skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The license for JSON is an example of this. https://www.json.org/license.html

> The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.

IBM requested, and received, an exemption...

> I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.

which apparently pleased their lawyers.
"Today's online documents are like yesterday's paper—flat, lifeless, inactive."

I'd argue that today's online documents (HTML+CSS+JS+Backend) are the exact opposite of "yesterday's paper—flat, lifeless, inactive"
I wonder if this includes married men. Maybe those just don't think of their spouse as a close friend although she actually is.
oh i guess i sorta took this for granted, this is how I've been releasing music for the last decade or so. just make a song, upload it, and then compile conceptually related songs into an album later when enough material has been accrued. granted, I've only released about 7 albums so far but I have 8 more planned to be released in the near future when I can get around to making album art for all of them
It's true of some large companies, yes. But it's still extraordinarily uncommon overall. Zuck's Facebook arrangement was essentially unique at the time of the IPO, and Facebook's success led to more founders on unicorn trajectory demanding and receiving similar terms, but it's still far from the norm.
I know there are always reasons, but I feel that restrictions on selling should be focused at the leadership or investor class. Locking up your employees while allowing leadership to cash out is a surefire way to piss on any goodwill that you may have built over time.

Also, it strikes me as just fundamentally wrong from a fiduciary point of view.
Alternatively...alien anthropologist/spy/fugitive/tourist/etc's disguise technology partly fails, revealing non-human blood. MiB neuralyzes witnesses and plants the methemoglobinemia story.
They literally put a bag of ball bearings into the hollow interior of an enriched uranium sphere (to prevent its accidental implosion which would set off the bomb). Even scarier they didn't really know if this would actually work, but it was better than doing nothing.
It has to be something ungoogleable and be a word that's commonly used in everyday life. I'm thinking "grub" or even "food"
If the options are expiring, the company can choose to 1) foot the tax bill for the employee via payment or buyback, or 2) reissue the options as RSUs. Only some companies make that choice, but it's certainly legally possible to work through the 10-year legal expiration for ISOs.

I know this from experience, but here is a reference with good detail (no affiliation): https://www.founderscircle.com/10-year-expiration-of-incenti...
Or perhaps men and women are innately different after hundreds of thousands of generations of sexually dimorphic evolution, and this affects the manner in which they socialize?

It seems we've brainwashed an entire generation into believing that all differences in male and female are purely social constructs - which is total nonsense.
What kind of company that is controlled by a single man insists on branding itself as “we”?

Even the name of the company is a bold-faced lie.
Unless they're leasing out space at a loss, they should be able to turn a profit by reining in costs and slowing growth. Some of its harshest critics said it needs to be valued more like Regus and not like a tech company.
I hope so too. The way this change happened however leaves a really bad taste, and not in the least due to whatever Stallman has said or done.
Yeah and it's not only that. I didn't think it through. We're not at peak stuff ownership either.

If we were, then we'd see wealthy people living in average-size houses. As is, however, wealthy still live in bigger houses, presumably buy more stuff to fill them, than those without the money to do so.

This all implies if/when average income rises, stuff ownership will continue to rise with it.
Nah, this isn't like Theranos.

In reality, it is a very good product with slim margins. The reason it is losing so much money is because it is expanding quickly to show that it is a "high growth" Unicorn company.

It isn't that it's a scam, it just puts it is a non-tech/non-SaaS category. Every founder/CEO wants to tell a huge growth story. If private investors are buying that then it's just that they miscalculated, but not defrauded.
This. Answer “pg!” without any clue of what the objective is, and you'll end up with surprises like “oh, you know, this is for a revolutionary concept where people can check in their source code at different stages of development, so that they have a history of their changes and can restore an older version if needed” or “hey, we've followed your expert recommendations but now we're facing some availability issue after a link to our shiny new search engine made the front page of HN and Slashdot”. Migrating from pg to git or SOLR is not really enjoyable, and you can't reuse much of what you've done (unlike when migrating one SQL database to another).
No, they don't, and they usually don't answer to emails asking for it.
You may be lucky finding it at pudn.com or other datasheet-sharing websites, but not officially from them.
Communism!!!
Telegram has a 105% score? Is that expected or a bug?
This just hit the frontpage so the server might be a bit overloaded, I'm sorry. Trying to resize resources right now. Thanks for the heads up, in the long term (ideally) noise shouldn't be a huge problem in a sufficiently large dataset (or at least I'm already expecting some noise haha)
I couldn’t care less about tango either. For my friends, video games are a great platform for socializing.

I’ve always enjoyed games like Pokémon, Age of Empires, WoW so my friends and I schedule time to play together.

We played AoE II together recently and it was super fun, even though we repeatedly get stomped by the hard AI.
He asks her out on a date. She says no. He moves on.

Is the Wired article mis-representing the gist of Christine Corbett Moran's complaint?

