skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On HN, everyone sees the same things - the same front page, the same comments, and so on. On sites like Twitter and Facebook, this is not the case. What's good for a site like HN isn't necessarily what's good for a site like Twitter.
> As it is, nginx is licensed under BSD

That has just been cast into doubt.

> copyright of the original nginx project are reassigned

Not reassigned. It would be found to never have been licensed.

> need only replicate something resembling the original codebase

Which is impossible without it becoming derived of the original. If you want to apply a patch to something it must first look like the original. A good chunk of the patches will have been derived from the original substantially. Which means they'd need to be rewritten too.

> the prospective future "owners" of nginx cannot realistically hope to control

Yes they could exert a lot of power and force people into paying. A clean-room effort would take a year! In that year they could go after everybody who is distributing old copies.

This is as bad as it gets if that company is found to own copyright.
Brainstorming a bit on this. Curious for other ideas:

Start with asking questions about how work is assigned/doled out. Where does all of their work come from, the Agile board? Someone stopping by and asking "can you do x" or "can you help Jill with Y".

Follow that up by digging into how they then talk to others about their progress on that work. Ask if they're interrupted or allowed to progress independently? How often does someone ask them "Is that done yet?"

Ask about how often they're asked about the status of the same piece of work by different people. Dig into how they keep everyone else apprised of what they're doing.

Ask them about their relationship with their Scrum Master, Project Manager, Product Owner, Dev Manager, etc. Ask what they could change about it if they could.

That line of questions may uncover the micromanagement pattern. Even if it doesn't, it will go a long ways in helping you get a feel for how a team works.
I'll just copy paste anc84's answer here from last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18646650)

"And it is (falsely[0]) patented, proprietary and generally deemed a bad thing by programmers and geofolk all around. Some previous criticisms:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614198

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17423251

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15579017

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15580809
"
Easiest animal the general public can interact with. In my area they will really try to do what you want, if they can figure it out, for cashews :-).

I have tried different ways to train them to bring me hobby drones or their parts. I figured it would make for a cheap defense against random drone surveillance.
The thorny exterior, as well as the character's propensity for impaling its victims on the Tree of Thorns and letting them hang there for eternity.
Wait, I won't be able to undervolt my CPU? What abput on linux? Intel decided that disabling functionality is a solution? Time for another PS3-type lawsuit.
are you referring to industry retaliation? maybe she has PTSD about her experience as an engineer getting sexually harassed
I find the interface to be really powerful once I got accustomed it, took some time though. I use it for hiking, motorcycling, measuring distance, searching places and public transport, etc. Its easily one of my most used apps on my mobile
Millennials Are Leaving Religion and Not Coming Back
Maybe I’m too sensitive to the phrase “on fire”. I can’t imagine someone at a factory starting a meeting the same way.
This is a very important detail if true!
My bad translation of a related part from Sysoev's interview to a russian journal "Hacker"[0] made in 2012:

- Interesting: you were working at Rambler while developing nginx. Did Rambler had any rights? That's a subtle question. How did you manage to keep the rights for project?

Yes, that is a subtle question. It interests others beside you, and we thoroughly worked on that. Russian law works this way: the company has the right on anything which was in employee's field of work or by it's own contract. So there has to be a contract with someone with purpose "to make a software product". In Rambler I was a system administrator, I'd developed in my free time, product was distributed under BSD license since the beginning, as an open-source software. Rambler started using it after the main features were ready. More than that, even the first usage was outside of Rambler, it were Rate.ee and zvuki.ru websites.

[0] https://habr.com/ru/company/xakep/blog/136354/
Yes, this is another big thing about it
I’d certainly be interested in information about how it works - I’m sure many others would be interested in reading too
To be clear: Sberbank bought 46.5%
>take into account the sorry state of public services, which tax money is meant to support. It's a chicken-and-egg problem,

I would argue it's not a chicken/egg problem, the money has to come before the public services. The government isn't going to borrow a ton of money to improve services on the off chance that it's citizens will voluntarily start to pay taxes at a proper rate.
Her whistleblowing doesn't seem to me the kind that should create distrust. It's not as if she taped conversations relating to financial practices. She stood up to a company culture that a lot of qualified observers thought toxic.

Anyway, it's well that she sounds cheerful. She seems to have been quite good at what she did in tech, and I hope that she will consider going back to it.

