skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has spent hundreds of billions of dollars domestically and in Latin America over four decades trying to eliminate or restrain dozens of major cartels. It can't be done. It's obvious why it can't be done.

In that span of time, there has been no other nation on the planet with greater technological, military, financial resources to throw at something like prosecuting the so called war on drugs. If the US couldn't kill the cartels & illegal supply with that approach, it can't be done that way. The fact that it would fail was always an obvious logical conclusion ahead of time (we even had prohibition to reference as a blatant demonstration), but we have the benefit of vast actual results of perpetual failure and destruction to throw on top of just reasoning it through.

Fortunately the majority of Americans have come around to understanding the war on drugs has completely failed and for that reason the WoD is over (specifically it's on its last legs).
I have little idea about how the android market is. But when I had a rooted phone, the rooted market of apps/tweaks wasn't too impressive. I personally felt like iOS's jailbreak market was doing better even though it had dramatically shruken too. This is about 2 years ago.

So if the rooted tweaks and apps market isn't that strong for Android, how big would the side loading market be? I'm obviously thinking there's not much there. At least not for people where Google services and apps are included normally with Android like the US.
The way I interpret it is, explicit patent license implies _less_:

- Explicit patent license specifies why / how it can be revoked.

- Without an explicit patent license, patent infringement case (by Facebook) against a party that uses Facebook's OSS would be become harder, because one may argue that such grant is implied by Facebook open sourcing the software.
That's OK, not everyone has to agree about a particular description.

If medicine gets to the point where a single substance or chemical can be easily avoided to entirely prevent diabetes, cancer, or heart disease, the same way that someone can entirely avoid alcoholism by simply not drinking alcohol, that will be quite an achievement.

But this ignores the strong sociological component of addiction and substance abuse. Nobody is choosing to try cancer to self medicate depression, nobody is testing out heart disease to treat their pain or torment, and nobody is giving diabetes a whirl to address a sociological condition.
People were unhappy with the terms of the patent grant: it stated that FB would grant you a license to its related patents, BUT, if you were to sue FB for patent infringement, your license to use the covered software is terminated.

But I very much agree and am puzzled why everyone seems to think this latest move is such a great thing. Removing the patent grant entirely isn't so great.
Or Alpha males have greater tendency to join frats and to progress into leadership and push for greater pay...

Why claim causal link here?
That's a strange claim given how many major projects have appeared on the front page of HN because of it, everything from the Apache foundation to Wordpress.
"And The Band Played On" might have something about it. I don't remember because I read it a lot time ago.
I think I must be in the test group or something, because I saw no change from my current GitLab instance (cloud hosted).

I've been a fan of GitLab for a while, and I like how they continue to iterate and improve it. As far as being a full suite for software development, GitHub and BitBucket can't match it. GitLab seems to be charging ahead faster than the others, and for that, I salute them.
If I had to speculate, I'd suspect that even though they reaffirmed the BSD+Patent license publicly, FB probably started exploring the possibility of relicensing the projects shortly after that. Not to say WP saying they wont use react didn't help, but I don't think it was the "tipping" point for them at all.

Legal matters at big companies generally take months to resolve and come to consensus over. I can easily imagine their legal team evaluating all such scenarios that a change in license could hurt them (as they should), and that kind of research isn't something done in haste.
Eh, I love a good action movie, but it's hard to get into movies that you can't believe. I watched a very low rated one from the 80s the other day (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blood_of_heroes/), and while it had very little plot, and the production value was incredibly low compared to recent movies, and just generally wasn't a very good movie, I enjoyed it more than the vast majority of very expensive recent blockbusters, because it felt real. They had real actors and real stunts. They moved like real people. And in that world, a 50 foot fall could kill them, rather than just cause them to touch a knee, so there was something at stake.

In a movie full of invincible people, who cares what happens? They'll be fine regardless.

I wish hollywood would get to making movies about real people.
Why claim "Alpha" exist?

Before getting too up in arms it's probably worthwhile to see what the actual paper claims.
IMO, for everybody apart from a few graphic designers, it's not drawing skill that limits accuracy of the Starbucks logo: it's that we never registered its exact geometry in the first place. The ideas of Gestalt perception are frequently used in logo design, and one of them is the "binary" figure/ground relationship that the two colours of the Starbucks logo create. It's complex, and almost everyone just sees a "Gestalt" and doesn't parse the arrangement of parts. Somebody with drafting skills could easily draw it based on textual instructions, but definitely not accurately from memory without a more careful study of the logo than (almost) anyone ever undertakes.
In other words, due process
Something that I find missing is the ability to embed code snippets into other websites
Yep.

