skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing wrong with dual licensing, even RMS has said:

"I've considered selling exceptions acceptable since the 1990s, and on occasion I've suggested it to companies. Sometimes this approach has made it possible for important programs to become free software."

His reasoning is that selling proprietary licenses to otherwise GPL'd code is reasonable since it enables companies to do the same thing that they would be able to do if a project was dual licensed with GPL/MIT. Since he does not consider MIT/X11 style licenses wrong, merely inferior, he concludes that selling GPL exceptions is reasonable:

"When I first heard of the practice of selling exceptions, I asked myself whether the practice is ethical. If someone buys an exception to embed a program in a larger proprietary program, he's doing something wrong (namely, making proprietary software). Does it follow that the developer that sold the exception is doing something wrong too?

If that implication is valid, it would also apply to releasing the same program under a noncopyleft free software license, such as the X11 license. That also permits such embedding. So either we have to conclude that it's wrong to release anything under the X11 license -- a conclusion I find unacceptably extreme -- or reject this implication. Using a noncopyleft license is weak, and usually an inferior choice, but it's not wrong."

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions
Ah yea, I forgot about this application. It's definitely a good one, although for some reason Theranos isn't explicit about targeting it.
That BOD is stunning with heavy national security/ military operations. I almost thought it was a CIA cover company.

The application is interesting.
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Playboy? Hollywood? Advertising?
> Mathematicians already know what it means for a proof to be constructive or not constructive, and they know it's easier to work with constructive proofs.

It is often more easy to prove that some object exists (by contradiction) than to construct such an object.

For example: by applying Zorn's lemma it is easy to prove that any vector space has a Hamel basis. But it is often non-trivial to construct such a basis.
> "Still, though, even if only ten percent of these are related to national security, that's four thousand threats to our security last year--from Yahoo!'s user base alone."

The problem with this line of reasoning is that are numbers less than %10 - it's perfectly possible that there was only 1 NSL and the Yahoo! announcement wouldn't read any differently.
Hmm, I find shit_hn_says much more entertaining than 'hacker news onion'.
A thought: when one of the roll-your-own prefix/suffix boxes are filled out, a new one should appear. Great tool!
Sadly, the hedonic treadmill only protects you from excessive enjoyment, not from excessive urge to do something. (See my above comment on the want/like distinction.)
May you tell what type of systems do you work with? i.e., Web, server, enterprise intranet, etc.
Right on. I have some white friends who, when there aren't any black people around, call each other the n-word. They're not targeting any particular black person, so obviously the behavior is completely acceptable. It's a joke, you know, a play on actual racist behavior.

If you fail to see it as such, that's your problem.

The good thing about this position is that you lack such self-awareness that you would never know the extent to which your limited perceptual abilities cripple you. The bad thing is that you likely do understand the objections here, and are therefore a keyboard jockey. Accordingly, you would never have the courage to make such a ludicrous stand in a public, mixed audience, thereby giving others a fair, advance bozo alert.
I'm not actually opposed to progressive taxation either, by other means.

I can think of a few solutions* to your counterexample though, and that's the point. There's no reason to expect a solution to be fair in all cases, or perfectly fair in any. I'd only argue that there is often, or perhaps always, a more equitable and direct way to provide for common services than property taxes.

*I choose the BLM as a neighbor purposefully. The rich people in your example would almost certainly prefer to fund their own municipal utility than settle for the type of response I would expect the state or county to provide.
Endless scrolling pages, flowing text, drop-down menus... these are all foreign concepts to animals.

People are used to interacting with 2D objects in the world. It feels natural. "Cards" provide a strong figure-ground relationship and let the viewer chunk content. It's the same idea as section headings or pull-quotes in articles.

I hope we can also get to direct manipulation of objects. I'm really sick of clicking/tapping verbs to do an action on an object. We should have some other proxy for behavior than words.
You're argument that entrusting certain officials with making good publicly known decisions "works really well right up until it fails really badly" based off of a weird GW parable has me scratching my head.

And regarding small claims courts - the amount of damage a judge can do is directly related to how much a person is worth, just like fines for civil infractions. It can be nearly nothing or it can be life altering.

Anyway, the solution to this particular problem would be fine-limits (like in other states) and things like license-renewal restrictions (like you get for not paying a speeding ticket).

