skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think focusing on the right vs. left continuum both detracts from any good that Mozilla desires through their contribution. To be more specific, I think this continuum is actually too restrictive, misleading, and not a sufficiently accurate representation of the political views of individuals and organizations.

In my opinion, the best model that I have seen for discussing politics actually focuses on the expansion or contraction of freedoms across the three dimensions: personal, economic, and political. By focusing on policies, we avoid using labels to describe one another, and evaluate actions based on outcomes (both consequences and outcomes). In this model, more freedom along an axis is not necessarily a good thing if it results in a loss of freedom along another axis e.g. slavery could be described as an economic freedom of one demographic to restrict the personal freedoms of another. Through this lens, Mozilla might be funding a cause that they believe preserves personal freedoms of all individuals against the encroaching economic freedoms of corporations with respect to computer security, privacy, and whatever other choices an individual can make in the growing digital world, which is consistent with my understanding of Mozilla's stated mission.

This model is not of my making; I came across it here: https://www.nationstates.net/page=create_nation , and I find it very surprising that model came from what is essentially an author's conception and implementation of a game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NationStates .
Not many of them! Even the ones that are sincere, often have terrible ideas. Or purely unworkable ideas or no business model.

It makes it hard for legit people like my startup. We're actually using tech for an end case, not building tech on top of tech for tech's sake.
In technology it is VERY common as these exec recruiters are paid handsomely. 100K+ to find the right executive and place him/her at a company. These are not the low level recruiters spamming your inbox.

These people have a network, and know who has been where and for how long. After that 3/4/5 year mark, they start pinging people to let them know of interesting opportunities. That said, you DO want a good recruiter who's well respected.

I'd do your research on who some of the best are, and target them to work with. Perhaps people here can make suggestions?
Wow, so open sourcing is the only way they can be sure to hold onto the software they pay to have made for them...
Signed distance fields and triangle meshes in Oculus Medium
Indirectly, they are. Governments don't let you blow all your profits on assets that are as-good-as-cash, and then claim you didn't make any taxable profits.

So if you make $X in profit and then use it to buy a tractor, then (from the government's perspective), you've just swapped $X for an asset worth $X. No change in book value, no reduction in profit, no reduction in tax liability.

You are, however, allowed to treat the tractor as an expense that's distributed over several years of its useful life, which is called "depreciating" it.

So yes, to the extent that your cash is exchanged for assets, that counts as a higher book value and higher tax liability (than if it were a pure expense). I don't know if you'd have to treat a "data purchase" more like a tractor or more like buying electricity (a pure expense) though.

My previous, longer comment on the constrains of the tax code and how it results in needing the concept of depreciation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15060604#15061439
Am I reading this right? The performace difference seems to be unaccounted for in the data

Performance counter stats for './x86_64-binary 5000000' (5 runs):

6,883,819,114 cycles # 2.090 GHz ( +- 0.43% )
232,004,486 instructions # 0.03 insns per cycle ( +- 0.06% )
56,828,213 branches # 17.257 M/sec ( +- 0.04% )
1,262,892 branch-misses # 2.22% of all branches ( +- 0.05% )

3.299025345 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.43% )

Performance counter stats for './x86_64-vtable 5000000' (5 runs):

7,709,225,443 cycles # 2.087 GHz ( +- 0.95% )
217,283,422 instructions # 0.03 insns per cycle ( +- 0.03% )
51,631,368 branches # 13.976 M/sec ( +- 0.03% )
957,553 branch-misses # 1.85% of all branches ( +- 0.10% )

3.706410106 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.04% )

One would assume with all else being equal that code which ran fewer instructions with fewer branches and a better branch prediction rate would be faster.

Given that is not what we get, can we assume that 'all else was not equal' Where did the cycles get used? Average cost of branch-miss? Cache miss? Loading the pointers from the jump table with rep movsb?
Ironically, I've half convinced this is a problem the "mainstream media" helped create.

I think the endless race to get the news out first, has trained us to expect so much information in the first minutes or hours - and created this problem of what happens when "information" appears before facts do.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and I believe the pressure for instant news is creating one. We really can't act surprised when the vacuum is filled.

