skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Begging the question means assuming the thing you're trying to prove. I'm not trying to prove that patents should be considered property rights. Indeed, I'm convinced they should be part of a tort-like regime. But that's neither here nor there. My original post was about the use of the word "monopoly." Someone claimed that "monopolies are bad for consumers" but as I explained any property right is a legal monopoly, but that doesn't mean it's a monopoly in an economic sense. The issue of whether patents should be considered property is irrelevant to the question of whether they are monopolies in the economic sense.
Video games and law of war
If freedom is a means then the question should be answered: to what?

A man could be free or otherwise he is bound to servitude.

→ If freedom is a means—possibly intermediately—to obtain freedom then freedom is still an end.

→ If freedom is not a means—possibly intermediately—to obtain freedom then one's end will be to serve someone else.
You bring up a great point that I think the article left out—scheduling the tasks ahead of time before the day you have to do them can help tremendously. For me, that is motivation in and of itself that I can just start the next day with it already planned.
Seems like, that many times, money involved in a business is directly proportional to filth.
Odd.
As a devops contractor I earn north of 500gbp/day and I have a 1 year contract.

Imagining I take a week or two off this year then that works out to about 200k usd

How to achieve this? Find a gap in the market, upskill in it, don't be shy about asking for more money than you think the client will offer you (if they're desperate, they will pay)
Join the fight against phishing
> should be more in touch with... more current lingo?

What is "more current lingo"?

> an internet/network orientated security... force.

It isn't Internet specific. It isn't just about networking.
Do you want to run Haskell interactive environment on Android? Just run QEMU
> It's both. Sure there's ad space sold, but there's also ad space that targets specific people with specific interests.

It is still ad space what is being sold
$300k or more
Why the nation needs a US Cyber Force
> best of both worlds

I'm just curious, how much time have you spent with a really strongly statically typed language like Haskell or OCaML?
This article is nonsensical. Completely rewrite? OS X has been 64-bit since forever, and I believe Mach supported 64-bit systems in the 1980s. I was disappointed to see how much of dalivk/libcore wasn't 64-bit clean considering it was written this decade.
Why iPhones will always be a different experience from Android
Big name drivers would provide a big boost, but I also think McLaren and Williams involvement will help get quite a few F1 fans interested to start with. Keeping them might be tricky. But if they do, then numbers could build.

Im not sure though how F1 people would react if FE started actually did start to or look like potentially rivaling it.

Personally, I don't want to compare the two, even though it is tempting. Ideally, I want FE to find it's own niche and be successful, then hopefully grow in to its own big thing. Hopefully it will attract its own new sponsors, fans, heros, etc, and not be seen as a rival.
The other way around this is to simply not pay yourself everything your company is earning.

If you have a long contract you can make up a big enough buffer in your business account so you can go months without any business income and still pay yourself a decent salary.

Other bonus is giving yourself a massive dividend now and again :}
Thanks. Really not well versed with those licenses. Right now, I'm leaning to choose MIT. What do you think of it?
Here a transcript of the video:

"We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn’t want to give us our single button.."

"You want to have something you do with the keyboard that is signalling to a very low level of the software - actually hard-coded in the hardware - that it really is bringing in the operating system you expect, instead of just a funny piece of software that puts up a screen that looks like a log-in screen, and then it listens to your password and then it’s able to do that," Mr Gates said.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/news/bill-gates-confe...

Now what that means in terms of hardware/software I don't know, but it sounds a lot like some sore of interrupt to me.

Does it matter? I think not.

I don't think the combination of keys was ever picked for their ease of use, but instead became widely know only because the Windows of that time was not the most stable of systems.

But once again I don't thin any operating system running in real mode would've had the power protect the user from badly written programs.
"Maybe they'd be better off racing electric cars that at least resemble the kind of cars you can buy?"

I'd go for this. It could be a bit like car rallies.
Programmers can make a lot more: starting at 1500 EUR (as junior developer) up to 4 000 EUR (minority of senior developers). That's also before taxation
Inflammatory headline playing with the common narrative but then the article looks beyond the current Apple babble.

