skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from: https://stratechery.com/2017/ends-means-and-antitrust/

"What is the Standard for Determining Illegal Behavior?

"The United States and European Union have, at least since the Reagan Administration, differed on this point: the U.S. is primarily concerned with consumer welfare, and the primary proxy is price. In other words, as long as prices do not increase — or even better, decrease — there is, by definition, no illegal behavior.

"The European Commission, on the other hand, is explicitly focused on competition: monopolistic behavior is presumed to be illegal if it restricts competitors which, in the theoretical long run, hurts consumers by restricting innovation."
You have it backwards. GetTempFileName() only gives you unique names in arbitrary folders! If you want to use %APPDATA%\Temp, you have to call GetTempPath() yourself and pass that path into GetTempFileName().
Physically shredding.

https://youtu.be/TQoKFovvigI?t=98
The definitions in a dictionary are for general purposes and not used, necessarily, in legal battles. There are legal definitions for things like Intellectual Property, Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks. These definitions are what will be used when it comes to determining, legally, what open source is - not some wordsmith.
That's false. Paul Allen remained on Microsoft's board of directors for two decades, continued to be involved with Microsoft for four decades, as well as being a major shareholder for its entire existence.
Robinhood, the “free Broker” is getting sued for fraud
Antitrust theory says that a company should not be able to use a product where it has a monopoly to get people to use another product where it lacks a monopoly. If we assume that Google has a monopoly on smart phone platforms with Android/the Google Play Store, (I take no position on whether that's true) it should not be able to leverage that monopoly to get people to use Maps and YouTube, where it has no monopoly.

That doesn't mean that Google has to "work for free." Nothing prevents them from simply charging money for Android and the Play Store. But Google doesn't want to be Symbian, getting a $10-15 one-time license free per phone. Instead, it wants to use Android/GPE as a vehicle for getting people to use apps like YouTube, which generate recurring revenue. That's a great business strategy, but if you're too successful with it, you run into antitrust concerns. (Google's should've probably taken a page from Intel/Microsoft and paid off Symbian or Blackberry to keep working on an Android competitor.)
It's a reasonable question - but the price can never be truly "free," because there's a cost to investment / build that product - meaning costs are non-zero. Therefore the negative profit in the short-term due to pricing is called "undercutting," as other companies (generally) don't have that luxury in the long run.

You have to ask: why is it free?

- A thousand engineers working on a non-revenue product for Google is like "pennies," when it might be a whole company anywhere else.

- How are you funding that negative profit? Using leverage and profit from strong market position elsewhere. Therefore: anti-competitive, as other companies in the space don't have similar leverage.

Now, a startup can, say, operate at negative profit and not count as "anti-competitive," because a startup most likely has fractional market share. But imagine you're building a startup in a brand new space, and Google decides to also enter that space. If you price your product at $10, and Google says "we're pricing at $0," you can imagine how no one could compete with that for the long-term. Hence why monopoly / anti-competitive rules are important.
Primarily, people worship their own positive self-image. Complexity gives them the chance to view themselves as smart enough to handle this really complicated thing.
I have depression, but it's currently fairly well controlled with medication.

This ennui is not all the time, but occasional, and usually only for a period of a few hours.

Depression is a different feeling to me. Depression is more feeling incapable of doing anything, where ennui feels more like I could do something, I desperately want to be doing something, but nothing sounds enjoyable. I don't feel bored when my depression is bad, because I'm incapable of even feeling boredom.

Edit: I was also very recently diagnosed with ADHD, and am not being treated yet (dr appt in a few days!). It's possible maybe that my ennui is actually a combination of mild depression and the ADHD inability to focus? It will be interesting to see if I feel it less frequently once my ADHD is being properly treated.
I read something a long time ago that argued that highly creative people aren't creative because they have better ideas, but they have more ideas than their peers of similar intelligence, and then they sift through those ideas to pick out the gems. (Of course it then requires a lot of work ethic and skills to generate quality inspiration and to covert those ideas into valuable creations).
> The topics discussed are about as political as “slavery is wrong.”

“Slavery is wrong” is intensely political, even if mostly non-controversial.
Momentary boredom (for me) seems vital to creativity.

It took me a couple of years to map out the correlation, but having a smartphone seems to dramatically reduce the number of ideas I have.

I go for a walk, wait in line, sit in the train, and am consumed by a horrible feeling of impatient boredom.

The phone alleviates that.

