skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can publicly call out a copy, but you won’t come out of it looking good...These disputes are best kept private, or not fought at all

Interesting take, considering how Marco has called out both Pocket (formerly Read It Later) and Readability as having copied features that he claims to have created first.

"Weiner systematically copied almost every major Instapaper feature over the first few years of Instapaper’s existence", from https://marco.org/2013/02/21/the-first-read-later-service

and

"Over the next few months, they continued adding mostly Instapaper-like features to their service.", from https://marco.org/2011/11/16/readability

Perhaps his recent comments reflect how well his prior callouts were received?

EDIT: curious to know why this was downvoted. It wasn't meant as a dig at all—I was pointing out that Marco has experience with callouts and might have relevant expertise that many people lack. I would personally be very interested to hear his experience went dealing with those issues.
Response to “Was There Ever a Sugar Conspiracy?”
Those numbers are even more impressive given that 2 years ago they had $600m in revenues with a net loss of $300m
NRA gives Ajit Pai “courage award” and gun for “saving the Internet”
I can't say much about thinkpads as the last one I owned I ran linux/bds on but it was in 1999.

If you want to go $200 or less in some cases get a cheap chrome book that allows you upgrade the SSD size. Then you can create a dual boot with your version of linux.
You're right, California, Nevada and Arizona, I visited the west coast.
I think it's that any experience is a combination of the senses and that most importantly of all thought is a sense.

A sense is anything that happen involuntarily. Gathering data from the environment.

Food is mostly nose/tongue senses but also very visual. The tongue also has touch. However stories also implant thoughts and is perhaps the most advanced form of making food taste good as eventually all non-thought sense BECOME thought.

Stories however are limited because they create thought only in the form of whatever language is used, say English. It is also the method of gauging quality. "That was great".

The highly personal experience must snap to pre-existing words. Subtlety and thus more exact and truer meaning requires combinations of different words. Say a poem.

Food itself falls prey to the consumerism feedback loop that creates experiences that try to titillate the senses more and more in an absolute way rather than through subtlety. Spicier and spicier food is an example. As is more and more violent TV.

There's nothing wrong with this persay. It's just that the hedonistic treadmill ratchets upwards and eventually you run out of stuff and end up so numbed to subtlety that the small but beautiful things are difficult to appreciate because you've dampened your resolution capabilities.

High-food has the same problem as high-art. It takes too much discipline to appreciate and no one has the time. We're all too busy trying to one up the world.
The Great Tab Mistake (2011)
Scalia’s dissent was more nuanced and not all that favorable to net neutrality advocates. He said that the connection of the home to the network was a telecommunications service, over which an information service is provided. The routing and interconnection decisions, optimizations, and prioritizations made within the ISP could very plausibly have fallen under the information service aspect. Here are some excerpts suggesting just that:

>Since the delivery service provided by cable (the broad-band connection between the customer’s computer and the cable company’s computer-processing facilities) is downstream from the computer-processing facilities, there is no question that it merely serves as a conduit for the information services that have already been “assembled” by the cable company in its capacity as ISP. This is relevant because of the statutory distinction between an “information service” and “telecommunications.” The former involves the capability of getting, processing, and manipulating information. §153(20). The latter, by contrast, involves no “change in the form or content of the information as sent and received.” §153(43). When cable-company-assembled information enters the cable for delivery to the subscriber, the information service is already complete. The information has been (as the statute requires) generated, acquired, stored, transformed, processed, retrieved, utilized, or made available. All that remains is for the information in its final, unaltered form, to be delivered (via telecommunications) to the subscriber.

This reveals the insubstantiality of the fear invoked by both the Commission and the Court: the fear of what will happen to ISPs that do not provide the physical pathway to Internet access, yet still use telecommunications to acquire the pieces necessary to assemble the information that they pass back to their customers. According to this reductio, ante, at 22–24, if cable-modem-service providers are deemed to provide “telecommunications service,” then so must all ISPs because they all “use” telecommunications in providing Internet functionality (by connecting to other parts of the Internet, including Internet backbone providers, for example).

[...]

Second, it is apparently possible to sell a telecommunications service separately from, although in conjunction with, ISP-like services; that is precisely what happens in the DSL context, and the Commission does not contest that it could be done in the context of cable. The only impediment appears to be the Commission’s failure to require from cable companies the unbundling that it required of facilities-based providers under its Computer Inquiry.
Their infrastructure commitments are ridiculously high.

"In its disclosure, Snap has said that it is contractually obligated to “spend $2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years and have built our software and computer systems to use computing, storage capabilities, bandwidth, and other services provided by Google.” Of the current losses at Snap, more than 80 percent of those funds go straight into Google’s pockets."

https://www.recode.net/2017/2/7/14526832/snap-ipo-snapchat-s...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/02/22/could-snapchat...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/09/snap-cloud-bill-aws-google-c...

