged.

I built this because I got tired of all the shitty tricks news websites play: obnoxious ads, "breaking news", auto-play videos, pumping megabytes of crap into your browser, lack of privacy, and lack of citations.

Legible news is boring. It's non-addictive. If you click on a link you might accidentally learn something about the historic context of a news story. I don't log anything because I don't care. Daily headlines delivered in one HTTP request (look at it in an inspector) over a CDN. It's fast. I hope you like it, but if you don't no worries, I built it for myself.
As a Google Summer of Code student way back in 2008 for Openmoko, this brought a lot of memories :).
> compared to writing raw regexes in string form ...

> Emacs's nasty regex syntax

It's also case-sensitive too. Writing regex by hand when there is a mixture of case sensitivity to recognise is not at all pleasant.
More proof that paying Google for any services is a dangerous gamble.
Hopefully there isn't much to do to make it run on H5. H5 is a much better CPU
I had the very unfortunate pleasure of being neighbors with HiQ when we shared a coworking space in downtown SF. They were aggressively selling and marketing HR software that alerted employers when their employees updated their LinkedIn profiles, indicating an intent to quit.

I've got no problem with the business, and LinkedIn's suit is probably an overreach, but by God were the HiQ people annoying. I remember the CEO pretend boxing with their salesmen to get them amped up (in our rather open, shared office). Quintessential white good ol boys club mentality.
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Tough.
I am on that team =).

I won't say much publicly, but if this is the issue I think it is (customer has a huge number of files, and is trying to sync it with a 32-bit client, and hitting memory issues), we are aware of the issue, and are definitely working on it.

It's a tricky thing to solve in any sync client - for example, Dropbox has a cap around 300,000 files (I believe this customer had 700,000 files?):

> https://www.dropbox.com/help/space/file-storage-limit

Note: The performance of the Dropbox application may start to decline when you store above 300,000 files.

Other clients may have similar limits. I'll see if I can find our docs on it.

Disclaimer: I work for Google.
I love it! Simple, informative, and just what I've been looking for in a news site. Expect some ETH coming your way ;)
You could suggest to your friends that they consider applying to YC :-)
Why is it that their Android app hasn't been updated in three years?
Only Obsessive Egomaniacs Create Tech Breakthroughs
At home, my desktop has a resolution of 1366x768. (I usually use my laptop, which is higher than that, but whatever.) At work, I have monitors in the "portrait" position, so I only have 1080 horizontal pixels unless I'm willing to split something across two screens. (Never!)

But in this case, all that is not relevant. The link was to Github, and Github enforces a width of less than a thousand pixels, regardless of screen size.
I'll take you up on that bet.

http://imgur.com/a/SqCKL
Those wacky Nutmeggers (who badly need a standard demonym by the way) also pronounce their local Thames River as thaymz and yes that's with the th as in thick. But they do pronounce Greenwich (CT) as the English do.
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Your first quote covers trademarks. That is unrelated to source code. CentOS ships with a different set of trademarks. If you want to rebuild and redistribute the RH sources, you remove the trademarks. That's well understood and well within the terms of the GPL.

Second refers to binary builds of the software. Also well within the terms of the GPL.

Third refers to the Subscription Service which includes access to binary builds, access to a customer portal with knowledge base, private support tickets, etc.

None of these refer to distribution of source, which is explicitly permitted by Red Hat.
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I've got a question about this whole GPL enforcement issue.

Scenario:

I'm a VPS company, I provide my customers with kernels compiled with GRSec. I provide a number of modules for different protocols, nftables, etc. with the custom kernels i've built for the VMs. Under the GPL I have to provide the patched source of all those modules (and kernel If I provide that image too) to my customer.

Question:

With GRSec's reported threat of no longer being allowed to be a customer of theirs if I provide the legally required source to my customer, does this mean I can no longer reconcile their two licenses and means that I cannot use their kernel patches for my customers?
"Valedictorians often go on to be the people who support the system they become a part of the system, they don't change or overthrow the system."

I really don't buy this explanation at all. Valedictorians might tend towards conformity, but you don't need to be a revolutionary to hit 1M. Anyone with a 20 year career in finance, consulting or tech and reasonable savings can hit a million dollars without doing anything crazy.
> For example, if you suddenly require 5000 c/day, you cannot simply eat more pizza, MT Dew, etc. You have to eat 5000 c/day of nutrient rich food.

Pizza and soda are nutrient rich - macronutrient-rich, that is.

If you're getting the right number of calories, and the correct ratio of protein, fat, and carbs, you can mostly eat whatever you want.

Relevant: "Food Composition (Nutritional Priorities with Dr. Israetel)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwGspJZt1kE
Really? Does it? "Find a person, learn about each other's personal lives, gradually escalate," sounds like some 'the red-pill' nonsense to you?
> In the US for example, you have the right to free speech. But except in very unusual circumstances, your employer can fire you for exercising it.

Are you sure about this? Are you an attorney? I am not.

I ask because it was my impression that, more than each individual having a right to free speech, each individual has a right to be free from a certain set of governmental restrictions or punishments for their speech, and that this is also true of the non-governmental-employer-employee relationship, but the set is smaller.

For instance, it was my impression that:

(A) People who are not governmental employees have the right to be free from the government restricting them from criticizing Congress in most locations at most times (and have the right to be free from the government punishing them for this criticism)

(B) Governmental employees have fewer rights that (A) in certain respects related to their employment

(C) People who are non-governmental employees can generally be fired for their speech, though not for certain speech, like stating that she is pregnant or whistleblowing to the federal government (under some circumstances)

But I am not a lawyer.
I had this project somewhat abandoned, but today I needed it to choose which fuzzy search library I would use for a new project, so I added 2 more libraries and made it a little faster and it ended up being very useful.
Check the return code from libpq.
Because engineers are expensive, engineers that can talk to customers are even more expensive and decent engineers willing to do support are even more expensive.

