skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Apparently, you are a very successful failure (according to the article).

Bygones.
I wonder what kind of job satisfaction being a valueless leech off society brings?
He is a nice guy, for sure.
Yes, but the largest portion if the people involved (that make up the 3.6 million) were celebrities. I personally see a similar conversion rate to you, I have 300 followers and get ~50 clicks.
Depends what you enjoy. Some people would rather work than relax. I've had colleagues that hang about at work for a little longer to avoid the drudgery of home life - or rather the hand over to the next shift.

That said - I do agree with you that a lot of these people are neurotic. Not all work is equal - some of it in my opinion is a waste of time - and it just keeps people off the streets.
Paying patent license fees is a lot like paying off terrorists in hopes they'll go away.
It'd be interesting to see a JavaScript-like language with syntactic support for monads (do and friends) - seems like it would enable better abstractions for a lot of this type of thing.

There's LambdaScript (https://github.com/valderman/lambdascript) of course, but from the README it doesn't look like it's something you want to use at the moment..
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My gut reaction to this is: "But I'm not dead yet." Really? I need a museum of me?
Courage is far better than fearlessness. Fearlessness means complete lack of caution, since nothing is feared. Plunge forward without any thought of safety.

Courage, on the other hand, means paying attention to the dangers and going forward whenever it's not a mistake.

Having said that, fearlessness can be the correct attitude when dealing with situations that are extremely risky from the start, such as startups.

I've actually worked on a project that had the owners approached me at the start, I would have told them it was impossible due to various concerns. It turned out to be massively successful and they created a new niche, but only by rushing head-first into it and refusing to stop.
It's a good idea to keep a table and a wrist calculator when scuba diving anyway, in case you're subject to nitrogen narcosis, which makes you really stupid.
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Apparently it doesn't bring enough guilt to offset the "driving my new Ferrari" satisfaction it brings...

Edit: A bit unfair and stereo-typing.. I'm sure there are good people working at Lodsys that got sucked in...
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>Businesses need to learn that there are laws and that software is subject to licenses that they should read

I'm not saying burnt in a lawsuit against them for infringement, it could be as simple as abandoning technologies based on recommendation or clarification from their legal council.
For the big companies, it's probably a lot more like paying off terrorists with hundreds of nuclear silos in hopes that they won't nuke you. The settlement they want is miniscule compared to the damage they can do to you.
In this context I think it's become a blend of the two.
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There are many films of this type that I want to watch and one of those movies are action movies On the other hand
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Typing stuff into netcat always looks very 1337! http://xkcd.com/341/
>In a civilized society, you don't have to "deal" with ongoing intimidation. You take care of it.

That is exactly my point. You take care of it by not being intimidated in the first place.
When I was in high school, the local college didn't have any programming classes at all. The closest was how to use Excel.

I have to agree that you guys are lucky to be growing up post-internet.

(For fun, I just checked and they now teach C++, VB, Java, PHP and SQL.)
I'm glad Zed made this an issue. No one should be harassed like that. Honestly, it made github look very unprofessional. I'm glad they stepped-in and fixed it.
Sounds more like organized crime than terrorism, with the legal system as the enforcers.
> Unfortunately, by choosing to license instead of crushing them early, companies like Google, Apple, IBM, Cisco and Accenture and government bodies like the IRS provided funding for the troll to grow and thrive.

Reality is a bit more complex: none of those licensed from Lodsys, instead they have blanket licenses to all IP of Intellectual Ventures (the biggest patent troll in the world) as part of their initial investment in the company (a number of large, patent-warring company invested in IV, probably in the hope of weaponizing it down the road). And Abelow '078 was assigned to a (patent sub-troll) front company of IV (Ferrata Ethereal), therefore being accounted to as part of IV licensing. Which is why Apple, Google and Microsoft have licenses to Abelow '078.
I didn't really use it just because it asks me to allow alot many things which am not comfortable with.

off topic
Those who are skeptical like me about over sharing and not allowing apps to get full access should try using this add-on.

http://liisp.uncc.edu/fbs/ / https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fbsecure/
I probably should have refrained from adding my personal opinion. I don't disagree that it should be fixed. I only interjected that I didn't think it was much of a priority.
Not sure if you read the article, but he has a Comcast connection. Why pay extra, if what you have already works?

