skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

The difference between XX/yr and X/mo is that the latter is a tactic that relies on perceptual psychology to downplay the cost, same as when you see something priced at $3.99 instead of $4. It might be important to clarify that when I say XX/yr what I mean by XX is ~50USD. That's a reasonable price for a small instance (especially since the current going rate for something comparable is $0). Something priced at $8–9/mo, however, costs twice as much, even though the monthly pricing scheme helps to hide it. If you're buying hosting for your code, you don't really need the flexibility of monthly pricing. (What're you gonna do, spin up some short-lived instances for as long as you need them and then shut them down when you're "done" with them? No. The expected user model for code hosting is one that's cumulative.)

Side note: charging per user per month for a hosted instance would be pretty arbitrary, anyway. Put a cap on instance size, workload, number of simultaneous requests, and daily or hourly data in and data out, not on number of users. Charging by the user for a hosted instance is very nearly unashamed rent-seeking. The only reason it makes sense for GitLab EE is because it's on-prem.
Not surprised. I was in a fraternity, and no we didn't haze at all. Between all the events (of which less than a third are parties) and dedication it takes to keep the thing from barreling into the ground you learn a lot of real life skills.

First, there's selection bias. We would only take guys that were really sociable, somewhat hard working, competitive, and with decent grades. Most fraternities were the same. "Frat bros" being meathead rich retards is a myth. We would pick the smartest, most promising, and sociable guys in the school. Money wasn't a factor. Neither was skin color, my house was probably 40% minorities. But we had a fraternity GPA a solid .6 above school mens average and a dropout rate of less than half. Fraternities ARE elitist and I was proud of that. So are all the tech companies.... We only took the best. Yeah we drank more than most students and had crazy parties but we were also smart, hardworking, and had a lot of friends.

Second, the power structure closely resembles the business world, complete with budgets of over a half million even in a modest sized house. Bigger houses have budgets of millions a year. These budgets were handled by the "exec board" which was just democratically elected student members.

A fraternity is basically a non-profit company run by students. Harder to do than it sounds, especially with all the hate towards Greek coming from the school itself. At many schools the Greek system is actively shunned by the administration.

Then there's the connections. Being in a fraternity/sorority means you automatically know over 50 people pretty well, sometimes hundreds. I was vice president for several years and I knew hundreds. Maybe 20 really well. I knew people on the school board. I met the president of the University enough times that he knew me by name. The president of the student senate was a great friend that lived across the hall.

I got my first job from an old friend from the house and another was kind enough to help me move across the country to a tech hotspot. We're all still friends to this day and we joke about how wedding are largely a fraternity reunion. Everything in my life today exists largely because I joined a fraternity 8 years ago.
I know this has all turned to conspiracy theories by now. But the only piece of evidence mentioned in the article is "because Russia IPs". Or is all the information hidden because "National security"?

If it was all talk, i'd not care much about it. But USA gov is taking active steps asking agencies to stop using Russian originating software and what not. Just feels like some other agenda is brewing and this is all a prologue to it.
Kevin Drum notes it's a weak result but if true, wonders if the authors draw the right conclusions:

suppose it’s true. Here’s what the authors say:

Our results indicate that college administrators face an important trade-off when they consider policies designed to limit fraternity life on campus: while such policies may significantly raise academic performance, these gains may come at a significant cost in terms of expected future income for their graduates.

I’d argue exactly the opposite: ... Allow me to reframe the authors’ conclusion:

Our results provide empirical evidence that fraternities are just another way for social elites to keep themselves at the top regardless of actual performance. Those rejected by fraternities, even though they have higher GPAs, earn 36 percent less than those accepted by fraternities. This is further evidence, if any were needed, that college administrators face few trade-offs when they consider policies designed to limit fraternity life on campus.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/09/new-report-fra...
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My dad was in the army back in the 80's and was investing in wine at one point. One case that he had he recalls would be worth $25k-$30k these days. It vanished on a move one time and he assumes it just got drunk.
Completely skipped ALSA and configuring DMIX, I guess? That at least provided software mixing.
This is a little off the main point of the article, but if you want to see airports that are quite pleasant, check out Tokyo. Haneda and Narita rate 9/10 and 8/10 respectively. They have a smoking places all over the place: by ground transportation, inside before security, inside after security, and in some bars. My favorite place to go when I still smoked was to this one bar in Narita where there would inevitably be some US military people to chat with.
> Processes could be set up whereby mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists), ethicists, and the judicial system could make determinations that an individual is not competent to make decisions about the substance use purchasing due to addiction.

