skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that the criticisms of his statement all leave out the rationalizations that immediately follow it. I view that as important context.

Were does he say he hates the people doing it? Nowhere. He merely says "I hate double spacing".

You seem to be making assumptions about his reasoning. I think it was fairly clear when he said "Because what else would you hate over? I don't want to even think about the possibilities of facing stupid landmines like that."

If you are gonna judge people by what typographic conventions they hate and "don't wanna know them", then I don't wanna know you.

He's judging the top comment based on their statement of how they judge. I think that's fair.

Keep in mind, someone stating they don't want to know (associate, have as a friend or acquaintance, etc) you isn't necessarily an insult in the common sense. When backed up by reasoning based on evidence, it's not asserting anything not already known about that you. Any insult is based on respect you must have for that person (whether specific or general to the any person). When on the receiving end of this statement, it's up to you to determine whether you care what that person thinks, and if so, whether your behavior need examination.
I don't think that's it. I drank a cup of civet coffee in bali which was watery and bland. I also bought beans from a producer in medan who went on a lot about the scam that is most wild civet coffee. That one was rich and chocolatey.
Mirror (in case site is slow or goes down):

http://cdn.taoeffect.com/other/apache/index.html
I'm sorry, but how did you get that impression?

Here is a direct quote from the paper from which this blog post was made:

Also, software should not be patentable.18 19 20 21 22
The practice should be abolished immediately for the good
of mankind and whomsoever disagrees with me on this owes
me $1 billion in royalties because I patented the concept
of being an asshole.

https://www.taoeffect.com/other/nupic/#conclusion

EDIT: Mirrors:

Paper: http://cdn.taoeffect.com/other/nupic/index.html#conclusion

Blog post: http://cdn.taoeffect.com/other/apache/index.html
The whole reason to do anything about the acidification is that it's "not natural". Nature adapting to changing circumstances is the very definition of what nature is. You can't have it both ways.

Plus it won't be catastrophic at all. Some very low-level species, like algae, will adapt by changing their internal chemistry. And because we eat them (through intermediaries) we will have effectively adapted too.

And don't you believe in evolution ? If this doesn't happen, then we die, and in that case we should die. The whole point of creation is that it adapts to these sort of things. Adapt or die. Works on a large scale as well as a small one.
Sorry, I should have been more specific :S

You have assumed a fixed amount in each envelope. The article leaves the amount unspecified but implicitly assumes that there is no maximum amount that could be in the envelope. The problem only becomes interesting for certain distributions.

Try this code:

https://gist.github.com/jamii/6567205

If you run it with the uniform distribution the running mean will eventually converge to 0. If you comment that out and uncomment the exponential distribution it is much more interesting :)

With the exponential distribution the expected value of switching does not even exist.

EDIT Doh, the original gist was totally wrong. That'll teach me to argue on the internet at 3am. The updated gist is correct.
The linked commentary argues for the abolition of medical licensing. I could probably rest my case right there.

We actually had a lengthy experiment with that earlier in America, pre-regulation. It's where the term "snake oil salesman" originated. The establishment of medical licensing led to a dramatic improvement in public health.

If there's one characteristic of deregulation advocates that you can count on, it's that they have a complete disregard for history.

As for democracy, many attempts have been utterly subverted by voter fraud -- e.g. myriad dictators that win >90% of the "vote" in their countries. It is only through strict regulation that we've come to trust the accuracy of our polls to the degree that we have in the U.S. Having said that, what passes for democracy here is still utterly dominated by money, in that the best-funded candidate usually wins. Again, regulation of money in politics would be one way to improve on that defect.
MarkShow: a modern dialect of MarkDown
http://pancake.io as well.
Seriously: the only reason Dropbox exists and is wildly successful is that "normal file synchronization" is such a pain, even for us hackers, let alone mere mortals.

There's a reason that you see Dropbox peeking out of the system tray of so many business professionals and other non-techies. Why not piggyback off that success?
Yup, that's exactly how vim works. I almost wish it were titled "VIM made easy". Except, of course, that it probably only makes any sense to those who already know vim.
I'm in that group as well, but it's more or less dead - a problem is that Goodreads doesn't really define what groups are about, and users don't really see in their "timeline" when something new happens in a group.

Maybe the mods of that group could have a monthly book club or so?
Given that the author uses the cui bono argument quite extensively (see, for example, "unfortunately, the “disruptions” pursued by Silicon Valley giants ... often have little to do with challenging the biggest power centers in society. And why would they?"), I see no reason why the same logic can't be applied to his own words.
> many open source licenses have exactly such terms in order to fight software patents

This misses the point. If you want an atypically wide patent grant (covering not just patents infringed by your contributed code, but also to future contributions by other people which infringe a patent of yours), then that should be done openly and explicitly. Not by the backdoor with a clause that doesn't appear to do that but could be interpreted as doing do if you took it to its logical conclusion.

