skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is that the useful societal networks as described by e.g. the other comment below [0] are naturally scarce resources.

A fraternity (and the associated wider friends-of-friends social network) that consists of dozens or even hundreds of people doing favors to each other over the non-frat people, that's still manageable and self-sustainable. However, the world has billions of people. A network of million already is useless, and would leave the market open for another exclusive social club.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15316723
WordPress accounts for something like 19% of all websites, more so than any other single platform. Do not underestimate the importance of their decision.
It's kind of junk, because it doesn't include and control for variables like pre-collegiate socioeconomic status which is well-known to contribute to both likelihood of joining a fraternity and income potential.

As a result, while it shows a correlation, it provides very little basis to reject that the correlation is due to a common cause rather than frat membership causing the income result.
This is of course assuming that the WASM GC proposal doesn't require a specific object model to get host GC interop.
> Because their licence gave Facebook the upper hand if they wanted to come after you.

No it didn't. Facebook made a nothing-up-the-sleeve showing; you had recourse if they decided to "come after you", because your right to countersue was something that was explicitly protected in the PATENTS grant.

Removing the grant, on the other hand, contributes to a world where everyone else can come after you. That should be scarier, because the set containing entities who aren't Facebook is much larger than the set of entities who are. (And the latter set is much less likely to sue—virtually guaranteed not to sue, even—for the exact reason mentioned above.)
> In a letter to ICANN, the foundation said that the Spanish authorities had asked it to “block all .cat domain names that may contain any kind of information about the forthcoming independence referendum.”

This seems like a really strange thing for the Spanish government to do. Even if PuntCAT took down all separatist web from .cat, it seems like a certainty that you're going to create a local political embroilment, and the websites that were removed are just going to uncensor themselves by moving to .com/.net/.org/etc., and probably enjoy more popularity and attention than ever before.

You should probably only try to engage in this level of totalitarianism if you actually have the means to censor the internet for the vast majority of your citizenry. China and North Korea are in good positions to do it. The government of Spain is not.
i can give you a warm intro. email me :)

edit: you should def. explore all your options and choose the best one. don't discount any yet though
When you grow up and have kids (ie you aren’t 11 anymore) you may appreciate things like schools, safe roads, etc... that come with those sales tax dollars instead of viewing it as totalitarian expropriation.
This is a good counterpoint and it's all true for once a person has become addicted. I think the original post and similar arguments stem from the thinking that before the person took drugs for the first time they made a choice to do so they knew what they were getting into. However the same could be said for people who have STDs and that's still called a disease. Same is true for people who might travel to a country with malaria, if they contract it, it's still a disease but they didn't have to go. I'm guessing people are more willing to be lenient in those cases because there's only a possibility of risk, whereas taking heroin or something seems more reckless. I think there is anger/judgement around someone for having decided to get into this, perhaps it should be a crime before the person is an addict but no longer a crime after they are addicted. Anyway I agree that it still has to be called a disease, you're point helped me come round to this. It's a disease once addicted, but it's not the moment before the decision is made to have it for the first time.
must? there's more to the world than the United States

I live in the UK, there's no sales tax and the sole trader selling coffee at my local railway station is almost certainly below the VAT registration threshold, so there's no tax on the purchase at all

regardless, paying a tax embedded in the price of a good is not the same thing as consulting the government on the purchase
I’d buy a Pilatus PC-12 and fly it myself. Why be a passenger when you can be the captain!
Weird how whenever I try to buy something with bitcoin on Overstock it still makes me pay sales tax. Bitcoin must be a big government conspiracy.
Consider selling the company.

There are a million other ideas to work on, and once you've sold a company, you're investable.

Ironically, you can't raise anything now - but you'll be able to raise on your next project.

You'll have a nice little bank account to get whatever going, and that'll make you considerably more confident as well.

There's not reason to be sentimental about your project. 99% chance 'it's just a project'.

Think of yourself as a 'Movie Producer' or 'Director' or whatever. You made Jaws. Next you can make Alien. And then whatever.

Unless your project is deeply close to your heart, or you are doing something you really and truly find personal and existential meaning in - and you have a high degree of certainty of competitive advantage for whatever reason (high barrier to entry, massive growth etc.) then consider selling.

FYI that you're having trouble raising is at least some kind of 'flag' that you might not have a strong competitive position, but don't read hugely into 'not being able to raise' - most companies (and many good ones) can't.
Given that git has such a distributed nature, couldn't you simply move over your code to Gitlab if and when Github actually is on the verge of shutting down?

