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> They are called that not because they don't hire HR, IT, finance or other professionals, they are called "big X" because specific professions (lawyers, accountants, software engineers) dominate their hiring.

Except that's fundamentally not true: http://tomtunguz.com/saas-spend-allocation-benchmarks/

Should we just call them "sales companies"?
The opposite. In my country it's really hard to get any ownership of your content if you are an employee. For instance you work as secretary for a bodyguard company and in your private time lead a pop-rock band. It's not impossible that your boss can grab a share of your music earnings.

In this regard open-source is really helpful, because it enables me to write code in one gig that is good enough to earn my pay there, but allows me in a legal way to use the same code in my next gig. Instead of giving my boss monopoly over my long-term viable content, I make it free to everybody and therefore useful to my future self.

I would even argue it's good for the boss too, since this way I am more motivated to produce, and 90% of the code used in production is totally useless once the author is gone, since most developers aren't good enough to reuse preexisting code and will instead start writing their own code from scratch.
No, I find his sentence just odd. I googled 'content corpus' and couldn't find anything meaningful, thus my comment.

I assumed something in the direction what you wrote, btw way better articulated, but I wanted to get it confirmed.
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Personally I lost interest in late 2013 when they redesigned their UI (and made it crap) and started adding ads soon after. No thanks.
I think I regret making Papa Parse[1] open source under the MIT license, anyway. Turns out it became incredibly popular and I missed a lot of opportunities to make a profit on the side. But it is used by government agencies around the world, and non-profit organizations like the UN and Wikimedia, so at least it's doing some good. But I know quite a few large businesses are using it at the core of their products... for free. Oh well. It was fun to build.

[1] http://papaparse.com
By bruteforcing randomly, you'll find the combination in 500 attempts on average.

To have to make 800 guesses, you need to have pretty bad luck, or a strategy worse than bruteforce.
UBI or pitchforks?
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Tasty? Never heard of it.
Care to share the python project? Asking as someone who's made PRs to CPython's core in the past
How should this work? Once somebody is trending on such platforms, labels will come, give them tons of money, a contract and take over. And take them away from these platforms as well.
They are nice because of the volume produced and demanded versus that of more mainstream interests. This doesn't mean their content is non existent on mainstream sites, merely that the majority of it is still controlled under the paysite.
I think you both should design robots.
While I feel sorry for their employees I am quite happy that this happened. The censorship that they applied to the content that they hosted was quite disgusting.
On Hacker News, stories written in English tend to reach a wider audience. I am not saying that is good (or bad). I mention it in case reaching a wider audience on Hacker News is your goal.
I'm sorry to be that person, but if others start pulling their digital ads too, what effects with this have on the whole tech industry. Google and Facebook, who both are the face of the industry, would most likely get most of the blow. They both control over 77% of digital ad revenue [1]. Will that scenario only hurt those two and other ad providers in isolation or will investors reconsider tech company stocks as a whole?

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/04/26/google-facebook-digital-ads/
Your project is super interesting to me as a recovering C programmer whom now makes a living with PHP...great job with the example as well.

Even the links at the bottom of the readme are awesome.
The strategy behind JavaScript is to write your application as close to one time(s) as possible. Adding Python or c++ defeats this goal. For most startups looking to build their MVP, the cost of c++ dev (in addition to writing your codebase a second time) would be dangerously unpredictable in cost and stability if they're not already using c++. Python is missing strong alternatives to both writing UI code in the browser and alternatives to react-native. It's also not reliably faster or better than nodejs in any metric outside of a few unrelated top libraries like numpy and ML. The JavaScript community is also interested in an electron alternative and proper QT bindings to nodejs would be a valuable first step to solving the electron problem, if another solution isn't established via react-native/native-script.
[Nitpicking alert]
Since the letters have different shape and weight, this will not ensure an uniform distribution. The "X" is easier to grab than the "I", but the "I" would not be hook other letters like the "X".
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> This reminds me of the current ICOs and the token economy. Early adopters try to push new currencies like crazy to cash out once popularity peaks.

This is why you should cash out when you have a decent return. Otherwise, you could become what is called a "bagholder".
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> For instance you work as secretary for a bodyguard company and in your private time lead a pop-rock band. It's not impossible that your boss can grab a share of your music earnings.

