skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And yes, you can basically get a complete distribution from GNOME these days, although you're better off going through one of the real distros. And they are contributing the bulk of technical work for the distribution, such that GNOME is actually a more meaningful term for it than Linux (which "GNU" never was)."

Either a "complete distribution" means something different to you or you can't be serious? I know very little about this "gnome distribution" or the bulk of the technical efforts that went into it. What version of the kernel is used? Do they include any distro maintained patches for the kernel or is it pristine linux-stable? What package management system is gnome using for their distribution? Is the default compiler in the Gnome distribution llvm or gcc? How do they handle the installation of ruby gems or python eggs? Upstart, systemd, or plain old init?
I know a few people who use haXe professionally.

One of them that I know personally is a professional Flash developer who used haXe exclusively for some times, because it had a better standard library than Flash (AS2 at this time) and generated lighter and faster SWF files. I remember him telling me that he made a somewhat huge (several hundred euros) donation to the project and that it still cost him less than buying the Macromedia Flash software. Since AS3 he's back to Flash thought.

Some others I know through their work: Motion Twin [1] for instance, who are the creators of a lot of very successful Flash games.

[1] http://motion-twin.com/
For the help of other people: BDFL = Benevolent Dictator for Life. Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_for_Life ) doesnt list him as an example, but that doesn't stop him from being pretty close.
That looks very interesting! Will check it out.
50% is unbelievably high. The numbers are just under 20% (18.8% of retail sales), says http://www.nrf.com/modules.php?name=Pages&sp_id=1234 . Jewelry stores are the highest, and they make under 30% of their sales during November and December.

If evenly distributed, then the average sales for 2/12 months would be 17% of yearly sales.

While still quite significant, it's not as enormous a disparity as you thought.
You should check out js_of_ocaml [1]. It's a very good compiler from OCaml to JavaScript which lets you interface with the DOM and existing JavaScript libraries relatively easily. You can play around with OCaml in the browser[2], which was implemented using js_of_ocaml.

[1]: http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/

[2]: http://try.ocamlpro.com/
Hm. According to european copyright/authorship rules a transfer of copyright is simply impossible as we have the "Droit d'auteur" principle that makes authorship rights inalienable. This is a known major difference between european and US style copyright.

Therefore I question the transfer of copyright in this case but IANAL.

This simple fact is the reason that FSFE adopted the fiduciary license agreement http://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fla.en.html to emulate the FSF approach under european laws.
John Gruber considers himself to be the BDFL of Markdown [1], though many question the 'B' part.

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.ne...
Copyright assignment has a major purpose that is not acknowledged in this article. In some jurisdictions (I know that this used to be the case in the state of New York) it is the case that, by default, all software produced by employees who are software developers belongs to the employer, whether or not that software was developed on personal equipment, away from the office. In those jurisdictions it is also the case that many programmers who labor under this oppressive legal regime are entirely unaware that their time is not truly their own. They may therefore contribute to open source projects, and claim licensing on software, that is not truly valid.

The FSF copyright assignment process stands as a guarantee that GNU software, at least, will never encounter any issues based on these legal facts. You may use GNU software with assurance that the legal status of that software is very, very clear.

What about the rest of us? Well there is a defense for copyright infringement that basically says, "I relied on reasonable assurances that I was not, in fact, infringing." That covers your past infringement. But not necessarily future offenses. But the risk is still low. As a practical matter, companies rarely sue over this type of issue, and if they do, they generally have little interest in suing every innocent bystander who accidentally infringed. So many may find the risk acceptable.

But Stallman is an absolutist. He wants absolute guarantees. And copyright assignment helps him get there.

Please note that I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
Just tried it. Seems much better than previous scripts, but I need:

S3 support

bash autocompletion

suggestion for misspelled commands
Liverpool vs fulham Match review
It's worth noting that the ASF also requires copyright assignments.
I think it deserves a new name if it is no longer a GNU project anyway.
Good stuff.

Back button behavior is pretty annoying :)
Samsung sues Apple in Korea over Apple iPhone Notification Center
Dumb Startup Ideas
"You've been dating for three months? Do you like it?"
What to consider when making your first mobile app
Good point. But still, it's hard to believe that it's taking years for Google to add to GAE a mature Search API and support for multiple datacenter locations, which are things Google does better than anyone.
This would be even better if it supported dates. In my day job I'm struggling to find tools for plotting time-based data nicely and efficiently. Splunk works, but only if you have that.
Gitlab is not a 'github replacement' to run public projects, it's sole focus is private repositories on your own server.
Sure, you could frame it that. However, the historical timeline of both of those terms (in that FS was coined long before OS) would suggest that your interpretation may not be the best one.

