skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We as a society came to these practices over many generations

We as a society haven't had the internet for generations yet to know how to handle this. Hence the article.
Facebook and other large software firms have a large arsenal of patents that's sufficient to defend themselves from a patent lawsuit from a large competitor. These patents are broad. So if you're writing web software with any amount of compexity, you probably infringe on Facebook's patents. If you are a small firm that owns a patent Facebook is infringing on and you wish to litigate it, you have basically two options:

1: give up your main business so you no longer infringe on the Facebook patents. IOW, become a troll.

2: get demolished by the Facebook counter suit.

The React license doesn't change those two options one bit, it just makes it much more obvious. Facebook's intent is likely just to prevent the suits from even being considered in the first place.
I'd be interested in hearing what the community has to say regarding static types and whether or not they're compatible with object-oriented programming. I've posted this link a couple times before, but it hasn't been actively discussed: https://essencesharp.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/static-typing-...

From that article:

"Static typing inhibits interoperability. It does so between class libraries and their clients, and also between programming languages.

The reason is simply because static typing violates encapsulation in general, and improperly propagates constraints that aren’t justifiable as architectural, design or implementation requirements in particular. It does so either by binding too early, or by binding (requiring) more than it should."
FWIW I tried it on my phone and it works fairly well. Glad we have one more option.
Sun containers (and AIX, etc) were all very much treated as virtual machines. Docker containers virtualize applications, not OS. That's the key shift.
In my experience, only noobs make fun or yell at other noobs. Agree the culture needs work though.
I'm the same height. I still don't understand how OSHA has authority over my desk and lighting in my office, but nobody has authority over airline seat size.

Frankly in a crash landing (even a hard landing), anyone as tall as we are is going to have at least a broken nose.

Not sure what it takes to rectify this situation.
Throwaway, the poster literally acknowledged will in their post - they suggested the will's executor should be the legal executor of their online legacy just as they are responsible for the physical estate.
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I completely agree that the Facebook BSD+PATENTS license is antithetical to the goal and spirit of open source software. And that is why the Apache Foundation rejected it it. I'd like to see more statements by more groups like the FSF and OSI on that.
Hi,

eul is a very lightweight and fast native desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, HipChat, VK, Facebook, Jabber, Telegram, and Signal. Right now only the first four are supported, and the rest should be done by the end of September.

Why did I create this? To solve two big problems I see with the current IM solutions: there are too many of them, and the clients are ridiculously bloated for what they are built to do. For example, everyone knows what a huge resource hog the Skype client is. Even the Telegram client, which is supposed to be lightweight, is using 1.3 GB of RAM on my desktop right now.

I'm obsessed with performance. The entire application is about 4 MB, and it's never going to be more than 10 MB. In fact there are still many things to optimize. It's native, so you don't need to download a 100 MB browser just to use your IM client.
eul can display thousands of messages in one conversation without the constant page fetching. The scrolling is instant and smooth. You can jump to any message without waiting. I've tested it with 50 000 messages in one chat. No lags, instant scrolling to any point, instant search. That should be enough for most :)

This is a beta release. Some essential features are still missing (for example, images and other attachments are not supported yet). Automatic updates will be released every day. There's a built in contact form, please use it to submit bugs and suggestions.

Looking forward to your feedback.

Thanks
I'd agree with you, but... React Native. :(
Terror in the name of any religion should be called out by name. Christianity has the Spanish Inquisition, and that was terror by the state. Religious zealotry with violence is just that, and should be called out as such.

NOTE: This presumes that it's being called out regardless of the religion. In other words, you can't play favorites.
jsx is defininity not owned by react
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Most examples I've seen are all trying to produce text that makes sense based on nothing. Which seems kind of pointless. You can't create a message from nothing.

What we really need is a way to take a bunch of facts, a key message, a tone, and produce text that represents those inputs.

The text generation / grammar of language is basically solved imo. The problem is taking one thought and expanding on that based on other relevant thoughts.

But we're essentially talking general AI at that point.
I'm not sure if React (and the other projects that contain the PATENTS file) will survive the backlash to this in the long run. Vue.js is rapidly climbing in popularity, and Elm is probably going to go mainstream in 2018. There are alternatives like Mithril and Ember too.
bitcoin was made so that regulation couldn't interfere, bitcoin is a security as well in a global stock exchange
Agreed. There will always be doctors who 'bend' the rules or just don't care. Not to mention those who literally have no idea of the kind of damage they can be introducing in someone's life by prescribing certain drug. Until someone stands up to Big Pharma, the massacre will never stop.
If you want advanced notifications that use regular expressions or whatever kind of rules you can dream up, you can always write a slack bot that listens to channels you are in and pings you directly whenever a rule matches. Any average software dev should be able to write a bot that does that, with less than a couple of hours worth of work. There are all sorts of existing bots that are open source and that can be easily modified and deployed. Slack's API is phenomenal.
Most PSD templates for screenshots are Macbook screens + Safari. Having designed a number of landing pages for startups I'm really not surprised that the designer they hired for their website chose to use that (without considering the current browser support).