Comcast business class w/ a fixed-ip (I have set up several to stream 720p HD surveillance cameras), has upload tiers in 2Mbps, 5Mbps, and 10Mbps...and it starts at $60/month.

All he is serving is text, no images, video, or audio.

Verizon Fios has 5Mbps, 25Mbps, and 35Mbps upload tiers.

A Fios 35Mbps up and down connection is $125/mo. Not bad for UNLIMITED bandwidth.

Anecdotal evidence: http://seesarasotalive.com/sarasota-webcams - moved from rackspace to Fios
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I really wonder, though. Doesn't this operation usually consist of a sleezeball and his secretary? I mean, Lodsys doesn't do anything after all...
Most people in the world don't call it Aspirin, as that's a registered trademark of Bayer AG. The trademark was voided in the U.S. during WWI and never re-granted.

Here in Canada, we call it ASA.
Sometimes it's best just not to bother with a regular expression. Email addresses are a prime example of where this is true.
I have no goddamn idea. And neither does anyone else. That's part of what chaos means.
None of these quotes prove your point that the article is "at odds with the hacker ethic". They just prove that you should think (which is also hard work) about what to do instead of just doing whatever comes to you first. Why is that not hard work?

"They may know where to find reusable or re-editable code that solves their problem.": and how do they know that? Probably because they work hard at keeping up with the newest technological developments in different fields...
No. The police possess a great deal of stolen property. The entire police force would collapse into a blue hole if they had to arrest everybody in possession of stolen property. The crime is knowing it is stolen and having no intent to return it.
I lead a group of guys trying make money online with the rental business, so they can travel.
Each one is responsible for an area and it's hard to get new owners and apartments, believe me, but we never resorted to spamming.
Instead we contact the Owners directly and openly, then we go to meet them personally and see the apartments, when possible.
This way is much slower, but at the end we have much better listings for our customers.
We'll never be a billion dollars company of course.
How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?[...]

[...]I picked Ubuntu natty as a reference[...]

Ridiculous. If you want to give a minimum of credibility to the article, analyze other distros too!
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We've all heard/read stories of internal MS politicking that killed various projects/features that, on their own, would have been good/useful/great.

I can totally imagine that the same sorts of things happened at some of the larger manufacturers re: tablets. When you've got 6 variations of the same product line with various dept/division managers for each one, anything that might truly disrupt that is going to have a huge internal battle.

Apple probably has internal politics, but the way the product lines are developed insures there's a minimum of competition between them. That's just (imo) one of many distinctions between Apple success and the previous tablet mfg failures.
I really don't understand how HN works. Why is this post on the first page? I am currently using Haskell, and even for me this post is not very useful (I would search for a some kind of network stack lib when I need it)...
I think Facebook apps must request the permissions necessary for all of its implemented features upfront regardless of wether you choose to use a specific feature. In this case the default is to not post to your wall. You must opt to do so by clicking a link, so to me it is nonintrusive, though I suppose it requires a certain degree of trust.
I'm sorry, but I've got a patent for "outrage on the internet", so I'm going to need to see some royalties.
I really don't think the problem is software patents, it seems to me the real problem is that most software patents seem to be ridiculously trivial.

Here's an example: my employer, a rather small company has invested an enormous amount of resources in developing a specific algorithm. It took years of research and development, lots of money and brainpower, it's very far from being trivial (in fact it's so complicated I have to admit I don't understand some parts of it) and it's light years ahead (in terms of usefulness and speed) of any other algorithm with similar applications.

Obviously the last thing we want now is simply handing it over to our competitors, after all this work. If the patent system didn't guarantee us monopoly on using the fruits of our own R&D, this algorithm probably would not have been developed for a very long time, if ever, by anyone. It would have been innovation that never happened.

