skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad to see this post. People don't like the Facebook license for React and are willing to invest time and money to steer clear of it.

I still don't understand why Facebook changed the RocksDB license so quickly but then took a hard stance on the React license.
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Because it is hard to start a currency from scratch and get the whole world to believe in it.
The current understanding is that none of the patents in the portfolio currently covers React (and by extension, preact). But flipping the switch would satisfy the first-order requirement of not imposing the FB patent grant upon users of WP
Those of us with more anti-authoritarian leanings don't relish the idea of having an organization with power over our entire profession...

As an alternative, anyone can start a company that puts into practice some of the employee friendly ideas you have, and use that to compete for workers, and try to move the market towards that ideal. I did that, and I really enjoyed the experience. I think my co-workers did too.
From observing the behavior of some people online, I think that there are people out there who just like to write stuff, regardless of whether anyone might read or care. This can be good or bad. I've read good posts from clearly forgotten blogs. I've also read in certain communities posts so inane and out of context that it's hard to even understand why they were written in the first place.

"Shitposting" in it's strictest sense is very much an example of the latter, because it's a repeated pattern of stupid behavior which doesn't even qualify as joking, and which is repeated regardless of whether people pay attention to it or not. It's like drawing swastikas on bathroom stalls.
Long-range communication with devices that consume almost no power
What advantage do either of these data stores have over Cassandra?
Gutenberg's direct React usage is actually quite small - components implement a WordPress element, which is currently a wrapper for React, but can be transformed to use something else behind the scenes.

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/master/element
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Going back to Windows 7 on my Windows drive I only used for Steam games that don't have a Mac version. Fuck Microsoft with their deadline for a "free" upgrade turned date rape and switch.
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A "high school senior" would have been at least 17, but given the academic environment was probably 19 or 20. So, he was more capable of consent than she was at 14.
>Just don't work for them.

That's a pretty unrealistic solution, especially considering most companies are trying to reduce costs and don't understand the economics of good equipment.

If you don't like hurricanes, just move away from the coast. Simple. /s
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I tried Lyft and I much prefer the UI! The apps way better. But then I compared quotes for a fare across town and Uber was about 40% cheaper. I'm not stingy but that seemed ridiculous to me.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15252124
The Drupal community struggled a bit with the decision as well (see https://www.drupal.org/node/2645250). It seems there are a number of open source communities and enterprise development shops who are just not comfortable with the patent clause. React had a lot of momentum, but it seems alternatives like Vue.js are going to be the long-term winners in terms of being 'the next jQuery' in terms of longevity as a front end standard.
If you have nothing to hide from Facebook, you have nothing to fear from Facebook.
Did you read the blog post?

His main concern is suddenly updating ~25% of all websites to "include" the React license.

Imagine Microsoft running a small WordPress site off in the distance somewhere that takes the Wordpress + React update. Tadaa, MS is now in theory bound by the FB patent clause.

He doesn't want to be responsible for the potential legal liability of encumbering 25% of the internet with a new license agreement.
A _world_ is probably a stretch. Note elsewhere on thread it's mentioned that Turkey has a similar language, and it's still very active.
I agree that more recent generations advance monetarily through a series of jumps between organizations. However, I think that this quote is particularly salient to the felt need for recognition that your work is recognized and relevant and important. It's a mercenary mentality that I admit that I have and fully endorse. However, the way I parsed the conversation is that Jeffery was already being paid at levels above where he was functioning at the time. It took time for his work to be recognized as having the requisite value of his pay grade and, once that recognition was achieved, it seemed to accelerate his upward mobility within Microsoft.

I'm not trying to discount your perspective, because it's one that I have lived out and fully endorse. However, I took this quote as a nice check, or even corrective, to my default mode of operation. I think that these checks to our own personal status quos are important to our growth as human beings.
Why is Lucee so much better at handling JSON?
I get the need for runway given the burn rate at 1 mil/month. I just can't understand the investors motivation. What does annual revenue really look like? Meadow raised just over 2 mil and is close to profitability. It all just seems a tad excessive in terms of cap raise, burn and realistic growth. But again, just keep raising capital, eventual you can IPO and dump it on a bunch of retail guys.
Thanks to the very lucid explanations, I feel like this gave me a better understanding of why computers might be implemented in a certain way (eg why certain gates or instructions might be used - obviously a physical computer will have different constraints).
"What about if you "like" something, a portion of the fee goes to the original poster?"