As the other commenter pointed out it's a safe bet for marketing purposes and looks best aesthetically. But the confusion here could be a real problem for early adopters.
No that is a gpl concept.
Yeah; that happens in south bay too. The difference is that I'm usually done after passing them once, :-)
> how Facebook would feel if all the open source software they currently use incorporated the same license

That would work incredibly well to neutralize patents, actually, and would be a huge win for free/open source software.

It's surprising not to have seen anyone point out the logical conclusion of a world where every major license includes a React-like stance on patents: it's a world where no one is able to bring patent suits against anyone, because it means they are now violating the licenses of every piece of FOSS they're currently using. (I'm relying on the assumption that there's no entity that could perform an audit right now and conclude that there's not a single piece of FOSS underpinning their products/services/infrastructure.)

Licenses like Apache 2.0, MPL2, etc all have a "MAD" policy wrt patents, but they all have a gaping hole in their strategy. The React license patches this hole in a really clever way--probably the cleverest thing since the GPL's invention of copyleft to hack copyright law by using it against itself. It's really disappointing to see people's sense of disdain for Facebook overpower their ability to appreciate how clever the React license is.

Addendum from the last time [1] I commented: "FWIW, I don't use React, I don't want to, I'm not a Facebook employee, and in fact I think the world would be a lot better off with Facebook having less influence than they do today. But that doesn't change how weird it is to keep seeing comments like [those that frame the React terms in a negative light]".

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780358
In contrast to the Google Memo of some infamy, here's somebody actually applying a big data scientific toolset to analyze a gender related topic.
I don't see it as "released". It's just the closing of a Github issue, not a press release.

Do you feel that if a company is "evil", do you feel there's a moral imperative to not use their products? It seems to me there's a lot of "But React!" going on.
It wasn't so long ago that saying that here and elsewhere would get you shouted down, it's refreshing to see that the tide has finally turned.
His statements contradict though. "If the wife wants to friend the dead husband, I don't think it's so important 'what he would have wanted.'" That goes completely against the idea of a will, which is exactly to do what he would have wanted.
This man has spent his 10,000 hours to know what he's doing. I have full empathy for his plight and view. However, when anyone ignorant of the true physical risk of eating the wrong mushroom, actually eats the wrong mushroom trying to get high, they will be permanently damaged. With the wrong mushroom, vital kidney function is quickly destroyed forever. If we take a hardcore Darwinist view, well OK, they did it to themselves. But I view it as more likely a lack of wisdom. When I was a teenager and young adult, I did stupid and risky things. When you are young, you don't have proper wisdom and it is only developed over time. In my view, one thing that these laws do is to serve as a guidepost. At least as a society, we tried to protect the unwise from eating the wrong mushroom, just by having laws against it.
That tells you the capacity of the battery, but not the battery life of the phone.

Due to all sorts of factors (screen size, screen type, software, processor…) a phone can have a much larger battery and still worse battery life that the phone you have in your hand.
I understand your sentiment, but why can't there be varying degrees? If we fill the spectrum from terrible to award winning; at least we can choose.
Wow. You really don't seem to understand how to use slack.

All anyone has to do to make slack manageable is just mute all of the channels they are in and disable notifications for anything except direct mentions and direct messages.

Done. Now you can still be reached for a direct chat (if necessary), but you aren't forcing people to write you a letter.

Anyone who thinks email is an efficient method of communication is a moron.
>Corbett has been frustrated by what he considers insufficient or even counterproductive advice by his lawyers, who have urged him to plead guilty. They have refused to discuss anything relating to mushrooms or entheogens, and hope Corbett will settle for the plea deal and probation. But Corbett is determined to challenge the law and prove his innocence. He has since fired his attorneys and he hopes to hire one who will best represent him and his unique situation.

Not a very smart move. The lawyers he fired are right.
Exactly! And that's why it's a good thing that I'm not the arbiter of what can and can't be listened to on the Internet.

Who would you give that power to though? And can you be sure that the people you give it to will agree with you on everything that should and shouldn't be allowed?