(Though it's pretty clear that doing do wasn't actually their intention, given their FAQ denies that interpretation - see DannyBee's post)
That the UN exists does not explain the reason behind the policies.

That's like saying the bible is true because the printer exists, or the church, which is of course trivially true. That some organisation is behind a document does not make it true or false.

And keep in mind that the League of nations (the creators of the UN) came forth from the Red cross, which was a division of the army that guards of the pope.
One of the common varieties of in-app purchase is "Let me use the full app". Thus you end up with a "free" app that has a single $5 "in-app" price tag. My suspicion is there are two categories:

* In-app purchases for features / content

* Converting real money into app bucks

I would love to see that breakdown.
VPS Setup: Email and web server
For what it's worth, most of the data in these charts is false and/or misleading. If you read the actual primary sources that this post purports to use, you'll see the situation isn't actually nearly as bad as presented. It is somewhat more difficult to pay for college than it was in, say, 1970, but the 'statistics' here are wildly exaggerated.

The weak job market is a much bigger issue than the increased cost of college.
>You can make it easy to use and get some additional anti-fraud protection

Well, that's kind of the point: sure, you can get it to function easily, but getting it to actually provide you with solid coverage takes some effort.

>Disclosure: I'm a happy current customer whose model isn't quite right yet, but is getting there.

That pretty much seals my point.

I mean, who wants semi-effective fraud protection? That's where the extra work comes in. And what you will find is that fraudsters change their game and you have to evolve your model, even once you get it customized. So, if you are simply using the "easy-to-use" out of the box signals, you are going to find that fraudsters have already been trained by other Sift customers. Sure, it might take them a moment to realize that you have implemented these measures, but they will adapt quickly when they do. If not, then you are dealing with amateurs and you really don't have much of a fraud problem.

And, that's one of the reasons it surprises me when these services publish fraud signals (as in the subject post), even if it's only a few simple ones. You will find that one of your most effective weapons against fraudsters is secrecy and misdirection. Never "train" them by letting on how you are trying to detect them and never give immediate feedback when you bust them. For instance (and I will give only a couple of simple examples), make them believe there is a problem with the site or that their order is on the way (just don't send it). The longer it takes for them to realize that their game isn't working, the better. And the more confused they are about whether it actually is working, the better. You want them confused, frustrated, and ready to move on to an easier target.

Again, my point is that for anyone who has a real fraud problem and needs a service like this, devising an *effective" strategy for using it is not simple. Instead of simplicity, Sift should advertise that fraud is tough, but they are tougher. They should talk up their models, machine learning, etc., but also their experience in and commitment to understanding customers and leading them to an effective use of their tools and mitigation strategies. This stuff isn't turnkey. It is very much a customer service and consulting business, whether they would prefer it to be pure self-serve SaaS or not.

In any event, good luck.
If there were any legal issues, why are Bing and DuckDuckGo still returning SANA in their results? This is all very strange.
I'm confused. Either you know information that makes the very specific examples and evidence in the article, and how they purportedly refute the slate article's claims about the source of double spacing (and thus casting doubt based on claims made based on that), which I would like to see, or I'm entirely unable to parse your meaning.
That only works when you have a monopoly on a particular platform and everyone uses your 'extended' version of a standard by default. Microsoft isn't in this position in mobile, so any attempts to extend the android standard would just render their extended-android an incompatible oddity.
yes but a one time md5 of an iso is far less strenuous than manually checking the provenance of 200 tarballs to build say X. there is a new package management system similar to apt-get but it's far rarer to see it used than ports

I really like ports - as much for the knowledge that I have all the right header files.
It seems like Microsoft's decision to buy Nokia was pretty easy. If Nokia happened to experience a lot of success with Windows Phone, they'd have even more money to hedge their bets and not be dependent on MS. But if Nokia kept slipping and actually went under, MS would lose it's major Windows Phone hardware partner.

I mean, ever since Elop became CEO, the talk was "Microsoft just bought Nokia ... for nothing".