Maybe if the likes only got you store credit up to what you've put in but never for profit? If profit from likes was possible, we'd end up with tons of posts karma whores go for.
> And the newest era of "some" programs supporting JSON or XML output but there's still no easy tools for filtering through it into the next program--requiring yet another translation layer.

As someone who's been working with aws command line tools quite a bit recently that accept and emit lots of json, I've found jq to be a life saver! https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
>I am not going to support anyone or any group that plans on putting up barriers to entry or outright discrimination.

You mean like pointless tech quizzes on minutia that only a young college graduate with zero experience (and cheaper) would remember?

>it is ridiculous that an uninvolved group would be able to stop that hire from happen.

I don't believe unions prevent companies from hiring people.

>Them have different color skin,

Looking at tech companies, they don't seem to be bothered by skin tone.

>because they were born in an "off shore" country is no excuse to discriminate against them.

If they aren't citizens, there is absolutely an excuse to discriminate agains them, just like their "offshore" home country discriminates against foreign workers trying to work there. There have been countless articles about TATA and their ilk not only discriminating for positions in their home countries but for positions they've won the US.
I encourage you all to check out Minds.

In my opinion, Minds has a much more interesting compensation model: you can directly send money to creators (feature called Wire) either generally or on a specific post. There is also an internal points system where you are compensated by interactions with your content. If you have enough points, they have a real monetary value.

Also, as an added bonus, the website and apps are open source, and actually function quite well. It overall has a Facebook sort of feel in terms of feature set; but with a model that seems less exploitative and more collaborative.

https://minds.com/
Fear.
Uncertainty.
Doubt.

Many trumpet the problems with patent infringement cases, particularly in the odd calculations of "damages one would have avoided if the infringement potential were known". Few trumpet the real cases of fear, uncertainty, or doubt killing business opportunities. Acquisitions are called off when the IP review finds GPL in a product, or your proprietary networking technology losing its patent protection to Amazon (because someone signed up for AWS for a month, years ago).

I believe WordPress made the correct leap not to embrace a "license taint" that would smell bad to cautious users.
For the uninitiated Lucee is an open source version of ColdFusion, it was featured on the front page of HN when it launched.

http://lucee.org/
If you have a system that allows you to write down the semantics of these expressions you can easily prove equivalence. You can use many of the techniques posted by others to construct such a proof for example functional extensionality is one method.

This is why dependent type theory is useful for reasoning about program behavior and program equivalence. For example it becomes possible show that a compiler is semantics preserving by demonstrating that the input and output program are "equivalent" in this way.

One issue with blindly translating a subset of expressions to SMT is that you may give them behavior different then the original source program. SMT solvers like Z3 have a builtin semantics for the logic, which may or may not reflect the source program you wrote. Verification languages that use SMT solvers for automated reasoning must be very careful about how they "compile" the source code into SMT queries to ensure that the query actually corresponds to the original program.
x64dbg is great. It has enough features (such as visual charts) to make debugging much easier than on a classic debugger. That said, it makes mistakes and is not nearly as bulletproof as IDA.
> other factors (like current wealth and income) are far more important in practice - and this leads to paradoxical and absurd situations

From the perspective of the finance industry, these "absurd situations" are so far below the level of noise that they are effectively theoretical. If you want to discuss "in practice": in practice the users of the US credit system have no "current wealth" worth speaking of (look up the median net worth of US households), and their ability to maintain their existing debt is the defining feature of their financial status.
us-east-2 is a thing, just saying.
Suppose you suspect compiler A or CPU X.

Recompile on compilers B and C and compare results. Or on CPUs Y and Z.

In reality, there will almost certainly be differences (different compiling algos, different CPU instruction sets), but if you can pinpoint behavioural distinctions or encoding distinctions which are not explained by known compile or instruction-set distinctions, well, you've got something interesting to explore.

The point being that you don't have to descend the entire stack of turtles. Just compare different stacks of turtles.
That homepage looks like someone made a wordpress site for a megachurch. Gaudy as fuck. When service doesn't get design this early and instead just crams everything they can into a page, it's good sign they're lacking taste, and that's something that can't really be overcome. It's like they're so unsure about their own service that they feel they need to overcompensate by talking about all the features it has instead of just naturally showing them.

And points for hourly check ins? Modals reminding me to install apps when reading posts (got one when trying to read the terms of service, too)? In fact, you apparently can't visit the groups link without getting the pop up. I just want to try your damn site. Ugh. 18 MBs of content on load? Don't do that to the web.

Despite it's own limitations, Yours is lot, lot cleaner.

Compare: http://www.scientology.org/ (is that the same font in the header?)