It's a tough nut to crack though. I'm not sure I fancy the idea of google & facebook becoming arbiters of facts - but neither do I want to see them doing nothing.
From their about page:

https://riseup.net/en/about-us

>The Riseup Collective is an autonomous body based in Seattle with collective members world wide. Our purpose is to aid in the creation of a free society, a world with freedom from want and freedom of expression, a world without oppression or hierarchy, where power is shared equally. We do this by providing communication and computer resources to allies engaged in struggles against capitalism and other forms of oppression.

x We value, support, and engage in struggles for human liberation, the ethical treatment of animals, and ecological sustainability. We join in the fight for freedom and the self-determination of all oppressed groups. We oppose all forms of prejudice, authoritarianism, and vanguardism.

x We organize on the basis of autonomy, mutual aid, resource sharing, participatory knowledge, social advocacy, anti-oppression work, community creation, and secure communication.

x We work to create revolution and a free society in the here and now by building alternative communication infrastructure designed to oppose and replace the dominant system.

x We promote social ownership and democratic control over information, ideas, technology, and the means of communication.

x We empower organizations and individuals to use technology in struggles for liberation. We work to support each other in overcoming the systemic oppression embedded in the use and development of technology.

They seem like revolutionary socialists.

Also:

https://riseup.net/en/about-us/politics

>Economy — In a free society the means of production should be placed in the hands of the people, empowering communities to organize meaningful employment, and provide a responsible and sustainable standard of living which tries to meet the needs of all people.
Part One is here: https://developer.oculus.com/blog/medium-under-the-hood-part...
Ad-hominin attacks don’t have a place on hn, something you no doubt know because of the throwaway account. Please resist the temptation next time, since now gp is only left with the impression you are rude instead of an opportunity to change someone’s opinion (maybe even yours), and arrive at common understanding.
I had one of our investors write us and say he was really counting on our success to pay some family bills. I told him he should back out, that no investment is a good idea for bills. Much less a startup! Much less an illegally operating startup that depends on cryptocurrency! I'm sure of our model, but damn.
> But seriously, judge a person's comments on the merits of their argument, not who they work for.

Undisclosed conflicts of interest are a huge red flag. Selectively posting critical comments about your competitors is pretty shady. Doing it without disclosure of the bias is very shady.
If they come out in support of an issue, they will also gain support from people on that side of the issue.

Free software goes pretty strongly against market capital as a philosophy.

It goes against the idea that people will pay for things they need/want. It goes against the idea that commerce will spawn progress.

That's fine, and people don't need to be that ideological. But if you want to promote free software, then: basic income, single payer, the 30 hour week, greater research spending, stronger practice of public domain-ing government financed work will all help

And lots of more left-leaning orgs will go along that.
No, browsers don't send the referer header for https links.
Still I was very negatively surprised about the code complexity of the seccomp integration.
See the movie the Zero Theorem for an example of your game.
Have you successfully gotten Google or Facebook or your doctor to purge your records in Switzerland?
Oracle being Oracle. What's new?

And they were especially annoyed with the idea that taxes supported software should be open source. I think it's a great idea, and Oracle should get lost for opposing it. Taxes surely should not be used to support someone who pushes copyrightability of APIs.
It's not about condemning bias, qualifying the rightness/wrongness of comment or "caring about his day job" but about arguments in good faith. Not declaring affiliations or potential conflicts of interests makes people ascribe negative intentions or deceptive motives to you (even when not necessarily the case) if they discover it after the fact.

It doesn't have to be in more formal settings such as in publications by journalists - I also see disclaimers stated by others in HN comments often.
I downvoted this not because I like Oracle, but because this is a terrible way to think. If you're not qualified to determine the value of a statement based on it's contents, either ask someone else more qualified, or start learning.

Evaluating a company to equal good or evil and then judging all statements from them based on that rule leads to a lot of faulty thinking. There are people who have for the last two decades automatically assumed everything Google says is good (false), and everything Microsoft says is bad (also false).

It leads people to fail to recognize that corporations act in self-interest as a whole, as they have one real mission: Profit. It leads people to fail to recognize that corporations are made up of people, who, while influenced by their compensation and bias and culture, do have their own views and opinions. And most importantly, it leads people to fail to recognize that corporations change over time, as their people, culture, and priorities shift.
>>Encryption is not a panacea.

Sure. But it is a good first step, a must really when dealing with sensitive data. Proper encryption at rest, like let's say a 256 bit AES encryption with a symmetric key itself encrypted with a PKI key pair with private key physically stored on a separate physical machine and frequent key rotation procedures in place would go a long way towards protecting the data.

It's not 100% clear exactly what happened at Equifax so it's hard to tell if at-rest encryption would have helped, from what I understand the working theory is that apache struts CVE-2017-5638 was exploited but it's not 100% clear exactly what went on so yes encryption might have not helped in this particular case.
I signed up for a similar government program and ended up leaving after 1 year.

