skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting point, but I think you are looking at it from the wrong point of view. As far as I understand, the AGPL kicks in on "propagation" -- which in the important case means "making available to the public". The license is with the operator of the service, not with the end user of the software.

The consideration is the software itself. In exchange, you are granted a license. The license requires (in part) that you offer the source code to any user that uses the software. As the service provider, it is copyright infringement to make available the AGPL licensed software unless you agree to the license.

The problem with MongoDB is that they are using the AGPL in a way in which it wasn't intended to be used. This confuses the issue about what you are and are not allowed to do.
Walk straight ahead could be worst case if you are near the edge and oriented to walk all the way across the width of the forest.
I would cite many of the critiques of the so-called paradox in that Wikipedia article as reasons not to give it too much credence. I think it's more something to be considered philosophically rather than any sort of hard rule.

It's obviously true to an extent, like for some rhetoric which directly leads to violence, but a lot of people seem to use this concept as justification to suppress all speech they could consider remotely intolerant.
My day job is driving a 4kW fibre laser for cutting steel. AMA ;)

Recently a couple of people have had me cut knives from old circular saw blades from timber mills. It's a fairly hard wearing steel, and they got the old blades for free.

Just hobby knives, I think they do it mostly for the enjoyment of making their own knives, well fitting and shaping the handle, sharpening it. You'd still be able to say "I made that" to a much greater extend than a store bought one.
The shape and size of the forest is known. If you know that the forest is long and thin, you're better off walking in a curved path so that you're guaranteed to hit the "side" of the forest rather than walking straight and potentially continuing until you hit the "end".
It's a utopian idea but study after study shows we'd rather be treated like revenue generating cattle than humans if it means a cheaper flight.

Honestly the only way the cheapest seats are going to get any larger is if the government regulates them to be larger, otherwise passengers will continue buying the smallest seats for the cheapest they can because price is all they care about.
Sure, but every study i've ever read currently backs it.
If you are aware of any that say "very smart assholes make organizations better in the long run" or even "very smart assholes don't meaningfully hurt them in the long run", i'd actually love to see it!

(I hold the position i do precisely because it's backed by research, not just my own random thoughts and experiences)
I assume you've applied to all the big companies. Try applying again 6 months after the rejection.

Have you tried AngelList? It's where startups post their jobs.
I'm under the impression that a higher prehistorical concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere is widely accepted at this point. Higher atmospheric pressure is not something I've heard anything about though.

Wikipedia has a nice graph showing high and low estimates for the historical oxygen level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_history_of_oxygen#/....
Is it possible to make corrosion resistant stainless in the Damascus style...or will the dissimilar materials cause galvanic corrosion or the spaces between the different alloys result in crevice corrosion?
Several such instances are listed in the article, the argument is pretty clearly stated. If you don't find it convincing, that's one thing but claiming it's not there when it plainly is is just odd.
I could certainly have phrased my comment more clearly.

My point was not necessarily that that was what they were saying, but rather, that that is a likely outcome of that approach.

I've added an edit to my original comment clarifying this.
I don't code to make friends. I code to survive.
Are you seriously suggesting that (all else being equal) a mixed diet is healthier than a vegetarian diet because in a mixed diet you consume less chemicals through fruit and vegetables?
One obvious possibility is that MongoDB's choice of license is a strategic attempt at price discrimination. Since it's available under an accepted open source license, individual developers and small startups won't shy away from it, but large enterprises that are afraid of AGPL have to pay for a commercial license.
Former employee and it's been a few years, but for what it's worth I was actually very reassured by what I saw there in terms of internal data security. For all products I worked with or knew something about in an engineering capacity, there was no unlogged access to personal data. Access to personal data without clear, approved reasons would result in termination. The controls were extremely strong.

I'd be more concerned in Google's case about "legitimate" but still problematic uses of data: disclosure to law enforcement, crazy specific ad targeting, machine learning for military applications, etc.
"Many of the products Google has already shut down would easily have passed a reasonable good faith judgement that they were too expensive to keep running."

That isn't the standard listed.
It's "substantial economic burden".

None of those services were a substantial economic burden for a many-billion dollar company, so sorry, but i completely disagree.
It was written by a three letter agency because it contained and corrected some relatively minor factual errors?
It depends on how you define arsehole I guess. When it comes to how well an organisation works I've found there are only two things that matter. The first is how good the people there are at their jobs. (If most people are competent, there has been some pretty ruthless pruning going on which is not pleasant when it happens.)

The second is what people are working for - which is to say themselves or the firm. My definition of an "arsehole" is someone who fights to get themselves up the corporate ladder, treating the exercise as a zero sum game. So if they see someone above them occupying a desirable spot, they will back stab, white ant them in an effort to dislodge them from the spot so they can take it.