"isn't dead yet" is quite a load of BS though in any form. the iPhone business alone, not Apple in full, just that one business line, is bigger than Coca Cola and McDonalds. Bigger than Google. any founder would give their left nut/ovary to have this kind of "misfortune". people lining up for your product despite the biting media coverage.
Holding the mouse down is needless strain on the hand. I don't do much drawing on the computer but when I do my mouse hand can start hurting after 15 minutes. Any little bit of relief is welcome. Both methods can be supported at the same time.
Didn’t Ace SAT? Just Design Microbe Transplant Research
>> Apple isn't dead yet

What a terrible headline for an article. Is anyone worried that Apple is dead? They have 137 billion dollars in the bank and the iPhone has about 40% market share in the US. The iPhone makes more money than all of Microsoft's products combined.
I use either fargo.io (the super cool outliner) or I use a text file. As I do stuff I move it around or delete it from the list. It absolutely still works for me. :)
I've had issues with TODO list in the past, but settled on a combination of a Kanban board using Trello and Pomodoros, which works quite well so far. If anyone is interested, this is what we're doing:

This is how our board looks like: http://i.imgur.com/LnD5a5H.png

Each Monday, we pull a week worth of tasks from the Backlog to the Weekly sprint. Each morning, we pull a day worth of work to the Daily goal. We separate Blocked, Actionable and non-Actionable (things that can't be worked on just yet, but aren't quite "blocked". those are usually the tasks that sit around with the rest of the actionable tasks, but ignored because for some reason there isn't much to be done about them). In the end of each sprint, we archive the "Done" list and start a new one. The numbers in the `()` are the estimated time, and we have bookmarklet [1] that sums it up for each list (for when we plan the weekly sprint).

[1] https://gist.github.com/shesek/5185168
Why do we "need" to start doing something that's false? $200k+ is a lot of money. It's a top-5% household income in the U.S. (and that's including dual-earning households). You can live a very good life just about everywhere with it. I live a very good life in an expensive city on less! Heck, it's a very good income even if you limit yourself only to technologists in the Valley, a rather rarified social milieu: most Googlers make less.

Sure, you can make more than that, but in a general discussion about freelancing, it's not all that interesting to break down fine gradations of the upper-middle-class, which can be usefully bundled into the category of "people who are very successful at consulting/freelancing". Heck, I'd probably put the cutoff at $150k+ if I were designing a poll, since above that threshold you are no longer trying to make it as a full-time consultant who can support a good lifestyle.

I do think it could be interesting to break out the truly wealthy, adding a separate category for $1m+. But there isn't really any interesting difference between $200k and $300k.
Can't provie it, but I'm seeing this for my own app (It's in Hebrew and quite successful in Israel http://bitly.com/DriveModeHeb ) and other previous apps.
In the tests, his OCaML implementation takes 7ms, and his Python one takes 64 or 109 ms. So even on your SSD, that's 50% to an order of magnitude too slow, just for startup.
Ok, so either this is a paid presentation for the "poorer cousin" 5c or a paid vanity advertisement for how apple innovates - just not RIGHT now... but we do have the chips installed (and paid) for the future! Promise! - and how apple has innovated by... dropping older technologies.

Dont get me wrong, I like apple very much, but this article is an advertisement that from the title to the conclusion doesn't make sense or contact with reality.
This is a stupid article.

* "S" models are always incremental changes.

* 64bit O/S on mobile won't really change anything for a couple of years.

* Multipath TCP/IP is an excellent new feature, but no one says that Google's continuous experimentation with HTTP alternatives in Chrome is a critical advantage. Apple deserves plaudits for implementing Multipath, and it should make a small incremental improvement for end users, but that's pretty much it.
You're forgetting that it may seem like no one put a gun to our heads to use Matlab, if you're in school - you're required to use it. The same goes for MS Office, Visio, and hundreds of other programs.
Can you imagine how good Octave, LibreOffice or any other open source application would be, if instead of forcing users to buy proprietary versions of software schools and/or students were required to donate just 1% of the cost of proprietary software to open source alternative?
And just as its premier race series has helped drive innovation in the engines, brakes, suspension and aerodynamics of everyday cars

are there any statistics / studies on this kind of thing? or the similar claim from space exploration?

i don't dispute there are useful advances, but i wonder whether they would have been made anyway (perhaps at a lower overall cost, if "cost" can be at all well defined).

[edit: i see from the comments below that maybe i need to repeat i don't dispute there are useful advances and the question are there any statistics / studies on this kind of thing?]
Also, experienced doesn't mean rigid.
I'm guessing NASA TV won't be carrying the Falcon launch because this mission is for the Canadians? Their online schedule shows no change.
From a proper pure racing POV, a horrible nasty idea, born of Satan's rectum.

Putting aside the technical / abuse angle, which is totally valid.......From a getting fan interaction and publicity idea, its not a totally bad idea. Its a bit "reality".