The inspiration for that catchphrase was none other than Wesley Willis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JntDcqOxMsM
It's tough to really evaluate this without knowing roughly your headcount, revenue, and growth numbers. 14MM could be a great deal if you barely scratching by with current employees, and a terrible deal if you socking away large amounts cash every month.

I was a "no" vote on the acquisition of my company and I regret selling; we would have been substantially more valuable the year after selling (we had just figured a bunch of business model stuff out). But almost everyone regrets selling, because that's when your company gets sold: when things are going well.

Be careful about threads like this. Obviously, you want to take people who are talking about how "14MM will leave you set for life" with a huge grain of salt, since that's not what you're going to take home from this deal.

Shooting for the moon is probably not a good bet the first time you pony up to the table, to be sure. But getting a company to the point where you're getting random 8-digit acquisition offers is not easy. The idea that you'll take the money this time and roll right back to the same position with a thick bankroll to make it easier is fanciful.
err, what?
Ah yes, back when mp3 player applications did one thing and one thing well.

Now we have iTunes.
I think we're approaching a trough of disillusionment with cryptocurrency. There's been a flurry of critical articles, crackdowns, and widespread disillusionment with crummy ICOs.
Not really spyware in bios, more like acpi data, that when detected by windows, gets auto executed by windows
> We'll include the license updates with React 16's release next week.

Was this release date known before now? I can't find it anywhere else on Google or Twitter. Man, talk about burying the lede.
If anyone uses Calibre, here is a Calibre HN recipe I have made. It looks pretty good on Kindle Paperwhite, but I have not tested it anywhere else:

https://github.com/brendoncrawford-org/calibre_recipes/blob/...
>Next week, we are going to relicense our open source projects React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js under the MIT license.

Case closed. Could not have picked a better license, thank you Facebook. MIT or bust, I try not to use any other types of licenses in products/libraries I choose for work and personal use.
> everything from the Apache foundation to Wordpress.

Those were the only two.
Not surprising. Fraternities engage in many nonacademic activities which could lead to a lower GPA, but they also come with a very large social network and series of connections which help members find jobs and further career options.
Because their licence gave Facebook the upper hand if they wanted to come after you.

MIT is like a standard when it comes to OS. At big companies, complicated licencies are very hard to get approval of.
I had a feeling they'd come round to this but not so quickly.
It's such a tired trope. Nonetheless I believe it can work that way in some cases. But in HP/HPE's case I don't believe that for a second - in their case it's just a tired trope.
I got a pretty good laugh out of the various intentionally incorrect logos. I think you're doing impressively well if somehow you manage to get people to remember even a single dominant feature and color of your logo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_(ethology)#Controversy

"Researcher L. David Mech, one of the primary creators of the Alpha male hypothesis for wolves, later found additional evidence that the concept of an Alpha male may have been an erroneous interpretation of incomplete data and formally disavowed this terminology in 1999. He explained that it was heavily based on the behavior of captive packs consisting of unrelated individuals, an error reflecting the once prevailing view that wild pack formation occurred in winter among independent gray wolves. Later research on wild gray wolves revealed that the pack is usually a family consisting of a breeding pair and its offspring of the previous 1–3 years.[16]

Researcher M.W. Foster investigated primates and found that the leaders were more likely to be those who did more for those around them instead of being determined by strength. [17]

In humans, the concept of an alpha male was challenged as being largely nonexist as per an article by Dean Burnett, who found that human leadership roles vary wildly based on the current social context, and traits attributed to an "Alpha" might be exhibited in one scenario, and traits attributed to a "Beta" might be exhibited in a different scenario by the same individual. [18]"
Reaction time is not really relevant for musicians, they are more like operating on a continuous feedback loop with the sound and the instrument, so the sensitivity to latency is much higher. Afaik most good instruments aim to well below 10ms latencies.

And yes, digital audio typically inherently has some latency due processing typically being based on some buffers. Sure, you can try to make those buffers smaller but that is not always so easy to do.
I'm curious what ARR is?
"survive" and comfortably live are fairly far removed concepts
I don't think ShowHN should be used for raw code review. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
LPPFusion is doing some good work. They deserve a lot of funding and support. Certainly fusion would be a great addition to our portfolio of electricity generation technologies, and possibly terrestrial propulsion technologies.

Fusion isn't necessary to open up the solar system, fission can do that. But fusion represents the real possibility of travel to other star systems.
Manually pay bills every month, or whatever period, so that it's easier to switch account? Even if you're switching every year that doesn't sound like a good deal.
Wow, hijacking the top comment since this blew up. If you want to contact me, email thisanonguy1@gmail.com with the details.