These would be abused. People would be told that they're categorically unable to consent for being LGBT.
Definitely. I've been at startups who got signed letters stating the acquisition will go through from the other company, the other company spends months in due diligence learning every secret we had, then they just stop working on it and leave the deal dead.
clickbank did something you can learn from. they require all their vendors to have a script that shows a mini image 'powerd by clickbank SSL' ...comodo SSL does the same thing to notify web visitors of SSL being used... you can do the same to have the JS file show a little thing in the corner to say 'this site has no ads and is supported by coinhive browser mining'
Very good news!
Making it easy defeats the entire point of something like a fraternity: excluding the less valuable and less committed people from the social space so that the high-value and committed people that remain can efficiently use their time.

Now, of course, the fraternities can't say that that's why they're exclusive, but yeah, they're exclusive for a reason.
Ask HN: Why hasn't any YC company IPO'ed?
The IPO climate seems to be good. Keith Rabois has often said that most of the so-called reasons to IPO late are nonsense. Of course I've heard the rumours about Dropbox preparing to go public.

Still I'm wondering: why have none of the YC companies gone public?
how can I invest in coinhive? this is gonna be big!
> Case closed. Could not have picked a better license, thank you Facebook.

Case not closed, patents still pose a threat. They could (and arguably should) have picked better license, something with explicit permissive patent grant, such as Apache 2.0. This move can barely constitute even as lip service to appease the masses.
Birth controll pills basically emulate a serial pregnancy- so im curious where this is suddenly unnatural.
That movie illustrates my point, though. Domestic box office for Get Out was $175m with foreign receipts coming in at just $77m.

Compare that to Guardians of the Galaxy, with domestic box office of $333m and foreign box office of $440m. They made more money outside the US than in, with China topping the totals.

Sure, you can still make money with a movie aimed at the domestic audience, but you can make a lot more money with one that isn't.
ARKit games that don't exist but should
The price doesn’t define the success of bitcoin.
Sorry, what I mean is does OP have citations for anything? For being someone who claims to support science, he/she didn't provide any links backing up the big pile of claims.
ROFL, "the first time in the entire history".

Gold would like to have a word with you... And seashells. And giant stone coins. And on and on and on.

In fact, as far as history goes, government backed fiat currency is a very recent invention.
Did you mean the opposite here or do you really get the impression that info with grammar mistakes is more valuable?
> Such hideously wasteful extravagance

You're moralizing the issue, which points to the fact that most of what you said is nothing more than a personal subjective judgement. For someone with that wealth, it's not usually going to be a wasteful extravagance at all.

Billionaires are like large corporations unto themselves. Their business interests are of the scale of small companies in the S&P 500.

Take Patterson Companies, an S&P 500 company, among the smallest with a $3.4 billion market cap. $3.4 billion in wealth isn't enough to get you onto the Bloomberg global richest 500 list.

By contrast, Henry Kravis of KKR fame, is worth $5.x billion (merely #345 on the billionaire list). It makes perfect sense for someone with his large business interests to utilize a personal jet for optimization of time. It's about as wasteful as an average person in the developed world owning a car. Oh those average people in the developed world, living that luxurious extravagant life in which they own a car (or a home, gasp!).
The thing I find crazy is that in 2017 $20M movies with B-list names are getting picked up as "independent". Ridley Scott's name shows up on IFC movies now; It Follows had an excellent ROI compared to most "blockbuster"; Get Out was a sold-out hit with audiences and critics... but it's all just a blip compared to the latest Transformers or DC or Marvel franchise shit-show.

A few millenia from now archaelogists and historians will be pontificating about Hollywood the way we do about the Pyramids.
It's not just door to door time, but schedule flexibility. Not every route has a direct flight, multiple flights per day, etc.

Many people schedule meetings to end right before they have to leave for the airport and catch the last flight back home for another important meeting the next day. Would prefer that someone making decisions impacting the livelihoods of thousands of people each day is focused on the issue at hand, not catching the next flight.
If the procedure had never been heard of before and we were deciding today whether it would be a good idea to do this at birth, we probably wouldn’t even consider it.
The intrepid teachers bringing internet access to women in rural India
I believe the same colour is used to fill the blank area due to scroll bounce.
This +10. AL has not been worth any of the time I'd put into it, attempting to locate potential investors.

Wasn't in a "hot" space. High performance unified (file, block, object) scale out storage and compute hardware. Most of the VCs and angels we spoke with were saying "hardware? Why? Everyone just runs everything on Amazon". Which isn't correct, or even nearly correct. One VC who saw us compare ourselves to Nutanix (way back in 2013), decided to then speak to Nutanix and help them. Nice of them to do so.

Early in my processes I learned that things like "growth capital" meetings, where you get to pay to present to VCs/investors are a complete waste of time and capital. AL is sort of like that, though you don't have to pay money, just time.

