skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know what was / wasn’t said. That said, I find this portion of your argument particularly unlikely:

> 2. The person they're making these claims against has drastically reduced ability to provide his side of the story, thanks to Cloudfare's actions…

Given the clickbait / pageview drive of modern “news” online, I think that someone at the middle of a hotly debated issue such as this could find many outlets happy to quote them on a perceived scandal. It has the potential to the flames and generates yet more controversy.
What do you mean by; "astounding the amount of work that needs to be done in the python ecosystem!"?

Can you provide examples of different ecosystems that would compare favorably in your opinion?
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I don't want to live in that world. But is there not a flip side from the inventors point of view?

I would 100% agree with you if the resources to litigate were distributed evenly. Unfortunately they're not.

If you were sad, mad, and poor, you wouldn't be able to anything, because "poor" would disqualify you. No one would even represent you pro bono, probably.

The only people that meaningfully benefit from patents are corporations. If you don't buy that argument, let me know, because it's pretty important that I persuade you. :) Of course, that tends to be the least effective way to persuade someone, but still.

See Stallman's writing posted upthread (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/lpf/Links/prep.ai.m...):

In September 1990, users of the popular XyWrite word processing
program got a disturbing letter in the mail from XyQuest, Inc., the
program's publisher:

"In June of 1987, we introduced an automatic correction and
abbreviation expansion feature in XyWrite III Plus. Unbeknownst to us,
a patent application for a related capability had been filed in 1984
and was subsequently granted in 1988. The company holding the patent
contacted us in late 1989 and apprised us of the existence of their
patent.

We have decided to modify XyWrite III Plus so that it cannot be
construed as infringing. The newest version of XyWrite III Plus (3.56)
incorporates two significant changes that address this issue: You will
no longer be able to automatically correct common spelling errors by
pressing the space bar after the misspelled word. In addition, to
expand abbreviations stored in your personal dictionary, you will have
to press control-R or another designated hot key."

That's the kind of world we live in thanks to patents. Is that healthy?

My mind is open too: If that's a good thing by you, I'd love to hear the reasoning.
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Let's not pretend that this is about Prince's "political opinions," as if the claim is about his views on tax reform or welfare programs. The claim was that he and the rest of Cloudflare's management supported nazi ideology.
I also blame USPTO execution, IMO USPTO should not be shielded from lawsuits for assigning patents on obviously BS innovation like 'rectangle with rounded edges' etc. if it does not even meets the common sense a decade ago then there should be some liability of enforceability on uspto.

on a general note I feel like everything in US is translating into a money fight. from congress to law to carpool lanes, there seems to be only one goal left that matters in life, money. apologies for tangential rant!
Cloudflare never provided a screenshot or quote to support that claim, and in a different article admitted that it was just a regular user posting on the dailystormer forum, not a post on the site.

https://gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to...

>“The Daily Stormer site was bragging on their bulletin boards about how Cloudflare was one of them and that is the opposite of everything we believe. That was the tipping point for me.”

I suppose Cloudflare customers should make sure to censor what gets posted on their sites if it refers to the political opinions of Matthew Prince.
Remember that time the patent system saved us from Skynet!
Read the comment again, it's not about what can or can't be done.
DNS does that too?
Gah! I entered "feigenbaum's constant", but it didn't accept that, so I kept looking for another relevant term.
I didn't find it the least bit political, but it was indeed flagged and dead when I came to it. I vouched for it.
I was worried about that too.

Scheduled republication is my best answer so far.

If you promised to sign and republish the same file every day with a new timestamp, then people would know when they had the latest, and when they didn't... would just have to wonder if you fell off the earth, which we sort of do already with all those abandoned free software projects online.

Republication may be cost prohibitive for large files, so instead you could republish a metadata file that pointed to the latest hash as of the metadata file's publication time.

For the "hit by a bus" problem (or for a server doing this automatically, the "hit by a comet" problem?), it'd be nice to include a dead man's switch from a third party, where they can publish a "FINAL -- EXPECT NO MORE UPDATES"...

But that that point you're trusting a third party. If you're willing to trust a third party this is far easier. So that might be what we'd end up with... something like DNS providers, but they're suddenly managing indexes and metadata for hosted files? I don't know...

(Also, this has probably been worked out already by smarter people than me, I haven't looked at IPFS much, this was just a back of the napkin guess.)
I was baffled by this:

http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/texts/harncont.html

> The problem, Lefebvre des Noëttes concluded, was the tendency of the harness both to press on the horses's carotid artery and to hamper its breathing because of the position of the harness on the neck. Indeed, Jerome Carcopino, the archaeologist and historian of Rome who wrote the introduction to Lefebvre des Noëttes's book, used the word "strangulation" to describe this situation.
Printing tons of money is what is happening even without basic income, BI is the way forward to free human from boring labor. Probably no one has a macroeconomic plan. But the basic idea is simple and powerful. Robots do the menial and boring job of humans and they are taxed that is distributed to people and people spend on robots for services and the cycle continues.
I have used psychedelics. I consider it to be one of the most beautiful, educational and healthful things that I have ever done.