This is why I love HN - it's an amazing community when you are willing to put your heart on your sleeve.
I think it's more about the complexity of licensing, patents, and the uncertainty a new license presents.

Using a license that's been in use for a long time, and has the endorsement of major OSS organizations, is pretty much always more comfortable for developers.

I wasn't uncomfortable enough with their licenses to rule out their projects based on the license, but I understand the folks who were. Even if my reading of the license makes me unafraid of it, there was enough uncertainty about how a court, particularly courts that have a history of siding with patent trolls, might interpret the license, for it to make some people nervous.

Also, the belief that the copyrights and patents involved will always belong to a benevolent actor ignores a lot of tech history. See: SCO, Oracle, etc. for examples of a previously decent stakeholder being consumed by a more malevolent and litigious one with a different interpretation of the law and the license. facebook may be a huge, unassailable, force today...can we be certain that in ten years that'll still be true? I'd bet on it, but I also won't be shocked if something dramatic happens. Sun looked pretty unassailable through the 80s and 90s, and then they didn't.

Big companies building big projects have to think about these things if they want to be responsible about the future of their projects. (Again, I agree that in this case, the fear is probably overblown. But, I get where it's coming from.)
What evidence do you have that a category "Alpha" exists and can be used to make generalized statements about behavior?
The researcher who coined the term "alpha male" for wolves later rescinded any claim to the term's validity. Turned out he was studying "packs" of random wolves kept in captivity, and the "fights for dominance" were actually territorial disputes between unrelated wolves. Packs in the wild consist of an elder mated pair and their adult children. So in the wild, "alpha wolf" is more like "grandpa or grandma wolf".
He's disputing the belief that there is such a thing as an "alpha" male type, outside and beyond the circular definition that anyone who is a "winner" in life is an alpha male; I suspect the belief that this is real is (rightly or wrongly) so thoroughly embedded that people don't notice themselves believing in it without having checked the evidence.
That's what all the Facebook & React folks were arguing. Facebook doesn't want to do unconditional patent grants. Plus, they decided that the weak patent retaliation clause in Apache 2 license wasn't strong enough. This new license is strictly riskier for people than the old license, but it's more familiar, so people won't freak out.
I spend almost all time programming and thinking. Occasionally, I discuss some issues with colleagues. Other than that, I attend approximately one hour of meetings per week in total. I like this hands-off kind of management.
A drone for last-centimeter delivery
Before all the congratulating goes too far, it is important to realize that only some projects had the license change but it went to an MIT license. What people really want is for these projects to be licensed under Apache 2 (like they did with RocksDB).

The other thing is that there are many projects that are STILL going to be on the BSD+Patent license. These include widely used projects such as React Native and GraphQL.

This behavior is reminiscent of their strategy of invading their users' privacy and then retracting a bit and then doing it again. Wash, rinse, repeat...
I've been pretty happy with Passbolt so far. We've got it running on a local server. Groups of passwords are really nice.
From the paper:

> In this paper, we identify the causal effect of fraternity membership on college grades and future income levels by exploiting time variation in the college’s social and residential environment. We use the presence of theme houses and non-Greek social houses and the presence of female students on campus, all of which may affect students’ choices bout whether to join a Greek organization, as instruments or reek membership.These changes allow us to identify shifts in he probability of fraternity membership that are plausibly exogenous and, thereby, to estimate the impact of fraternity membership on an individual’s academic and economic performance. We include controls for student human and social capital endowments to alleviate concerns that the policy changes that generate our instruments may have altered the composition of the student body. An additional advantage of using these instruments is that they are clearly choice variables from the perspective of the college administration.
Uber loses license to operate in London
Why pick a license with much more legalese? MIT is pure OSS love, no BS no need to hire a legal team. You just use it. I love the MIT license.

Why would you have preferred the Apache 2.0 license?
Because if an active debate is going on in response to my comment, I'd like to be able to participate. But, I'm not so self-centered as to assume that is likely, so I don't normally check.
Implied patent licenses:

https://www.wilmerhale.com/pages/publicationsandnewsdetail.a...

https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech7.html

Basically, if you sell or license a product that requires a patent to work, courts have generally held that you grant an implied patent license for any patents that the product might require. If you explicitly reference patents within the license, however, then whatever terms you explicitly write into the license supersede this implied patent license. BSD+patents (and Apache 2) have explicit patent language; paradoxically, this makes them more restrictive than licenses like MIT, BSD, or GPL that don't mention patents at all.
ICOs are the hyper speculative .com penny stocks of this particular economic cycle/bubble. A few may rise from the ashes of an eventual burst, and the general idea may be have some validity to it, but most cryptocurrencies are a sham and are going nowhere.
Look at the article. Even just the abstract. It claims that changes at Northwestern's campus meant that a type of student who previously didn't join frats started to join frats.