Raising capital is all about who you know, and who knows you. There's a mixture of pedigree and other intangibles, and relatively uncorrelated with actual results things in there. Which dominate the "hey, we pulled in $3.3M in revenue at 50%+ gross margin with no external investment, how about some love" discussions. Even funnier to hear them say "but we want to see more traction". Yes, really.

Sorry about letting the bitter leak into this.

Learn from my many failures. Try not to make them yourself.
Even though I was against "GPG is too complicated" thing, in the last 20 min I corrected a couple of people, so just to be clear:

* This key was issued four days ago.

* No, anybody with that key can't read their messages. You still need a password for the key.

* The password for the key could be cracked (depends solely on how complicated the password is) with a copy of the key, but the key is already revoked.

* You would still need a copy of the email to read it. If you're trying to impersonate them, you still have to impersonate the email from that email address as well.

It is bad. It is a rookie mistake. It is not a catastrophic mistake though and there will probably be no consequences of it.
Wow, thanks Justin. Done.
Just wanted to add to this and point out that Gitter is already completely open-source and available at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/
Hyper-socialization can teach a lot of "soft skills" which come in useful in the business world. Whether it's a fraternity, a sorority, military boot camp, or similar experience, this influence may account for some of the data.
It also looks fantastic when using the solarized theme
From my layman perspective, jQuery has MIT license, now React has MIT license. jQuery was once ubiquitous, now React can be too.

I'm likely oversimplifying, but that's about as much as I understand on licenses
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Still an issue: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/351,

There's a patent: https://www.google.com/patents/US9646028,

and a recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15289676
> Well that is an exception to the rule rather than the norm.

It's a little disingenuous to compare the US and China in this way. In the US, air travel is literally the only form of transportation where an ID is (by convention) required. It is absolutely the norm when you are traveling in the US by car (as a passenger), bus, or train that you never show any form of ID, ever.

> In China, you can also get temporary ID from train stations and airports if you misplaced it.

I think it's telling that it's even possible to get a temp ID in China from so many places if you've misplaced yours. That tells me that having your ID at all times in China is a necessity, and not having it can cause you problems. In the US, if you lose your ID, it's annoying, but it's not a big deal to be without an ID for a while.

> If you really want to compare the ability to exploit the system, I doubt US citizens can beat Chinese citizens.

Ultimately you want to not have to exploit the system. In that it's just not necessary, because the system is fair, or at least there are efficient legal remedies when it's unfair. Obviously neither the US nor China have such great systems, but, again, I find it telling that the need to exploit the system is so great in China that it's so commonplace and everyone is so good at it. So I find your statement about that kinda sad, not a good thing.
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And at small to medium-sized businesses, they don't have in-house IP attorneys and their in-house counsels (or outside lawyers on retainer) will likely punt such questions to an outside firm or IP specialist. And that will come with an unattractive price.
1. Frats select for lower overall academic ability. Few physics, biochem, ee majors. This bleeds over into their easier major.
2. Frats select for larger physical stature and attractiveness. This deselects for academic performance and strongly selects for business success.
3. Most importantly, there is little artistic, creative, or purely intellectual emphasis here. If a young person is dedicated to "going for the money" at an early age, the results are not surprising.

These advantages, while enduring, are likely to reduce with time, in my opinion.
I don't understand why people are so fork-a-phobic, and anti-patching these days. Distributions (like Red Hat and SUSE, but also Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, etc) have been doing this for decades. Forking a project is something that is unique to the free software community, and we're doing ourselves a disservice by not taking advantage of this freedom. Forking a fast-paced project like k8s is fairly ambitious, as you've said, but that doesn't make it a bad idea from the outset.

> If RedHat doesn't have the clout to get their improvements in upstream, why should I presume they have the clout to avoid their additions won't be broken by other changes?

That's not how free software development or maintenance work. Believe it or not, the engineers at Red Hat (or SUSE, Canonical, etc) are actually pretty clever. An upstream not accepting a change can be for any number of reasons unrelated to the technical aspects of the patch itself. It could be a conflict with their roadmap or scope, it could break something else they're working on that is of higher priority, it could require more discussion on whether the use-cases can be solved by existing features, it could require further research into whether the proposed feature is the best way of solving the problem, etc. I've seen all of those reasons (and more) for some of my changes not being merged upstream (and I also maintain some upstream projects, so I've used those reasons before too). Not to mention that usually "no" in an upstream review means "not yet, I'm still thinking about it".

If an upstream rejects a patch, but a customer needs the patch in order for them to be able to effectively use the project, then Red Hat (or SUSE, Canonical, etc) are entirely within their rights to add that patch to the packages they ship. And that's the correct thing to do. Upstreams generally are not good at release engineering, so in order for hotfixes a distribution would have to patch the project anyway. What makes a feature patch any different? Not to mention that Red Hat (or SUSE, Canonical, etc) also provides documentation on how to migrate to the upstream feature (if the upstream feature ends up being different).

