skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah Monaco is a code editor. CoreMirror can easily and nicely function as an "editor" in general. I used it in a big project for a specific kind of markdown editing experience. I checked out Monaco at the time and CodeMirror and CodeMirror was WAY easier to setup and integrate into my app.
Huh, I hadn't heard about that. Did they face any significant backlash legal or otherwise? I suppose non-pescatarians aren't a protected class so there's no legal argument.

I like this example because it's fairly odd/unique enough to be jarring. I don't think companies need to act compleatly apolically, but it is a fine line to walk.

I find it hard to really generalize my own feelings on the issue without simply choosing my own politics.
toomuchtodo gave you some excellent advice:

Have you considered charging a dollar annually (like WhatsApp previously did) and seeing if current users will pay? If you’re out of funds, and have no seed round lined up, why not attempt to monetize immediately?

Also, have you explored if Amazon has any accelerator programs you’d qualify for to get some AWS credits to tide you over (paging jeffbarr).

$1 per year might not completely solve your cash flow problems, but it will bring some money in and give you some powerful evidence to help with your fundraising.
So... who actually uses them in the age of AWS / S3. Is this becoming a much much much smaller group?
Get a domain and host it somewhere.
Pointless. Here's a version without the restrictions: https://github.com/lerna/lerna/tree/02a2380b8f18c35799600320...
very unfortunate to have this in the license.
I guess in the future, we will use our selective outrage, to decide which formulas / research work can be used and by whom.

Jamie Build is welcome to establish charity organization to help, whoever he believes the victims are.

Given current practice of economic prosecution of conservative voices, Technology folks who would choose voice their support for Trumps administration, ICE, etc -- would end up loosing their jobs in the tech sector.

Just like what happened to javascript creator, Brendan Eich [1].

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/04/mozill...
It's a nice idea. But I still pay taxes in the US. Does that make me an ICE collaborator?
Are you literally suggesting that for some of the most important queries that people make Google should just return no results because it is too hard to decide who is on top?
This is great. If you like this sort of thing you can go one step down the modeling path and take a great coursera course called “Model Thinking” [1] which totally gave me a different appreciation for spreadsheet nerdery (you use lots of different tools).

1. https://www.class-central.com/course/coursera-model-thinking...
But which branch do you pull from? God has been forked so many times, it's hard to keep track. There are several distros available, so I guess you just get to pick the one that checks the most of your needs at the time.
This looks cool, a lot more open than cloudcraft (and cheaper!) How long has Arcentry been around?
Demos Parneros sues Barnes and Noble for wrongful dismissal
Just change the license to closed source and start charging for licenses from the companies you want to do business with so I have an excuse to spend the time ripping your shark-jumping software out of my build.
> it all feels half baked and too conservative to me

Your gut is wrong. These proposals have been in development for years. The author of the generics proposal has been thinking about the problem for nearly a decade.
Then people will have to come to terms that banning Alex Jones was a bad idea too. You can't support a companies right to ban people you don't like while simultaneously advocating protections as a utility.
Why are they screaming at me? Can we keep the signage and ditch the new logo? Was this solving an actual issue?
I'll take a stab...

1. They are likely using point-to-point/point-to-multi-point directional wireless equipment, designed for longer distance high bandwidth wireless connections where you know the fixed location of the transmitters/receivers and can tune/optimize for that purpose. Those devices you mentioned have hardware designed for omnidirectional local WiFi (broadcast & receive everywhere within x,00 feet). You could have one of those in you're home to provide wifi, and a point to point (with a directional antenna device designed for building-to-building/house-to-house connections) on you're roof to connect to the mesh network. Think of it as a mini satellite dish, pointed to the location from which the signal is being transmitted. Also, using standardized equiptment is more practical to efficiently deploy monitor and manager for a project like this.

2. No. The fiber will be there eventually, and wireless bandwidth is by far slowest link in the chain (the theoretical max speed of 802.11ac is eight 160MHz 256-QAM channels, each of which are capable of 866.7Mbps). Cat6 ethernet cable consisting of 8 conducting wires is capable of providing 10,000Mbps (10-Gigabit) maximum data rate, up to ~100m between powered devices. There are several types of fiber, OM4 is capable of 100,000Mbps over distances up to 150m. These are theoretical speeds, IRL divide by 2 twice and that's a good bencmark target (by 5 for WiFi ;-).

3. Internet Exchange Point
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point

Usually you're looking for 'co-los' (co-locations), buildings that host multi-company/parties server and network equipment and have high bandwidth connections to internet backbone provider networks.
It's not a MIT issue, it's a copyright issue.