That being said, I am certainly aware of the many, many practical difficulties with the GPL, but that doesn't stop it being one of the best (IMO, of course) events in software in the last thirty years.
Adobe Acquires Behance For More Than $150 Million.
I think that my characterization is significantly less controversial. For instance Bruce Perens (original author of the open source definition) says that the open source definition was ...conceived as a program to market the free software concept to people who wore ties.

On the other hand your characterization strikes at the heart of the BSD vs GPL argument as it is viewed by BSD proponents.
Agree. GoM did some design work a while back, but the gitlab project is moving forward at an incredible pace, so the GoM portfolio site is a bit out of date with the current state of affairs.
"I, on the other hand, find myself answering questions and wondering 'That’s a great question. I wonder why he asked that question?....Whereas he based the value of the meeting on the quality of the data I focus on how much I think I got an accurate snapshot of how the person thinks and operates....It did make me wonder if the best leaders are capable of doing both."

Yes, they are.

Dear, "Sales Guy CEO": if you again find yourself in the situation where you're in a conversation with a deeply analytical person, it's probably in your best interest not to assume that your conversation partner is socially clueless just because she is asking good, specific, actionable questions. If they're smart enough to ask good questions, it probably means they're smart enough to read your reactions and personality, as well. You don't corner the market on that particular skill.

Honestly...this is why "sales guys" get a reputation for arrogance amongst nerds. People who grew up as social outcasts are often keenly aware of the social dynamics of the world around them.
Just on your comment of legal support. One of his major complaints is that actually he is not getting the legal support he wants, and he thinks that he could do better by himself.
The Placebo Phenomenon
Perhaps "Best Buds"?
"Amazon has created its dominant position by providing customers with what they want: (almost) any book, at a ridiculously low price, delivered rapidly."

Amazon's prices aren't ridiculously low. For paper books, they're a little lower than the list price that book stores charge, which reflects Amazon's economies of scale and reduced staff costs (they don't have to pay to keep a bookstore open and staffed even if no customers are walking in for several hours). Their prices for Kindle books are, in fact, ridiculously high -- there's no way that a Kindle book could possibly cost more to produce and distribute than the paper version of the same book, but for certain titles, the Kindle version actually costs more.

Also, while it may be possible for an author like JK Rowling, who is already a celebrity, to sell books from her own web site, an author who isn't successful yet probably won't get enough visitors at their site to justify the cost of building and running it.
Motion-twin is Nicolas Cannasse's company. So they obviously use HaXe extensively.
Indeed a big news for Designer community. Behance has the power to put all the designers at one place. I am sure, they love Adobe as well.
I love that rant. I still (re)read it. Gives me a few laughs every time.
Make sure your numbers are space separated rather than comma separated, you could pipe your data through sed like..

cat myfile.csv | sed 's/,/ /g' | curl --data-binary @- datafart.com
Perhaps I missed where it was explained— but I don't see how rust enforces the type predicates (e.g. acquire vs wait state) there without typestate.
I think it's present, but not a dominant factor. Depends on culture and training.

What Milgram measured was how inexperienced people react to a new ethical situation. If he had tested people who were familiar with the context--fellow scientists--I very much suspect the results would be different. That's true in many fields. You might be able to intimidate a junior engineer into including a substandard part in a safety-critical area, but a senior engineer will refuse. And then he'll quit. It's not that he has more character; he has more experience.

Soldiers have a lot of experience. If you order them to hurt people immorally, their reactions are more like the senior engineer than the junior one: measures of character, not measures of how quickly they can think about a new situation.

There have always been soldiers who said, at the eventual trial, that they were "just following orders". I think they're generally inexperienced, but I'm sure there are cowards who think that way at the end of a career, too. I'm sure the prevalence depends on culture and training, but that does show that the effect Milgram measured is present.

I do have some evidence that it isn't dominant, though. Historically speaking, conquering armies have behaved in conquered countries pretty much as they pleased--sometimes very badly. But to get a soldier to kill his own countrymen, it has generally been necessary to threaten him or his family with death -- mere orders have not been enough. The soldier has a limit on what he'll do for authority, and he'll quit sooner than Milgram's subjects did.