Edit: I suppose if people don't pay property taxes continually you have to sell the house to stop the tax revenue loss. Enforcing market-price restrictions might be difficult as lack of sale persists the problem. Maybe taking equity in the house at market price or something like that could work. Any way you look at it though $145 shouldn't be such a high-pri. Unpaid speeding tickets amount to more than that.
I am about to join oDesk as a freelancer. Coming out of college, I have basically limited experience behind me (internships, personal projects). Any advice you have for me about how to grow in the platform?
Their GPS steering is really cool. I think they get better accuracy through multiple GPS receivers spread out across the entire tractor.
I actually enjoying the lack of firing while moving in Starcraft. It forces you to choose between running and fighting.
maybe some sort of outgrowth from rapid triage/battlefield medicine tech? I know there's been a lot of pentagon efforts to figure out how to treat soldiers in the field more quickly, but mostly with trauma applications.
Taking apart a Rubik's Cube
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While the current trend is obviously about making it easier to navigate using mobile, I could see 'cards' making it easier to navigate using eye-tracking (possibly combined with voice), which is where I think we're heading in the not too far off future (we're a lazy species).
It doesn't just come to voting share. You'll be taking their advice if you want that next round of funding.
no, I'm saying you are the sort of person who thoroughly enjoys self-righteousness and making baseless accusations about (your perception of) the beliefs of others.
I have to disagree to the basic assumption of the article.

Its often not necessary for a coder to understand why math works, but only how to use their results. e.g.:

I've coded fft in 5 different languages, and used it uncountable times. Still it took ages to understand why dft works, and I did not yet took the step to understand how dft leads to fft.

I know dozens of Second Life scripters (including me) who use quarternions regular, still nobody could tell me, why they work so good for 3d rotations.

I've coded my first Markov, 35 years ago, at the age of 12, and Markov was never mentioned in school at all.

I'm using dozens of machine learning methods on daily base, coded a few my self, but I do not care to know why they work, but only what their strong points and limitations are.

Its not necessary to know how to design and build a car, if you just need to drive from A to B. Its not necessary to study bio-chemistry, to be a good cook.
You know that the effective tax rate still raises?

For simplicity sake, consider that first 100K are taxed at 10% and next 100K at 20%. If you made 100K your effective tax had been 10% i.e. you owed 10K to the government, however if you made 200K, even though the first 100K is still taxed at the same rate, your effective rate is 15% because you now owe 30K out of 200K.
Without relevant domain or speech recognition expertise, it seems that names might be one of the more common areas to get errors while transcribing using such a system, particularly if the system isn't trained for a name and/or it is said by many different voices?
Just to be clear -- all I'm saying is that the argument (that these things aren't sexist) is being made -- as you can see if you read through the rest of the discussion.
I never said I was offended, and that doesn't matter. You said that people should not be offended, and the only reasoning you offered for this was that you thought it was funny. My point is that your singular perspective of the humor is not alone sufficient in determining whether or not it's appropriate for the audience, or whether other people are appropriately offended.

You appear to be saying that simply because you are not offended, nobody else should be -- which is an incredibly stupid position to hold. I don't care to explain to you why breast obsession apps and mock-stroking in front of and all over an audience are offensive to others. I doubt you would get it anyway.
This is a cool movie effect in scenes with poor telecommunication is projected.
Not enough people say this anymore, but congrats!

That first $1/$1,000/$1,000,000 is the hardest. Good luck.
you don't have to be rich!

http://rollingjubilee.org/

http://strikedebt.org/

http://www.occupyourhomes.org/

http://occupyforeclosure.org/
This story is not about a government department doing what it is charged with doing. This story is not about privitization of collections. This story is not about the well known DC corruption issue. This story is not about tax collection automation, ie removing the knock on the door. This story is not about people that buy tax liens, which as a side note do not know the circumstances of the lien.(barring collusion)

This story is about the fact that this man had no one. No one to make sure is ok. No one to ask if has been forgetting things lately. No neighbors that might have checked in on him. No family that was attentive enough to realise he may need help with the 10 giant boxes of mail by the door. No one that gave enough of a shit to just ask how he was doing.

When was the last time you checked in on that elderly lady that lives next door to make sure she is doing ok? When is the last time you did a little checking up on your elderly family? When was the last time you took the time to make sure the people around you are not getting to the point where they need help?

As a side note, please read the entire article.
KitKat for Google? Give us a break…
Clarified my comment. Sorry- not trying to get you into trouble.
Cards are a bit of a distraction from direct manipulation. They scream lo-interactivity Web app. They muddle the selection and drag-ability. They have some advantages in presenting datafrom an update stream: Google+'s three column-wide card presentation on a desktop screen is much more modern than Facebook or LinkedIn.

