skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does, in fact, refute the "rips off" claim.

Section 5:
a) The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date.

And a (summary) reading of the license has no mention that retaining branding is required for "Conveying Modified Source Versions" and is probably a copyright violation if they did it.

The only thing I really see they did "wrong" is pulling commits without retaining the original committers ID and I'm not even sure that's even against the AGPL since that information would be lost if they distributed the sources as a tarball (which is perfectly fine).
> Couldn't we simply agree not to execute un-audited code from unknown third parties?

The ability of humans to abide by such a restriction is highly doubtful. Destroying the message would be much safer.
You live in a world where the permanent scare tactics utilized to sustain the Cold War (which were originally developed during WW2) have now been moved over to the forever-nebulous "War on Terror". The enemies can be endlessly expanded now.

You have no other baseline to even compare against. You'll be chasing war propaganda boogeyman for the rest of your life and you won't even consider the fact that you are doing it WHILE you do it.

Nazis weren't the only ones using concentration camps. The people who ACTUALLY paid the real blood and treasure cost to defeat Nazi Germany (Soviet Russia) utilized such camps as well. This throws your juvenile mythology of "Good vs. Evil" obsession out the window since anything Nazi is automatically ultra-evil, ergo, anyone fighting it is ultra-good. Soviet Russia even expelled Jews.

Wait... lemme guess... the actual people who actually killed and enslaved actual Nazis are evil now, too... right? Funny how the enemy list just magically grows longer by the second with nothing more than a hand wave.

You obsess over moral games. That's what you've been indoctrinated to do. And you don't even see it. According to this idiotic game, everyone who isn't you will eventually be designated as a Nazi or an indirect supporter of one.

Only when you are labeled as a Nazi for someone elses expediency will you realize the flaw in your approach. But I'm sure you think that's not possible. You're a good citizen, right?

Lemme know when someone deepfakes your face into a "Nazi" rally and sends the video to your professional circle. That's how easy it is to take your moral preening and twist it against you.
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Device manufacturers would be forced to install "obscenity filters" on cell phones, tablets, computers, and any other Internet-connected devices.

I vaguely remember reading about a similar effort in China many years ago --- that failed silently.

Trying to tie this into "human trafficking" is a cruel diversion, just like pornography, terrorism, and drugs.

"Let's make the world safer" seems to be the common thread in all of these anti-freedom bills, with the implicit intent of branding those who are against them as supporters of human traffickers, pedophilia, terrorism, or whatever else.

There are two memorable quotes which will become very relevant in the near future:

"If you outlaw freedom, only outlaws will have freedom."

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
I suppose one option is to stick a computer, not networked, on a small spacecraft along with a single astronaut and pop them into LEO. Run the code, and have the astronaut tell us what it says or does. If something goes wrong, the whole thing deorbits. If we’re really paranoid we could send it well past LEO.

Edit: If we were incredibly paranoid and had some self-sacrificing astronauts it could be a one-way trip to Mercury.
Sounds like KLM: https://www.klm.com/travel/us_en/prepare_for_travel/on_board...

This is on a strictly opt-in basis. I guess it's an interesting alternative to Tinder if you're going to be stuck on a plane. (Disclaimer: I've never tried it myself)
> So, why would anyone participate in this program, if the best possible outcome is that Amazon uses your idea, makes millions, and does not pay you a cent?

That is not the way it works. You will be paid money if Amazon decides to produce your script. Nobody is getting ripped off.

Amazon Studios has been doing this for 7+ years. I'm not sure why it's being posted to Hacker News today, since there's nothing new about it. But it's all above aboard.
>> The children in the study—forty-four boys, four girls, all diagnosed with
ADHD—were given varying doses of medication and behavioral therapy, and
researchers monitored their episodes of "noncompliance" each day.

When I read about studies like that I like to imagine two scientists in lab
coats, one with a clipboard, the other with a complicated piece of equipment,
looking at a kid throwing a wild tantrum:

- Dr Smith, what does the Noncompliance-o-scope say?

- It's off the charts, Dr Brown. Off. The. Charts.

Except -alas- there's no such machine that can tell you how much, or when, a
child is non-complying so I have never any idea what those studies are
supposed to be, you know, actually measuring.
> When you invest in a San Francisco start-up, “you’re basically paying landlords, Twilio, and Amazon Web Services,” said Ms. Bannister of Founders Fund, referring to the companies that provide start-ups with messaging services and data hosting.