By looking at those students, you attempt to control for "interest in joining a frat" as a variable, and look at the outcomes for people with equivalent interest who either did or did not join a frat.
Does anyone know of a case where a search of electronic material beyond physical inspection actually resulted in any illegal materials?

I don't doubt that our current body of legislation and judicial precedents make this practice legal, but I honestly can't see this policy actually doing anything.

The classic case of illegal electronic information would be child pornography - but who would be stupid enough to bring it with them to the border for consumption or for trafficking, when the Internet exists? If they were to bring it to the border, what's to stop them from encrypting it not divulging the key?

Beyond C.P., I can imagine certain trade secrets being illegal, like Samuel Slater back in the day. But that was to the benefit of America, and the British were right to suspect him due to his position giving him the capability to leak information that was held secret by state laws. American analogues obviously enforce the unwanted disclosure of state secrets and such based on identities and institutions prior to crossing the border - which makes what the CBP are doing redundant at best.

Terrorists do not need anything outside of this country to operate. We've seen domestic and foreign terrorists alike build their bombs with legal sources of information and material.

IMO, what happened was a power hungry busy body official in the CBP spearheaded this policy. Just another case of crappy people in crappy politics, making crappy solutions to nonexistent problems. It is fortunate that the rest of humanity will be reasonable enough to revert such egregious and useless wastes of resources.
We get it, React would have been fine with out them.

But it did matter.

It set a strong precedent.
> basically all this has done is remove explicit granting of patents

If that were true, then why would they write all those blog posts saying that the BSD+Patents was "for their protection". They even repeated it here. It's pretty clear that the patent grant was asymmetric, but not in the direction you're suggesting here.
Agreed (not necessarily on the alpha male bit), I don't see how they can claim a causal link with just survey data. Correlation, sure, but even that's questionable with self-reported data.
> we still believe our BSD + Patents license provides some benefits to users of our projects

Is there somewhere where anyone has elaborated a case as to what those benefits to users would actually be?
Apache 2 was fine for RocksDB.
People chose lifestyles that can cause cancer etc. So yeah I'll go with the medical definition of a disease.
Hell, I wasn't even in a frat, but my success since college had little to do with GPA (< 3.0), and mainly to do with work experience, open source work, and connections that lead to introductions and interviews.

I think GPA alone is just a very poor predictor of success. There are a ton of other, much more important factors.
Exactly.

React would have been fine, but to say the big players jumping ship didn't matter is just wrong.
GPA is virtually meaningless to me as an interviewer. There are so many more important things to me.
The Spanish-Catalan argument going on at the moment should be of serious interest to sociopolitical hackers. The central government in Madrid is pulling out all the stops to prevent the holding of a symbolic referendum for regional independence, but it seems to be backfiring.
Really interesting paper. When I first heard about what WebAssembly was trying to achieve, I naively wondered why people didn't just slap some existing interpreter for bytecode into browsers (JVM, .NET, maybe even adapt LLVM?) and go with that. I knew people had been burned by Java applets, but I was still curious why they invented something new again instead of possibly adapting existing stuff.

Of course I accepted that they surely had some good reasons for doing it the way they did, but the paper has some interesting specific points in favor of the Webassembly and against existing stuff like the JVM (easier verification of the bytecode etc.).
> It's important to remember that Chrome (on non-Android platforms)

Chrome on Android also implements scrolling manually. Just since Android is open-source they can pretty trivially port the platform's code to their system to stay in sync rather than reverse-engineering the curves.
When I moved, circa 16 years ago, the moving crew took the time to describe what they were doing, and why. (It wasn't a large move, it was local, and I was right there with them.)

That proved really useful when, some months later, I received a frantic call in the early morning from a friend who had rented a U-Haul and had some friends from church coming by, but was otherwise completely unprepared.

And a few times, since. The last, this spring, when I was able to advise a friend to e.g. put that many hundred pound commercial air compressor in first, up front, so that it wouldn't crush everything else in the event of a panic stop.

I imagine the description goes far beyond what I know, but there are some basics that you can learn in an hour and that will make such packing and moving go much better and more smoothly.
i still use winamp on my main desktop. on my work mac, i tend to use VLC. i do not like itunes. it's been a long time since i've needed to listen to music on a *nix machine. i typically have my rockboxed ipod handy anyway.

plus soundcloud, youtube, bandcamp, mixcloud, etc, of course. but for stuff in my collection, it's usually winamp, the ipod, or vlc.
Advanced compression of data is really something that should be looked at separately from database design. Look into using ZFS beneath Postgres for some pretty good compression.