I'm glad that Gitlab exists, however the lazy person in me sees no immediate need to use it. Even if all Github datacenters are destroyed by an asteroid, copies of repos I care about will still be around in enough people's computers to be able to recover.
"Substance over style"
Rights can be said to have a real existence only to the degree that society dictates, and only in a social context. Your will is not inviolate simply because you choose to frame it as a right. So the first answer to that question is that it must first be established that this is some sort of right that society has agreed to respect, and secondly you would have to take on the issue of the harm to society in order to argue whether the one or the other was more important.

Vaccinations are indeed something of an affront to one's physical person. So is collecting DNA evidence. I think that you will find upon further reflection that the physical integrity of one's body is not much affected by a vaccination, and that personal liberties do not extend to causing grievous bodily harm to others.
The + and non-+ versions are effectively different models, thus eight.

And it seems pretty complicated to me. I imagine a non-technical friend or relative asking me what they should get. In the past, the answer was pretty simple: decide whether you wanted big or small, and get the latest available in that size. Before the 6, I didn't even need that first step. Apple has kept the previous year's model around at a lower price for a long time, but with limited storage options it was obviously positioned as being only for people who couldn't afford to pay any more.

This year I can't even decide for myself whether to get a X, an 8, or just stick with my 6+. If someone asks me whether the X is worth the price premium over the 8, or the 8 over the 7, I won't know what to say.

"It seems that Apple can't win even when they do what most people have wanted for a while: more options at more price points."

I don't understand this statement. Are you surprised that different people have different opinions?
Interestingly the economist misses the traditional definition of Fiat: a currency whose value is determined by the Fiat of a state. Whether or not Bitcoin exhibits similar trends as currency that isn't backed by the state is immaterial to the ethical appeal (to some) of a medium of exchange where participation is voluntary and consensual.
Well, I think it matters if you have the knowledge and consent of the participants, whether the data will be used to produce a proprietary profile on the person, whether that data is sold, and if participants are compensated for participating in a market research program.
Skimming over something like this from a self-proclaimed manipulator, question #1 is why are they telling us? I didn't see that addressed.
Thank you Wordpress.
Finally found it: https://pep-project.org/index.html
Who was this and what DE was he working on?
> Although we still believe our BSD + Patents license provides some benefits to users of our projects

I'm probably missing something, but: If their BSD+Patents was actually strictly "better" for the user, could they not just dual license under both? Is BSD+Patents ∪ MIT < MIT for some reason?
Some of the frats at my alma mater charge $5k a year. I would imagine being able to pay 20k or more might self select to some already well-off kids.
Before I moved to e-cigarettes (and when I still didn't hate travelling), I had a memorable experience desperately trying to find a smoking lounge in an airport in Prague with a friend before our connecting flight took off. Got lost, stumbled into some desolate employee-only areas and barely made our flight, but damn did that cigarette feel good.

Nowadays, even though I consume nicotine via e-cigarettes (mostly indoors), the smoking break is still a lovely social habit, where a great many useful ideas are habitually exchanged with co-workers. I don't particularly miss cigarettes myself, but I will greatly miss smoking breaks when the last holdouts finally quit smoking.
Right, that is why I suggested that addiction is usually more of a symptom of something else.
You're confusing an effect for a cause.
Is there a greater money grab than Transformers?
I don't think it's fair to claim that it wasn't "truly open source". There isn't just one "truly open source" license. There are several. They obviously aren't all the same, that's why they are different licenses. People might have a reason to prefer one to another, but they are all "truly open source". People might even realize that there are some of them they can't use -- _many_ people have reasons they can't use the GPL, but that doesn't make it "not truly open source".

The Open Source Initiative's definition of "open source" doesn't say anything about patents: https://opensource.org/osd

I don't know if Facebook has asked the OSI to validate their "before" license as "open source." Perhaps if they did it would be controversial (or perhaps not), perhaps it would lead to OSI making more restrictions on what it will call 'open source', I dunno.

One version of a "BSD+Patents" license is approved by OSI, but not one involving a "retaliation" clause. https://opensource.org/licenses/BSDplusPatent

Anyway, I don't think you have any grounds to say that license was not "truly open source".
Presumably they are referencing the animal kingdom.
Who wants to join a group that will let anybody in? It's a very basic aspect of human psychology that shared sacrifice (real or perceived) leads to stronger social bonds.
Getting started with Spark locally using notebooks
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> [they should have] added a small bezel at the bottom that matches the one at the top to create symmetry

This is a terrible idea - you can’t quickly tell which way the phone goes up. Have you used a Moto G2?

you should also try to be less arrogant when talking about the work of others ;-)
Nowhere in the article does it really support the title. I guess they're referring mainly to the Ethereum fork?