My point is that the threshold of what can patentable should by way higher, but I think we need a (software) patent system none the less.
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That's a good point, since the author was also making the point that practice should mirror the skill as closely as possible. In a real orchestra, if you make a mistake, you do NOT hesitate. You keep playing and hope not to make another. If all your practice has depended on being perfect, you have neglected a needed skill.
Not trying to shoot you down, as despite your IANAL disclaimer the general reasoning is sound, but:

You are conflating two distinct legal principles:

Caveat Emptor, the principle that the BUYER of property takes the risk of defects in that property (except in the case of fraud/misrepresentation on the part of the SELLER); and

A thief cannot convey good title, which is actually a fallacy. If you honestly purchase goods from a thief, for market value, without knowing that the goods are stolen, your interest in those goods actually trumps those of the original owner. Counter-intuitive huh?

The original owner has recourse only against the thief, as you are effectively an innocent party to the transaction.

Caveat emptor protects the seller against a careless purchase followed by buyer's remorse.

Merely possessing goods which are stolen is not a crime in any jurisdiction i'm aware of (and for good reason), this offence almost always implies a mental element of knowledge or at least suspicion as to the source of the goods.
That's a pretty lucid and well written account. I would like to know more about the connection between HackerNewsTips and Github though. Github employees have denied it here on HN.
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You're not alone - if I had to pick one word to describe Singapore it would also be "sterile".
Beautifully made.
That's interesting to know, but the point still stands. ASA is familiar, easy to spell, and easy to remember.
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Have you filed patents on it, then? I'd be interested in seeing the applications.
You would be surprised. I met someone this weekend at a wedding who works at a law firm that specialises in software patent suits, and he really didn't understand or even care. Outside of this and similar communities, no one has any idea that software shouldn't be patentable, or even that there are issues with it in the first place.
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> For the record, this isn't true no matter how many times you repeat it.

What it looks like from an outsider: He said, (s)he said.

I don't know if Zed is right. I don't know if you are right. What I do know is Zed Shaw ranted and got stuff fixed. Apparently, their was some merit to what he was saying, and at least the majority of his story can confirmed to be true. As for the employee, it's just as easy for you to be misinformed or simply ignorant of the truth as it is for Zed to be wrong. No malice, just mistaken.
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He replied not only that isn't important but also implied that there is some big data issue here. Which is incorrect.

There are multiple open-source solutions for this 'problem' as many people on here could attest (not to mention configure). Obviously if it can be done over the wire it could be done even better (cheaper/faster) local to the server.
My experience of being mugged leads me to believe that the degree of violence meted out is not necessarily the amount strictly needed to gain control.
Is there anything we have to do to make sure redis stores our data persistently? cron for BGSAVE? Or is it generally handled fairly well already?
It would be a pretty messed up system if there were never any cases where patents were justified.

Yours sounds like an edge case. The real question is what's best for the industry as a whole?
Sadly, Software® patents are here to stay, so long® as the patent trolls® and lobbyists®© can find enough people in the "corridors of power"® who'll shamelessly accept their cheques to maintain the status quo.

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Unless I'm wrong. In which case we can expect software patents to disappear next week.
Sometimes expense is a matter of resource allocation (my apologies for bringing the "drug war" into this thread).
Because it's an interesting and unconventional project. I admit that a simple Hackage link is not really interesting by itself, but together with a nice blog post, this would have made a really interesting read.

I wonder does HaNS support my head and neck too.
Can we trick a patent troll into patenting the Triforce and just let 4Chan deal with this?
I remember leaving it very late to book a hotel for JavaOne once and being put in a hotel in what turned out to be a rather "interesting" location. My first hint that something might be up was when the taxi driver at the airport took one look at me and asked "Do you really want to go there?".

The second hint that things were going to be interesting was when the guy on the front desk told me how to get to Union Square - the hotel was on Geary St. and I thought I knew SF reasonably well. He proceeded to tell me not to walk directly along the street, but to walk up the hill a bit then walk across in the direction of Union Square.

It turned out that during the day this advice wasn't really required but at night it definitely was! I only walked back once and took taxis back after that.