'Fuck tha police' talks about slaughtering cops, using sniper rifles to take them out, a bloodbath of cops dying and so on. Can you trust that a company that says it will remove all music that incites violence and hatred to allow such a song to be available online?

Can you trust that once a company has set a policy of removing things that incite violence and hatred that other people won't come along and petition to have such songs removed on those grounds?

I might not like that song but I'm not going to try and ban it, because I accept that it's ok for people to like things I personally find distasteful. If I don't like it, I have the freedom to choose not to listen to it.

I am worried though when I hear companies talk about banning things with such large umbrella terms that can be arbitrarily enforced.
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That sounds very pie in the sky, I can't imagine them cleaning 10m a month.
Why do companies have to move out of service business? There are so many companies which would give complete product development to service companies because it is not in their domain of expertise.

Personally they should have improved upon the service business. All the present good frameworks etc does not need to be rewritten but has to applied in a better way.
Unfortunately the wording covers a subsidiary, agents act on behalf and any interest including financial even in an indirect way.
Even if apps which don't include analytics package release via Google play store would be subject to collection of device identification metrics. Which could be prevented using module such as Xprivacy as shown here - https://imgur.com/a/AuARo
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> Most news, however, gets a reaction closer to "Oh, neat." or "That is outrageous! I must write a Facebook post about how this affects me so people don't forget that I exist in light o this tragedy".

Seems like getting most of ones news from "Twitter, Imgur, and HackerNews" would be the primary contributing factor to this myopic worldview.
But you cannot do HFT or fast trading with a descentralize exchange, this is a con.
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> I wonder how Facebook would feel if all the open source software they currently use incorporated the same license.

I'm pretty sure they'd be thrilled. That seems to be their aim.

> I bet it would deter them from enjoying much of the code they built their business on.

Why? Serious question; I just don't see why Facebook would care.
Can you name a few respectable sites that actually do this?
Elm going mainstream?! What a prediction!
My guess is that it is a dependency of the Adjust SDK that Focus uses. See https://github.com/adjust/android_sdk/blob/master/README.md
In fact, this is explicitly part of their reasoning, from the blog post linked to in the GitHub comment here:

> We believe that if this license were widely adopted, it could actually reduce meritless litigation for all adopters, and we want to work with others to explore this possibility.
I was waiting for this one.

If you're going to play the safety card you should charge every single person caught foraging for edible wild mushrooms. Every year I hear reports of people dying from eating the wrong mushroom.

You should be aware that these laws do not serve as guideposts but as tools of oppression. I mean that literally and not as libertarian hyperbole. If you want citations I can do the needful for the same.
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This is a very important topic, in fact, I was almost making a service that would somehow help people share their online identities/access to their next of kin if such incident should occur.

Unfortunately, the feedbacks wasn't so good, I had to shut it down.

I don't think any SINGLE social media company can solve this.
If the automated checkout at the grocery is any indication, truckers will be ok :)
Yeah it's also not like he submitted this link himself.

Commenters here will fall all over themselves to explain away any number of idiotic things but a seemingly decent guy has a few affiliate links in his blog and it's like the end of the world.
> I can't get any dot-completions on vpt
> Even more weird is that if I add a type declaration to "let vpt" (specifying the same type that would be inferred), then completion works

I'm fairly certain the reason for this is that RLS (and every other Rust editor/tool I've tried) isn't able to handle completions for things coming from macros (transitively or otherwise). Although the prevalence of the `vec!` macro might make it seem like the completion is "extremely basic", variables coming from macros are pretty much the only case I've found that RLS can't completely properly for. If you manually write the code that the macro would produce (i.e. `{ let mut temp = Vec::new(); temp.push(pt); temp }`, I think it should work fine.
We don't know for sure what React-related patents Facebook really has or if they would claim any other libraries infringe them -- or whether those patents would stand up in court given prior art. There are vdom-like approaches that predate React.

That said, I would expect that vdom libraries like Mithril that work in a very different way than React would be less likely to be claimed by Facebook to infringe a React-related patent than, say, Preact which tries to duplicate the React API.

Of course, this is all speculation with a lot of unknowns. It all is another example of why software patents are very problematical ways to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
I'm confused -- i thought Snapchat was for sending pictures that get auto-deleted. I'm honestly not sure how to even keep up with this stuff anymore, other than installing everything and using it, which i don't have the time or inclination for.
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Yes the OP mentioned a Will, but misunderstands the purpose of the Will supported by:

>If the wife wants to friend the dead husband, I don't think it's so important "what he would have wanted."

A Will doesn't mean ignore the husbands wishes in favor of the wife/heirs, it means who ever is executor, wife or not, must comply with what the husband dictates.
cannot wait till this Google gets broken up as monopolies should be.