Or is the author subtly trying to undermine her?
This. By chance I started reading the manual for Postgres yesterday and it actually filled some holes I had in knowledge. It's amazingly structured and verbose with extremely clear examples. The PG manual is literally a 0-to-hero resource for everything SQL related.
I understand this, but it's shifty because they already sold a physical good at a certain cost at an agreed upon price. If they can't stand to offer the thing they already sold at a price they already got paid then maybe they should charge more.

The way this is phrased it's
just differing margins for the same physical good and no additional cost for the manufacturer to justify a higher price. (Not sure if this is an accurate assessment, but that is what I get from the comment.)
Bug, one of the components of the score is not properly normalized I think. I'll fix it as soon as I handle the traffic overload :)
Question, because I don’t know how this works. Who sets the valuation on a company?

Does a CEO have anything to do with that, or is it wholly external?
> if you experience this then you are: bad at setting your own boundaries, bad at mate selection, or bad at friend selection.

Indeed, many men are bad at some of those things. Attraction to a partner can be such a powerful motivation that one rushes to establish the relationship without thinking or caring about the effect it will have on one's social life. Then, once one is already married, there is a fairly widespread expectation that one’s social life has to acquiesce to what the spouse is comfortable with, and attempting to "set boundaries" in this matter would be inappropriate.

> Men are not victims here.

My post above concerned men because the linked article is about men, but it is people in general who are the victims here. I suspect that many women face the same problem in being unable to freely interact with their friends due to husbands who don't like their friend group.
Show HN: Komplish – Turn your todo list into your Résumé
I haven’t found near infrared radiation referenced in the article - I‘m using near infrared as a brain hack, by shining a cheap 850nm LED light on my forehead. This has, over the last 2 years, enabled me to code for weeks on end, for 12+ hours a day, with only minor cognitive decline. It’s not something I really want to do, but sometimes it’s useful.

Before I started the near infrared routine (~5 minutes every other day), 5-6 hours of coding per day was all I could do - eg after coding for 8h, I noticed serious cognitive and emotional decline, and might need to do less the following day. Not anymore - nowadays I can be productive whenever I’m awake, with little side effects. Near infrared radiation is safe (thousands of studies demonstrated only very mild side effects), and is even used to treat Alzheimer’s. I have no idea why its beneficial effects are not more widely known - for some people, it’s life changing.

Sidenote: 850nm light works way better for me than 830nm.
This was in older versions. From 5.7 ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY is enabled by default.
It should be pretty close to 100%, though, they seem to be super privacy friendly!
Life Lessons from a 97-Year-Old Lobsterman
Google Announces Free Android/Kotlin Developer Courses – Thurrott.com
Healthcare's Distortion of the US Economy
The discussion has already been debased given that it’s about a nothing-burger PR piece filled with doublespeak.

My comment is about changing social norms to improve society. Perhaps my tone is a bit harsh, but on the object level I believe my comment is more constructive than the interview.

And on the point of tone, frankly, I think that people generally are far too polite in response to rhetorical deception.
I have and have had regular conversations with the delivery folk about this topic, and even as recently as last week they still don't see any difference in their tip. As a result I switched to putting in 0 tip and giving cash when I have it, and have significant confirmation that a large number of people in my area do something similar.
> women claim it exclusively as theirs

This way of putting things, as if groups like "women" or "men" were clubs with decision making processes, is absurd and only serves to cause division and infighting.
There were a lot of electricians on the Death Star...
They need many millions of lines of open source just to serve a html page... from kernel to Firefox and every bit of hardware between. Take away the open source and they need billions in proprietary software licenses. Take away the open source and Facebook didn't get written with PHP and MySQL. Take away the open source and Amazon has to license Oracle and MSSQL and Windows instead of profiting off MongoDB and PostgreSQL.

Amazon are still actively migrating away from Oracle because it "doesn't scale", what they mean is proprietary software bills per CPU core or server so it scales proportionately to Amazon's own profits. This is just one way FAANG leverages open source to save hundreds of millions of dollars a year in their own operations. Google forked MySQL for their advertising empire instead of licensing MSSQL or Oracle.

I do not believe you could even count the full extent they are dependent on open source without ripping it all out and watching them crumble. What's it worth to FB when every job candidate is highly proficient in React? Without open source culture driving self-education, without open source community in place to embrace React, React needs a 2 - 3 month training course for all newly-hired engineers!
I would assume Dalton's law of partial pressures would apply.
I don't have a single friend who I could ask to meet for a drink/socially. When I was 20 I had numerous close friends, but no wife and family, which have now replaced my friends.

The relationship I have with my family I feel is much higher quality than I had with my friends.

Friends (like family) can be hard work, maintaining friendships takes time and effort and I'm not willing to put in that effort, and I'm cool with that.