EDIT: @dfee How that revenue is recognized is usually based on when the services are delivered, but I am not an accountant.
Might have tied it via your phone number.
Good automation solution?
Anyone has any advice on good work automation solution where I could automate routine work that is done online. I need something more advanced than available API solutions like Zapier
More information and example output here: http://www.mikekohn.net/micro/java_grinder.php

Note that it's just a subset of the bytecode spec (no GC, objects, virtual methods) but might be a nice way to get up to speed on a CPU architecture. I used the SDCC C compiler similarly to learn Z80.
It's not necessarily odd - obesity rates are high, but not so high that a healthy weight is exceptional. Being generally muscular or trim isn't a negative, and probably isn't going to get anyone dismissed as a fitness nut.

That said, an average to low-normal BMI can certainly get comments. I'm smack in the middle of the healthy BMI range, and not exceptionally muscular or anything else that would distort that. Living in and visiting friends in flyover country I get comments like "you're too skinny", "you need to eat more", and so on. No one is particularly judging me, there's just a shifted sense of average where BMI ~21 feels like the low end of the range.

(And of course they're not exactly wrong; eating Midwestern food and living in a driving-centric suburb had the predictable effect on my weight, so on some level thinner people there are behaving unusually.)
Poor wording. The idea that autism-related variants convey intelligence is speculative.
Similar experience, dream. Started playing with XLisp in late 1986. Common Lisp in 1989 to 1993. Loved it. Was greatly influenced by it. But never used it commercially.

Now I dabble with Clojure on the side.
Visio was a separate product by a separate company until well after Office was established. Then MS bought it and (sorta) integrated it into the Office suite. I'm betting that Visio is still very different under the hood compared to the rest of Office.
any link for this? I am planning to renew my plan.
They could also call out the flip side though, right? Dropbox could negotiate deals with the ISPs to "box out" smaller competitors. Maybe it costs them upfront but it also solidifies them in the market.
I tried Google drive for about a year several years ago. It never actually backed up all my files, it would always crash before it finished syncing. I tried for quite a while (many dozens of times over months) and finally gave up and bought Dropbox. Dropbox just worked a heck of a lot better. Maybe this has changed, but why change back if it just works and it isn't expensive?
How much of that is applicable in this case?

He knew enough to attach the file to an e-mail and send it to someone else asking for a PDF version. So the only piece of missing knowledge here appears to be finding the option in word's menus.
would like to see more evidence and proof those numbers are credible...
As a concrete example of the second point: if your program basically does:

for(;;)
do_shortlived_task();

Then even if do_shortlived_task() has a complicated memory allocation pattern, you can get away by just throwing away the entire heap after each iteration.
Playing GTA too much? ;-)
As someone who uses a Yubikey for physical 2FA, I happily use it for things like my email and Github but then I just click trust the device for X days because, yeah, it can be a pain every time.

I'm moving to KeepassXC currently and if you use a Yubikey challenge, you (by default) have to press it anytime you save or update a record which is a big pain. I think you can change it but I worry it might crash (I'm running unstable for the browser extension) or I might forget to save
But it also means transfer of more equity from founders to investors, as investment terms these days typically include equity transfers if an IPO falls short of private valuations
Let me twist an analogy.

I don't care if law enforcement is more expensive than just absorbing the cost of crimes. I want the rule of law enforced, even if it's more expensive.
OTOH, I was pretty sure I wouldn't get to see the 10K problem, even less the 10M problem, and I intend to keep it that way.
"In 2017 Wonderful needed about 76,000 honeybee colonies to pollinate its almonds (at two colonies per acre). But that number will diminish by 320 this spring because Wardell will put 128,000 female BOBs into the orchards—the largest deployment ever."

So 128000 BOBs equals the pollinating effectiveness of 320 honeybees? That's a 400:1 honeybee/BOB ratio. Or perhaps they're just using really high margins because it's so experimental.
Interestingly enough, many documents have been recovered from Pompeii.

Quick history refresher: Pompeii was an ancient Roman city-town near Naples. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79, Pompeii was covered in ~15 feet of lava and volcanic ash. One imagines that this was highly distressing to the residents of Pompeii, but none were available for comment as they were all busy being incinerated. I guess we'll never know how they really felt about it.

Then sometime in the 1900s a group of workers were excavating the area for a new project. They had been burning these odd little bits of coal they'd found. Imagine the horror when someone realized the "coal" was actually old manuscripts that had crumpled up into little balls of carbon due to the volcanic eruption. The workers had been burning priceless ancient Roman artifacts!

Researchers were able to mechanically separate some of the manuscripts, and with the aid of modern computer vision systems, we've been able to read some of them. It's quite an amazing story.

