skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm one of those guys running businesses with open source for 20 years - not once have I given a shit about OSI or FSF or their definition, and neither do the other folks I know that control very large budgets.

So no, it's not some universally-agreed on definition and trying to hawk it as such is dishonest.

Did the FSF & OSI help establish the framework that's allowing us to have this conversation? Yes. Do they get to dictate that conversation in 2018? Nope.
But laziness is only good if its long term laziness. E.g. a clever lazy person that job hops a lot and/or only do greenfield dev tends to leave huge messes for maintenance programmers to untangle.

At least, in my experience.
This reads like an Alex Jones rant. Got any source for that?
> with the government turning their back to it.

Do you also think the government is turning their back to cancer? The reality is if a cure is to come, it will come from private industry (for profit companies).
Yep. Inflation. Stock market, movie revenue, cost of bread. It will always peak like this.
I am Ian.
> (It also looks like this was written on one of those ancient systems that didn't support lowercase and only allowed 6-character filenames)

A limitation that also led to 'Schemer' dropping the R.
You read one article about it, and now you're demanding that he feed you links? You're on the Internet. Google is the topic of discussion. If you cared about the truth as much as you claim, you would do your own homework and seek out your own sources. I guess you really are a digital zombie.
What is the commercial motivation of Google to maintain AOSP now? They are just enabling their 'competitors'.
pastor_elm is spot on. This is something most learn the hard way.
Doesn't Confluence have collaborative editing? https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/collaborative-editing-8...
What's wrong with an amendment? I don't want to live in a world where I have to wear a face mask to get some privacy. And they will probably soon not even need faces but recognize you from your height and the way you walk.
> I sometimes get accused of posting political pieces when, to my mind, they are interesting for sociological reasons.

As politics has become more contentious in recent years, both parties have staked out more and more things as "theirs", which promotes people seeing information that is for or against (or even just about, and confirmation bias does the rest) one of these areas as being political.

There's likely also an increased number of political articles as well, which contributes it's own little bit.
Well done, cwkoss. Well done. That is all.
Secret Service, presumably
If we have a sufficient corpus of flagged and flagged killed submission. Maybe we can train a classifier for it. And maybe send for review if the confidence of the classifier is high enough for a new post.
It does look cool. Without looking at details I'd guess slow if it's running in the prolog interpreter instead of the native compilation SBCL does.
If only there was a group of people dedicated to archiving content... I dunno, maybe archive.org (aka "The Internet Archive")?

They even have a CNN section including a full recording of their broadcast on the morning of 9/11 [0]. I'm not going to waste the time watching this to see if they miss-reported some detail or not because I've got better things to do.

I don't see how blockchain helps here still; the problem with storing video is that copyright is complicated and there's a lot of it which costs a lot to store, not that we don't have the means to store and audit it.

> that level of trust and audibility would be nice in this era of conspiracies and fake news

Being able to see changes to articles doesn't actually help with those problems. Better journalistic practices help. People thinking critically helps. Removing the absurd click-bait headlines we've ended up on might help. Making news not be for-profit might help (related to the former). Changing the format of the fake news doesn't make it any less fake.

It seems like blockchain is being used as this idealistic thing which surely, if implemented, would not suffer from as many or more flaws than the status quo, when in reality no blockchain based thing has reached mainstream usability or mainstream users yet (arguably excepting bitcoin).

[0]: https://archive.org/details/CNN_20010911_130000_CNN_Live_Thi...
Advertisers allege Facebook failed to disclose key metric error for over a year
One of my favorite movies growing up was Pirates of Silicon Valley (excellent movie, even today) and they portrayed that scene exactly the same as Gates recalled it.
> There also is no guarantee that the license will be found to obey the Open Source Definition, and therefore no guarantee that it will be approved.

This shouldn't be surprising -- it blatantly violates the spirit of section 9 (if not the actual wording). I would be quite shocked if the OSI decides the new license is "open source".

> 9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software. The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software.

I wonder what RMS / the FSF have to say about it...
I confess I also fear the clever and diligent when the are put in a situation which rewards complexity. The role of architect, for example.

At large companies the output of architects is generally things like directives, white papers, and other agglomerations of words. They are expected to be smart. Can non-technical executives judge the actual smartness of the work? Not really. So architects often get judged by sounding smart. Confidence. Complexity. Negative judgment. Performing intellectual toughness.

That's the opposite of what I really want in a technical leader, whose job is generally best done with humility and subtlety. The best technical leaders I've worked with are quiet and make a lot of small interventions that add up to big long-term results. But that's rarely what executives are impressed by.
"Also here's a thought experiment. Why don't you use your real name instead of a username handler and post the same thoughts online." --digitalzombie, Hacker News, 2018

This is some top-tier trolling, right here. Thanks for the laugh.
Here's the js grammar[1].