So what I'd be curious about, after all the lies and betrayals (QT, argh... grrr), did Nokia actually get any "real money" for jumping onto the failing MS Phone ship (edit: given the threat of an Android double-double cross or whatever)?
Above extension was removed by author but someone else released extension that does the same.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fix-gmail-compose-...
Why Business Owners Should Be Using Social Media To Promote Their Business
It's not in the core language but it fits in well with the JS ecosystem, and could be used for the purposes discussed here.
I had never considered that "who sets the priorities" angle. Thanks for pointing that out :) I just wish healthcare in the US wasn't so ridiculously expensive.
You are most definitely not alone in your reaction. I am still bemused that Google's owners were, and remain, too scared to speak out publicly about what is going on, even after the revelations which have been made. Not just Google, however. All the major tech firms appear to be on the hook.
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Just like bareback sex with partners who remain monogamous for the duration of your relationship, repeatedly sticking the same USB device into your computer is a lot less risky than sticking a wide variety of USB devices of unknown provenance into your computer...
Surely Dropbox itself will offer metered web hosting from DB folders soon enough. Google Drive already touts itself as a web host, despite not publishing official limits.
ACTUALLYITWASDURINGTHEREIGNOFCHARLEMAGNETHATSPACINGCAPITALIZATIONANDPUNCTUATIONWEREADDED
ASCONVENTIONSTOMANUSCRIPTWRITINGTHANKALCUINTHATSUCHTHINGSCHANGED
The "disruption" that people are talking about in Silicon Valley these days is more similar to the common sense meaning and less similar to Christensen's concept of "disruptive" innovation. http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/03/stop-reinventing-disruption/ http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/05/disr...
quick summary for the impatient:

- drop GCC for CLANG.

- introduce VPS (more virtualised approach to jails)

- introduce bhyve (native hypervisor on common standards)

- replace BIND

- Can be run on raspberry pi

- major speed ups in SMP, and networking

FreeBSD Is taking a fairly big leap forward in its sweet spot of the workhorse of the data farm. BSD has always had great jails virtualisation support (it's what LXC or docker is following) but now that's being expanded and complemented with the run-another-OS-on-my-host-OS of "virtio" style VMs

Raspberry pi of course is what the world has been waiting for - never mind all the rest :-)

edit: tidy ups
It seems like every good idea eventually becomes a buzzword which is used not as a description but as an aspirational substitute for the activity that it originally described. If you need to say that you're "disrupting" you probably aren't.
Somewhat unrelated: Would it make sense for NYTimes to make links coming from HN unblocked by their Paywall just as it is for links coming from Google/FB/Twitter? I find it super annoying to visit a NYT article from HN only to come across the paywall.
I have a website where not only did Google remove it, they removed all pages that linked to it, and all future pages that linked to it. You could search on the domain and get zero results. So they have the capability to do anything. (The website is a DMV licensed traffic school for traffic tickets). The website doesn't have to be anything too special for them to purge it.
NASA probe hears "shriek" in space as it leaves solar system
Even so, of you assume that average person knows 20k words but would only use about 2,000 words in day to day life, and thus in his or her password. That still means that at one billion passwords per second (which is completely unrealistic, unless you are NSA) it would take 1.8 years to crack the password. Who would invest that much time and electricity into a wifi password, unless, again, you are the NSA :)
This might have some of your answers: http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2013/03/31/apps-with-...
Wikipedia had a lack of harmful effects of caffeine (or at least none written in a way I as a layman can understand) and I thought a site with articles about caffeine selling caffeine products would make an okayish substitution.

Again for nicotine there is no convenient list on Wikipedia, so:

> In one study, a group of Alzheimer's patients were given nicotine patches, while another received a placebo. Those with nicotine patches maintained their cognitive abilities longer and sometimes even recovered lost cognitive function.

> Contrary to popular opinion, the study showed that nicotine actually boosts the growth of new blood vessels.

> In 2006, Duke scientists found that people with depression who were treated with nicotine patches reported a decrease in their depressive feelings. The results were perhaps not surprising for a drug associated with imparting a "buzz." However, the research also showed a direct link between nicotine and an increase in the release of dopamine and serotonin, two vital neurotransmitters. A lack of dopamine or serotonin is a common cause of depression.

-- http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/drugs-alcohol/nicot...

again, there is much more on Google Scholar.
Not sure about SEO otherwise how would SANA be the top result for Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex and... (cue drumroll) Lycos!
A while ago, I read a comment by a parent who said they only let their child use the internet on the Wii. The advantage is that the content is displayed on a large screen in a shared family space, so they can keep a tab on it without restricting internet access.
That's not very convenient, even for power users. My blog runs on a custom CMS I wrote, yet it was enough of a pain that I eventually added Dropbox integration. This setup has the added advantage that all the state is always in Dropbox, backed up, and I can set up as many read-only mirrors that autosync as I want:

http://www.stavros.io/posts/this-blog-is-dropbox-enabled/

http://mirror.stavros.io/posts/this-blog-is-dropbox-enabled/
Reminds me of the South Park 'Whale Whores' episode.

A lot of people who probably are happily eating chicken getting incensed by another culture doing something the same to a slightly different creature.
As a 22 years old, my online life is a lot slower paced than in the movie. I also don't play video games(that often), I chat on IRC a lot, and don't use IM speak.
Use the MIT license.