It takes courage to make a high stakes moral decision correctly; I won't claim that everyone has it. I don't know what the rate is, and I expect it varies widely by culture and training. But I do think that in order to measure it, you need to test professionals. Extrapolating from amateurs isn't good enough. Perhaps a repeat Milgram would be a start: test all the same subjects again a week later, after they've had plenty of time to think about the experience.
IIRC, the last person to individually book a tour to North Korea decided to shirk his appointment with the state ministry in charge of chaperones and took advantage of the fact that a Trans-Siberian railway crossing was listed as a valid port of entry on the standard tourist visa... it's not often you get to play with (if only mentally now) the technicalities of international transit. It makes you grin like hell.
Should we open source Democravise?
Hello HN. My name is Ken and I'm the founder of an application called Democravise. The app. is based on the premise that people make better decisions when they ask better questions. We help them crowdsource better questions. Think of it as insurance that you won't miss a critical question when making a decision. We believe that the concept is exceptionally flexible and customizable, so we are considering open sourcing it to the benefit of everybody. Of course, since we eat the dog food, we want to reduce the chances that we miss critical questions when making this decision ourselves.

Can you vote up any questions you believe are important, and add any that are not on our list yet. www.democravise.com.

Btw, if you really like the idea and are a RoR engineer, get in touch with me at ken.seville@democravise.com.
I dont get why this is surprising or absurd? People keep forgetting that nothing is free. The Facebook API maybe free - but the price you pay is to give facebook a cheap way to find out what other use cases their data, infrastructure and ecosystem can have. Similar to how facebook uses your activity within the network to find ways to make money and sell things to you and 3rd parties. Just look back a few days ago at the instagram flip-flop.

This is also a part of being a member of the free-market - companies copy each other all the time - when an FMCG launches a new type of __ (insert consumer good of choice here) - its only a matter of time before all the other players launch a variant. Its a part of remaining relevant and competitive - and it keeps everyone on their feet - I'd say its a great thing! In fact - maybe the snapchat guys should look out for complaints that people have about the Poke app - and use that to improve their own app as well. The only scenario where I´d call this a "bad guy" move on Facebook´s part is if they were to also simultaneously limit Snapchats access to the FB API - and I dont know that to be the case so far!
Should startups bother having original ideas if big companies can clone them?
Are you the guy that complains about "try hards" in games?
So it's more of a `github enterprise replacement`, got it.
I think this is aimed at an audience outside the academic system, and I like the focus on active involvement with data. I think there could be an activist underpinning here - Paulo Freire style data literacy. (http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm)

Having said that, my Maths teacher self wants to do some work on the glossary. In the spirit of 'code talks' I'll post some definitions up and link them to the issue tracker and see what happens...
I didn't get the impression from the tone of this post that there was anything adversarial about their meeting, that the OP was saying he was better at social skills than the technical CEO, or that the OP was even judging his companion's approach, so much as observing differences and trying to learn something from them.

Your comment "you don't corner the market in this particular skill" is the most interesting part, it sounds like you are irritated that the assumption that technical and analytical people are somehow less sensitive but then your comment exhibits exactly the lack of understanding and immediate condescension which earns this perception. I doubt you intended it, but it's something to think about.
Is there a place where this complaint is posted? I know about the one time in regard to Werner Koch, and in which a legal problem arrived, and was subsequently fixed, but where FSF did not inform Koch about the fixing. To my understanding, that was a mistake in communication from FSF and was later resolved.
Generating a RESTful API in Python using Flask
Um, this makes complete sense. The point of number verification in this case is that phone numbers are expensive to acquire so banning has real consequence. GV and prepaid numbers are cheap to acquire so they're no use for verification.

You still have your cell phone provider's number and you should just use that to verify.
You could also do this without a server at all. You could just have a script put your data into the html/js template and open up the page with something like bcat.

http://rtomayko.github.com/bcat/
I agree. If I want to engage with my local government on a local issue (e.g. anti-social behaviour) I need data. The data is increasingly available on Web sites. Hence scraping and format conversion become important...
Gnuplot?
Thanks for claryfying that, now p4bl0's post appears to me like more or less self promotion.
I think 2PProduction's documentary of the development of the Double Fine Adventure provides more insight into game development. (You can still back them and get access to the episodes.) A lot of the very interesting things had already happened when they started filming the Minecraft documentary so it cannot provide the same deep look.