Despite the worrying talk of tokenization, it looks scannerless. Yay.

One big grammar. JSX is blended in. And ecmascript versions aren't segregated. Which I didn't expect... but the motivation wasn't writing picky compilers.

[1] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-javascript/blob/m...
That's a fair reply, and I don't necessarily disagree with you (I don't have a strong opinion or much knowledge about Paul Allen in general). However, I think it's a given that people reflexively frown upon speaking ill of the recently (non-criminal) dead. Part of that may be irrational sentiment, but part of it -- IMHO -- is because after a grace period, society is generally OK with criticizing the dead into perpetuity. For example, the world (and HN) seemed nearly unanimous in grieving Steve Jobs in the days/weeks after his untimely death. But I don't think it's at all unpopular nowadays to talk about what a showboating insensitive asshole he is said to have been (e.g. Lisa Jobs's recent memoir).
Is it possible some of your perception is shaped by Terraform’s implementation? I’m not a huge fan of json/yaml/etc as a DSL but Terraform makes/made some choices that leave me empty inside. But only after I read the original issue with hundreds of comments that was then migrated by a bot to a new repo issue which is then closed after hundreds more comments because a more recent issue that’s more specific is now around and then that one is closed after dozens of comments because there’s a roll up issue.
https://hastebin.com/qoyurixoku.coffeescript

then do ctrl-shift-r
Rules of engagement
No, the chef decides what you’re going to eat. Because at that level, you pay for an original culinary experience, not to eat a well-cooked version of your favorite dish.
Yes but we also have an instution that controls interest rates, The Federal Reserve! As a poster mentioned earlier, the US also gets really good rates. Turns out being a superpower helps your credit score.

There has been lots of ink spilled with respect to lagging productivity gains and I think the at this point concern about the budget may be a factor. There are enough big problems that can be addressed (infrastructure, health care, homes, etc.) if there was enough government spending to spark to investment and growth.

I'm starting to believe that the real balancing act is a matter of controlling inflation rather than controlling the defecit.
It really depends on the topic. Certain topics get very tribal, and generally the snarkiest, least useful comments float to the top.
Rules of Engagement -- general orders about how to evaluate when it is acceptable to use violent force.
> The OSI is the founder and DEFINER of the term "open source"

No it's not. It's some random group of people that usurped the term and tried to take control of the marketing of a larger movement that was already underway and would have happened with or without them.
I think you may be misreading the intent. I've also seen several friendships destroyed because of business disagreements. I take the message as "Don't get into business with friends if you value their friendship."
except if my memory serves, it was Paul who was sleeping in a pile of dirty socks and Bill barged into the room saying that. Then the scene cuts to New Mexico
Yeah I agree with “enthusiastic consent” - that’s how sex should be (although IMO it doesn’t need to be verbal). We just need to ensure it won’t be used in court, like “what was she wearing” shouldn’t be. Combine that with encouraging women/people to say “no” and we’re very close to a solution!
Yeah...that jumped out at me. We're not a huge Azure spender--somewhere around $20K/month, though it's hard to tell--and it is a frustrating place to be coming from both AWS and Google.

I probably would have a much better time of it if I even had a TAM to talk to instead of a CSP (and that's a baked-in problem on our end, but Azure looks and feels worse every day when you have to go through a CSP--Microsoft would do well to jettison the whole thing, it makes their product worse) and I'd have a great time of it if I had an Azure product team invested in fixing the problems I have. Which are legion. Mostly around the bad APIs and stuff like "oh yeah, the AD connector for Ruby is broken and has been for a year, just monkey-patch it like so"...but, funnily enough, also around security, which the blog post kind of just waves off as "oh but you can encrypt". Yeah, sure, they have a KMS, but IAM is a constant and complete tire fire, so even though you can encrypt your data, who knows if it's correctly protected?
Clearly. However, given the amount of time since WWII and the fact that the secret service is the only "SS" to be hiring out of in this time period, it's a waste of time being a stickler and pseudo-offended thinking one might be calling people literal Nazis...

Regardless of how unscrupulous FB may or may not be.
What is this "downside risk" that exists for common stock and not preferred stock?
Darpa envisions soldiers swarming with 250 robots simultaneously in urban combat
Cloud Computing is the new RDBMS, you are tightly coupled to your provider
Perhaps my comment was the prime example ]=

What I meant is:

Three years ago, HackerNews seemed (to me) to be a forum for intellectuals to discuss things business/tech-y. Opinions were mostly well thought out. When they weren't, they were challenged (thanks for calling me out [= ).

Now it just seems like the break-room banter. A lot of sensationalist articles seem to make the front page. A lot of purely comedic comments (which I do appreciate). A lot more unfounded anecdotes. A lot of promotional posts, etc.

Also -- and I'm admittedly putting on my tin hat here -- I've seen a lot of discussions that seem like they're just troll accounts trying to further polarize the community.