What country is this? I can't imagine such a scenario outside of a serfdom.
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This is interesting. I'd think about submitting a proposal for my own projects in progress if it actually made sense to do so. Anyone with experience in that area - is it worth the time for a single dev to submit their proposals?
Dev's can be jerks too.
Maybe Mr Toig complained about many things, but the writers chose to only accept this correction.
Until your code gets linked on HN or Reddit where people will then read the code and then proclaim that the person who created it must be dumb because of all of the obvious mistakes they made (generally ignoring the reasons for some of those choices as bad reasons).

That's what is pushing me away from releasing code to the public. It's really crushing to my self worth as a developer to feel good about a project only to be told how awful it is and how it's broken by design.
If you were smarter than the person that made the robot, you'd have just made the damn robot yourself.

Also, make sure your robot maker isn't making kill-bots.
I'm not kidding. I don't want the homeless dead, I want them off the streets and taken care of. Caring doesn't equate with kindness.

Signalling outrage here and continuing to ignore the problem simply increases the suffering. You virtue signal your face blue, it doesn't help anyone.
Exactly this experience happens in big teams internally as well.

It works like this according to my experience: You see a problem before it really does financial harm to the company. You start developing a solution. You expect to get rewarded with prices, raises, titles and public encouragement, because you solved the problem before anybody even saw it.

But instead this will happen: The employees who run into the problem first and therefore would be the one who suffer from it, find that your solution may be an answer. But instead of making it work they find ways to complain about it publicly. Since management hasn't yet realized that there is a problem, they just hear that you are not doing your job and put pressure on you to fix all the bugs, because of your bugs nobody else can work, so it seems.

This is not stupid by the other people or by accident. The moment they have found a way to complain about you it doesn't matter anymore if the task will be successful or not, since a failure wouldn't be blamed on them anymore as well. Everybody knows that the bugs are your fault, right?

In this regard open source seems less harmful to me. In open source at least there is no boss who can push you to solve the bugs, or fire you if you don't.
Happens all the time in employment contracts written in the United States.

Not that they are necessarily enforceable, but it doesn't stop employers from trying.
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This is about him, not you. He means you no ill will; only that the project was a burden to him, & he didn't receive much compensation besides the entitled thanks from such illustrious folk as Mr Krabo
Firstly I am not debating anything, your assertion is that this usage is a phenomenon bounded by the US election season and I pointed you to a resource demonstrating that it has been increasing in usage for at least the last 4 years. It is not "passé" now simply because the U.S. election is over.

>"Optics is a term largely reserved for the stage of political theatre"

Yes and much of what a CEO has to deal with is internal politics. You realize that "politics" in the general sense has a meaning and usage outside of just government right?

>"that is not my assertion, that is the zeitgeist of popular opinion."

It's quite amusing that you want to take someone to task for their usage of word simply because you have decided it is no longer "fashionable" and then you go on to use the word "zeitgeist" incorrectly. See:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zeitgeist

http://grammarist.com/usage/zeitgeist/
I'm a huge fan of the two-clause BSD license, but I can also understand that regret. I've always wondered how you would monetize something like this, though. It always seems difficult to me how you ensure that you're being paid without an army of lawyers (the Microsoft model) or limiting it to some sort of app store (the Apple / Google model). What would be the best way to do it, if you had it to do over again?
You mean america/US. North america is a continent.
Yeah I covered that in the “we constantly lie to ourselves” part. Computers have enabled us to do wonderful things. Like criticize people we don’t know for using software in a different way than we do. Yet we, as the creators of this software, have not only enabled them to use it “incorrectly”, we’ve actively encouraged it by saying things like “it’s not the computer’s fault it doesn’t know your dreams”.

If only those pesky users would just read the source code, they’d understand why this site works when you put www in front of it but doesn’t work without it! And if they want it changed, well it’s open source! They should send a pull request!
I understand your feeling, but I used it in a startup I work for. As I was responsible for this feature (customers uploading their csv files), with PP I did this task in half a day when it could have took me a few days. I told this to my boss and I asked him to donate to PP from the company, but I never heard about it again, so I will ask him again on Monday.

Thanks again for this library.
I'm glad I did it, but it was definitely more work than I was expecting.
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Leaking Data through Firewalls using Cloud AV.