The Double Fine documentary is excellent. At this point I really care not one bit about how the actual game turns out, the documentary has been extremely rewarding. They really seem to show it all, warts and everything.
You don't need cat:

<myfile.csv sed 's/,/ /g' | ...
I wish people would stop parroting that stupid lie. RMS is curently heavily involved in GNU Emacs development and has been for many years. Just check the mailing list sometime.
There's a lot here that reminds me of why I'm suspicious of the UN. At this conference it seems that many countries treated concepts like "democracy", "human rights" and "transparency", as a veneer, not as concepts that they actually believed in but as weapons that they could cynically manipulate in order to get what they wanted. The following countries spoke in favor of a "human rights" proposal that would provide for a national right to access the Internet: Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Togo, China, Sudan, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Burundi.

Iran wants to create its own Halal Internet. China and Saudi Arabia are also notorious for their censorship regimes. Isn't there something wrong with restricting your citizen's access to the Internet and then turning around and demanding that others give you the right to access Internet resources?
I know, Motion-Twin is a company he cofounded. He recently left to start a new one: http://shirogames.com/.
I like that distinction, but to be clear, the distinction isn't strictly an "either-or". It's pretty clear that "open source" is motivated by developer freedoms, but the fact that "free software" is motivated by user freedoms doesn't make it less about developer freedoms.

In other words, if you subscribe to the four tenets of software freedom as they pertain to users, "free software" also provides as much freedom to the developers as is possible without compromising on the users' freedoms.
The problem isn't that Facebook can just copy your company. Snap Chat built a feature, not a product. It seems to me turning down any offer from Facebook to purchase it was stupid. Facebook would obviously build their own version of the app in a few weeks and it seems likely Poke will win.
What's the size of the resulting binaries and libraries?
By and sky users can't access TPB, any chance of a magnet link?
But the polar opposite where companies like qualcomm are aggressively patenting techniques their employees 'contribute' to LLVM/CLANG with nary a suggestion of offering licensing that makes it lawful for anyone to use... thats okay?

What the FSF does has its costs and limitations, but when the mobile patent war spreads to LLVM and renders it unusable except in the underground and by a few large patent mongers, we'll be thankful for the FSF's licensing stewardship on GCC and the rest of the GNU projects.
In two steps: How to make Windows 8 Look like windows 7
Blast. The programs that I usually work with really benefit from i3wm's model.
An easy way to spot a bullshit article with more concern for their agenda than truth is implying a comparison between numbers that can't be compared.

"Meanwhile, only 2 percent of the victims of the American drone war — a body count that now far exceeds the number who died in the World Trade Center — were “high-level militants” and hundreds upon hundreds were civilians."

Aside from quibbling with using "victims" to refer to "high-level militants", I would expect similar numbers from any military operation ever. How's this sound "only 2% of the victims of the american invasion of Iwo Jima were field-grade Japanese officers"?

Then we see the switch to comparing percentages to raw numbers. American's likely killed significantly more civilians in European bombing campaigns than we did in Hiroshima, but anyone with a shred of moral judgment can differentiate between civilians killed due to proximity to military targets (European bombing) vs. what we would call today state terrorism -- the intent to kill large numbers of civilians at Hiroshima to demonstrate our power.

So what percent of those killed in the drone strikes are civilians? To what extent does the military weigh the risk of killing civilians when evaluating potential missions? Is any of this unique to drone strikes?

I can't come to any conclusion but that this was just a generic collection of musings to generate outrage. It has nothing to do with Connecticut. It has nothing valuable to say about the ethics of drones. It's just troll baiting.
The big thing with poke/snapchat is that they send pictures that aren't stored anywhere and can only be viewed for a few seconds, after which they are inaccessible. This makes it easier and less worrisome for people to do things like sext or send pictures of themselves making silly faces.
Developers are a proper subset of users. There's no either-or here.
Can India scan the retinas of 800 million people in the next 15 months?
Huh what? I've never worked for Motion-Twin, and I actually never wrote any haXe or Flash myself. I'm just a programming language enthusiast (and student to an extent, since my PhD subject is in part about PL design) so I like to follow Nicolas Cannasse's work. I also happen to enjoy one of MT games (Alpha Bounce [1]) very much and to have web developers friends among whom one made me discover haXe years ago, talking very highly about the technology (that's how I discovered Cannasse's work too).

[1] http://www.alphabounce.com/
> consider that we are selling DRM free digital downloads that you can watch in whatever manner you please.

I doubt that's their intention, at least from the start. By including that clause in the description, they're making it very hard for themselves to construct a case that they aren't authorizing these downloads (even if they could argue that uploading the magnet link themselves doesn't already fulfill this).
Erlang VM bare on EC2