There must be a few other companies missing from this list..
No one really wants to antagonize the court system of another country for ever, so this gives the German courts some teeth. In this case Project Gutenberg is saying they are complying because they want an appeal and that the courts would look unfavourably on them if they just ignored the original order.
I'm a indie filmmaker and would love to receive movie scripts from people. Why submit to Amazon when you can submit to me or other indie filmmakers? Very small companies do not have the disadvantages regarding your rights that large studios have, and there is a greater chance of your script being turned into a film. Our budgets are often larger than you would guess, and it is common for angel investors to provide a sufficient budget for passionate filmmakers.
You can use a transpiler like babel if you want to run async await etc on platforms that don't support them yet
I came up with an idea as a fantasy world-building exercise which included a confusing book of spells, which if someone where clever enough to decode the central theme of the book, they would have performed the mental gymnastics necessary to cast a spell which would erase every possible future in which they did not become a supreme evil.

But here the basic premise is that merely thinking the right thoughts can physically change reality. Which is 'sort-of' true for real brains, but there's an important layer of indirection that makes it not work the way I spelled out above.
You know, I am a pretty staunch supporter of minimalistic restrictions on corporate behavior, putting faith instead in markets. But this seems like the kind of problem I'd consider looking to solve through legislation.

Although I should say, not without hesitation, given the extreme discrepancy between rates of change in tech and law. I would hate to see seemingly well meaning legislation passed for something like this and then turned against us by our friends at the NSA, for example.
What is the claim you are trying to make? I don't see any sarcastic "/s" present so I assume you are being serious.

Are you saying that there are none to little genetic/biological differences between different races?
To avoid the risk of this entirely predictable meta-discussion regarding a headline format, that has little to do with the readability of Medium, but was probably chosen to try and increase clickthrough rates?
Is this what it's supposed to feel like? (2013)
> Algorithms don't suddenly get less complex even if you're super smart

The question isn't complexity per se but speed. Suppose there were an AI that had the same general capacity for handling cognitive complexity as humans, but that ran at computer speeds--i.e., the time it takes the AI to have a single conscious thought or perception, which is roughly 100 milliseconds for humans, is, say, 1 nanosecond. That means the AI can think ten million thoughts in the time it takes us to think one. So it could potentially think through problems ten million times as fast as we do. It could make the same intellectual progress in one day that a human could make in ten million days, which is roughly thirty thousand years.
"I've struggled with their search at times."

While you personally may already know this, and this doesn't solve all problems; be sure to look for and read the tiny little mostly-greyed-out link to the search syntax for Slack: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202528808-Search-in... , in particular the "Use search modifiers" section. Slack defaults to a nearly-useless search if you don't feed it things like a channel limitation or something.
Somehow I feel like NYTimes writers have mastered the art of "it-almost-sounds-sincere-but-nothing-like-skewering-with-an-undercurrent-of-sarcasm". The whole recounting of the "trappings of hipsterdom", the mentions of the vegan donuts and coal-infused kombucha, the portraying of VCs on a "safari". Granted, not so sure if the target is the hipster-posh VCs or the local yokels, but for this article I could appreciate a more straightforward style.
And someone else wrote an APL interpreter in Lua:

https://github.com/dlaurie/lua-apl
Alternative theory: journalists are lazy, and if a story gets a decent response in one outlet, they all crap out a similar story until they reach a point of diminishing returns.

As a bonus my theory doesn’t require tinfoil.
China already does this, and it works to a large extent. If you want to do it in a free society it's not too hard...

1. Enforce OSHA workplace safety law on all u.s. porn sets.
2. Enforce international trade rules against labor safety arbitrage, and or create new ones.
3. Enforce copyright law against tube sites that have made a mockery of d.m.c.a
4. Unionize all porn workers

Of course this will never happen... Porn is a symptom of the underlying I'll of our society.. where the accumulation of wealth and power are the only denominators of worth or virtue, then things like OSHA, labor rights, copyright law for small producers, and unions, are all seen as enemies of ,if not progress then the system itself.

If the u.s. loses a war to China because China infiltrated our computers with free porn, while they had mass censorship which prevented it, then American capitalism will have lost the Mandate of Heaven.

In other words... If porn destroys society, it might be a natural feedback loop, a self correcting mechanism whereby unrestrained , brutal greed is kept in check, by the society that glorifies it the most , collapsing in on itself.

I did not think of this myself. A young porn star aka victim made a documentary a few year back, about the disgraced CMU professor who began the true mass industrialization of porn. She called it "McDonald's for sex" or something like that. The point is that you can't apply Harvard business school brutalistic to every human process and expect a positive result.
Thanks for the info. Will remove my comment.
I completely disagree. Refueling is incredibly expensive and time consuming, and the frequency of doing so directly results from how carefully fuel is conserved throughout core life.
The equiv command in Microsoft Windows is "assoc". You can run it with no args to see what programs are associated with what extensions in Windows. I mention this because of a security concern.

i.e.

assoc

assoc .vbs=txtfile
assoc .mp4=WMP11.AssocFile.MP4

Perhaps it may be worth considering security practices for BINFMT_MISC before people find any sub-optimal defaults. In the past, clever people would exploit some of the default associations that applications would insert on Windows desktops. At some point, desktop file exploring apps may decide to hide "known extensions. The desktop will also leverage this association.
Am a guest to a wedding using withjoy.com. It's been nice from the guest side of the fence...
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Funny. If your site drops dramatically on Google's search results, or if YouTube/Facebook bans your account for reasons, tough luck. They are a corporation and can do whatever they want without resorting to any sort of internal consistency.