If you want to dedicate yourself to public service, these programs are absolutely amazing. You can get your foot into doors that many other civil servants and contractors cannot.

But that wasn't what I wanted. I wanted to work in Silicon Valley and eventually start my own company. So that's what I did.

Whether this program is right for you depends on how seriously you want to stay in government. If you want to work in the private sector, I suggest you look for private sector opportunities instead of doing any government work.
65 isn't so near EOL, the average life expectancy for a 65 year old woman is 20 years, and 18 for a man[1].

20 years is a long time... everything you do between 15 and 35? The majority of life's accomplishments for most -- you could do that all over again between 65 and 85, now with the capital and experience to do something interesting.

I think computer-assisted medical developments might push that out another 5 years in the next decade or two; so the life expectancy is 25 instead of 20 from age 65.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
Why sell hammers to the government for such a discount?
Not surprised. After all they fired a guy for having political views not matching Mozilla.
Are you familiar with the concept of regulatory capture and how expanding the laws of a government which has been captured destroys competition, creates artificial barriers to market entry, and enables dangerous abuse of power?

Do you really want a guy like Pai to have his powers expanded?

Why won't anyone actually answer any of my questions? Especially if the answers are so obvious.

Try starting an ISP, or go read about how it is nearly impossible to enter the market and compete with the likes of Comcast et all because of regulations. These are companies with ~50% approval ratings, ripe for disruption, and we are stuck with them because of regulations.

The principle of net neutrality makes sense, but I have yet to see anyone attempt to convince me that there isn't some danger to at least consider in this implementation.
Divver, I'm sorry you went through what you did, I really am.

Your experience was nothing like what we are still going through today. I'm sorry. Which is something I don't expect to hear in my lifetime.

You are part of the problem.
The canary is alive
Visualize the correlation between web performance and product KPI
hmm, I thought guacamole has both server and client.

The target machine is Ubuntu 17.10 on Wayland. Not sure if X11VNC will work with that :(
Have you tried it? To me it tastes closer to homemade than the brands that do use eggs.
Thanks for the heads up. It's sketchy enough they don't even offer healthcare until you have worked their 90 days, but knowing they wast applicant's time is a huge benefit.
I didn't name call, saying don't be something isn't remotely the same as saying you are something. If someone tells you don't be a jerk, they're not calling you a jerk, they're warning you you're nearing that point. We're done, good will has exited the building, there's no point in continuing.
Well thanks, i guess we'll have to trust you on this one? Are you suggesting that money was taken from the "moderately" poor?
Life imitates art.
Not only the US. I'd say the western world is way too obsessed about structure and institutions. We forgot why we're here.

I never really paid attention to singapore but I'll surely do now.
Northern district of California is a proper venue based on the civil rules (defendant's HQ almost always is), so the plaintiff files there. After that, it’s randomly assigned to one of the 14 judges, so there was roughly a 0.5% chance of Alsup getting both.
Well done. Your post embodies and expresses how I expected the majority of fellow scientists responded to this news. I don't want to say that's how they/you should respond, but that's how I hoped you'd respond.

To have even played a small part in LIGO must be an awesome feeling of accomplishment and enable a true appreciation for collaboration with genius.

Congratulations on your (tiny) part. The effort that went into the project is mind boggling.
Seriously. Can anyone here explain what value they’re currently adding?
Where I work, our open source stuff is released under fairly liberal licenses because we want it incorporated into other companys' proprietary software. If they adopt our code and our standards that makes it easier for us to interoperate with them. Improvements tend to be upstreamed anyway, regardless of license, because it makes maintenance easier and reduces fragmentation.
Tools might be fine as GPL, but companies don't want to touch strong copyleft with libraries and subcomponents for fear of needing to disclose the proprietary additions. And one of the larger reasons to open source something is to get external involvement and funding in the project. So you don't want to license it in a way that will disincentivize contributions. Copyleft protects you from proprietary forks, but if your building common infrastructure with peer companies across different industries this isn't a concern, instead maximizing involvement is the objective.
Yeah, but most new code (especially frontend javascript, desktop application libraries, mobile application libraries) is 2-clause BSD, ISC (which is formally equivalent to 2BSD), MIT, or Apache 2.0. I guess there are goons going around slapping WTFPL on things, but oh well, doesn't seem to be stopping anyone.

GPL doesn't cause problems unless you're distributing. If you're just compiling and running it as part of your service, it's no biggie. I ran it by legal pretty quickly. I've worked on plenty of projects with GPL stuff in them.
The real problem is that there seemingly isn't a great FOSS alternative for ArcSight. Whatever it does couldn't really be that extraordinary.
Honestly I don't get this.