All this has very little to do with their demeanour. Some people are good at communicating. Some are bloody hopeless. It's nice to deal with people that area really good at handling others of course, but you can't be an expert at everything and if someone is really good at a particular thing it's often because they have a passion for it, focusing a great deal of their time on it. If that area happens to be technical that means they have spent effort on it rather than most other on learning how to interact with others.

Sadly, people who devote most of their efforts at shaking the corporate tree do others fall off it are usually very good at interacting with others. Being effective at manipulating others sort of requires it. The worse of them, psychopaths, are well known for their superficial charm.

Time cures most things and in the end smart people learn the easiest path through life despite their obsession with other things. When it comes to interacting with others, that means learning to use words that engender cooperation rather than conflict. It appears Linus has reached this point. That he did is testament to just how good he is. Most of us can learn these things by watching our superiors over time. (If these people are good at their job, they will both be very good a getting people to work together and instilling it others.) Linus didn't have a corporate ethos he could learn from. He's had to invent it himself.

So we end up at the curious juncture were some introvert who spends all their time playing with things rather than people is likely to be a good asset to the organisation and if given time (decades) will learn how to interact well with others to. A psychopath on the other hand who is focused on human interactions and is really good at it, but if the firm is to survive should be excised at the earliest opportunity.
Many firms that have software operations in the US have operations in Canada as well, usually in the same time zone.

For instance Pac Northwest firms such as Amazon and Microsoft hire in B.C., Calgary has a scene in systems programming, embedded systems that I know of and probably lots that I don't. Toronto has everything from Geoff Hinton to internet porn. Montreal has game super-studio Ubisoft as well as ASP.NET and mainframe programmers, great nightlife, a goth loli clothing store, ...

So far as personality I would be worried more about a person who was too reckless than I would somebody careful.

If you want to appear interested in people it helps to ask questions. Sitting on either side of the interview table I would see it as an opportunity to get information I couldn't get any other way about the state of the industry so I am always interested. People mostly like talking about themselves and if they are talking you don't need to think of something to say or open your mouth and risk scoring an own goal.

To get in the mood you can pretend that you already have the job and you are coiled like a spring to start and you are going to ask all the questions you need to start such as "what kind of computer do i get?", "what is the schedule?", "where will I be working?", as well as getting an understanding of the job enough to get ready to do it.

If you find that hard to do consider acting lessons at a Meisner school and they will teach you to be coiled like a spring in the second term!
You can easily be treated better by paying more. You don’t even need to go full Business Class - Premium Economy is great on some carriers and routes (BA, LH, AC and others).

Most people just prefer the suffering of economy in order to save the money. Truth to be told, the 2x fare increase to Premium Economy (not to mention the 4x increase to Business) on a 10 hour flight is easily $100 an hour you can save by shriveling inside your sparse Economy class seat.

What I’m saying is that it’s a two sided deal: pay less and get less, and judging by the advents of low cost carriers it’s a good deal for all.

Just as it is with most anything else, the world economy is becoming more bimodal - it’s either low cost or business class, a Ford Fiesta or a BMW, a $200 Chinese smartphone or a $1200 iPhone Xs.
That’s the outcome of the changes in income distribution (and it’s no one’s fault really).
The part about "it seems to work for them" sounds sarcastic because Apple's problems with leakers have been well publicized.
Here's a recent post of mine on use restrictions in copyright licenses:

https://blog.licensezero.com/2018/09/14/free-to-take-freedom...

Especially this section:

https://blog.licensezero.com/2018/09/14/free-to-take-freedom...

I know some lawyers who would prefer and argue for your reading of copyright law's limitations, as a matter of policy. But that is not the reading that I see in court decisions or professionally drafted copyright licenses, which impose blanket use and purpose restrictions all the time.

To your point, copyright law is "default deny". (See also: https://oss.kemitchell.com/#defaults-and-overrides) Take as given that the uncertainty you describe is as serious as you present it. Who does that uncertainty benefit, in context? Consider: https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/
Some people greatly prefer the challenges and joys of building new products and companies to the challenges and joys of operating companies over the long haul.

Selling the bootstrapped company locks in a financial return for that past effort and more importantly releases their mind, emotions and time to shift back to building something new.
This seems like a great way to give a free pass to any corporate behavior, anywhere.

Megacorp is harvesting organs and murdering people? Who cares just look at it statistically, it's only four people on the harvest team. Statistically speaking Megacorp is the most well behaved of them all!