But heaven forbid governments hold a dominant corporation accountable in the public interest.
If you don't pay for it, you are the product. If you pay for it, you may still be productized. Odd that an EULA actually binds both parties, but somehow unequally? I don't think so!
Surely this just isn't even practical, even if it does pass... if the filter has to be installed on the end user device it will be widely known how to bypass it. Why do people even write these rediculous things (the bills in question).
Great point, I don't use these nearly enough. Thanks!
>Isn't it? I don't use Uber because it's cheaper I use it because I can have them come straight to my front door hailed from an app leveraging gps with continuous updates to their progress then have my destination programed into the driver's gps ultimately paying automatically with no hassle of cash or fighting over credit cards.

This is why I use uber the twice a month I need to get home from a bar or am otherwise unable to drive. And yeah, for twice-a-month rides, I'd be happy to pay full taxi rates; more, really.

The thing is, because uber is so cheap, I've gotten rid of my car and I just use uber all the time. If uber raised their prices, I'd buy a car. Sure, I'd still use them twice a month, sure, but I use them twice a day right now.

The upshot here is that about 1/30th of my uber rides are because the uber system provides a better experience than existing taxis in my area. 29/30ths of my uber rides are because they are so cheap and convenient that I pay only a small premium over owning a car to have someone else drive me all the time.

If uber raises their prices? I'll just go buy myself a Honda. Uber will keep 1/30th or so of my existing business; 29/30ths of the business they get from me will evaporate after they cross that line where I go buy that Honda.
SV relies on dense loci of talent in order to function, Chicago is really the only city that has this. The melting pot of ideas, poaching, engineering etc is a huge reason for its success.

While I understand SV is looking increasingly unattractive for cheap big bets, I don't think this will play out like these firms expect.

It's not about the money, it's about the culture that SV cultivated. And while parts of it are toxic, other parts of it are enormously successful and notoriously hard to replicate.

It also doesn't help that every state in the midwest has been slashing educational budgets and in some states has enacted almost a war on education. I think the attitude of "SV toxic culture" is ironic, after having grown up in the midwest and seen horrible racism, anti-intellecutalism, anti-free speech measures, and all others kinds of issues.
Clearly having a language that makes it easy to implement common solutions to problems is a good thing. I don't think this means we should stop studying those solutions though. To take a notorious example, visitor pattern is just a work around for the lack of multiple dispatch. However, I do not have enough fingers to count the number of times I've had to explain the benefits of multiple dispatch to people. And perversely I can say the same about the number of times I've heard people conflate multiple dispatch with functional programming! The truth is that sometimes I have an extensible group of types with relatively static operations, and sometimes I have a relatively static group of types with extensible operations. The techniques I employ to write generic code in both cases is different. Another great example is the reactor pattern (a la Douglas Schmidt), which many people view as being the cost of using Node, rather than being a very useful technique for controlling real time processing.
This is a joke, right? If not its an attempt to minimize health care expenses.

My employer is usually the cause of my health issues (long hours, stress).
I'll charge my friends <$20 to install a custom rom/firmware. More $$$$$ for me.
s/surprised/angry/

People act like you're denigrating their entire way of life if you won't sell your house and move to the bay in return for their uninspiring below-market salary and the chance to "disrupt" something. They get especially upset when I say that the cost of living differential would need to be 50%+ of total comp, plus around $30k in moving expenses.
I oftentimes reach for my 'call the regulator' button when I read these articles.

And what regulator is that? Does Dubai even have a "regulator" overseeing stuff like this?

Emirates is wholly owned by the government of Dubai. So basically you would be complaining about one Dubai government agency to another Dubai government agency.

Perhaps you could complain about this to some US or EU regulator? Would they care enough to get involved?
> The trip, which took place on a luxury bus outfitted with a supply of vegan doughnuts and coal-infused kombucha, was known as the "Comeback Cities Tour."

I live in Detroit. It’s a city that has been pushed to the edge of oblivion... and then into oblivion for several decades. It's fantastic that thers investment, but at the same time, stuff like this feels so incredibly patronizing. "It's nicer than San Francisco!" Yes, there are, in fact, nice buildings outside of San Francisco, even in Detroit.