Microsoft has Minecraft, how could any one pick Altspace over that if Minecraft had its features...
What closed-source db are you using?
"Terrorists win big victory over France" would be the title of an article about an unlikely football match.

"French Parliament Approves Sweeping Counterterrorism Law" would be accurate.
No, he's referring to "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
I don't think President Trump has any particular interest in undoing 18F. It's not a highly visible project by any stretch of the imagination, and if anything enhancing it would help him with his platform.
shrugs

I think we should aspire to be above reading between the lines. When we do so, we tend to see that which we want to see, regardless of the author's intent.
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You can still show the ads and there are a lot of other signals and context to use. Also other than Facebook or google with strong identity, 3rd party data on the open web is next to useless. If you’re paying $40cpm for data, you’re getting ripped off.
Remember the old 'finger' protocol?
wow yahoo is such a piece of trash now
> there is no reason why a Singapore system could not be done here.

I'm not saying it's impossible for the US to have a better healthcare system, I'm saying that looking at what Singapour has and then concluding that people in the states lack empathy is not only unfair, but also lacking in perspective.

> The United States is 50 small countries in one big country

Not only are each of the states bigger than Singapour, but they're different to each other and at the same time they're not completely independent of each other.

> The age of and diversity of a country have nothing to do with its healthcare system.

A system that has been in place for a longer period of time, tends to become larger, more complex and harder to change. Moreover, a society that is more heterogeneous will have a harder time agreeing on an issue. Also in a democratic country, the larger the population, the more people you'll have to convince in order to change the status quo.
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>> If your premise is correct

There is no if, my premise is a fact

>open source projects have become dominated by tools, libraries, etc that support a proprietary end product,

One look at Github proves this to be fact

> it would make more sense to me that most of those tools would be released under the GNU GPL so that the original author can incorporate it into their own proprietary software

No infact it would not, because if they accept code contributions those would be GPL with a copyright attached to the 3rd party developer, and if they then incorporated those into their closed code base they would be in violation of GPL and the 3rd party dev could sue them, This has happened many times

Some organization attempt to get around this is CLA's but CLA's are universally frowned upon and completely kill contribution from 3rd parties as such most Open Source projects that operate with CLA's end up having very few contributors that are not being paid directly by the primary company behind the project.
More entertaining idea: instead of agreeing to work e.g. 40 hours a week you could instead propose to sell them 100 labour sharing units in exchange for cash + profit sharing units, whereby each labour sharing unit entitled the company to some fraction of your annual labour output.

You would need a compelling and charismatic argument to distract from the fact that you don't disclose information that allows the value of a labour unit to be estimated.
No, socialism is not a good thing; but it doesn't apply to software licenses anyway because there is effectively no natural scarcity in software distribution.
That’s called a springing power of attorney. I don’t remember the specifics but my estate attorney warned against doing that.
The attitude that Mozilla espouses (and they're not alone in it) is what's kept me from donating to them -- either in time/code or money.

I don't want my activism on one set of issues co-opted to bolster other people's activism on completely unrelated topics.

Mozilla insists on doing that; I won't be part of it. (And I encourage others to avoid that kind of extremist partisanship.)
There are economic reasons why size matters. For example, Singapore is small enough that you can get to any hospital from anywhere. In many areas of the US, there are fewer accessible healthcare providers. (For example, less dense regions, or urban areas in which all the competing hospitals have merged.) Perhaps this doesn't matter if you want to set broad price controls or nationalize the entire industry. But under Obamacare, it has made insurers' lives more difficult.
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I suspect that forcing the war in Syria to smoulder for years rather than burn out in months will be regarded by history as a larger blunder for US foreign policy than Iraq is.
How did you associate the results of ad campaign funnels with sign ups?
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"Mozilla" isn't a man in a room smoking a cigar, it's a building full of relatively young and well-educated people, in San Francisco.

If a leader does anything to lose a consensus of respect from their workers (and ultimately authority over them) the long term productivity of the organization is imperiled. Firing everyone except the leader isn't going to be a good option.

Politics is a contentious issue, no matter how much people wish it wasn't. Involvement in it makes you polarizing, whether you like it or not.

Do I believe in marriage equality? Absolutely, yes.

Am I personally outraged that Eich donated that money? Not at all.

Is it reasonable for him to expect to maintain authority and influence over a building full of relatively young and well-educated people, in San Francisco, after publicly (though perhaps inadvertently so) working against marriage equality? Of course not. Morals aside, it's a low probability outcome.