The only thing the apache license gives over that is that derivative works include a notice acknowledging the previous authors.

Honestly, if I'm releasing my code for free, I couldn't care less. If you want to be a douche and pretend you wrote it, go for it.

It's like that quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson: The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

see: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-...
I agree.

Scenarios where you need extremely simplified website access are unlikely to be those where you need well distributed hosting.
By asking the question it implies you don't think they should, but you neither give a reason why you think his post shouldn't be nor do you call into question anything in the post. I like the snacking analogy, especially as people how around more and more on sites.

Here are a few reasons people on this site are interesting in why cdixon has to say: http://cdixon.org/aboutme/
How Tumblr uses \0 in the output of meta tags
I like those, but I really really want something which can do bt 4.0le with an existing pairing (stronger than just bluetooth 4.0 le security, though) between my host (ideally, mac/win/linux desktop/laptops, also phones) and the device, with some level of on-device logging, access control, etc.

A type 2 pinpad + openpgp smartcard might be the best practical thing right now -- a PIN on the card, plus a passphrase from the host (I think you can require both?). Type 3 showing a hash of what you sign, or a serial number of number of signs, would be even better.

The GPF cryptostick (usb) is also nice -- I think you could also take the Werner smartcard and cut it down to a smaller size for a USB stick sized reader. Sadly GPF stick 1.2 is out of stock everywhere.
Quoting SEMW: Venturing just a little further than the title, into the first paragraph, we come across a (large, boldfaced) edited addition to the effect that "All of this applies to the regular Apache License (v2) as well".
A "subtle loophole in a license" is practically a contradiction in terms. Courts don't enforce unlikely interpretations that run counter to the reasonable (and documented!) expectations of most if not all parties concerned just because some lawyer walks into a courtroom and announces they want to interpret it that way. Law is not a programming language, and it's not enforced by computers.

If anything, the change that was made by the company here is even worse because it's obviously ambiguous. What exactly does it mean for a patent claim to "exist"? Are we talking about patents already granted? Patents filed? Patents that might be filed?
I think we need more comics of companies as characters.
I read your comment in stick figures :)
FYI, MTV has spun off a weekly reality show based on Catfish. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it may be their highest rated show currently airing. It is now about midway into a second season.
FreeBSD 10 is also going to have much-improved support for Xen [1][2] and newly-added support for Hyper-V [3]. I'd love to see AWS and Azure support first-class FreeBSD instances. (You can currently run FreeBSD instances using cperciva's AMIs [4], but that's not the same as Amazon supporting FreeBSD in the same way they support Linux).

[1]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2013-June/001...

[2]: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Testing_FreeBSD_PVHVM

[3]: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38019

[4]: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/
I remember playing a version of something similar to this (-jar) at school (restricted access).

I'm glad the community is thriving, games like Nethack and Dwarf Fortress will be the new board games of our generation, I imagine.
+1. I think a lot of people just want this thing to "go away", be happy and remember the great stuff the US does, just admire the philanthropic endeavours this multi-billion dollar company is doing, all in the name of education and access to bash. I am not surprised by the downvotes on my comment. The US Gov has burnt all their bridges, the world trusted them as a thought leader on anti-censorship, pro-freedom. At this point I feel the rest of the world needs to cut the cable (literally) and leave the US alone, you want to monitor every fucking email, go ahead, we route around you. You stood up and gave yourself the role of steward of the internet (I know Al Gore invented it), and you did a great job un until the NSA fucked it all up. Mission accomplished?

Sorry to be so cynical, but seriously you need to make your Gov. accountable for the insane fuck-up they have perpetuated here, I would go so far as to say the NSA is now a terrorist organisation and needs to be stamped out.

Edit: just to make it clear, I admire the USA and love the core values of your country. I am British, and my country is way worse than yours in many ways (Mr Douche Cameron introducing filtering for example because "think of the children"). You have been bestowed stewardship of the internet (you invented it after all, Darpa etc) but have done a terrible job in recent years. This is due to the terrible FISC/FISA rubber stamping allowing those who would always seek more power to get it. Your bad example of stewardship however only gives countries like China and Iran more excuses to enforce their disgusting filters and firewalls. You can still do something about this by telling 'them' it is not OK. Oh, and never allow them to take away your guns, that is a good thing to have.
Fixed amount vs variable amount is irrelevant, variable amount just requires higher n.

Either way, the gain from switching approaches zero as n approaches infinity.
This post would be more interesting if you had some analysis. Its odd that you did so much legwork, without a single example of 'statistics'. Got something? Post up a counter-example. Or even just a regular example !
If we choose a 100 year interval, as long as there are no world wars by 2045, then things will have improved relative to 1845-1945.