They're distributing the original contributions under the new license without honouring the terms of the original license.

The software isn't now MIT+additional terms, it's MIT and MIT+additional terms. Meaning they need to continue to honour the MIT license for all exisiting contributions, just the same way as we need to when we use MIT licensed software. Namely, printing the license as is, unaltered.

They are free to do that then say that future contributions are licensed according to the new license, but the conditions of the contributors' license can't be ignored.
The thing I found most troubling, was that the NYT fired the far more qualified Quinn Norton (Aaron Schwartz girlfriend) only 7 hours after hiring her!

Nothing Norton said was on the same level as Jeong. I would call Norton's offensive language merely offensive, while Jeong's was hateful.

So I suppose that Jeong must be bringing an amazing level of insight to the table, for her racism to be overlooked.
> I visited the US recently and you can drive for 30 minutes in a car and you are still in LA, if you drive for 30 minutes in the Netherlands you're in a completely different city.

But what difference does that make? Why would I be more likely to visit a different city rather than another part of a bigger city?
I think the most impressive part of a well-maintained software project, to me, is the ability of the maintainers to keep patches organized and maintain coherent and comprehensive change logs. I can barely manage this in my own four-man team.
That's literally how bail worked in its original incarnation. Someone would post bail on your behalf, and if you skipped down, _they_ would be responsible for the bail amount. So therefore they would basically be taking responsibility for ensuring you stuck around and made it to court.

It obviously doesn't work well for people without a connection to the community in which they were arrested.
Cargo bikes are wonderful!
Here's some pictures with many kinds (scroll down to get to the bikes):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/andershviid/sets/7215767248995...
Would echo that. Life changing indeed. Had an issue within the warranty period, and the service was amazing.
It's very similar to MIPS.
> Why does Facebook think it has the right to remove years of their users' contributions

Why would they not have the right to control content posted on their platform?

If someone lets me and all my friends communicate by posting signs on their front lawn for free, should they have an obligation to keep my signs on their lawn until I decide to remove it?

Saying it causes emotional harm is a pretty weak defense. Basically any action can cause emotional harm to someone.
> My counter point is this: McCarthy started a witch hunt that targeted nonmurdous views as well.

Indeed. Which has a lot a parallels to the current political witch hunts going on today, regarding right wing views.
It's not an Open Source license either, violating criteria 5 and 6 of the definition. https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
This kind of thing is old hat. It comes up from time to time. rms has written about it a couple of times.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/hessla.html

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...

His basic argument is that it would achieve nothing because such restrictions based on copyright law are likely unenforcible. It just makes the software pointlessly non-free.
Slightly off-topic, but: anyone know where I can find a solid debate / discussion on the political issues raised by illegal immigration in the U.S.?

My own views lean pretty strongly towards one end of the spectrum, and I simply can't understand why people would hold the opposite views. So I suspect I'm missing something.
But is conservatism against regulating monopolies?

Facebook seems to be a natural monopoly. People only want one social network, and they want everyone they know to be on it. If it's a natural monopoly it should be regulated and, like other utilities, required to provide service to everyone.
That's not at issue. It's of course their right. It's also my right to say it's a mean spirited and heavy handed overreach into employees personal lives.
It's important for people to remember that humans are still intelligent creatures that are capable of recognizing, eventually, what's good for them and what isn't. How many of you guys remember the 70s and 80s, when TV and video games were supposed to turn us all into zombies? What happened? We eventually learned how to see these things as the tools that they are. Humans get fascinated by the new and shiny. This fascination may become unhealthy and provide grist for scam artists. Then they wise up. It's the way of the world.

I'd be flat out surprised if books didn't have their detractors back in the day.
> Given current practice of economic prosecution of conservative voices, Technology folks who would choose voice their support for Trumps administration, ICE, etc -- would end up loosing their jobs in the tech sector.

This is false.

> Just like what happened to javascript creator, Brendan Eich [1].

This is you rewriting history to suit your agenda. This is literally not what happened. Your source does not in any way back up your statement.
There is difference between bitcoin and blockchain. A blockchain is, by definition, a linked list of hashes.
You are right. Let me rephrase that.

Snowflakes get offense at f-bombs. Pathetic.
Appreciate the heads-up. I think it is a legitimate point despite its unsavory origins. But I agree that its origin makes invoking it a poor choice in low-trust discussion.
And? So what? OSI approved licenses are particular ends to particular means. They are not the only ends to the only means.

Theo de Raadt's take isn't automatically morally righteous. Honestly, it just sounds like a nineteen year old libertarian thinking "a-ha! everyone should just be able to do whatever they want as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others! it's so simple, we've figured it all out!"