Stop trying to look at everything through the prism of distributions, it's a bad tool in many scenarios.
The article explicitly mentions an all-stainless Damascus steel formulation:

> "Devin makes all-stainless Damascus steel, high contrast, double high carbon, and many, many exotic patterns."
> We’ve all been there, looking at some effedup code and cursing the goon who dared check it in.

Until you realize it was you who checked it in. If you write enough code, you will eventually not write the best code for some situation. It could be because you were tired or you simply didn't understand that part of the code well enough. Instead of attacking someone with insults, it's better to understand why the code got written and work to not have similar mistakes made in the future. Remember, everyone here is on the same team trying to make the best piece of software possible. Berating teammates (which is really what is happening here) does not make them better teammates or make the team as a whole better.
You may have misread the problem.

Consider a forest that is 1000km long but only 1km wide, it is possible that "walk straight ahead" has a worst case of 1000km. But the strategy of "walk 1.5km, turn 90 degrees, walk 1.5km" has a worst case of 3km and is guaranteed to get you out of the forest (and I'm sure there are better strategies).
I chuckle when in film they describe a blade as folded over 200 times. 2^200 is a lot. And anything more than a few folds gives you mush.
If you know the dimensions, you know that if you walked more then the width , then you have to make a left or right turn.
People can be, and usually are, completely uncivil to each other without invoking any politics or no-no words. All this CoC does is expand the scope of what is considered uncivil, and where.
I don’t know. Moving to Russia?
patrickjmt for math
Yeah, just like regular employees are better qualified to run a company than the CEO.

No one is more qualified than Linus to run this project and he's done a damn good job so far. Has he made mistakes? Sure. He's human.
For people not really involved, what does it mean?

Is this just an apology out of daily discussions or is anything going to change for Linux development?
Most of the time they aren’t mutually exclusive. It’s just as fast for me to write maintainable code that is well designed and for me to write some scripts to automate deployment and Cloud Formation templates to automate infrastructure deployment. But I’m only one person. If they want something done fast, I can spin up a team of barely competent programmers who know how to create web pages that meet the spec and outsource a bunch of manual QA testers instead of writing automated test and let them test the code that we write during the day when they come to work while we are sleep (outsourced it’s daytime for them).

Despite the talk of the 10x developer, sometimes you just need bodies.

I can do front end, middle tier, database admin work, AWS net ops, dev ops, and development, talk to CxOs about strategy, mentor developers, lead a team etc. and I have done all of those things. But, I can’t do it all at once.
One step closer to Marc's political ambitions
Thank you for your perspective!

Yeah, I've thought about meditation myself, but I don't really see how to effectively teach it, especially in a class-room (i.e. 1-to-many) - but maybe that's just because I've learned (well, tried to) meditation by myself, by reading, not from a teacher/mentor.

One other idea that crossed my mind, but it's far from fleshed out, is to teach people the exact same techniques that therapists use (i.e. "asking the right questions" to drill deeper in the direction towards understanding yourself), but with the purpose of using them on themselves. However, I've no idea if that's simply too much to learn, or if maybe "being a good therapist" comes only with "having a lot of life experience".
Intriguing that various old school media is being bought by tech billionaires.
The truth is that airlines are just responding to what people value- they value low price above everything. There is still business class for those that value comfort more than low cost.

My guess is that the inflation adjusted price for business class today is similar to the economy class price from before de-regulation.
The shape can be given by any 2-d parameterization

and then this seems like a optimization problem solvable with variational calculus
> Often he's saying what we're thinking

This line of thinking is a fantastic way to create a non-inclusive group.
i dont know why you were down voted. low interest rates definitely is playing a role in the amount of money sloshing around looking for risky investments. i think the fed should have started raising interest rates a few years earlier than they did. and as for right now, it seems they're continuing their ramp up.
Thanks for the tip! Usually since I've just run a `kubectl get pods` or whatever I use the keyboard navigation to go up a few lines, ctrl+a and use the emacs bindings to yank...

I just downloaded and installed tmux-fingers with tpm, but it's doing a pretty terrible job of picking up on the right things... I'm assuming i need to put in the predefined regexes that would match pod names/ lines of the get output?
Out of interest, what changes could happen if Linus disappears tomorrow?
Fortunately, plenty of other people managed to do so.
You haven't stated the population risk of having a pathogenic de novo PSEN1 mutation. This would be an essential preface to whatever argument you are trying to make about the case described in the parent article.

'few major issues' is a liberal interpretation of being shut down by the FDA. Besides, nobody is measuring the impact of the test, so how do you know there are 'few major issues'?