[edit: corrected spelling of "observers"]
> In fact, we were never able to view the contents of his phone

They were also never able to learn what was said in the van before the London Bridge attack [1]. Are we okay with Renault providing a law-free space inside their vehicles? All cars should be equipped with always-on microphones. But don't worry! The audio will be encrypted, and only accessible with a warrant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_London_Bridge_attack

Edit: Just to make sure - this is satire, and the logical extension of believing people shouldn't be allowed to keep any secrets.

Responding in edit due to posting limit (way to make sure downvoted comments can't explain or defend themselves):

They can also record the person typing in their password, or recording the screen with cameras, or hardware or software bugs once they have a password to access the phone.

The analogy works perfectly, and while they may say the will not "treat an encryption backdoor like a universal bug", that's exactly what it is.
Very good question.

Moderation is the only known effective solution. Some times.

FAANGs and others abandoned human moderation because it "doesn't scale".

So what? When did we decide that scale was more important than civility?

--

I also have questions.

What is the feedback loop? For every medium, every style of communication?

How do we break those loops into discrete steps? Then where can we add friction? To slow down the negative psychological and sociological pathologies.

Defuse, disable those dopamine hits we all get from these social interactions. Maybe even figure out how to make it a positive feedback loop.
F5 buys Nginx, then months later there are suddenly copyright claims and raids relating to the founder having left a former company in 2012...
Yes, new areas added by this system will have hazard=minefield.
For iOS, I've been using Go Map!! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/go-map/id592990211 Not as nice as StreetComplete but adequate to add some additional data where needed while on the go.
I am a daily and happy user of Mastodon. I honestly see no reason to use Twitter, nor one of their products at this time. Calling it now: too little, too late.
I live in a southern EU country, and that's very rare here, in my experience. The only cases I can think of in the last decade were home repair people. Even car mechanics stopped doing that.
And for the previous 40 years Intel was always about 1 year ahead of their competitors. I would never bet against Intel, that's been a losing game for far too long.
0. Don’t do business in Russia
Modern garbage collection: A look at what the newest generation Java GCs can do
Canada Geese are not evil, they just don't take shit from humans. They can be very chill (after they have mated). They flock to my university every year and they will walk side by side around campus with the students like they're one of them.
To my surprise, I learned a few months back that mandatory deposit [1] is still actually a thing, albeit a completely unenforced thing. (I believe deposit is needed if you want to sue for damages, but in theory you're supposed to deposit in any case.)

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/mandatory_deposit.html
Neither did the Stasi.
So you think they are lying in a legally-binding document? If that's the case, they would be doing this already and this change would be irrelevant.
I had a colleague who went on a Greek island cruise and told me a story of a common tax invasion scheme he heard about. I can't say whether this is true or not as he tends to tell "tall tales". He said he noticed a lot of residential properties with tiny churches on them. He said he learned that if Greeks had a church on their property it would be taxed at a much lower rate (or perhaps not at all) and therefore everyone had these tiny one person churches on their properties.
It's not about criminals. It's just about control.
We need to adopt a no-commute culture
The paywalled paper is here:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL08...

Available through various institutions for free. You'll find the authors to be established Mars scientists who've been weighing in on the water/ice (and other things) discussions over the years.
It is a crime to lie to federal agents in the course of a criminal investigation. You can avoid committing that crime by not lying to agents.

Note that this is not the same as the "if you're honest, you have nothing to hide anyway" argument in favor of mass surveillance. This is about answering a specific set of questions from a member of law enforcement in the course of a specific investigation. You always have the right to decline to answer questions under the Fifth Amendment in that situation as well (another way to avoid telling a lie). Obviously that's not true under a regime of mass surveillance, which is one of the many reasons I think mass surveillance is a bad idea and unconstitutional.
Yes sorry, it was sarcasm.
Local foreign-invested startup at the moment
Man, I wish this is how my last place did it. Instead, if we were getting through 12 we'd commit to 14 and then the dev manager would wonder why stuff wasn't getting done.
Slightly easier to read:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1205086129504104460.html

TLDR: Igor Sysoev started Nginx while employed by Rambler, who did not then claim copyright, but now they have. The police raid is a result of that claim.
Revolutions in deployment and the cross-pollination of ideas are revolutions in development. We've had more than 150 years but we still haven't managed to get the contents of Gauss's mind distributed to all the people who would benefit from that knowledge. The practical challenges of knowing what the options are and overcoming basic engineering problems are critical in any revolution.