These days I meditate.
As the joke says: The men who program in C++ are Real Men. The women who program in C++ are Real Men too.
> The good thing about Popper and 'intolerance of intolerance' is with the moral high ground you can use whatever force is necessary while setting 'intolerant behavior' as a moving goalpost.

> Today it's 'mildly sceptical over mass immigration'. Tomorrow it's 'not advocating for free healthcare'.

"Neo-Nazi" is not anywhere close to the same category as "skeptical on mass immigration".

Skeptical on mass immigration represents a reasonable political position that is commonly accepted (as shown by how many Republicans with that position as part of their platform in the US).

Neo-Nazi represents a fetishism for Nazism, Fascism, and the idea that mass murder might be acceptable.
> Luckily if I'm going to use a hammer for some job I don't have to go check to see if someone holds a patent on using the tool in that specific way.

If you buy a hammer at Home Depot, the patent system doesn't affect you directly. (But it might affect the price of hammers.)

If you make hammers and sell them, you might get a cease and desist from the owner of the hammer patent. If they have a valid patent, then you don't have the legal right to produce hammers for sale without licensing the hammer.

If you build a homemade hammer and don't sell it, nobody's going to know or care or sue.

> It makes some sense to patent the invention of the tool but not the use of the tool in the ordinary ways that it is meant to be used.

Again, ordinary use is not the criteria, and it can't be. The idea is to protect the investment of the inventor. Don't forget that I agree the system is unhealthy. But if I spent a trillion dollars to invent warp drive, the use case is obvious, travel far in a short amount of time. You don't get to steal the solution just because everyone has the problem.

> We shouldn't allow whichever company happens to be the first one to use it on some specific type of data to hold a monopoly on using this important new tool in that fashion for the next 15 years.

I completely agree that the patent in the article is crap-tastic. You shouldn't be able to monopolize things you didn't invent, and you shouldn't be able to monopolize things that are too easy to invent. But if someone truly invents something useful, works hard at it, invests time and money, then - according to the patent system - they should get to monopolize it. That's the point of protecting the inventor.

(*and btw, the problem is the rich people & big companies are the ones with the time & money. I agree with others here that that is bad.)
There are undocumented opcodes that still perform useful operations on the NMOS 6502, for example loading the A and X registers simultaneously, decrementing and comparing memory, along with a variety of more exotic instructions that can replace quite long sequences of equivalent "valid" opcodes. These are NOPs on the 65c02.

I know little about the Apple 2 series, but in quite some C64 software, these operations are used wherever they can save a few cycles. Mostly demos.
Sure except nowhere close to the way they do in India. I remember how surprised a Pakistani journalist was to see Indian women riding two wheelers. I am not refering to mere get a job but also to step out of the house and compete in the open market for all sort of work.
I too have an issue with soft contact lenses not providing great vision due to astigmatism. I tried getting sclerals fitted but had to return them due to the optometrist having trouble fitting them. The vision was crystal clear though -- shame it didn't work out. The downside was that they felt incredibly fragile and were quite expensive at around 1000$ for a pair. I pay about 300$ a year for daily soft lenses so that's quite an increase in price.

I've heard RGPs are painful. Are the hybrids unnoticeable (like sclerals/soft lenses) or is there still an adjustment period?
Right, for me the sensitivity came from moving between monitors.
I had already clarified it in my original comment.
And note a huge chunk of government R&D is defense. HHS/NIH is like $30B a year, which makes the $80B comparison even more compelling.
Blockchain dev here: The only reason I downloaded the Linux wallet was because I saw there was an encrypt feature. Without that feature, I've seen wallets have issues. I'm not one to post comments on HN but the private blockchain approach seems to be a powerful trend in certain industries. Education is twisted and blockchain could change the way students learn. If AcademyCoin helps move edu towards blockchain, I'm interested in helping.
I'm assuming this "membership program" approach mentioned in the whitepaper is to compete with Patreon (just raised $60M). As a user of Pateron, I am comfortable with additional income but I have no idea how this translates into USD. Need more info on how this actually produces monthly sustainable income...
> What often goes unnoticed is that declarative languages are not very future-proof [...] Surely that will not happen to React, you say, because it gets so many things right? Surely that will not happen to React, you say, because it gets so many things right?

It is often not appreciated how simple React really is. Its simplicity is actually well suited to survive a long, long time. Forget classes, lifecycles, schedulers and all this stuff for a moment. If you boil it down what you're left with is but a single signature: `createElement(name, props, chilren)`. That's what JSX transpiles into.