Midwestern cities don't exist solely to make money, and I'm rather disturbed that they're seen more and more as nothing but investment vehicles. Detroit is 80% black. We didn’t even have working street lights until a few years ago (shout out to the Public Lighting Authority). I just look at San Francisco and the entire Bay Area, and I think to myself: "we don't want that here". Detroit isn't just cheap rent and exposed brick. It's grit and soul and pain and culture and 300+ years of history. I'm sure these investors got a lovely tour. Did they talk about the 1967 riots? Did they show them northwest Detroit, where entire city blocks are basically becoming urban prairie? Did they talk to the regular folks living and working in the city for generations? They’re lovely people, and they live here too. They're as much a part of Detroit as the Madison Building or New Center or Dan Gilbert or the rotting houses or the rich history.
How many of this “Silicon Valley comes to Midwest” article do we need ? It’s all feel good, but numbers don’t support it. And this PR move has been happening for 3-4 years at least. Just other day DoorDash raised $535mn and it is based in Palo Alto. SV startups continue to raise giant sums, grow businesses at global scale, and make their investors money.
This doesn't use docker or a chroot, it's a pivot root.
"When you invest in a San Francisco start-up, “you’re basically paying landlords, Twilio, and Amazon Web Services,” said Ms. Bannister of Founders Fund"

Only the first part "landlord" it's affected by location.
Do they count even though they’re headquartered in Campbell, CA?
This looks to be an art piece about smart phones.

It seems to be the standard criticism of smart phones today; but it's in pretentious art form.
pretty sure this is photos of performance art
Some times a company tells you upfront that they have an iffy culture – DHH
"Our moon is almost half the size of Earth"

What? No, it's not.
Any non-"success porn" sites you might recommend?

I know this differs between people but I'd be interested to know what sites you view as the opposite of those listed.
You can look at the weekly/monthly HN job posts to validate your comment, as quite a number aren't remote friendly.
Link to the story, for GP: http://discours.philol.msu.ru/attachments/article/264/Chiang...
Both can be true: a good PR firm knows that journalists can be lazy[0] and how to amplify their efforts.

[0] obligatory link to the submarine: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Almost all the most successful SV companies don't require exceptional talent. Most of the "big names" have a tiny fraction of their engineering organization that has to be truly exceptional.

The problem is that, at least based on my experience (I worked in the Midwest and the south east for over a decade ending a few years ago), the vast majority of "talent" in the midwest is below even the mediocre requirements of most SV/VC companies. No amount of persistence can overcome that.
That was a serious question. Why write a bill like this? Who gains from it?
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Ah, so it does. Many thanks. Whew!
"Abandon all dimensional consistency ye who read on" should top every newspaper, magazine and blog. Failing to grasp or properly communicate meaningful scientific units seems to be a constant problem in the media I read, particularly around units of energy vs power. It's one of my pet peeves.
It has to be Quicken, right? They're the largest outfit I can think of. They’re obviously not primarily software, but I think they employ most of the tech workers downtown.
See first comment about how it's a pivot root and if you are going to claim containers are insecure please first capture the flag on https://contained.af or gfy
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I've usually left Las Vegas with more money than I started with. I don't try to beat the odds, I try to find a $5 table that's full of drunk and/or newbie poker players. These players won't play the expensive tables but are also reasonably good losers when the stakes are lower. Don't try to game the house's portion ... if you do something against the rules they'll spot you. They won't bat an eye if you're taking money from the other guests though.
I think sarcastic. Psql has great support for json - they were probably taking advantage of it. If you've already got psql set up in your project and have minimal json storage requirements, it can be all you need. You also gain the possibility of retaining some normalization of the data if necessary, which is a lot more complicated if you throw it all in an entirely different database.
Is there really a lot going on in South Bend? Detroit I can believe, but some of those other cities made me think "there are other mid-west cities that would have been much better choices!"
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Sunriver and other tourist destinations in the area are expensive; living in Bend itself is not.
It bears repeating (perhaps incessantly, given that this kind of proposal keeps popping up) that "obscenity filters" have a long and ugly track record of blocking material about reproductive health, gender studies, and LGBT rights/culture. There used to be a handful of websites that cataloged these incidents back in the '90s, but I don't know if anyone's still doing it. Just punch something like 'Websense LGBT' into your favorite search engine if you have any doubt.
Small nit: psql is the command line client bundled with Postgres (PostgreSQL). And yeah, the JSON/JSONB support in Postgres is pretty nifty. Postgres 10 added full text search for JSON/JSONB columns.
Cron and git would be my idea.
You're right, if I used C# I could knock out the project in a fraction of the time it will (most likely) take me to learn:

- IntelliJ (or VS Code with the Kotlin plugin)
- gradle
- Kotlin
- A Kotlin applicable web framework and ORM

Thanks for the very applicable advice!
"They're following this signal at 0.98c. You might be able to defeat them, but you must act immediately or face utter annihilation."
One of the challenges with powerful tools is learning them. This is why many new people avoid things like Emacs, Vim, etc.

Some hand-holding and guiding is very welcome... so thanks!