I hesitate to say a war is better for development than a counterfactual period of peace; but for example WWII seemed to trigger some very revolutionary activity as all the eminent scientists fleeing Europe concentrated in one place.
Also, although we know there is water ice at the poles, it's locked under a cap of frozen CO2 between 1 and 8 meters thick. This sub-surface water ice between the polar regions is comparatively much more accessible, only 2.5cm below the surface in some cases.
An example of a small Prolog program used in a perfect use-case: the advent of code of this year.

https://github.com/nitnelave/advent_of_code_2019/tree/master...

I'm doing the advent of code in a different language every day, and since the day 4 was about some constraint resolution, Prolog was the perfect tool there.
TikTok: A History [audio]
This article is about how evading tax is not very rare in places like Greece.
Cats are responsible for killing up to 25 billion animals annually and have directly contributed to the extinction of at least 33 different species.

Growing up our family cat brought us a constant stream of rabbits, birds, and moles. It is actually a problem that nobody talks about, because cats are cute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_predation_on_wildlife
Do you mind sharing how you became interested in/got started on such a project?
Not just millennials. I'm part of the rearguard of Generation X, and I renounced Christianity as soon as I had the economic freedom to do so (it's safer to be closeted when you're dependent on close-minded parents). I haven't embraced any other religion, because why should I?
Interestingly enough, they probably could. Their most recent bond yields were negative, very different from days not so long ago when their yields would be above 20%. However, I'm not sure if they have agreements with the ECB that might prevent them from issuing more debt.
I can't say I've ever seen one of those! (Except for B2C, but that's a different case)
International Art English: the language of modern art
Your reply makes me feel a bunch better about your product. Keep up the good work!
The Universal Interface
As someone who went that route previously: "there are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and whatever." That one will bite you - at best, if your tile provider allows you to "scrape" their tiles, you'll get inconsistent data. It only goes downhill from there :(
Can We Use 100% of Our Brain Capacity?
as a ratio, the number of non-Tesla’s on the road is far greater than 34:1, so Tesla’s are responsible for a disproportionate share
Entrepreneur Went from Waitress to Raising $90M for Her Fashion Startup
I think it's both. The government wants the power to see EVERYTHING because EVERYONE is a potential criminal.
A more in-depth report, https://theconversation.com/indonesian-cave-paintings-show-t...
Excise tax, Gas Tax, Tolls, Registration Fees, Inspection Fees ... Parking fee's... Cars pay their way to the point of making the country profitable in that regard...
Sorry, but abuse of power by a federal institution that once upon a time harassed MLK isn't partisan, it's a problem.

The USA political system fosters a short term focus on who gets to be king of the hill, at the expense of reforming this shit show.

We get it: orange man bad. But guess what? Orange man didn't create this system. That was done over decades. Orange man didn't start a needless war that cost trillions and the deaths of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens. Obama, who I voted for twice, not counting my primary votes for him, kept us in Afghanistan, and didn't pardon Snowden, but did pardon Chelsea Manning.

I don't care if this helps orange man a little bit, because he will be gone in a few years, worst case scenario, a few months best case. But the smooth talking, non offensive marketing figurehead for the other party will hopefully not have so much power to abuse when they take office.
Yeah the constant stream of dead wild animals at the paws of housecats would be HILARIOUS. And then turn around and demand coyotes be killed because they're eating people's pets! HO HO
>total wars between powers with strong industrial/technological capability

and

>crazy weaponized computer security exploits and rushed autonomous weapon platforms deployed within weeks or months. I think that's what GP is alluding to. We have seen plenty of conflict, but not the kind that drives the most significant innovation in weapons technology.

In the unfortunate event of total war between great powers today, I'm sorry, but I wouldn't count on your country's weapons research programs having "weeks" or "months" to come up with new devices. Days is more likely. Unless you're dealing with hot headed leaders who don't use the natural pauses to deescalate. In which case you would have maybe hours if you're lucky.

I'll go ahead and make the disclaimer that I am ex-military, but this is not American military bravado talking. This is just the reality of total war by any other great nation on the United States Military. The same truth holds for total war on the militaries of the EU, or of Russia, or of China. Nowadays, total war between great powers will drive a great deal of change, but it's not likely to drive a whole lot of high tech weapons innovation. This is just the environment we live in today.