Or original:

The Adventures of AV and the Leaky Sandbox

Mine is more descriptive.
What I didn't say was that my only experience so far is with Groovy by itself, and using Gradle to build. It's not an implication of Groovy or Maven for not supporting it, it's that I don't know the right way to do it yet.
There are things people should have to think about and there are things people should just be able to do without effort. I don’t want my doctor having to spend brain power figuring out how to use his new software, I want him to use is entire brain to diagnose my disease. Programmers should think. Users should just do. If users have to think about how to use their software, the developer failed at their job.
Just wanted to say that project has a great readme.
Difficult topic. You can make this argument on any new transformative tech. You could have made the same arguments about smartphones 10 years ago. On the other hand, I am still not clear how a pod that can carry max 12 people can compete with trains that can carry hundreds.
One pattern I have seen a few times is that a company develops some important internal piece of software and then later the opens the source code (normally motivated by the notion that other people will contribute to it - which they rarely do).

What normally happens next that the company loses control of this software which they probably didn't realise was so important to their core business as the employees who worked on it are empowered move to other companies and develop private forks or start up as a micro-ISV/contractor business based around providing private forks of the software to clients.

I think what people don't realise is that most of the legal structure around open source software is for software used by end-users. For internal software the GPL doesn't function in the same way: other organisations are more than able to keep private forks and realise all the benefit of the software without contributing back.
It can at most be about the facts of the article as understood by the writer (Murray Gell-Man applies here), which the commenter may very well know better than the writer.
Wow. There wasn't much reason to use that in the 80s once LS and F appeared. Perhaps for Iout(max), which I seem to remember is higher for the non-LS?
This matches my experience. Even now, depending on the day, I might be looking at around 30-50 emails of varying, usually depressingly low quality per day. I've had some relatively successful one man projects in the past and at peak popularity it would take me several hours per day to sift through everything.
Came here to say the same thing, I've regretted NOT making something open source from the start.

Because if it was then I'd be able to take that awesome product with me when I left and benefit from it where it's needed.
Who did I mock, now? A revolution would be to actually address homelessness for what it is: a crime! The crime is allowing it to continue, as it is inhumane.

But to address it, you have to take control.

Oh, the outrage. More like oh, the apathy! You're outraged that my call to action makes sense.
You have more than one pod?
I've seen the really broad contracts where basically anything you do while employed by them is theirs, but OP said that it would not be out of the question that the boss could get a cut of the earnings from music.

Is there any place in the U.S. where a judge would enforce such a contract to that degree?
Instead of using the system API you should start a nodejs process and have the web app communicate with it using websockets, and use the system api in the nodejs app. That way it will be easy to port your "native" app to different systems and you can use the same code on both web and native! You don't even need the runtime, just launch Firefox with the "-chrome" argument, or "--app=" in Chrome or "-k" in IE.
I was born in 1980 and, having grown up with computers from an early age, I totally agree with pervasive internet access being the next dividing line. Computers allowed us to do many things we couldn't do before, but the internet took communication and information sharing to another level.
See, I love hearing stuff like this (but also am sad for the realities of donations from companies). Thanks for your comment!
Do you link them physically, do you have enough braking distances, or do you, as musk suggests, run pods that are separate close enough that in case of a disaster all pods will crash?
I don't know man. It bothers me that he feels like that about his project. Making people happy always means making some sacrifice.
IANAL but I believe you are wrong. Source :

“[The] recipes’ directions for preparing the assorted dishes fall squarely within the class of subject matter specifically excluded from copyright protection by 17 U.S.C. § 102(b).”

From : http://www.pddoc.com/copyright/publications_v_meredith.htm
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Why would you care what others think about your code? Nobody knows anything in this industry. There is so little important criticism, that even finding it if you really want to is super hard.
I use papaparse, it's been pretty awesome, so that thank you for making it.

Have you considered offering support contracts, or a dual licensing approach? I don't mean to butt in and offer a bunch of unsolicited advice, just more curious because I might be trying to do similar stuff with some of my projects, so always on the lookout to see what works and what doesn't.

Thanks again for making papaparse it's really fast and has really helped me get some projects off the ground a lot faster than I would have otherwise!
I'm a fan of the hyperloop concept and I hope it gets implemented. However, the Concorde example is useful to think about to me. Perhaps the reason we don't have better city-to-city transportation when there are options available and even implemented in other countries is actually that we lack the true will to build them.