What I realized is that feeling only lasts about 90 seconds and then I start having all sorts of inspired thoughts. The problem is I will use the device to solve the boredom before the creativity circuit engages.
Please, just read this:

https://opensource.org/osd
The claim was every. Really ? Every company in China is owned or influenced by the government business ? No, not even close.

The companies I have visited and seen are far more interested in minding their own business and wants as little to do with the government as possible.

One thing you will discover if you visit China for a lengthy period is that the government is big on words, but not so much on action.
I wonder if actions on public / private repos will run in public / private containers (and be stored in public / private registries) by default?

The closest that I found is [1]:

> Actions are defined in a Docker container. Actions run in an environment where they have access to the code in your repository, variables you define, and secrets you make available to the action.

I get the impression from that and [2] that it's only private containers on GitHub servers for now.

Another interesting observation from the docs [3] currently:

> You can only create workflows in private repositories.

I imagine that's a temporary constraint for now?

Edit: Found more info on the runtime environment [4].

[1]: https://help.github.com/articles/about-github-actions/

[2]: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-workflow-with-gi...

[3]: https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-workflows/crea...

[4]: https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-github-actions...
It's not even an article it's a white paper XD
Using diffs was our very first approach. It was quite naive (not to say dumb) solution but we also came to a conclusion that it will be problematic for tree-structured data and there were also performance issues (for example when you bolded the whole document).

So instead of trying to fix those issues, we tried a different approach.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231961
What Jamal Khashoggi and Edward Snowden Have in Common
One of the first things Trump did in office was set us up for a massive debt crisis in a couple of years. Same thing George W. Bush did in fact. It worked perfectly, Obama was harshly criticized for running such a massive deficit, and the Congress took the opportunity to sign pledges and cut social programs and blame the president. They generated a ton of anger at the government for the fiscal irresponsibility and for saving the too-big-to-fail banks (effectively creating the Tea Party that handed the Congress to Republicans). No reason to think it won't work again. Even better is that it funneled trillions of dollars to the 1% in the process. A win-win-win.
Stating so shows a complete lack of understanding of why and by whom OSS/the OSI was started and popularized.

It ignores by who the OSI was co-founded and promoted by, (ESR, O'Reilly etc.) and why, (as a response to FSF to make free software more appealing to corporations for the exact purpose I outlined in my original post).
Physical destruction. Destruction of decommissioned drives by shredding, crushing, or passing a bolt through the drive is a standard practice for security-sensitive operators. Some IaaS operators I've worked with extend this to every component of systems that could ever hold customer or proprietary data in memory.
> The OSI owns the definition

No, OSI doesn't own the definition and doesn't get to define open source. Some people agree with that definition, some don't. Nobody has to though. You can't really own what other people think, you can only try to agree on some definition during interaction. No need to pretend there is some universal truth that they just don't know about. It's an agreement, not truth.

And OSI might become irrelevant anyway if it doesn't change in light of recently emerged licenses with more restrictions and doesn't certify them in some way. People will just stick to a handful of popular known licenses and call them open source.
Turns out the designer explicitly forbids this:

http://www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/frequentquestions.htm

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Open source is mostly objective, unlike 'good software'. The parent comment stated in caps that MongoDB is not open source, which is objectively untrue. It's a silly thing to bicker about, but the original should have probably said something along the lines of 'OSI approved open source license'.
If it doesn't fit the OSD (https://opensource.org/osd) it IS NOT OPEN SOURCE. The license has not been reviewed by the OSI, and there isn't any "Approved until shown otherwise" clause to refer to. So, in the OSI's eyes (and really anyone who knows what open source actually is) it's NOT OPEN SOURCE anymore.
Forth isn't written as a tree; the tree structure in the evaluation/compilation comes from the semantics of the words (how many elements of the value stack they consume).

In Lisp we know that (eql 1 2 3) is a "too many arguments" error. It doesn't just take 1 2 from the stack, push back the answer, and leave 3 beneath it.

Lisps are actually fairly conventional block-structured languages, having more in common with Pascal than with Forth. Lexical scopes, local variables, function calls with arguments going to formal parameters and all that.
Google will start charging European Android device makers a fee for its apps
I've been working with Joy for a few years now and I have to say that it seems to me to combine the best parts of Forth and Lisp.

It's ridiculously elegant.
> the pricing for their commercial offering seems really intense. $29/mo for 25 MAU?

The page doesn't seem to imply that the price for 25+ users would scale linearly; for that they have a "Contact Us" call to action for negotiating pricing.