After some more searching around, it's like the same audience repeated across all of these sites ("alt right" and cryptocurrency obsessed). Stefan Molyneux one of the main users of minds and also one of the first users of Yours? You guys are setting yourselves up for failure if you don't diversify your audience quick.

https://steemit.com/@stefan.molyneux

https://www.minds.com/StefanMolyneux

https://www.yours.org/profile/b32fd24245734d632b5f3ee35a2b85...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux#Cult_accusatio...

Here's the third most followed user, "truth":

https://www.minds.com/truth

Complete with

"Antifa victim, Kiara Robles, speaks out about political violence in Berkeley."

"Hillary Clinton blames everyone from James Comey to Bernie Sanders for her blistering defeat to Donald Trump"

"Why Did World Trade Center Building 7 Fall? New Study Claims Gov’t Story Is False"

I hear r/conspiracy is nice this time of year, but there's not Bitcoin to be made if that gets big, yeah?
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Or maybe it shows how little progress we've made. In other words, we're deluding ourselves with an illusion of progress.

What does it mean when Obama flipped his view (evolved) in 2012? And, every serious 2008 POTUS candidate was against gay marriage.

So today we have broad support for gay marriage. Great -- certainly good news for my mainstream gay friends and cowoerkers (and by extension, for me).

But is that real progress? Or have we simply said something like, "your lifestyle is fine, as long as it looks a lot like our established mainstream lifestyle."

We pat ourselves on the back for accepting gays. How many coworkers do you have with facial tattoos? How many cross dressing coworkers? How many coworkers who are proud and open about being swingers, or nudists?
The cool law startups are not all based in the valley guys and girls, we have https://www.clocktimizer.com/ from the Netherlands, for example.
Just use zsh. A recent enough version comes with MacOS.
Has anything happened with the Department of Labor case recently? Last I heard, the specific organization that was pursuing the case was being defunded / split up by the current administration. It sounded like they had some interesting analysis of the data, and I don't think that's ever made it to a courtroom.

I'm pretty unsurprised that leveling is a good way for bias to sneak in. My experience as a man applying for a Google position and also talking to women applying for Google positions is that leveling is extremely opaque, more so than the salary offer, and the same candidate could easily move between L3/L4 or L4/L5 essentially at the whims of the recruiter and the interviewers, and the same role can be filled by multiple levels (e.g. there isn't headcount that's open at L4 but not L5). And this would be consistent with both Google's claims that people of the same role and level are paid consistently, and employees' claims of pay discrepancy.

Also, here's the original complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4044053-Kelly-Ellis-...
I see this argument a lot, but I don't really see it accompanied by an argument about what the passwords should be. Companies are gravitating toward biometric authentication methods because consumers have "password fatigue". They can't memorize a long secure password for every site, app, and device, so they resort to using a single password everywhere (which may or may not be displayed on a postit note stuck to their monitor).

All this article offers is:

> For authentication, you need a password or passphrase. Something that can be independently chosen, changed, and rotated.

Okay, so fingerprints aren't passwords, but what we need instead are passwords, which we know don't work either. Best practices for password security are ignored by consumers because they're onerous, and biometric authentication seems to be insecure by default. What's the solution then?
> Now scientists have traced the origins of this conceptual leap to an ancient Indian text, known as the Bakhshali manuscript – a text which has been housed in the UK since 1902.

"Housed" is a nice soft word for stealing. The English plundered all kinds of treasure from the lands they invaded and annexed. This and even the Rosetta Stone from Egypt.

(saying this as an Indian).

[EDIT: Why the downvotes? by 1900 the English, French and Dutch had invaded and colonized 90% of Africa and Asia. Source: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/colo... ]
I wish that AWS would settle on a standard timezone (preferably UTC). Troubleshooting the fallout had me mentally converting their PDT status pages with console graphs in both UTC and 'local browser' time[1]. All for a region located in EDT.

[1] I think they even have a graph somewhere whose axes are in UTC, but whose tooltips are in local browser time, but I can't recall for sure.
Thoroughly agree, though more from a philosophical standpoint. I would argue using biometrics as passwords removes an element of intent.