Maybe I'm part of the problem ]=
Not exactly (Gates was in bed, Allen chucks him the magazine), but the feeling was portrayed fantastically.
Does anyone have experience working with Snowflake? I feel like what their promising is too good to be true and their website is extremely lacking in substantive details.
"Emily Moreno, the app’s founder and a former aide to Sen. Marco Rubio"

Seems unlikely in this case.
Based on the README, hcl looks like a small and fairly sane extension to JSON. What do you dislike about it?
Banks are responsible to keep my money safe - by moving it to a safer place, deploying guards, alarms and mechanisms, insuring it...
For example, at Sukiyabashi Jiro you get whatever the chef has prepared for the menu that today. Part of this is practical, the fish that will be used is usually purchased that very morning, and part of it is the quality of the restaurant. This isn't unique to Japan's concept of "choose to leave it to the chef" (omakase).

[0] https://www.sushi-jiro.jp/dining-at-jiro/
When you ask FFTW to construct a plan, it benchmarks a variety of options and uses the fastest one.

> FFTW_MEASURE tells FFTW to find an optimized plan by actually computing several FFTs and measuring their execution time. Depending on your machine, this can take some time (often a few seconds). FFTW_MEASURE is the default planning option.

> FFTW_PATIENT is like FFTW_MEASURE, but considers a wider range of algorithms and often produces a “more optimal” plan (especially for large transforms), but at the expense of several times longer planning time (especially for large transforms).

> FFTW_EXHAUSTIVE is like FFTW_PATIENT, but considers an even wider range of algorithms, including many that we think are unlikely to be fast, to produce the most optimal plan but with a substantially increased planning time.

http://www.fftw.org/fftw3_doc/Planner-Flags.html

I believe this sort of technique is used for some cryptography libraries as well, but I don't have any specifics.
What is the actual power difference between facing and glancing?

e.g imagine a building with a flat horizontal roof covered in PV panels, vs the roof being angled such that the tangent of the roof is directly to where the sun is at noon at the height of summer (or maybe peak of winter? after all less hours of sun could mean max peak exposure is more important then? I have no idea).

It seems like angled to face the sun would make more power at times when the sun is in the right place, but it seems like such an angled roof would lose sunlight earlier/gain it later during the day, vs a horizontal one.

Clearly that intuition is incorrect as far as actual power output goes (otherwise people wouldn't have angled solar panels :D), but I'm curious what the difference in effective power output is.
Interestingly, you managed to illustrate the O(n) debate above pretty well.

O(n) is short hand for here is "what happens when n gets large, but it I'm telling you nothing about when n is small". For example some sorts are O(n log(n)) and some are O(n^2). Naturally for big sorts O(n log(n)) is preferable - but when n is 5 say the O(n^2) will often be faster. People use O(n) precisely because it carries all this unsaid nuance.

In your example you probably have upwards of 30 instructions but possibly hundreds, which sits comfortably in the big side of things. If there was a way to reduce that to an O(1) solution (which implies that if you can add many new instructions without adding lines of code) then you've coded it badly - but we all know that's not possible for a micro controller emulator.

In his example he used O(n), but implied a O(1) solution is possible. The same logic applies. His use of Big-O means for large n, it's possible to add many new cases without adding code. If that is true, his solution is far better than the one wanted by the interviewer. However, it's likely n was small because this code had to be written for a job interview. It's entirely possible he managed to find a enough commonality in those small number of cases to reduce it to being 6 lines, while in the real world problem is indeed O(n). In that case the correct solution depends on the instructions he was given - whether he was asked to solve this particular problem in an optimal fashion, or demonstrate how he would solve the problem in general using those n cases as an illustration.

He doesn't say, so we don't know. His use of O(n) does hint - but the grey beards among us would like to see proof the problem really can be solved with O(1) and the interviewer was demanding an O(n) solution despite that. It does seem like a really weird thing to demand.
Good question! Turns out Wikipedia has some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_order
"fobbit" means refers to military personnel, so they would be beneficiaries of veteran preferences. How many of those jobs with veteran preference are yet more specific about giving preference to infantry or those who have directly been in combat?
Hacker News' evolution feels a lot like Slashdot's, which also had it's roots in hardcore tech.

I hope it doesn't impact the content or discussion too much.
And even more as interest rates rise
Well, I posted a tweet recently about the difficulties facing (some?) Native Americans in registering to vote. I hesitated to post it knowing it was clearly a political subject. But my interest was in how it was a kind of "bug" in the political system.

Most likely, the two things were not specifically intended to disenfranchise Native voters. Neither taken alone is malicious. Taken together, the outcome is de facto disenfranchisement.

I'm very slightly Cherokee. I've begun following more Native American twitter accounts and I started a new blog to explore my Native heritage a bit. I've posted a number of items about Native issues because that's something I happen to be reading here lately.