25 MAU seems reasonable to me for the following use-case: Company A sells a custom CMS to Company B, with a CKEditor-powered admin area to be used by <25 of Company B's content writing staff.
this is just a proposal, the firms can walk the number down later, it's in their favor to put up a high number so that they get free advertising (like this) and a better chance at winning the IPO mandate
The going rate in the smartphone OS market doesn't have to be "free." Symbian charged a license fee. Microsoft charged a license fee. Google decided to release Android for free, because they could make more money using Android as a vehicle for the rest of its platform. Having done that, and pushed all the competitors out of the market by giving Android away for nothing, Google can hardly argue that it should be allowed to bundle because the "going rate" for a smartphone OS is now free.
A good reminder that with connected devices, your level of privacy is dynamic and can change with a single line of code.
Wouldn't it make more sense for Microsoft to merge GitHub with their TFS workflow that already has build / test etc. integration to some extent (along with hosting code)? I don't understand this development.
>> I have great fears that the economy over the next 10 years of my life will be stagnation.

Maybe those 10 years will help some to think about a dogma different than "growth" ?
Ask the FSF yourself. Richard Stallman can be reached via rms@gnu.org and usually responds to emails within a day. The FSF defends the right for others to sell your software, and has wide-reaching political ambitions. Don't just take my word for it, ask them.
I'm betting they probably sell them to a bulk reseller of which there are many. If you're looking to buy from one they're out there but may or may not be looking for small customers.
Remember when giving away a web browser was illegal? Is giving away open source software and selling consulting services an anti-competitive abuse in the software services market?
Even in places like Santa Monica where you have the rich people complaining about nuisance they will still be popular because they're a reliable form of green transportation.
>As you describe it, it is the same style, but the market fraction is a lower number.

The intent is different too.

The EU is looking to protect a healthy level of competition in the marketplace, while we in the US have moved the goalposts to "can you prove this particular monopoly is doing consumers harm"?
I am not comfortable with either country (and likewise have no business in either).

It’s where you say we shouldn’t act against one unless we act against both (or else be labeled virtue signalers) that this becomes whataboutism. It is not about the degree of their offences, or that ones is better/worse or significantly different, but paralyzing action or discussion unless it can always be dolled out equally every time that is the mark of whataboutism.
Kudos for recognizing this. We have the OSD: https://opensource.org/osd

THAT is the definition of the term "Open Source" for all intents and purposes. Anyone else's is just a subjective opinion.
Morality only exists once you have a comfortable life and your basic needs are met. When your life (and startup's) life depends on funding and you have spent all your life saving's in bootstrapping your startup let me know how much you would push back on Saudi money? And would you stop at Saudi but not Australia which has a worse human rights records for minorities, lesser women representation in parliament than even Saudi Arabia and much more xenophobic than even the middle east countries? (Fox news has minority viewership in US but Murdoch has close to 90% viewership in Australia)

For what it's worth, the West always had a myopic and sledge hammer approach to solving these issues with threats and violence.
"... Popular Electronics. It featured a new computer called the Altair 8800, which ran on a powerful new chip. Paul looked at me and said: “This is happening without us!” That moment marked the end of my college career and the beginning of our new company, Microsoft. It happened because of Paul."

What a magical moment, those youthful fancies. I know that very spot they stood and it still is the same I guess -- all the traffic on either side of the newsstand, street singers, students running to their classes, eating places to decide upon, bookstores ... and the ideas that bloomed from there are so many.

Bye, Mr. Allen.
It seems that the link is fine. Scroll a little down and you can test the collaboration in Letters (built using CKE5) or with CKE5 document build (switch the tab).
> I'm not sure how GPL interacts with scripting languages. Do you have to run GPL scripts on a GPL'd interpreter for it to be permissible?

Somewhat related (Common Lisp is typically compiled) I found the "Lisp LGPL" / LLGPL license to be a clear way of resolving the inherent C-bias of the GPL license suite. It's essentially just the LGPL but with this preamble that defines valid/invalid forms of proprietary software "linking" with an LLGPL library: http://opensource.franz.com/preamble.html Of note is a fun instance of the open/closed principle -- your subclasses of a library's class are yours but modifications to the base class trigger the LGPL licensing hook for your application.

I would assume that if you're serving Ckeditor in your webapp, the GPL would apply and your whole webapp needs to be GPL'd.

Given they had other license options for version 4 (https://ckeditor.com/legal/ckeditor-oss-license/), I suspect they might just use the GPL only option for 5 to try and drive sales. Good luck to them, lots of companies are using Quill (BSD) instead.
I think it could be that rather than worshiping complexity some people find it hard to value or respect simple things, and that that leads them on a path to "accidental" complexity. Like when someone find out that a rainbow is just water refracting light, or the sun is just a big ball of gas... that it takes some of the coolness out of it. There could be a tendency like that to find simple systems disappointing.