Kernel development has worked this way for more than 25 years, with distributions carrying patches that eventually get pushed upstream asynchronously (usually with some improvements through discussions that make them more generic for all kernel users). While stable kernels have made the massive patchsets much less of a burden to maintain, this model still is in practice today.

[I work for SUSE.]
You must live in: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire or Oregon. (Or be oblivious)

States where the sale of a cup of coffee doesn't involve a tax.
I think Julia is a far better candidate for high performance numerics than Go. It's just a better designed language in general, it is already higher performance, and it's far more expressive than Go.

When the Julia AOT compilation story is complete, and it's well along now, Julia should dominate a whole lot of Go use cases...
Exactly. I'd be a lot more worried when we hit unbridled enthusiasm, with a raft of strangers telling me "It can't go down. The number is limited!"
You can log it via rescuetime.com. 53% of today was in software development. That's a good day. It typically goes between 30% - 45%. This is baring in mind pretty much all I'm supposed to be doing at the moment is coding, ie no support and less than 5 emails a day.

That figure is skewed downwards as there is 15% for reference / learning which is a ton of me watching coursera videos in the evenings.
So... spending time networking and developing your most important job skill, that of interpersonal communication, pays dividends later in life at the expense of a small hit in your GPA?

Color me not at all surprised.
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There are other popular Javascript packages that aren't mentioned:

dataloader
draft-js
express-graphql
flux
graphql-js
regenerator
relay
yoga

They'll probably stick with BSD+Patents, unless the pressure is kept on, which is unfortunate.
Indeed, the power of networking. I was not in a frat but I can attest that my GPA didn't help me get a job, my college roommates did! ...and they probably lowered my GPA too!
I'm curious how much the author purports to have made off their doge trading.
Facts are facts and the truth is the truth. Nothing you said changes the reality that the documents are real.

If other people have a different opinion on what the narrative should be then they should release documents of their own.

But that still doesn't change the truth of the previous documents.
Sure - and that's valid. I guess I have a futuro-nostalgic attachment to looking people in the eye when we work together.
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Sorry, I'm just not seeing the connection here. How much overlap is there between the set of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from animals to humans), and diseases where antibiotic resistance is a concern?
Yeah, laser tag is fun.
I suggest you take a look at Julia. I think it's a much better fit for that type of work...
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Alex Jones is a very interesting performance artist. You really don't know what you are going to get with him.

Politics aside, his method acting is extremely interesting.

He has tried to monetize his audience by selling items they might be interested in. For some reason, I guess they sell relatively ok.

But I disagree with his approach on this, because they are of dodgy quality and utility.

I think he originally tried to sell books and t shirts, but his audience isn't loyal/interested enough to buy those types of things.

So, it's now turned into this weird, ultra-conspiracy theorist site that attempts to sell snake oil.

He's like the Dr. Oz of conspiracy theorists!!
What worries many is that they may change the license at a later
After I asked this question of HackerNews, I went off to medium.com to read about art because they say art can save the heart.

One thought exercise on creativity showed me for a brief second what intrinsic reward looks like. I'll try to find that post and share it with you. To summarize,

1. Imagine a red apple. It's your own red apple.

2. It floats in space in front of you not tied to the ground or the sky.

3. Add yellow streaks of ripeness to the apple.

4. Now change its color to a color never before seen in an apple

5. Give the apple a texture.

6. Give it a finish.

7. Buff it or scuff it, it's your apple.

I did this exercise yesterday and when I woke up this morning, my apple was still with me. Though no one knew it existed, to me, it felt very real, very mine. I felt proud of that apple.

As of this moment, I enjoy my little blog with zero daily visitors and monochromatic layout just as much as I love my imagined purple apple. So what if no one knows that my apple (or I, by extension) exists? I'm just glad I made it and it's there for me to remember.

This may dissipate in the next hour but until then, I created something for its own sake, not because I got kudos for it.

E1: dropped a double word
There hasn't been a single patent covering a standard React implementation found yet. Someone found one that might cover a niche case, but the bottom line is no one really knows if any patents of any substance or having broad claims will actually ever issue.

That combined with the implied licenses means there was a patent clause causing a ton of unecessary hand-wringing.

The reality is every company of FB's size is patenting every developer's latest dump if it can get through the patent office.
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This is highly confusing to me.

If implicit patent grants are a thing, why have more modern licenses like Apache 2 and GPL 3 made it a point to include explicit patents grants in the language of the license?

Wouldn’t their legal counsel advise them against it if it was redundant?