I think it is too simplistic to say having no close friends is good or bad, it depends on your outlook.
Great work! Would also work as a browser plugin.
Agreed, this was a really good book.

"American Experince" also turned the book into a film, which was pretty true to the book and worth a watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(film)
Hell, it took me hours to straighten out my update to iOS 13 because my backup had trouble restoring... not the first time that’s happened either! Can’t remember the last workday (programmer) where I got through the whole thing without encountering bugs in my tools, bugs in my bank’s app/website, bugs while trying to text a photo to a friend, and on and on and on.

If I want to hack my consciousness, I’ll go read a book. Naked Lunch was enough of a brain bug, thanks. Or how about Black Mirror?

And once we get past not knowing wtf we’re doing, take a look at how we’ve weaponized every major scientific advance and tell me this would be the exception. Rabble-rousing and voter manipulation on social media will look like arts and crafts hour.
It does seem odd and convenient to say I’ve got no problem making money from this part of the government but I won’t sell to that part of the government. It’s the same Congress and President making decisions for all the parts. Either it’s beyond the pale or it isn’t. I mean, would you do business with ISIS so long as the particular sub-project you were providing material for was innocuous?
Slim margins means it isn't a great product, at least by standard business definitions.

A product with slim margins is one that you divest from so you can focus on the products with good margins.
If all you want to do is make money, you should enter finance instead of tech.
Intelligence testing only gives meaningful results when it is convenient, and promptly stops working when it isn't: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/iq-tests-are-fund...
This is interesting, but I wonder what a boilerplate privacy policy would score. Given the clustering of scores between 30 & 50% for what read like "our lawyers pulled the standard policy and billed us for 4 hours of minor tweaks", it seems like some of the most effective privacy advocacy would come by challenging the most common "dangerous sentences" in court.
Needs (2016) added at the end. (Might be older, could not find anything on archive.org before Jan 2016)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10870488
I am a broadcast film editor PBS, Nat Veo BBC etc..many shows need this parallax effect to engage viewers with stills. At present the After effects production of this effect is time consuming and expensive. Please keep in touch with me if you bring an app to market or offer a service to process our 3D stills. Simonhollandfilms@gmail.com
Friendster?
Yep, I read their policy. I just wasn't sure if extra credit existed.
I also feel that SoftBank has some turbulence in it's future, at least on the mega fund side of things.
Maybe barely-rivaled energy density, range, reliability or repairability?
Intelligence is hard to improve upon because it's poorly defined (as you noted). However, specific parts of it can be trained and targeted, eg short term memorization and recall, number of productive hours awake (especially on little sleep), ability to hold strong emotions at bay.

Medications that address such things this may not "improve intelligence", but at the end of the day, if they let someone concentrate and be productive for 18 hours in a day, with no "hangover" the next, or lets them visualize complex protein makeup while altered, with enough retained to write up a scientific paper about said protein when sober, isn't that close enough for the pop-sci definition of "improved intelligence"? What the person is able to do with them, is still better than if they did not. Nootropics and micro-dosing are popular topics for those trying to use medication to improve overall effectiveness, in the quest for the drug that's still science fiction featured in the movie Limitless.
I was referring to the quality of the product from the customer POV.
Well it can't hurt.

Making me better at dealing with stress is a win.

Giving me enough space so that I can recognize the source of the stress is the next win. Having the space to determine the best next course of action is the next win after that. This usually involves consulting with others. Finally, having that little oomph to put in the work to make the change is the big tipping point.

But it's totally worth it even if all you get the the first win.
Nice read! I keep wanting to learn more about the hardware to build something myself. Only simulations so far. Analog computers are absolutely fascinating. I feel like there is a lot of lost lore in that field.
Not really. It’s possible for women to say, “I love your earrings,” and be best friends ten minutes later. I dare you to try that as a man.
> I don't wanna tango :(

What do you want to do?
I used to do non-smoking "smoking" breaks with my smoker friends at work. Why should I be denied 10minutes of non-work every hour or two !
Depends what you call an accomplishment. I guess my fields are "web development", music, and deep learning.

I've published over 100 open source modules and projects across the "full stack". I have "live-coded" dozens of musical compositions (mathy algo music).

I haven't published any proofs or arxiv papers (yet), but I can both engineer data pipes and code deep learning models from scratch. That is to say, I'm a good programmer, I learned the math, grokked the principles, and can actively stay on top of the latest research and implementations. Who knows, maybe I have good ideas in this wide open field, too.
> high tech

WeWork?
I think it's mostly due to the phrase "toxic masculinity"; it's far too easy to misunderstand it as "masculinity is toxic" - and it doesn't help when someone asks for examples; stuff like stoicism and strength can come up. These aren't toxic. I've also spoken to people who actually believe independence (and wanting to be independent) is toxic.

As this is mostly a branding problem, I want to say I recently came across the phrase "Man Box"[1]. That might be a better phrase to use?