This was about 10 years ago - don't know if the area is more civilised now but it was pretty scary then.
In the Hacker News context most usually Venture Capital or Venture Capitalist.
I use Evernote for everything from notes and todo lists on my various projects to grocery lists, medical info tracking, plugins I want to try with vim, and daily task lists. I've tried it multiple times in the past and gradually stopped using it. For some reason it just clicked the most recent time. I have a default "Drafts" notebook that all new notes go into (which also serves as a rough to-do list). If the notes need to be organized (they're going to be there for a while), I will move them to specific notebooks. I've essentially stopped bookmarking sites, as I can just put the links or snip the content into notes specifically for the project I'm working on.

Oh, and their mobile apps are actually nice to work with. Keeping photos of my receipts in Evernote has saved me a few times.
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BGSAVE in cron is not needed, you can configure Redis (and this is the default config) to automatically save every N seconds if there are at least M changes in the dataset. It is possible to configure multiple save points. More info: http://redis.io/topics/persistence
here's the deal: you will remember having seen a network stack somewhere because of this post. the day you will need one, you will know where to start looking (or even if you forget the name, you will be able to describe it).

it happened to me so many times. an article, a module, a piece of code. i would go back and search reddit and HN for posts.
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Zed described it so http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto
I agree about it being different if there was a blog post describing it...
Am I missing something, or does the article in no way explain what is charged and how?

magnetic charge? really? I don't think so.
It gets credit. In CREDITS and most articles that describe Linux.

Just look at the Wikipedia entry (an open and free project) for Linux: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

From paragraph 2:
"The development of Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, both commercially and non-commercially, by anyone under licenses such as the GNU General Public License."

The italicized portion links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software. GNU gets its mention there.

Also paragraph 2:
"In 1983, Richard Stallman, longtime member of the hacker community at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, announced the GNU project, saying that he had become frustrated with the effects of the change in culture of the computer industry and its users.[8] Software development for the GNU operating system began in January 1984, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded in October 1985. An article outlining the project and its goals was published in March 1985 titled the GNU Manifesto. The manifesto also focused heavily on the philosophy of free software. He developed The Free Software Definition and the concept of "copyleft", designed to ensure software freedom for all."

These kinds of attribution are infinitely better than a "GNU/" tacked thoughtlessly on to a generic term.
I understand your viewpoint. My point is: what happens in the long term if people like Dijkstra patented their algorithms? I think we all have a stockpile of licenses to pay for almost any code, even a r"Hello World" (you are using a string, if it's unicode you need another patent!).

So, I think there are more winners and innovation "sacrificing" the software inventors side.
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So you search HN instead of: http://www.google.com/search?q=haskell+network+stack (both first and second result are about HaNS, the second being the page this post links to)
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The author is presenting different viewpoints on the role of higher education, not saying he holds them all (because, obviously, they are, at least in part, contradictory, which is also something the author mentioned).
I would add Madonna, Oprah, Obama, and doctors to that list.
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Enforcing statutory penalties on intellectual property infringements in the media industry is moving up a notch. In the US, a federal judge recently agreed to allow the US Copyright Group to force internet service providers (ISPs) to hand over the identities of at least 23 000 users who had sourced bootlegged copies of The Expendables via BitTorrent clients and file sharing.
It's not like these are extremely complex or difficult programs

Have you looked at cat.c?

You'll be surprised how complex and optimized even the supposedly simple ones are.

Multiple decades of optimization and cross-platform polish are nothing to sneeze at. Try working against the Darwin or Solaris userland sometime if you want to experience what the alternatives look like. Not pretty at all.
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I'd be a lot more on board with this suggestion if it didn't involve... blowing into a used condom.
Just an interesting sidenote, Apple is guilty of abandoning good products as well, especially in the tablet space. The Newton was very well designed, and the user community around it to this day is a testament to this fact.
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Philip Glass, the contemporary composer, works on his new compositions only between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. That’s the time, he says, when his creative ideas come to him. When filmmaker George Lucas needs to write or edit a script, he sequesters himself in a small cottage behind his house where he gets no calls or visitors.(...)
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Why not diminish the value of a patent once it's sold? That way you prevent companies like Lodsys buying and trolling, and if you put the money / time / resources into the development of something, you can reap the reward.

Just a thought, not the answer. But the system is totally ridiculous as it stands.
You mean "As stabby as a Scotsman"!
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