But now, some designers have found their new hammer and everything looks like a nail.
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So I am writing an essay on the american public education system, and this made me think about what HN would want to change to make public education more successful. I am interested in hearing peoples thoughts and opinions.
I've used parser combinator libraries (usually based on Parsec), and it's super nice being able to write your grammar as code, very quick and easy, but I'm not sure if it helps with the problems listed, since I think you still need to manually write a bunch of code to process the parsed tokens.
Can you speak to what specifically the article is wrong about regarding the apparently dramatic expansion of arctic ice?
I never notice until the edit link disappears, then there's a flood of changes that rushes into my head. So I guess I know what you mean.
Heh, at my first startup I used to get members of the audio codec team wandering over when there was a bug. I'd listen to the corrupted playback, draw out the codec block diagram, and point right to the likely error locations. As another commenter mentions, these were all lossy codecs. The character of noise would be very interesting much of the time -- effectively turning the decoder into a synthesizer.
So the underlying ideas are precise, but they're expressed in imprecise language? That's true of all communication.

When I ask my wife for "that thing by the door," I know exactly what I mean, but she has a to do a lot of work to decode it.
Personally I thought the demo was meta-commentary about absurd photo-sharing apps, community standards, and the combined awkwardness/humor of "men caught looking" (and then we, the audience or hypothetical users of the app, "caught looking at men looking"). Regressive, yes, but also recursive.

The chosen example photos seemed to have as their subject the male gaze, not the breasts themselves. And, unless staged, such photos don't usually capture a "stare" but a "furtive glance": it is an artifact of the photo-taking (and then sharing) process that turns a momentary glance, that the subject might have hoped noone would notice, into a permanent, ranked "stare".

The audience laughter was as much or more uncomfortable-distancing as it was enjoyment/approval, and the cultural differences in gender-sensitivity-taboos between Australia and Northern California added another interesting dimension to their act.

I would consider it one of the more interesting performances in the SF Fringe Festival (http://www.sffringe.org/appl/), now through September 21st on stages across San Francisco, and all the more notable because it was not, technically, an SF Fringe Festival entry or venue.
Have you set foot inside a Quest or Labcorp location? They are pretty terrible. Definitely a disruptable space...
Faster Horses
I recently wrote a blog post sharing my analysis of products whose trajectory / go-to-market strategy I've studied. Would appreciate comments/feedback. Special thx to AbbasMehdi for encouraging me to share on HN! You can see the post at www.humbledagain.com
I've seen that "lighten up" article posted no less than 4 times in this comment thread, except the unasked elephant in the room appears to be this:

At what point precisely does someone's, or a group of someone's comfort factor with a given topic begin to influence whether that topic should be discussed, parodied, subverted, etc?

On the left side of that point is where "lighten up" is an acceptable response to someone who is indeed being oversensitive or prudish.

This has to be an acceptable response somewhere along this continuum, because the alternative is to censor every single bit of humor ever, because I'm pretty sure I could dig up some person somewhere who is offended by a "why did the chicken cross the road" joke, let alone a reference to sex in any way.

On the right side of that point is obvious, where something is clearly and obviously inappropriate and probably damaging. Racial slurs, overtly sexist remarks, etc.

So. Where do we draw the line? The fact that this comment thread even exists would tell me that we don't have that nailed down.
Some vendors use multiple receivers, but Deere uses one, with possibly one or more on the implement(s) being towed, depending on the configuration. RTK provides centimetre level accuracy with the single receiver.
Pasting it here as well:

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford

Lately I find myself thinking about products I admire and the foresight they represent. I come back again and again to elegant execution that creates simplistic and obvious value creation that delights users. Thats really all it is and its the crux of great products. I have a running list in my evernote now of products I study and what I perceive the atomic unit of their value creation to be. One criticism of this approach could be that I fail to see the larger opportunity, what teams can do with the data blah blah blah…but I’m not terribly concerned w/ that for the purposes of this exercise. I stepped outside of my wheelhouse 2 years ago and threw myself into a position where I had to own products. It was sink or swim. Making conscious observations on what users did before a product existed helps me identify points of friction, or workarounds that users currently resort to to achieve their aims. Workarounds signal friction and inefficiency. Friction and inefficiency are itches that users will delight you for scratching. Watch what people do and not what they say. Below are a few examples:

MessageMe — What users did before: people want to share rich media but current messaging apps do a poor job (either due to performance or lack of features) in letting users seamlessly share rich media like videos, pictures, drawings, voice memos. Users will copy URLs of videos or pictures and paste them into their messaging app. The solution: A super zippy messaging app that lets you share rich media inside the app with one click of a button.