This article does make the common mistake of suggesting the Hyerloop competes with intra-city subway systems though. I find the "just fix the subways" response to the Hyperloop disingenuous.
I think you're right that that's what people are concerned about. I'd mention that we have 17,000 reactor-years of commercial experience over the past 7 decades in nuclear. We understand the risks fairly well, though admittedly we are still learning. It is clear that nuclear reactors net save millions of lives over fossil-fuel alternatives. 10x Chernobyl fallout would be very bad but it would be nowhere near the global warming predictions we're seeing. Additionally, Chernobyl was a bad design without a containment running a risky experiment with safety systems turned off. The 4 reactors at Fukushima got hit with a huge earthquake and tsunami and no one died from their failure, and we know from models that no one will die from the radiation that was released. It's exceedingly unlikely that modern reactors would go Chernobyl, much less 10x Chernobyl.

Germany has turned away from clean-air nuclear energy and replaced it with brown coal and more clean-air renewables but that's costing them a lot [1]. That's expensive fear, and only feasible for the richest of nations.

Side note: Long half-life doesn't necessarily correlate with problems after an accident. It's actually the short half-life stuff that is biologically concentrated (Sr-90, I-131, Cs-137) that can cause the biggest issues. For instance, Uranium-238 has a 4.5 billion year half-life and it's not a radiological hazard (this just means the energy comes out really slowly).

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/03/14/germany-renewable-clean-energy...
I posted about this earlier this year, but I've recently made some updates that I'm excited about, and so want to share them! This is a configuration file for Emacs that causes it to work as closely to a "normal" text editor as possible. I created it to make it easier to introduce others to org-mode, but think now that it could also be used for easing into learning Emacs more generally.

Why would someone want to replace Emacs' normal keybindings with ones that match more basic programs such as TextEdit and NotePad (in a way that goes beyond "CUA Mode")? In my mind, this is useful because the M-x menu is still available (and made more user-friendly with the Ivy package); thus, users can start using Emacs (and org-mode) more quickly, and can learn functions as they need them by name (rather than by keybinding). This approach would have saved me time when I first started using Emacs, I think.

I welcome ideas and Pull Requests for this project!
I'm Interested in knowing if you see submission guidelines/terms of conditions to be censorious as well then. The sensible approach when dealing with speech protections is that censorship can only come from the State since its muffling of speech is universal throughout a society and is backed by an implicit threat of violence. There is no inherent right to a soapbox upon which to stand on. A private party being in a position where they must broadcast any speech from any source is actually in this arrangement an abridgement of their own speech.

Now that being said, there is a reasonable point of view that says while it should not be legally mandated, private party filtering and editing of content acquired from third parties through some sort of public accommodation _seems_ dishonest. But the truth is, publications writ large exist to transmit a particular experience, whether that be cultural, ideological, or technical(in the sense of the mechanics of conversation a la HN). While this would not be ideal if taken to a no-exceptions type extreme, as long as State censorship is fought off and defended successfully, there types speech that gets muffled through one publication can and will find a light through another.
Couldn't finish this. It started off badly by calling the hyperloop "vacuum-powered". First, it's not even vacuum sealed (just low air pressure), and second, how can something even be powered by the vacuum? Are we just throwing terms around for effect here?

Then, the author continues with more material errors. The hyperloop/tunnel combo apparently "requires a hard reboot" of the modern city. No it does not. The whole point is that it is tunnels underneath the modern city.

Finally, it starts mentioning ambitious projects that didn't work, such as the Concorde. Yes, people have tried things that failed before. And then it talks about putting more money into Amtrak, when Musk's prime concern has been how slow and expensive the high-speed rail project in CA has been, precisely because of how hard it is to get land rights. Getting around existing commitments of surface land is the whole point of tunelling!

As far as I was able to read, not a single mention that Musk has been able to take two or three other previously considered impossible tasks and bring them to completion. Call me a fanboy if you will, but at least my fanboyism is evidence-based.

It seems the author's point is "Let's never fund anything else speculative ever again". What's that network you're using to blast this tripe straight to my eyeballs right now? The inter-what? Who ever funded that waste of money? Why didn't they just fund the post office a little more?

The fact that we've lost faith in humanity's ability to improve things by taking on large, ambitious projects, even if some, even if most, will fail, saddens me every day. It doesn't prevent me from trying to make the world a better place though, and I hope nobody else was discouraged by low-quality, knee-jerk thinking like this, either.
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Shanti Bhavan empowers children from India’s lowest socioeconomic class to break the cycle of generational poverty through education, leadership, and compassion.

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We should build and maintain schools like this for better of India and for the world. Please help the cause if and when you can.
As others have pointed out websites have gotten much larger for no good reason. The article we all just read is apparently over 18MB. My internet also used to be much slower than what people in that town can have. However, the internet was optimised for that.