Even if you accept the proposition, it's still an improvement in that if you don't like the governance (feels too "fiat" for you, or whatever), you can instantly convert to any number of other cryptocurrencies, including many that define themselves essentially in opposition to the reasoning behind the Ethereum fork.

The author kind of addresses this:

You could argue that markets are already deciding which new currencies provide sound money. And in doing so you would join the banking school of 19th-century England, or the people who loosened financial regulation in the late 1990s in America.

I don't know about 19th century English banking, but I don't see how anything in the late 90s or what followed constitutes "the market deciding what provides sound money". The Asian currency crisis maybe? But that was caused by bad "fiat" policies, especially pegs, and lack of transparency (SK banks holding assets rendered bad by the crisis in other countries, for example, and speculators exploiting this yet-to-be-widespread knowledge).
Things get a little more muddy if you take the view that there really is no mind-body division, and that human behavior is the result of chemical and neurological processes in the brain, which in turn is just another part of the body.

It's easy to draw a distinction when physical withdrawal leads to death, but how do you differentiate between physical and psychological pain and suffering when abstaining is not fatal?
A fraternity is like a business. Learning to work within that kind of structure can help prepare you for the real world in a way that .25 of of a GPA cannot. But it's likely more correlation than causation. I'm not convinced by the methodology the authors claim distill causal effects. The Minerva and Theme variables are assumed to present plausible alternatives to Greek life but that may not be the case.

A few bad fraternities/fraternity brothers give the institution as a whole a bad reputation, but aside from those bad ones I don't understand the fraternity hate. What's wrong with wanting to be part of socially beneficial organization that will help you make friends and party over the course of (some of) the most carefree years of your life?
Yes, but you have to look at ROI, not gross receipts. GotG cost $232M to make. Get Out cost $4.5M, so its ROI was about 20x better than GotG.
Indeed. Certain institutions will not even consider a candidate who has not gone to a top tier University AND graduated with 3.5 or greater, unless of course they have some sort of connection with someone working at that institution.
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Have we really? Or did we simply move to more insidious policies like forcing "free trade treaties" and such?
"Pulse is for team leaders and individuals who believe software is created by and for humans."

I feel like you can glean your answer from that statement.
Networking is the true value of going to "good" schools too.

You're going to read the same books and have the same general coursework at an ivy league as you will a state school. The difference is the people, including who is teaching you, who is learning along with you, and who they know.
Actually, the camera teams at Google does camera studies. Apple is just much better at hyping and marketing what they do. I mean, Google runs the Google Cultural Institute and has photographed more artwork and paintings and sculptures than Apple has, and has constructed special cameras just for photographing such work, and special software focused on art preservation. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrJesw5ET8)

If Google just ships common stuff, then why did the Pixel score industry leading numbers on camera, beating the iPhone 7? And doesn't Apple ship Sony image censors, Qualcomm modems, and Samsung OLED displays? Or their "GPU" which is in fact, a licensed PowerVR IP.

You're buying into marketing hype. Apple's last keynote marketed 4K HDR as if they had invented it, they're marketing HEVC motion compensation as if they did something no one else had done, they sell "True Tone" displays, which aren't a feature of the display at all, but just adjusting color temperature based on ambient light sensor, which is something Samsung phones have been shipping for years.

Google and Android vendors do a piss poor job of calling attention to details they've obsessed over, while Apple deploys Johnny Ive to talk about chamfered edges. All this creates a mythos that Apple is the only company that cares about details.
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> Often, addicts quit cold turkey after a moment of clarity.

More accurately, often addicts attempt to do so, but the vast majority who do so relapse.

But, in any case, not using drugs doesn't mean you stop having an addiction anymore than avoiding contact with bees means you stop having an allergy to their sting.
We're really committed to improving the overall performance of GitLab.

You can take a look at some ongoing performance-related issues at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf... as well as some already completed improvements at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf...

There's also a plethora of ongoing efforts on making our hosted instance GitLab.com even faster. Lots of issues to look over at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=al...
So which FB project still have a BSD+patents license.

I count:

* ReasonML - https://github.com/facebook/reason/blob/master/PATENTS.txt

* GraphQL - https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/blob/master/PATENTS

* react-native - https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/PATENTS

* PlanOut - https://github.com/facebook/planout/blob/master/PATENTS

* Flow - https://github.com/facebook/flow/blob/master/PATENTS

* Haxl - https://github.com/facebook/Haxl/blob/master/PATENTS

* Flux - https://github.com/facebook/flux/blob/master/PATENTS

Just a few that I found.. Please reply if you know more project that are still BSD+PATENTS licensed.
Glad you liked it! We are making a few tweaks and hope to deploy an improved version in the coming days!
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Check out Foobar 2000. I think it’s the best media player ever made.
>I wonder how some of the bigger players will react (no pun intended) after their abandonment of React in lieu of Vue or some other framework

Competing frameworks will now need a new "Reason #1 to use us instead" for their pitch-decks.
> allegedly because it was needed for bluetooth

The bluetooth stack dropped support for ALSA with Bluez 5.0. About a year ago, dev started on a "bluez-alsa" or BlueALSA package the re-integrates an ALSA backend. I've used it briefly; it seems to work as advertised.