Some people want a better world, not just a more permissive one. Sometimes those things overlap! But not always.
The user is the product. It removes another content source for the user causing some products to leave the platform because it becomes less useful.

Facebook was the most useful pre 2012. You could create widgets that changed the look of part of your profile. Facebook games were interactive and not siloed like they are now. People posted status updates and they appeared in the news feeds of others.
This isn't just a concept. There's already hardware flying.[1]

As a concept, it makes sense. The USAF is being killed by the costs of the F-35. An aircraft that can survive in hostile airspace today is insanely expensive. The USAF just won't have enough of them to go up against anybody serious. Something cheaper is needed.

A cheaper unmanned aircraft won't survive as well. That's OK; if you can get 20 combat missions out of the thing, that's not bad.

[1] https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-05-09
It's brand new, launched six weeks ago.
|I’d like to see an experiment where rather than money, instead a free citizen is offered up for bail

This is fundamentally wrong... the "other person" is not the suspect in this situation, so you would be putting an innocent up for punishment in lieu of a suspect. Honestly, I'm not even sure if you are trolling or just misdirected here, but if it isn't obvious to you why this isn't an acceptable idea, I'm happy to discuss.
I mean, you can get expelled from public schools.
They don't want to be regarded as a utility as that would suggest that regulation is a reasonable course of action. They banned Jones in part to demonstrate that they can "self-regulate" and don't need regulation. Being seen as a utility is the last thing Facebook wants.
Just a hash chain, pretty sure one can find much older ones. some old checksums might do that too. When someone says blockchain, in my book (and this might differ from others) - its about the consensus algorithm used to prevent tampering, like POW as introduced by Bitcoin.
Gremlins were not "luck charms of many British pilots during World War II" as Darpa states. They were bad luck demons that could kill pilots.

"Gremlins were said to engage in such a myriad of bad behavior as sucking the gas out of tanks through hoses, jamming radio frequencies, mucking up landing gear, blowing dust or sand into fuel pipes or sensitive electrical equipment, cutting wires, removing bolts or screws, tinkering with dials, knobs or switches, jostling controls, slashing wings or tires, poking or pinching gunners or pilots, banging incessantly on the fuselage, breaking windows, and a wide variety of other prankish acts. "

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/07/the-real-gremlins-of-...
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17864026
Waterbed?
The primary uses for procmail tend to be running a fixed set of rules to save mail to various directories or route it as input to scripts.

My use case needs to save it to a database and make various decisions depending on the sate of the database (e.g., send notifications to anyone watching the ticket and update due dates for the support SLA). Since this database access is more efficient if the process stays connected to the database, it's better to have a long-lived process which handles mail as it comes in than to launch a new script on every incoming email.

Lamson serves as both the procmail side and the script side. It's a long-running process that routes the incoming email to the appropriate business logic internally. And since it's in Python, it's easy to integrate with our existing Django database and business logic. It's not perfect, but it works well enough that I'm not actively looking for a replacement.
It sounds like it wasn't intentional, as Facebook has said they are looking into it, rather than putting out a post explaining their reasoning behind it.
True. I was trying to explain why they were getting downvotes. I don't think people here are bigoted. I think they just don't want politics at work.
The NYT’s title for the article is: “Just 21 People Are Known
to Have This Rare
Genetic Condition. Can
You Help Us Find More?”
Not in the Netherlands, see the article ;)
Because that's a tiny amount of work that saves you from making bloated junk variables all over.
Before people figured out how to game PageRank, Google was spooky. Unreal. Incredibly good results.
I wanted to counter your points by presenting a hypothetical hiring example (one employee from a certain group, and another who votes a particular way), but that gets into an argument over whether certain US government policies are racist, and that's off topic for HN.

As a general rule, I lob complaints at private companies. So I care at lot if Company X is doing ill to society (what I consider ill, at any rate). Whether the government should step in is a separate, and more dangerous, issue to me.
Whenever I need to move something large (which is almost never) I rent a van.
If I remember right, it was a problem in Tanenbaum’s book.
µnicorn
MySpace and Geocities gave people more customizability and it kinda made for easily tacky pages. The only major platform that still allows this is Tumblr.

The clean looks of Facebook and Twitter have oddly kept them on top.

But yes, to your point, you aren't the customer. You're the product (unless you're buying adspace .. in which case you're both).

I recently started my own Mastodon instance and am just following random people on random instances and so far have some pretty funny/interesting feeds. It's actually a pretty friendly little fedverse.
It is called understanding context. This isn’t a thread about weird tech glitches it is a thread about Donald Trump accusing Google of liberal bias; something that apprentlly involves showing more black people than neccassary in search results.