With that you can map pretty much every visual-oriented api on earth and as we can plainly see it goes further than that and starts rendering flat out everything that can be rendered in the same friendly manner we're used to:

shell consoles: https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed

word: https://github.com/nitin42/redocx

pdf: https://github.com/diegomura/react-pdf

samplers: https://twitter.com/GabeRicard/status/911989894267973633

mobile: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/

3d: https://github.com/Izzimach/react-three

windows: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows

macos: https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos

sketchapp: http://airbnb.io/react-sketchapp/

keynote: https://twitter.com/nishb1/status/913744410537537536

VR: https://facebook.github.io/react-vr/

hardware: https://github.com/iamdustan/react-hardware

What's even crazier is that everyday eco-system packages can be applied to the wildest targets. For instance animations via react-motion on shell consoles: https://github.com/gaearon/react-blessed-hot-motion or react-router on VR: https://youtu.be/Mf0Fy8iHp8k?t=12m25s

It's always the simple, almost trivial ideas that seem to survive and spread. React was released 4 years ago and has kept to a stable api. 16 was a rewrite, and it's a drop in replacement.
Correct, the way to deal with thoughts and emotions during mindfulness or meditation is non-judgmental acceptance, not with opposing, denying, fighting.
Lawsuits for everything is not a sane solution.

The USPTO follows the law as closely as they can (and your "rectangle with rounded edges is a design patent, not a utility one").

They have a 2400+ page manual they try to keep up to date with the current law, covering how patent applications are examined.:
https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/index.html

They also accept comments on it here:
https://uspto-mpep.ideascale.com/a/index

People have turned to lawsuits because they are completely and totally ineffective at getting political change.

The faster they get better at that instead of "suing", the better off we'll be.

In the meanwhile, you are quite literally blaming the people who are doing pretty much the best they can. They have very short periods of time to get their work done, etc.

There are certainly some problems here, but your problems are legislative, not executive.
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Not sure those are criteria for visibility, as I definitely see this comment yet it has the same qualities.
The idea that the owner of a business can not set any rules above the bare minimum legally is a little silly. Do you think an expensive restaurant should be able to deny service to a guy who comes in shirtless even though it is completely legal for him to walk around like that? Is that vigilante justice?

Both the legal system and businesses need to draw lines. We can't pretend those lines don't exist or that 100% free speech is some ideal natural state. Once those line are drawn it is only natural for there to be debate about them. I think frequently debating and reassessing those lines is healthy.
> on a general note I feel like everything in US is translating into a money fight. from congress to law to carpool lanes, there seems to be only one goal left that matters in life, money.

It it could be seen as a return to the "gilded age"...
I don't find this particularly compelling without seeing the paper where they discuss the technical details.

They also noticeably fail to link their previous paper while having lots of links to Wikipedia about topics.
Yet child porn is clearly a criminal act. Producing the media material would make you complicit. Kinda like if you went along with bank robbers to rob a bank, video tapped it and never reported it. You would be complicit of covering up the crime. I believe this distinction separates child porn from free speech.

Also, like yelling `fire` in a building is not a speech issue, it is a property rights issue in that you cause damage to the owners of the property.
The main EU rule is that you have to have a minimum 2 year warranty. A number of electronics vendors, famously including Apple, had to up their game as a result of this.

However, that is in addition to various other statutory consumer rights about fitness for purpose and being of appropriate quality, which EU member states might have in their national laws as well. Here in the UK, for example, those obligations can run for many years beyond the initial warranty, and can result in repair, replacement or (full or partial) refund for faulty products depending on the circumstances.

In most cases, it's the vendor who took your money who is on the hook legally for these kinds of responsibilities, though in practice of course manufacturers often offer their own warranties to the final customers and/or make supporting arrangements with vendors selling their products.

Unfortunately at present most of these rules only apply to private individuals, and with business purchases caveat emptor and expensive service contracts are often the norm even if a purchase is being made by a small business with no more real leverage against a vendor or manufacturer than a private individual. When it comes to electronic devices like phones and laptops, this is potentially quite a big stumbling block in terms of forcing up standards of maintainability and promoting a "right to repair" to reduce waste.
I would agree with you if there are people with 'latent schizophrenia' that would never have it become active but for the drug use. But perhaps it's more like someone with a heart defect that dies after some physical exercise -- there was a latent defect that would have revealed itself sooner or later (and schizophrenia is generally diagnosed by one's mid to late 20's). Does the literature have a consensus on which is the case?
Congressman demands to know if DHS will collect his social media history, too
That emphasizes a technical shortcoming of Cloudfare's infrastructure, no?

I ask that in light of two recent HN articles that explain how IPFS works.
Not having baggage can be liberating. That phase is way smaller than most people realize.