Total war is generally, (assuming you're not insane), out of the question. Proxy, Cold, and Information wars are about all you can really do while protecting our current way of life.
KGB wants their piece of cake. Classic
Oh, it's fairly realistic for an individual with `cron`, no worries. But the up-front setup is still nontrivial, and running a server costs at least power, if not system administration time.
A/B Street would fit really well into the Citybound project, as they are both striving to produce realistic simulations.

https://github.com/citybound/citybound

I really hope A/B Street and Citybound developers will work together.

https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/issues/20

https://github.com/citybound/citybound/issues/361
I’m building something like that right now.

We dint even need an open protocol for it, just a reasonable aggregator.
Where are you from? I've never heard anyone say Canada Geese.
Microsoft Authentication Library Wrapper for Flutter
The KGB was broken up in 1991.
> A wild untrained human animal isn't that bright. We can probably operate above the crow level, but maybe not by much.

That's such a misanthropic statement I don't even know where to begin.

Just sticking to the kinds of structures a human and a crow can build in the wild, it's still obvious to the untrained observer that the human is well beyond the crow in terms of intelligence.
I can. Rent does not count towards spending but it counts towards... earning.

So, if you own a house and rent it to others, the rent is part of your income. If you rent a house to leave in, the rent is not part of your spent amount.

There is a special clause, that if you spent more than 60% towards tax, rent and loan payments, then you only have to spent 20% of your income on services, goods, etc.
Apparently some company called "Lynwood Investments CY Ltd" has bought the rights for copyright enforcement from Rambler Group - I guess this is classed as "copyright trolling"?

Looking at the search warrant[1] the claim is that Nginx was developed while the author still worked at Rambler and during work time.

[1] https://twitter.com/AntNesterov/status/1205086129504104460
> You can do this in Fastmail (presuming you don't have the reading pane turned on, i.e. are in the same layout as Gmail).

EDIT: this message alerted me to the fact that there is a "hide reading pane" option so I am experimenting with that to see if this solves my problem. Also it would be SUPER helpful if the arrow keys would navigate through the message list like gmail does, J/K continues to be less comfortable for me.

If I check one of the messages/threads in the messages pane, such that I'm selecting it for being marked as read or deletion or something like that, in the right hand "read" pane, the message/thread on the right side turns into a single bar that is unreadable. in gmail I can select as many messages as I want and move back and forth between the "messages" and "Read thread" panes, using the enter key to read, semicolon to expand thread, and "u" to return to the message list, and the selections remain.

I have not been able to identify any similar flow in Fastmail; it forces me to deal with only one thread at a time, and I cannot read a message/thread that is also selected; clicking on it deselects it. So I can't select a series of messages and also read them, it would take a rethink of Fastmail's UX architecture for it to be possible.

> Shift-click a message header to apply to all at once, or "Shift-E" kb shortcut to expand all.

OK, Gmail's semicolon / colon toggle is much easier to use and also includes collapsing the thread also can this be added?

> We take a slightly different approach, but using Cmd-Shift-S will toggle you instantly between your draft and the thread you are replying to, preserving your scroll position in both.

OK, that is definitely more awkward. in gmail I can just scroll up to read the other messages in the thread, which is important because I often have to go back and read messages I'm responding towards. In fastmail, this would mean the "edit draft" button would give me an inline composition window that scrolls with the thread. This could be added to Fastmail with a lot of work but the UX at least does not prohibit this from being graphically feasible.
"Here is some data you can use you can use to make your user experience worse"
Well, if Bethesda had allowed whoever was the lead on Morrowind to have his name so proeminently figured, we'd have another "cult" on our hands now.

Maybe Kojima deserves credit for knowing how to market himself.

Say, that's the really interesting question. How did he get Konami/Sony to feature his name everywhere?
You don’t own the house until you’ve paid off your mortgage. If you’re doing that under 50, you’re probably pretty decently well off. And also if it’s actually you who owns the house and not your sibling or parents who you’re living with.
I don’t see anything preventing this from being built externally other than API usage restrictions. Ways to get around those, too.
Production costs go up a lot when you increase the resolution because then you can see all the details they don't want you to see.
Create a separate "Power Users" configuration program. Everyone loves being a power user.
The scientific term for such a raft is "Isle of the Deep".
The US citizen in question was interrogated for more than 40 hours. I think its safe to say anybody will lie in that time frame intentionally or not.
I remember reading a story a while back about a kid that threw rocks at a tree full of crows one day when he was walking to the school bus. After that day, the crows decided that this child was the enemy. Many kids walked past the tree on the way to the school bus every day and the crows completely ignored them, but when little rock thrower walked by he'd literally get shit bombed by 20-30 crows all the way to the bus. Every single day.

I guess they give presents to people the don't like also :)