[1] Example: https://mindfulmasculinity.com/blog/manbox
Yeah, a new era of brain damage, irrationality and emotions winning over facts. Congratulations.
This is the portrayal that is depicted in Turn originally on AMC. One thing that is overlooked by this article is the role of the British military culture. They were immensely corrupt and happy to sit ensconced in New York with officer’s commissions while nearly bankrupting the English crown. A man like Arnold was not satisfied to simply beat them on the battlefield. And when they refused to come out to the battlefield, his contempt turned to jealousy of his British counterparts and hatred for his former revolutionary comrades. There’s no question he sought company in a wife and in laws who sympathized with the British because if he were to execute a supreme betrayal he would need solace and comfort at home. Ultimately what he wanted was the spoils of war and he went to any length to get it - so much so that his behavior disgusted even the corrupt British military. Arnold was no hero. He was simply a sociopath.
tldr: They worked with an Alibaba manufacturer that already made recycled shorts, and a designer to make their design. The rest is branding.
I remember some years ago that people were pirating radio stations through a peer-to-peer streaming client, but I can't remember what it was called and I never looked at the internals.
I like how he points out the texture of the bark. It's extremely smooth, and cool to the touch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctostaphylos
The outrage, not disagreement, over his comments are thoughtless but that is the mob and that is he internet. I doubt most folks really upset by RMS even read the thread.
I've had the complete opposite experience. For a while, I was in a situation where I went into the office one or two days a week, and worked from home the rest of the time - now I work from home one day a week, sometimes not at all.

It's made me really, really hate dealing with other people, and when I go home, I want to go out in the woods or work in my garage or basement, completely, blessedly alone.

Human interaction is great if it is voluntary and purposeful, but when it is just a shitty default constant, it's a prison.
What was her complaint exactly? Are men not supposed to ask her out?
America had declared its independence years before his betrayal, and he threw his lot in with the Continental Army which he then betrayed.
It is truely 2019 when Stallman gets nailed for something he didn’t say, while Wired, Vice and god knows how many medium blogs celebrate this as “progress”.
> Meetings outside the working hours?! Where is this common?

If you have people in, for example, London and San Francisco, how can you possibly have a meeting inside both people's 9-5 working hours?
It sounds like some of his specific crimes could be mitigated as whistleblowing, but it also sounds like the main thing he's being prosecuted for is extortion that, if true, is fairly blatant, not whistleblowing, and clearly a crime.
Went from Python to Haskell. About to head back to Python for new work, but I will miss the hell out of the type system. Yeah the ecosystem isn't quite up to snuff in Haskell but man does it cut down on bugs. Hopefully the QoL libraries continue to evolve and eventually it becomes a no-brainer.
It is possible now. Just not in great detail. It can not tell exactly what you are thinking but given responses to various stimuli it could infer where one non explicit loyalties lie. It would essentially be a super lie detector.
There's a lot you didn't say so it's hard to even understand what you mean, much less provide a tactical advice.

What is "tech company" and "tech work"? Are you a programmer writing code? A technician that sets up routers? A sysadmin setting up software for others? Were you setting up

What exactly were you doing? In what way that work was "passive" (and what does it even mean)?

And how do you determine what is "value-creating"?

Is "value" in this context "money" or some more philosophical "value to the world"?

If it's money, do you mean "your salary" or the monetary value of the thing you helped create? (you can be creating very valuable things for your employer but be paid little, and vice versa).

I assume it was paid internship. So someone was paying you to do what you did. Were they idiots (i.e. paying you for doing things that don't create value) or did you create value but it wasn't reflected in your paycheck?

Once we know all that, we can start to give advice.

Without this information: there are plenty of jobs that are meaningful, create value to the world and are well paid. Find one.

Get a job at Google and at the very least you'll be well compensated
You say easy, but I know it's not easy, and it's also not very rewarding the way they use you. I'm not a beginner to working for schools, cities, or the tech industry. If it was easy, they would look at my resume, check my references, grant me what i need to do the work, and then set me free to do it.
If I understand you, you’re saying that Boz didn’t lie, he just said the truth in so subtle a way that other social predators pick up on it, but that seems nice to normal people.

That’s a deception even worse than lying!

Lie or not, this style of communication demands stricter sanctions.
Being a massive control freak over how people express themselves is anything BUT polite. That is why HN gets its well-deserved reputation.
Yet, there are a lot of black professional basketball players. Go figure.
It uses UDP because the internet is broken and there no practical way to add a new layer 4 transport that won't be blocked, dropped, or deprioritized by misconfigured middlemen.
In my filter bubble RMS was getting more and more important as more and more of his predictions became true. Now more than ever are software freedoms at risk, thanks to Software As A Service Substitute. I find it sad that his career ends in this way and hope that his legacy will live on.