Social networks should be in federated out in separate companies (may be even more than one).
Search engine ... same thing.

"..
Woodrow Wilson was right when he said in 1913, “If monopoly persists, monopoly will always sit at the helm of the government.” We ignore his words at our peril.
..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/opinion/sunday/is-it-time...
I've done that too. For emails and for things that have an undo/delete option since their inception (Twitter, Facebook, Slack). With email I've accepted to be more careful about when sending very important emails. And for less important emails, be OK with sending an addendum, even when it's on a mailing list.
If Facebook has a patent on React, it's almost certainly going to be on the vdom concept.

If Facebook has a patent on the vdom, then all the projects in your list violate the patent, and none of them come with even a conditional patent grant from Facebook.

If Facebook does not have a patent on the vdom or other React technology, then those other projects are safe, but so is React, since termination of the patent grant has zero cost to you.

My personal belief is that Facebook has no patents on React, so I feel safe to use React, Mithril, or any other vdom based library. But I can certainly understand people who feel like they need to play it safe, assume Facebook does have a vdom patent, and avoid all such libraries.

But I'm not really following your logic at all. It's like you think Facebook has a patent, but then you only want to use the libraries that maximise your ability to get sued over it? What am I missing?
Git stash is a great tool to keep unfinished work, IMO. You _stash_ your changes if you need to work on something else, and then you pop it from the stash to continue working on it. No commits, no branches. Just stash and pop.
I've often wondered: what's preventing someone from building an IM client on top of e-mail? While it's very inefficient for short messages, we're not using dial-up anymore (and I'd argue it wouldn't be that bad even on dial-up). Furthermore, e-mail could serve as only the slow, max-compatibility path, with some fast path (IMAP public folders? Or even a completely unrelated protocol) when the users are using compatible clients.

Okay, so I guess the idea is not so much IM-over-e-mail, but rather a schema that maps IM operations into e-mail operations.
> My only concern about Soylent is if I should be ingesting this much soy as a male of European descent.

Afraid it's going to make you impotent?
> be a win for free/open source software

Any project with such a license would be non-free, so I'm not sure how that would be a win for free software.
>At least HackerNews doesn't have that motive so it's more interesting on average.

Didn't realize Y Combinator was a charity. HN most definitely exists to sell shit just like everything else. They're pretty good at obfuscating it but it's there all the same.
Ask HN: What product or service do you forsea dead in 10 years?
Buying things with 1 click is not an Amazon feature I've ever cared to use.

The right product at the right price, fast. That's what matters.
VMWare has a really nice free registry, which is s3cure by default and appears to work well.

https://github.com/vmware/harbor
The more conditions we apply the less usage it will get. But adding conditions like everyone can share in the changes provides a different value and encourages more changes.

GPL works because it forces the source code to remain open allowing everyone to enjoy all new changes.

BSD works because you are free to repackage and resell with bsd code. This code can be used in an existing product.
I've recently switched to using Intellij for my Rust coding, and it's been phenomenal. I'm not usually much of an IDE person, but the experience has sold me enough on Jetbrains IDEs that I picked Gogland for my editor for the Go code I'm starting to do at work now, and I've been very pleased with it.
Does/will it support the getUserMedia requirements for WebRTC on iOS (since it's coming to iOS 11)?
I don’t know, they have a competing product: https://github.com/vmware/vic

Which is docker for vsphere.
I don't understand this desire to make the Internet a "Safe Space" which doesn't offend anyone. The Internet is inherently "unsafe". If you can't stomach the thought of someone wishing a happy birthday to a dead dude, why not just let them know that the person is deceased?

As for confidential data, it should be encrypted at rest, so that the decryption key disappears along with the deceased. No estate or court order can decrypt that data.
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AFAIKT, there's no real alternative if you rely on its mobile sync.
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The Facebook paper on this topic ("Legacy Contact: Designing and implementing stewardship at Facebook") is one of my favorites from their publications repo. Not highly-technical, but relatively detailed as it explores the human side of the design tradeoffs needed to accommodate an unavoidably difficult and varied situation:

https://research.fb.com/publications/legacy-contact-designin...
When they turned pictures into videos it started to make sense to autoplay them. The only reason for that is higher video ad revenue vs static pictures.
This is sadly false.

This would only neutralize patents of actual companies that have something to create.

The only ones left to hold patents would be patent trolls. This would just massively empower patent trolls, and harm everyone. Because patent trolls don’t have to license patents there’s no risk for them.
The "sort by > most recent" resetter was foreshadowing.