Clearslide — What users did before: Salespeople had to manually enter subjective notes in CRM systems after every interaction with a customer. This was 1) time consuming and 2) the onus was on the salesperson to communicate the relevant parts of the conversation that could impact the probability of the deal being closed. What does this mean? Clues about what part of the proposal they were most interested in. Questions the prospect asked. Who else they roped in into the conversation or shared the proposal with. The solution: Cloud based repository for sales presentations with analytics that track time spent on slides, who the presentation was shared with, when it was opened and such. All this allows for subjective notes to be replaced with data that helps prioritize leads, time follow-ups and guide conversations.

When you study products with this lense…you start to naturally isolate product value into silos of faster / cheaper / more efficient.

Don’t ask users what they want. Watch what users do and think deeply about their motivations and goals and build a solution that helps them arrive to their desired outcome faster. I’m not saying its easy…but its the best insurance you have at getting traction. Let me save you the growing pains and learn from my mistakes!

"If I had asked people what they wanted they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford.
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It's complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarFire_%28navigation_system%...
It sounds like she dropped out in 2003 to work "in biotech" so she's probably working on this for the past decade. That she's gotten to this stage is pretty impressive - considering the board, plus the "careers" page and the type of folks they're looking for right now looks like they're off and running
And therein lies the sickness that is affects HN sometimes. For a bunch of hackers there are some fairly closed off minds. I did think rsync could do this as well, but there are other ways to skin a cat, perhaps not all in the most efficient ways, but what's wrong with exploring doing it this way? As developers and hackers, aren't we supposed to explore and try stuff out? FWIW, I learned some new python odds and sods out of this, even if I don't use this.
Doing all of this will make you stand out more. Better to blend in with the general public a bit more.

Buy a cheap (preferably stolen) smartphone on craigslist and throw away the SIM card. Preferably this should be a phone with a removable battery. Walk to a bus stop that is near to a starbucks and jump onto their wifi with the phone, pretending to wait for the bus. After a while, walk away. Since you are outside during the entire process you can do this during winter and bundle up, concealing your identity while not looking suspicious.

Using a laptop at a busstop would draw attention. Using a cantenna anywhere not private would also draw attention. Getting a private place to use the cantenna is prone to problems (you could aim it out your apartment window, but that ties you to a location. You could park a van nearby, but that is suspicious). You can easily dispose of the smartphone later; just microwave it then go for a nature walk and throw it in the river.
That was the flaw in her reasoning that big business and govt can and will be somehow separate entities. They never are. They are effectively the same entity. Look at chiefs and heads of regulatory agencies, they are often ex or future CEO of industries those agencies are supposed to police. Look at many military industrial contractors they often hire ex-generals and so on. And all this in the land of "law and order". Imagine in other countries with less "law and order".
I read the title as an epitaph.
That sounds plausible. Another idea: choose a section of "bad image" and a section of "good image" which should have similar colours and then generate mutations of the corrupted DCT square until you have a close match between the two areas.
People who haven't taken the time to work with mutt sometime fail to understand how convenient and user friendly it is.
Pretty colors and nice interfaces do not always increase productivity. Sometimes displaying threads properly is all that's needed.

Also, the "mark thread as read" feature in mutt (^R) is a life saver when sorting through dozens of discussions.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sergey/langsec/occupy/
Part of the problem is that "target" and "adversary" have been defined-down to "everyone" and "anyone who isn't naked to pervasive surveillance."

In this case the topic is economic espionage. So who gets the information? Oil companies? Hedge funds? That's a bit different than intelligence on actual military threats.

Just oil? Or can Embraer count on Boeing having their bid numbers? And, if so, is maintaining a friendly relationship with the US in Brazil's interests?
Sure, but the same objection applies to consumer-targeted products. If your product is for "everyone", you may need to spend large amounts of money to get attention.
Except I don't, nor does any member of my nuclear family. We do our best to make sure it doesn't go to waste, one way or another.

An additional factor is that my parents were born during the Great Depression and experienced the privations of WWII on the home front. So they taught by example ... still do, in fact.
According to CALEA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_L...

Its every company. Nobody needs Greenwald to figure this out.