If you lay out the game theory brining this up in this context you are implying that this is part of some vast liberal conspiracy. That is the problem.
They are blue in Denmark when painted.

https://www.tv2lorry.dk/files/styles/16_9_large_2x/public/me...
That's just called a hash chain, Bitcoin I believe just calls it a chain of hashes. The block data structure incl. salt and POW is what is so unique about Bitcoin.
It's not the MIT license for other people if it doesn't allow those other people to distribute it as they choose (including giving it to ICE).
> completely toxic subject

I agree about "completely toxic". But it's the policy that's completely toxic, not the subject. I mean, separating babies from their parents? That is just fucking insane.
Because the concept of inheriting things from your ancestors is reflective of your white male heritage that doesn't have a slave-ship shaped hole in your family tree.

We should find more inclusive semantics for programming languages, or else risk perpetuating inherited racist cultural assumptions.

/s
It's actually way cooler than that, besides all the compliance help they provide - they provide tokenization but also software to make that tokenization work with 0 code changes on your side (besides env changes), via the use of proxies. It's awesome - your system won't know the difference between the tokenized SSNs and the real ones.
The over abundance of naive tourists blocking the way probably destroyed any goodwill Amsterdammers may have had.
What's wrong with knowing how to read before using devices?
> It's still the MIT license for other people though.

But doesn't that imply that other people could redistribute to any of the companies on the list? So it's either not MIT, or it's pointless.
I have a feeling that the majority of the commenters here would not be happy with the results of an armed revolution. You can be snarky on the internet all you want, but guns win wars, and there's a hell of a lot more guns in Texas than California.

Hell, if you want to go down a very concerning rabbit hole, look up youtube videos of people prepping for a communist revolution. There's a lot of mass murder pre-planned for the end of democracy.
> In particular, whats to stop ME from grabbing the code, and then giving it to Microsoft?

Microsoft not wanting to wade into that mess.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17865360

> And what enforcement mechanism do you plan if you ever discover that Microsoft is using your code?

The same enforcement mechanisms they were using before.
As the possibilities for smaller transistor get narrower companies will get more open towards smaller clients with small budgets, so taping out homebrew CPUs or SOCs or integrated circuits will be possible.
Yes, universal access to the utility makes sense. But what would the utility be? Could FB possibly be nationalized? It's international at its core. If governments created a copycat, it could fragment social media by country, which seems bad. I like the protective intent, but barely have an idea of how it might be implemented.
Per my understanding, unless other wise stated, relicensing is still pretty much a fork; versions up to the relicense are still distributable under the old license. In addition, MIT permits forking under a new license.
Amazon has accelerators programs
I have one right now
I was accepted to Startup school of YCombinator, but the credits are only 1000 that is enough only for 2 month
I need at least one year to grow a lot and to get investment from a venture capital fund
So, I will try to charge 1 or 2 dollar maybe by month , so I could pay the servers
Drivers tests in the US are a joke.
For what it's worth, I'm not interested in blaming the corporation for trying to raise profits. I just think that clearly the system is not ideal, and the right way to fix the system is probably different depending on whether the diagnosis is 1/ inefficiently-operating nonprofits or 2/ non-consumer-happiness-optimizing corporations.
AltaVista had support for boolean operators; I and many other techies became very practiced in composing complex queries. It was my favorite search engine.

Then Google showed up, and Google had PageRank. Boom, the top result for any simple query was what you wanted.
1. Put said line in license:

The following license shall not be granted to the following entities or any subsidiary thereof due to their collaboration with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE")....

2. Hosts said code on Github

3. Github is owned fully by Microsoft

4. Repo invalidates itself due to using free goods paid in part by ICE, thereby becoming a subsidiary.
People have cooperated with existential threats for economic gain for a very long time. Trade today, kill each other tomorrow. It's not contradictory at all.
but the frequency of reputable backlinks are perfectly suitable variable to rank a website's importance and relevance, and Google obvious knows how to discern garbage backlinks vs legitimate ones.

For instance, a certain startup I worked for in the past used a military blog seemingly belonging to a web of Eastern European entities to link to our company website and the CEO advertised it on linkedin....it was pretty fucking embarassing tbh but it was oviously for gaining SEO juice. It worked for a while but now when I search for the same keyword I don't see it in the SERPs.
Hospitals should be required to publicly post prices, just like fast food restaurants are now required (in some places) to publicly post the calories for each dish.
Not for constitutionally protected speech (under the limitations on student speech set by Tinker's "substantial disruption" test, Fraser's "indecent" limitation, and similar jurisprudence).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_speech_(First_Amendment...