A fingerprint can be used against your will; it is significantly harder to be forced to use a password that exists only in your mind.
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Every time I look at the syntax, it feels really verbose. IIRC some dialects require all caps or initial caps on keywords; at any rate that's how most examples are shown, and it's rather off-putting. Superficial, I know, but I'm probably not the only one.
I'm willing to bet $100 they will switch to Vue. It's similar to react (which they want), arguably easier to learn, and the WordPress community comes from a php background, which has already embraced Vue. This is a big plus for plugin developers.
Evidence of compromise (tampering, intrusion) is a major part of security. In some threat models it can be assumed to be unobtainable, but this does not support your blanket statement. Like, sorry, you're just wrong on this one.
I meant that a bucket exists in only one region and that you have to replicate to a different bucket if you want to do anything to improve S3 availability.
Tcsh. It also ships with sh, a BSD licensed Bourne shell that is the default for the root user on recent versions.
I believe they have a certain large diamond as well they stole from India and they would like it back.
>want to rename something? it's Rename-Item, unless you also want to put it somewhere else, in which case you need Move-Item (it won't figure it out for you.)

so... working as intended? (unless you subscribe to the belief that rename is the same operation as moving)

>want to tell the time? it's Get-Date ("time" won't work, neither will "get-time")

fair point, although at least it doesn't alias any existing commands (typing time will get you a confusing output of 0 user, 0 kernel, 0 real)

>what does '&"C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe" /command:about' do?

& = run program in specified path. i agree this isn't used in any other shell language, but then again all the linux shells are fairly similar to start with. it's probably there because otherwise it won't be able to differentiate between a command that you want to execute, and a string literal.

also for windows command line programs, it's fairly stander to use /arg:value for command line arguments instead of --arg value

>and if you want to complain about ridiculous syntax, why the hell is ` the escape character instead of \ like every other language?

probably because \ is used in windows paths, so to avoid unnecessarily quoting every path, they chose an odd line continuation character.

also, about what you were responding to for the last two points: that was more a poke at how '[' isn't actually part of the syntax, but in fact an alias for test.
True but if people prefer Lyft over Uber in many markets then Lyft will do well and expand to more cities/countries. In San Francisco I find a lot of people prefer Lyft. Most were turned off by Uber's many scandals and a few mentioned they like the better refund policy if you cancel a ride.

Uber was initially ahead on brand recognition and funding so they expanded aggressively. This may come back to haunt them as they have to fight every jurisdiction where they rushed in and often broke laws. Lyft could definitely move into more markets as the article says they plan to do.
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Going down really fast has an excellent reason: the faster you go down, the less time a counter-missile has to intercept you, and the harder it is (speed and acceleration requirements become insane).
>a master AI that replaces lawyers (I don't think the latter is possible right now)

We did this at Recommind (https://www.recommind.com/axcelerate-ediscovery-product-page...), but replacing low level lawyers for case management. A senior lawyer/case manager usually trained the system to identify relevant documents based on a few...
Just use a password manager with a single long secure pass phrase you can remember.
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It's sort of tautological to say that 'most people still want to watch "lowest common denominator" content'.
I'm not really casting a judgement on the quality of the content, or of peoples' tastes - but I am lamenting the change to the system that tilts the scale further towards less distinctive media, at the expense of more distinctive. Especially since this used to not be the case. I'm also asserting that it need not be one way or the other. It's not a zero sum game. They could have multi-modal video relevance algorithms that don't leave niches to wither. They certainly have enough data to infer tastes. Do you want top 40 videos? You're in luck. Or do you want to hear some amateur Finnish death metal from a band that only posts 3 songs a year? The people that would be really jazzed about the latter are being under served, and the obscure Finnish death metal band is being under-compensated and under-promoted.
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That's a very interesting perspective! But you must recognize that it's a very abstract approach, no?

I mean, when someone identifies themselves through biometry, there's clearly an element of intent. And if they write down passwords on sticky notes, or anywhere else really, it's about as available as a fingerprint is, if not more.
why was the word 'literal' required?
They're very difficult to deal with. Renewing my license which was in my name, but at a company I didn't actively work with, was a pain. Even though I had a valid email address at the company in question (part owner). They wanted the company to verify I was allowed to pay them to buy the product. Took over a week IIRC for me to give them money.

Then, if you lose your downloads (in my case, corrupted file) and your contract expires, you're out of luck. Since they make a separate EXE for each customer, they don't provide any way of getting the software once your support contract ends. Seems silly, considering pirated copies are readily obtainable.

But, they're the best so they can act like this and get away with it.
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This argument seems especially dated in retrospect. Since Apple introduced Touch ID in 2013, I can't recall even one single case of criminals or law enforcement using biometrics to access someone's iPhone. Same for any other phone manufacturer.
Not a great process for unlocking your phone.
So what would the average prime developer expect to make in SV?
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The Mozilla comments system recently discussed on HN is a clear alternative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15232147
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