Or it could just be that people have a certain mental budget for maximum complexity, and they'll try and make sure they spend it all in the belief that it will cover more uses.

Or it could be that complex systems tend to stick around because they are far more immune to random management changes because everyone goes "oooh, we'd better not touch that". Simple systems might becomes the victim of their own ease and get subsumed by a more complex monster.
The article mentions LGFVs, without defining the acronym or explaining much about them.

Here's another article that goes into more detail:

Local government funding vehicles (LGFVs) are companies owned and funded by a local government in order to raise funds for municipal projects. These firms stem from the taxation system in China that allocates the lion’s share of revenue to the national government, and from regulations implemented in 1994 that prevent the government from selling bonds. This strict budgetary regulation was intended to promote sound financial management and prevent local governments from spending themselves into deficits. LGFVs became prominent after the Asian Financial Crisis of 1998 and the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 when central government stimulus packages put the onus on local governments to raise necessary funds. LGFVs are effectively state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

https://www.strangemarkets.com/chinese-lgfv-bonds-the-next-g...
John D Cook: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/

His posts are short and to the point, often about experiments in numerical mathematics.
Advanced Vue Debugging: A Detective Story
"No remark without remarkableness" - which makes me curious: what do you think the remarkableness was, if not fairness or unfairness?
ABOUT BULLS AND BEARS OR HOW WE ACCIDENTALLY ORGANIZED a BLOCKCHAIN CONFERENCE
It is all about growth is why.
We also have made all of these datasets available as torrents, particularly to support Chinese practitioners and other places with connection issues. Thanks to Max Pechyonkin for helping with this.

http://academictorrents.com/browse.php?search=fastai
> Is prohibiting commercialisation of my work not in the spirit of open source?

Exactly, it's not.

> How is my "View and Internal Use License" bad for the open source ecosystem?

Whether it's bad is a value judgment I can't answer; it's not open source because it forbids redistribution of the source.
Rockstar responds to blowback over Red Dead Redemption 2 teams 100hour workweeks
The Google Pixel 3 Is a Very Good Phone. But Maybe Phones Have Gone Too Far
In theory that's how it should work if there was internal firewalls. In reality the brokers at the investment banks will shill the IPO to their undesirable clients as a way to get it off the books, or at least that's what they usually do.
Uber has not shut down their self-driving division[1]

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/technology/uber-self-driv...
That sort of thinking is the reason millions of people who never watch sports on TV have to pay for ESPN as part of their cable/satellite package, whether they like it or not.
The article kind of assumes that you understand what these "local government financing vehicles" are. Which is probably true for the median reader of the story, but it wasn't true for me, so I went looking around for an explainer and found this from 2013: https://www.ibtimes.com/chinas-local-government-financing-ve...

In contrast to state governments in the U.S., most local governments in China are forbidden to borrow money directly.

Historically, land sales have been a large revenue source for local governments, but since the global financial crisis this revenue source has diminished. Yet local government spending, especially on infrastructure investments, has accelerated...

Detroit filed for bankruptcy with debts of $18 billion on July 18, but this is the average amount of debt for many Chinese cities. A 2012 audit of 36 local governments found $624.6 billion in debt -- suggesting there are at least a few Chinese cities with debt equal to, or in excess of, the $18 billion that sunk Detroit.

So the news is that what was understood to be ~$625 billion in debt six years ago has turned into $5.8 trillion in debt today. Which is, like, 322 Detroits.
Is it your companies official stance that they have the sole right to determine what is OPEN SOURCE code? From an outsider who reads this phrase in countless contexts, this feels like an incredibly naive and non-legally binding opinion
175 Small Food Businesses Displaced by Brooklyn Coworking Company Pilotworks
Microsoft didn't force anyone to use Windows/Office/IE in the 90s. There were other choices. And yet they were hit by anti-monopoly lawsuit. Why? Because they had enough market captured to undermine any serious competition. Google is in a similar position right now.

Also, if you view YouTube as merely a video hosting service, you're completely missing the point. It's the second largest search engine on the web.
Samsung is a huge multinational conglomerate with hundreds of billions of revenue and tens of billion in yearly profits. They also sell over 20% of all smartphones switching position back and forth with Apple for leading market share.

I find it hard to believe that they were too small in comparison with Google to compete with their own mobile OS and app market.