There's no political agenda there, though I keep waiting to be accused of such. I post things I happen to trip across. HN can upvote or flag (or just ignore) as it sees fit.

I've largely given up on predicting what works here. I have essentially zero ability to do that.
Different SS, often styled as USSS: https://www.secretservice.gov/
They've tried floating hotels before, generally they aren't successful.

The problem with floating hotels is that they're all the disadvantages of cruise ships, mixed with the disadvantages of a hotel.

Like a cruise ship, you're still on a relatively small floating building, which limits the activities you can do, and you also have to deal with sea sickness and storms. Like a hotel you're stuck in one place, the main drawcard of cruise ships is that you're cruising between locations.

Now instead of a floating hotel, you could turn it into a little sovereign floating town for libertarians. People have proposed this and made efforts to manifest such a libertarian utopia, but have never actually succeeded.
How CryptoSource Eliminates Fake News with BloomID
Everyone is playing kick the can.

A more sane economy is unlikely to outgrow the existing (at least one paper), so that isn't a viable route out.

What's left is that some day, one of the financial disasters turns into a real collapse. We're talking a sufficient run on the banks that people stop believing that banks really have money. The last time this happened was 1933, and it was resolved by FDR closing all banks, auditing their books, deciding which to save, and then opening them up again.

Given our tighter electronic integration these days, the complications are likely to be greater. Think credit cards being refused, ATMs not working, and general chaos. For values of chaos that include people not knowing if their employers can pay, or how to buy food in supermarkets.

The possibility of that happening was the nightmare scenario that was used to convince lawmakers to pass TARP a decade ago. And it is a nightmare with a low but non-zero probability of happening each crisis.

Unfortunately every time we face that threat and successfully get rescued the markets become more convinced that big players will be rescued the next time as well. Which encourages more extreme financial brinksmanship and makes the next crisis more likely. That phenomena is called "moral hazard". See also "too big to fail".
Not really recent. I read Bloomberg often and don't notice a concerted effort to make China look bad. Negative stories come out regularly and not infrequently but that should be considered normal. There are just as many non negative stories and quite a few positive ones as well. What I will agree with though is that the negative ones have a way of making their way to HN while the positive ones don't. That's really disappointing but that's what HNers up vote so would not blame Bloomberg for this.
Why are all the examples of bad political news ones that have a right-bent to them?
Yes, the US government could simply print all the money it needs then pay off all it's creditors.

But how would those creditors respond? They would refuse to lend in US dollars in future, and the US government and private companies would be forced to borrow in a foreign currency. Net result is that the US loses a valuable asset - the ability to borrow in its own currency - and becomes more like Turkey or Argentina.
> I certainly don't post things to promote any kind of political agenda per se.

Posting factual and informative articles is promoting a certain kind of political agenda, truth-based.
Because printing more money isn't an option for one thing. It might be a short term fix for some things, but in the long run it just devalues the currency and lowers the US credit rating, with the worst case scenario being hyperinflation.

Also, there's the question of who owns all that debt that the US relies on for its continued existence. For example, China owns a big chunk of it, like ~$1.2 trillion. They buy tons of US Treasury bonds because they're considered a safe investment. China gives the US a bunch of money up front, and the US has to give China a bunch more money back in the future, like over the course of 10 years. A lot of Americans also own US bonds, which help fund the debt, but they own them because they're a safe investment, not because they want to lend the government money.

So, as long as the US is in debt, it's forced to rely on other countries and its own credit rating to keep it going. That's a problem. And at some point, the sheer amount of debt will lower that credit rating, making those US bonds less of a safe investment, and that would be the tipping point at which everything starts falling apart. It will be much harder to fund deficit spending, which could snowball into printing money, then fast forward 5 years and boom, zombie apocalypse (or at least a potential Venezuela or Weimar Republic type situation).

TL;DR: the deficit is an existential threat the US if it's not kept under control.
You have a ridiculously optimistic view of the US population if you think that 10% of us could become Navy SEALs.
> the EU uses common law

As far as I know this is not true.
> Toiling away unpaid

I’d hazard a guess that even the most prolific open source individual contributors use more open source software written by others than they contribute to.

Nobody individually, could really ‘pull their weight’ with respect to contributing back to the community. I doubt most corporations could feasibly contribute back more software than they use, even if they tried.
I don't get this? What would you prefer, that MS azure is not willing/able/available to those who would want to build something on their platform?

Why would you expect them not to be engaged?

If the idea is that you would prefer them to not be required in order to accomplish such a deployment, then maybe azures tech/offering matured such that the next snowflake like company will not need such close support.

Your comment makes no sense to me.
A social network that saves data on the blockchain
In this case I was referring to administrative/logistical related contractor workers who rarely left base perimeters - who also qualified as fobbits.