So I guess you probably want to spend the extra $20 and spring for the really good incinerator on Amazon. You don't want future historians literally digging through your incriminating financial documents.
Along the same lines, FTA: "An antivirus product can collect a lot of useful information from the user machine—telemetry data; beyond what Facebook gets through their website—and share it with Facebook. Facebook should make their agreements with antivirus partners public."
California Millennials–if we want to live here, we need to Stand Up
So many problems are caused by the paradox of the human predator. Tools to protect against the human predator are always eventually used as a tool OF the human predator.

Day 1: you create a regulation to stop some company from forcing employees to put their hands in a running wood chipper. Hurray, one predatory person has been stopped.

Day 2: A predator by hook and crook lobbies for a regulation to give them a competitive advantage.

Day 50: We've got 50 sincerely conceived regulations and 50 predatory regulations. Regulatory work has accelerated as the state has gotten better at it. Quite a few of the sincerely created regulations are meant to mitigate problems caused by the predatory ones! A call is sounded for deregulation.

Day 51: 35 regulations are thrown out based on lobbyist pressure and "grass root" campaigns.

Day 52: A company sends out a memo: "Due to the extra maintenance costs of hard stopping our wood chipper, we ask you now always leave it running. If it stalls on something the policy remains unchanged otherwise: pull it out."

It's an eternal arms race and I think the predators win almost always. We can't recognize or disarm them as faster than they can use our own methods and tools against us. As far as I can tell, oppose consolidation of power and work to never surrender leverage over yourself.
Dropbox's numbers are in their S1 filing and Box's in their financials already linked. Are you questioning the legitimacy of these filings?
In my experience, HN has been a bad place to solicit for users. The majority of users from HN will likely be "tire kickers." Sure, your traffic may spike, but that'll be about it. I also know I'm not the only person with this opinion, though I'm sure there are exceptions.

I would focus on your real market, not showing off to developers hoping they'll become your customers.
Can you explain a bit further how do you see that working? I use CM because I want to control the app; I want to tell it where it should store its logs (so I can process them), where it should store its data (so I can back it up), which ports it should use (so I can point my reverse proxy at it), etc.

If the app just asks for stuff, where would the management part come it? And why have a CM at all? Granting resources is what the OS itself does; the application can just call tmpfile().
ah, thanks (that should probably be in the documentation somewhere)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2016/

Better?

"Mozilla’s consolidated reported revenue (Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Corporation and all subsidiaries) for CY 2016 was $520M (US), as compared to $421M in 2015."
No, the fiduciary duty is not that prescriptive. The courts aren’t going to second-guess whether a corporation is taking the profit-maximizing action at all times.
Network Topology Unraveled
The only shareholder the Mozilla Corporation has is the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.

The Foundation does not have shareholders. It does have a board that it presumably needs to justify their actions to. Those actions presumably need to align with https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ and https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ better than other uses of the same money to be justified.

So the real question is whether there is something that Mozilla be doing to achieve the goals those two documents described that would be a better investment of money and that it's not already doing. Do you know of something offhand?

[Disclaimer: I work for the Mozilla Corporation, on Firefox, and was not involved in the decision to file this lawsuit in any way.]
We decided to keep the casing, as it is useful for some applications such as named entity recognition.

Regarding the punctuation, as pointed out in another comment, these tokens might also be useful for some applications (and they are easy to filter out if you don't need them).
Malthus was wrong: access to birth control correlates with wealth
‘Fishing Continued’ After East China Sea Oil Spill
Can we use one pixel attack to train network? We would generate adversarial examples to train network.

Having ability to create Training Set that maximizes learning factor for NN sounds amazing but I think we would run to other adversarial examples.
Reconsidering the Diversity Rationale (2005)
Are you being downvoted only because you mentioned Peterson? What you are writing here, and attributing to Peterson, was first described in depth by Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning[0]. In that book he describes how prisoners in Nazi concentration camps who didn't find meaning to their suffering would quickly die by illness or suicide while those that ascribed meaning to their suffering (such as staying alive to take care of someone or to reunite with their wives in another camp) would survive. He synthesized these lessons into Logotherapy. I highly recommend that book.

[0] https://archive.org/details/MansSearchForMeaning-English
Maybe it was just me, but I got the sense the target audience of his piece was individual or small teams. Hence, "even if you get one ($20,000+ later), you can’t afford to use it against any adversary big enough to matter."

These comments citing Apple and Google with their effective use of patents as some sort of counter argument seem to have missed the mark. Those guys are certainly able to afford $20k, and they can certainly afford to take on any adversary big enough to matter.
I don't think anyone really disagrees with your assessment. But you seem to be implying a solution of the form 'well then stop doing that' which typically doesn't go anywhere.

Which option do you think is more likely to happen politically?