> not sequencing everyone is immensely costly and a major failing of the healthcare system

I do cancer genomics in my day job. I would not agree with this comment on any day of the week at the present time. The problem with 23andMe and their ilk is it just isn't that useful. Warfarin use is being phased out anyway, because of the many non-genetic causes of variability and the availability of drugs with more reliable pharmacokinetics. This same principle applies to the vast majority of serious medical conditions - lifestyle factors greatly outweigh any genetic component.

But the biggest problem with acting like 23andMe is a useful test is they don't actually do a proper test for the most common genetic condition that leads to a serious condition with high penetrance - BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and breast and ovarian cancer. They don't do a proper damn test, they just test 3 out of the thousands of variants in the gene. Why do you think that is? Why don't they do a proper version of the most useful and important test, which can actually be used to prevent the patient getting cancer? The related question is - who benefits from 23andMe testing? The company or the 'Me'?

Re the 'billions', which of the following is more likely:

- VCs have given 23andMe >$1b in total because they think it can make multiple billions by selling the data
- Any other reason
Easy there airline pr.
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Need the NPC in the next seat who wants to tell you about Jesus, or sleeps on your shoulder. Also, the more times you play it, the smaller your bladder is, and the more likely there will be a food cart in the aisle between you and the toilet, which will be occupied.
I'm still waiting for the Citizen Kane of our age.
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What Do We Actually Know About the Economy?
I'm known at work for being That Guy who will point out the elephant the room and discuss it face-on, but I invested decades into empathy work so that people now respect me for doing so rather than hate me. I'm glad to see Linus considering an investment in empathy, and I don't feel it will negatively impact his forthrightness long-term — the best of all possible outcomes.
The optimal strategy in this case is known and is called the Zallager curve. See http://www.wardsattic.com/joomla/Download/WebPresentation/za... for a picture.
Linus is to Linux what Jobs is to Apple. And tho Jobs has passed, his spirit is still alive (tho fading). We should have encapsulated Jobs in an AI. (Using data of his behavior, decisions and fMRI we could have made a model). It's still not too late to make a Linus AI. Why save the minds of these architects? After all, creativity is a uniquely individual endeavor. Giants like these have given us tools have become fulcrums on which millions of humans have pivoted their thinking, their livelihoods, and their behavior. We cannot understand creativity, model it or reproduce it. But the same can be said of strong AI as it is modeled by deep learning. Perhaps we can use a tool too complex for human understanding to recreate a human process that we do not understand. Imagine if we had the genius of gauss, fermat, pascal, newton, liebniz, galileo,and so many others all available at the same time. in the same room. to answer the same question.

Google , are you listening?

I know the question I would ask.
> The goal is never to restrict which people use the software.

Does your software's license apply equally to a 17 year old in her garage and a Facebook employee writing engagement optimizers?

To qualify as an open-source license, the answer must be "yes". Otherwise the license is restricting who can use your software.
There is no problem attempting. Term says that?
Please let's not bring the f-word into this. That's a move to an inner circle of hell.
Second optimization I would apply would be quadtrees. Start with huge squares subdivide them after solving at that level down to your specified tollerence.
Congratulations to Linus; that's courageous, and posting is wonderful leadership for the Linux community and the IT community in general - many other leaders could take the hint.

A major challenge of top-level leadership is you have no boss, nobody setting high standards and helping you (including pushing you in a healthy way) to achieve them. Linus' job is leadership but his work product has had these major flaws. If someone subordinate to him turned in such flawed work, Linus would have let them know and wouldn't have accepted the patch. Linus and all leaders need to be equally demanding of the their own work product: it should be up to the highest standards of Linux kernel contributions - in design, implementation, quality, and effectiveness; in the effect on the component and in the ripple effects on the rest of the system; in its immediate impact and in its long-term 'technical'/organizational debt. Does that seem like a lot to take into account? Why should your engineers' work product have highers standards than yours?

The heart of the issue, IMHO, is how to do it. How can a human being, with all the limits we have, realistically maintain that focus and motivation on a day-to-day basis without someone else helping them?
I never quite got this sort of thing- programmers talking "tough" like they
are, dunno, extras in gangster movies or something. We're just a bunch of nerds
tapping away at keyboards all day. Were does all this attitude come from?

Collectively, we must think we're a really tough bunch. Don't mess with us or
we'll screw up your codebase and rename all your variables "bob". Hah!

I hope we can all learn a lesson from Linus. Those of us who still need it,
anyway.
See, I felt like I was giving him more credit by saying that his rants were performative: at least that would have an ostensible purpose. If you're abusing other people to "blow off steam", that's kind of a no-brainer "you should go see someone about not having to do that anymore".
What does this mean for the kernel development? Are we going to lose a dictator and things start to drift left and right?