I think that Bluez 5.0 came out about the time that Slackware 14.0 did, so it makes some sense that versions before 14.2 would've provided Bluez 4.x for the bluetooth stack.
Hey Baron,

I think Vive Church [1] offers exactly what you're looking for!

[1] https://vivechurch.org/

-David
I do not know why you think "panic and crash" is specific to a run on the bank / forced bank restructuring. By the way, the original comment was about business cycles in general (that nerdponx replied to):

> Are business cycles in the modern sense (unemployment that lasts for longer than six months) known to happen in the presence of free banking and absent a central bank? Actual question. It matters because we know how this happens when a central bank controls the currency supply and allows NGDP to drop. It's not obvious to me that this happens with free banking.

Hope that clears everything up. I don't like arguing semantics for virtually no reason, but in this case it appears you legitimately misunderstood that the terms business cycle, market panics, and crashes are not specific to banks.
I hope the people who drew the least accurate ones are just unfamiliar with these companies, I have bad memory but these are hilariously bad. Also the Foot Locker man still looks like he's wearing a hat to me when I see the logo so I'm not sure that's a memory issue.
Explicit probably saves a lot of time in court, and helps with global consistency. More importantly, Apache 2 and GPL 3 include reciprocal patent grants. They work similarly to the React patent grant, but unlike that one they go both ways. In the React one, only you lose access to the patents if you sue Facebook, but Facebook can sue you fine even if you contributed to React. Under Apache 2 and GPL 3, no one contributing to the software can sue anyone for patents infringed as a result without having their license revoked in its entirety (copyright AND patent).
Unethical developers that work at shitty companies with shitty lawyers were annoyed that they couldn't use React. That's all there is to it.

I loved BSD+patent as one of the few potentially successful attacks on the awful software patents regime that we currently live under. This defeat means we are probably stuck with it for the rest of our careers.
> The Mughals were more like the Normans in British history -- they started off as conquerors but eventually completely assimilated into the local population.

The interesting thing is that the Norman mark probably never wore off: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8424...

So much for "assimilation" of the conquerors! I feel like it really works the same everywhere, every time. They won't really let you in even after centuries. Don't get deceived.
Joining a fraternity was one of the most meaningful and impactful experiences of my life.

I come from humble means - my parents couldnt and didnt pay for any of the (expensive) school I ended up attending. I ended up joining one of only two "wet" fraternities on campus (meaning we were allowed to have booze in our house), and the one considered the most social. I was (am) an introvert and didn't drink in high school or college until I was 21. I loved nearly every moment. Not once did wealth, influence or ability to pay impact our recruitment decisions (and I was deeply involved in the process all three years). In fact, we did more due diligence on "legacies" than any other candidate.

My fraternity brothers were some of the most dynamic and interesting people I've had the honor of knowing. It was the first chance I ever had to delve into real politics...as a member of the executive board, we dealt with some challenging interpersonal issues that I wouldnt have been able to wrestle with until much later in my life.

While my brothers were very different than me, I grew more and learned more while living in my house than I did in the rest of college.

Stereotypes exist for a reason. But there are also virtuous, powerful reasons why fraternities endure.
That is entirely incorrect for the WebAssembly CG and WG.
Boeing cares about GPA, so does Intel. Quite a few others do as well
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Why not just stick a piece of folded paper or a toothpick at the top left corner to prevent F1 from being pressed?
Is Bitcoin actually a medium of exchange? It seems to be functioning more as an investment to be hoarded rather than spent.
I think it's anecdote vs anecdote, but clearly you have more experience. In a fulltext indexing situation I'd probably look at elasticsearch again; I don't deliberately hamstring myself to try and be right on HN.

On the other hand, if I have structured-enough data, I'm going to prefer relational tools for it. Hammers and algebraic nails and so on.
I already addressed that swpat article a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15218068

It provides weak support for your position, because most of the cases it cites are for things that clearly follow different rules and precedents than patents do. Pretty sloppy for an "actual US Patent lawyer" if you ask me. More importantly, "broader in scope" does not imply "exclusive of". The implicit license might indeed be broader and there's still no whiff of either extinguishing the other. As I've said repeatedly, when contracts (of which licenses are a subset) are written to supersede something else, they say so. There's no implicit nullification.