One of the worst Chrome bugs was a short sighted attempt to remain compatible with a bad decision by netscape.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/DpOXzA...
i can't fathom the fundamental misunderstanding that leads to thinking like this:

>I also keep the spot price and a copy of global exchange rates from each purchase of my gold so I can back it out to what it’s worth. You know, just in case.

do you think you'll present your certificates to marauders and they'll just say "i guess you're right 1 oz is the fair market value for this water"?

i had a similar argument with someone about gold as a store of value years ago: the value is market determined. no one in the apocalypse is going to care about any price you have a record of because there will be no markets.
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Well if you can't get out of the building and you're losing focus to all that useless stuff lying around in your office... ;)
OLEDs could be turned off almost instantly for standby though.
> That's the kind of world we live in thanks to patents. Is that healthy?

I agree, it's not healthy.

And I agree completely about the resources angle, if I'm alone, I'm SOL. If I'm in a huge company then I can fight. This is definitely the core failing of the patent system that it's biased toward wealth, and being abused by the wealthy.

> My mind is open too: If that's a good thing by you, I'd love to hear the reasoning.

I really appreciate you saying it that way. I don't think it's a good thing, I just appreciate the intent. And I don't think it fails 100% of the time, I think it works sometimes and fails a lot. I think getting rid of software patents has a chance of improving everything, but I'm not 100% certain. There might be unintended consequences. Like, I guess I'd put it this way: it's not very likely that the rich & resourceful will stop winning, no matter what happens, right?
How does voting (on anything) not qualify as speech?
I really dislike sites that prevent me from zooming in on mobile.
Only idiots refer to themselves as "SWIM". Go back to dmt-nexus.

You're not throwing off the DEA or any other law enforcement agency, you just come off as a moron.
In school, we learned about the Yokut tribe who inhabited the central valley floor and foothills from Bakersfield to Merced/Stockton. The map didn't show this tribe, however, looking up the Yokut on Wikipedia revealed that the tribe names are different and the map correctly shows these names. Interesting to get the real info 50 years later.
There are detailed PDFs on Carapella's site, noted at the end of the article: http://www.tribalnationsmaps.com
Catalonia have been a state. According to Wikipedia it was last a state in 1659, Norway was not a independent state between 1537 and 1905 so I don't think the time period are that dissimilar. Spain was also not Democratic until less than 50 years ago.
The 5,000-year history of interest rates
I permanently quit a 15 year cigarette habit after a weekend with Aya.
And I have never wanted to go near a cigarette since (7 years ago).
In Argentina it has been the case that digital alterations of the human figure must be stated for several years, and people still use photoshop and just add a tiny disclaimer below.
Pictures are roughly the same.
Ask HN: What should I learn as a product manager with tech background?
Hi

I've recently switched from being a developer to a product manager, so from the triad of tech, design & business, I have a good background in tech.

Now, I don't know what I don't know. I'm seeking resources (books/blogs/blog posts/...) about the other two domains, which allow me to be an excellent product manager.

While I have a habit of checking Hacker News nearly every day for the last 8 years, what I appreciate the most is a community like Hacker News for product managers.

Thank you very much :)
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Im at the point where I am going to be forced to be outright rude

Our society is at a point where there are large numbers of people who think their feelings trump larger concerns, like those of the workplace, their job, driver/pedestrian safety, and the rule of law. There is a set of ideas that involves executive function, the delay of gratification, the adherence to ideals, and subsuming the petty ego. It's called being an adult.

If you think your feelings trump such concerns, take a good, hard look at yourself. Are you a narcissist? Do you really subscribe to an objective reality in your actions?

If you are hiring people, look for people who are the opposite to the above.
Emotional story. I feel for refugees. Its too bad how economic migrants are giving them a bad reputation.

Remember watching a documentary about two kids being stuck in Greece. Even European streets are not safe for eleven year old boys and girls.
Yea, in simple terms it has a multiplier effect on everything you experience. If feelings go bad, they can go really bad and remain that way afterwards.

But you commented on suicide. I also have a friend who unfortunately passed this way. Do you have any data on this? From what I have seen, studies have been limited.

I had read somewhere on erowid years ago a study where an increase in mental illness and suicide after psychadelic use was positive but less than an increase seen in another study of people who had completed religious quests.
Investment Behavior and the Negative Side of Emotion (2005) [pdf]
Good luck getting RCE in Ocaml.
Likewise, the fact you can't comprehend that people want off when they mean off, is equally disturbing!
I assume Ayahuasca refers to MAOI + DMT instead of merely DMT, but I could be wrong. Although which plants would be used as source? Maybe we should try to avoid the term Ayahuasca altogether; it is vague.
Was it something like exporting PR history to a file and then signing (X.509/PGP)? Thanks for answers, it looks like a nice, lightweight auditable system.