That said, I do think software devs should be more involved with the customer for other reasons, far to often they are building software without having any idea what the customers workflow is.
I had to explain this to someone recently, and I was surprised that no other country seems to have a voluntary demonym that is completely unrelated to the name of the place? In English anyway.
Might be unclear wording on my part. I was thinking about the fitness and nutritional sites, forums, etc. you find when you Google on this topic. A lot of them try to persuade you to follow some pretty complicated or restrictive dietary plans, or expect you to monitor every last thing you eat.

When it comes to diet, I am an unashamedly lazy man. Lifting the weights is tough enough as it is. I'm not going to live on oatmeal or kale, count calories, or any of that. That just sounds awful.

What works for me is cutting out things that are obviously bad for you: too much sugar, too much salt, comes in a can or a box with a long list of preservatives, etc. Simple plans are easiest to stick with, after all.
... to minimize entropy.

Is there a proven cause-and-effect relationship to actual mortality?

Was this ever peer-reviewed?

(2007 study)
USian works for me, although it's hard sometimes to break the "American" habit.
In the US, your only "right" to free speech is protection from the government restricting your speech. Indeed, if your employer is the government, then there are significant (but not absolute) limitations on how much they can retaliate for your speech.
> built by a small team without outside vetting

Unfortunately "small team" as in giving us their private time, describes lots of security-relevant software we're using every day. GPG was a recent example in need of funding.

I'm not sure what you mean by no vetting though. There's quite a bit of discussion related to grsec. A small team is a small team - it doesn't need to be a corporation to work. It may actually work well because it's a small team.
> In addition, there should be a small group of early adopters who really care about the product

For writers and bloggers, this is often explained as "100 true fans" -- not sure if that particular term is popular in the startup sphere.
Cars are freedom, not self-reliance. They represent the pinnacle of a vast international ecosystem of design, engineering, resource extraction, labor, finance, etc. No doubt about that. They represent two of the most important accomplishments of human civilization: decoupling of transportation from physical exertion, and decoupling of human comfort from the weather. As an "engineer," it gives me the warm-fuzzies just thinking about that, in the same way it does that we put a man on the moon.

"Cars are freedom" has little to do with their use in commuting to work, though that's probably the vast majority of their actual use. There's some cognitive dissonance here: the gridlocked commute to the 9-5 at the cube farm could not be more strongly opposed to the "cars are freedom" symbolism.

It's the fact that you can go anywhere, not just where your body's own power will take you, not just where central planners have seen fit to draw routes. It's the fact that you can do so at any time, not just when central planners see fit to schedule service, during the hours they think people ought to be out and about, or with enough advance notice to get an affordable ticket (i.e. air travel).

It's about the weekend jaunt to national park across the state, the cross country road trip, or even the more mundane grocery run after work, the spontaneity of it, not having to plan or spend massive amounts of physical exertion. Sure, you can get that with a walkable neighborhood too, but it's always going to be more limited.
You can get pretty far with kettlebells too. And they're easier to deal with for a home gym.
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I think the “problem” here isn’t one big problem with a single process (VCs throwing money on bad ideas), but rather a combination of issues that together result in so much failure.

There’s a lot of venture money out there, and like some other comments mentioned it needs to _do_ something - and that’s good. We as founders and consumers want to see that money do something. But...

It needs to do something meaningful. I believe that responsibility lies in the hands of those that give it. Bad ideas are merely potential opportunities, but bad business plans, founders with short term vision, and lack of discipline make this into a real problem.

So many companies can prove their model without big money. Yet, because investors are hoping for a home run those founders jump right into the deep end.

I don’t want to say getting money needs to be harder, because ultimately that could slow down innovation. I do however believe investors need to raise the bar for founders.
In the original student, Karen Arnold went to great lengths to highlight this counter-intuitive phenomenon as a gendered issue [0] in which women, who tended to get better grades then men [0], would still end up less successful. It's seriously regrettable that her point got lost in this rehashing.

On a side note, I don't have the data, but would expect a similar effect with Asian-Americans, who tend to excel academically, but through socialization and institutional barriers, may fail to hit the "highest levels of success metrics" mentioned in this video. [1]

[0] https://archives.library.illinois.edu/erec/University%20Arch...
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/liyanchen/2016/01/20/how-asian-...
The published news doesn't involve starting to do anything new in space or breaking these treaties.

Space is relevant to military use even without putting weapons in space as we've agreed not to do.

This is just organizing these things in a separate branch of the military, in the same way that Russians/USSR have always done - the existence of Russian Space Forces is within the bounds of these treaties, and the same would be for USA.
I realise that you probably aren't able to contact the customer yourself, but someone needs to tell the guy clearly what Google thinks the issue is (support saying "according to an entry on the help forum..." isn't exactly conclusive although at least they're trying), refund him for the six months, and suggest any possible workaround.

Because there's no direct contact from anyone beyond level 2 support, the guy is stuck in limbo without being able to know where his issue is in the realm between "about to be fixed" and "never."

On the other hand, it's nice that there is actually a team on this and that it's not just support palming him off. Problem is there's no way for the guy to know that. If I keep telling you that Santa is urgently working on some presents for six months eventually you're gonna stop believing.