A: Convince/coerce a huge population of people to change their growing habits against their own personal interests. A system that by construction rewards cheaters and would be extremely expensive to enforce.

B: Fund a concentrated series of research teams to help produce bees that can thrive in the current environment.
Why can't people be bad at their jobs?

I'm having trouble buying any other explanation than, "This absurdly overcomplicated workflow introduced by conventional office software not designed to cover its tracks didn't cover its own tracks" as plausible.
Making and selling shovels seems to be still the best way to go then.
I think Dropbox is a dying company, I don't know anyone that uses it in my circles except old people now, very similar to Facebook.
Well that's easy: They guarantee they will store and use all the data forever, and they guarantee they will lie to both you and the authorities about what they have used it for and whether it has been deleted.
https://www.google.co.in/search?q=meaning+of+car+and+cdr+in+...

--->

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_and_CDR
I'm really excited about all this! No more GOPATH, no need for vendor directories; I think this is a positive step forward for Go, and package management in general. I'm also interested in seeing if there's any wider adoption of these ideas in the larger package management ecosphere.

One thing I've been mulling is whether this setup makes more sense in compiled languages than it would with dynamic languages. In the latter, your code base is your executable, so there may not be much difference between this and having a traditional vendor directory.

Of course, using semantic import versioning is something that can stand alone.
SNAP's infrastructure story in the S-1 filing was a mess. They had 2016 revenue of $404M with a cost of revenue of $451M. A 5 year, $2 billion dollar vendor lock-in to Google. They basically admitted that Google has them completely by the balls and it costs them $3 per user per year to keep the servers on. Both of these independently are very very bad, together it's a disaster.

Facebook was at $1/user/year in their S-1, Twitter was < $1.

From the SNAP S-1:

"We rely on Google Cloud for the vast majority of our computing, storage, bandwidth, and other services. Any disruption of or interference with our use of the Google Cloud operation would negatively affect our operations and seriously harm our business."

"We have committed to spend $2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years and have built our software and computer systems to use computing, storage capabilities, bandwidth, and other services provided by Google, some of which do not have an alternative in the market."
You can add an Alert on Slickdeals to notify you. There was one last week for $70/year [0], but it's no longer active.

[0] https://slickdeals.net/f/11225815-dropbox-annual-subscriptio...
> Dropbox could negotiate deals with the ISPs to "box out" smaller competitors. Maybe it costs them upfront but it also solidifies them in the market.

Yes, if you're a short sighted MBA that wants to encourage your own extortion
Schneider did not explain how eliminating net neutrality rules preserved anyone's "free speech rights."

I’m just having visions of every facepalm ascii, pic and gif I’ve ever seen.
If the FBI watches you for 500 days, they will either find something to charge you with, or they will entrap you into doing something they can charge you with, because their budget does not include as much money for "pointless investigations of innocent people" as it does for "nailing guilty-looking people to the wall, and making the agency look good in the press".
+1, I think it’s sad to have to consider this, but business/capitalism is more of a chess game, especially if the shareholders perspective is the driving decision force.
The same move could also be considered defensive, like Netflix, which was essentially forced to do that.
It's literally the ONLY way to defend against copies and clones. At least, if you're dealing with lots of money and big ideas.

Marco is coming at from the perspective that everyone is a nerd, reads hacker news and knows the difference between "free beer" and whatever the other one is.

Most, nay, all software companies get shit patented. It's the difference between having a legal document protecting your ideas and, well, not.
click your distribution (I assume Ubuntu?) here to reveal the way to install it http://cockpit-project.org/running.html.

if you are running Ubuntu seems to require backports for anything below 17.04 though.
I suspect this is less about difficulty and more about markets. Simply put, my guess is that there is a decent reliance on google services which are banned in China.
In a war the group that profits the most is arms dealers.
Imagine the sales commission on that one. “Here’s a $10B - Closed Won”.

When talking about deals that are the enterprise valuations of Fortune 500 companies, do you value the sale as if it were an acquisition? Or, some other way?
Cats, Dogs, and a Roomba 960
I love you guys. You’re fast and efficient, responsive and polite.

Champions.
If you don't control the network, though, it remains a risk. Whoever you partner with can renegotiate the terms later or back out of a contract depending on the exit terms (may cost them, but may be worth it for what they can get from Google).

This is the problem of the tenant, the renter. The landlord can change the terms and eat into your profits. At some point it's not worth dealing with them, but it's not always easy to leave.
> the USPS photographs of all pieces of mail and digitizes it

Thanks, I had no idea.

While doing some genealogy recently I found that a distant ancestor had unclaimed mail in the post office shortly before he died.

I found it vaguely amusing to envision walking in and asking for it now, 125 years later; I guess some distant descendant of mine might be able to ask for a photo of mail I'd sent or received.
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