Now, if there is a god, he knows full well I cant stand all this "reality" and social media lark, but frankly, it is popular. FE needs to hook in to something as it needs to build a following. Its never going to appeal to the olde skool big engine and noise brigade who cant get their heads round electric at all, so it needs to get new fans interested. IMHO, that means going all youth and modern. So, things like this are a reasonable idea.

Problem I see is that this specific idea is possibly born of gray suited men in a meeting not really understanding either racing or social media. I understand the general intent, but not the currently touted solution.
unfortunately it can mean over-confident, though (or simply not understanding how clueless you are?)... we had a nice guy at work - young, friendly, ambitious. got some weird vibes a couple of times when i tried to help him out with problems, but thought little of it. then he leaves and i have to maintain his code. why the fuck didn't he ask for help?

and yes, this implies something about the company culture needs to be fixed. the blame certainly isn't all his.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AGPL_web_applications

I am not saying Github should distribute their source, but Github and their fans should stop the "holier than thou" attitude.
I don't get this. At all. The guy is in Macedonia, which might be his core problem.

switching to the bay area, the situation is vastly different.

We're constantly looking for coders. We had a summer internship program with astounding interns. We hire a mix of junior and senior coders. We have a full time college hiring person. Last week we had a developer open house event to show interested coders our company and products.

Problem? We're on the other side of the Bay.

"Boring" Alameda County. Workday is here, Oracle, SAP, ServiceMax, etc. All hiring.

If you can't find a job as a developer in the Bay area, it's you.
Not that I advocate it, but just for a slightly clearer picture of what that world would look like: a situation where lack of copying restrictions leads to the government being the only one paying for development of software for distribution is a very different one than where "all software development [is left] in the hands of the government" - people would still build on what's there, and may hire people to adapt those solutions to particular needs. And of course that's ignoring the fact that you'd probably have a comparable amount of volunteer FLOSS development going on in general.
You have somehow re-defined software engineer performance as a mere function of company bottom-line, and ended up measuring performance of individual software developers by proxy of long-term company performance. There are two problems with it.

First, not all software engineers actually do commercially work on commercial software -- as a quick example, Con Kolivas, who is an anaesthesiologist by day and kernel hacker in spare time. Others may work on commerical software by themselves, without any external team or management involved; think Colin Percival. I would even wager a guess that some of the best software was created in a non-commercial way, say, Linux kernel -- at least the early versions of it.

Second, the impact any software engineer has on company bottom line is much affected by other aspects of a company. In a symbolic notation, you could say:

BOTTOMLINE_IMPACT := RISK_MANAGEMENT(SALES(TEAM_MANAGEMENT(THE_SOFTWARE_DEVELOPER(EXISTING_CODEBASE)))).

Invoking the Amdahl's law -- even if you had a 10x SOFTWARE_DEVELOPER, performance of the whole system will be limited by the other factors. In my limited experience, the RISK_MANAGEMENT (of software development and use) part is the least understood one those days.
No. Sending credentials for one service to be used by another service is a bad idea, full stop.
Galloway's a pretty odious guy in my view, he's just like Blair - a manic self-publicist, who tramples over those who get in his way - but wasn't quite as successful as Blair
I had a dream before while I was learning c# : it's like I was walking on top of a chunk of code in c#.
Is it just me or does browser screen projection seem like a surveillance dream come true if it can be silently enabled?
> What other word would you use?

Maybe not a single word, but "technology and information warfare"?
64 bits with 1 GB of physical RAM and multipath TCP are billed as innovation in that article. IMO, these are even less useful to mass consumer than NFC, so openly avoided by Apple
I was doing Perl. I assume it's pretty similar: go to jobserve.com, type in Ruby contractor, hit enter.
Totally agree. If you had four movie theaters that:

1) Charges $12 up front
2) Shows the movie for free with ads
3) Allows you to decide if you want to pay $3 for each quarter of the movie

Easy: #2 or #3, then #1.
Title: NASA Supercomputer Generates Closer Look at Future Climate Conditions in U.S.
"what window manager you run (and how you're using it's features)"

Right, exactly. I've found that starting GIMP in ratpoison is a little glitchy - two windows spend time competing for a single frame until I pull one of them into another frame - but once I've done that I quite like the experience of using GIMP in ratpoison.
Even compared to other big cities in Germany; you won't find Berlin rental prices in Munich or Frankfurt.
>CentOS and MariaDB come to mind as two possible examples, that started as a means not to pay for the original projects

Well neither CentOS or MariaDB came to be because of 'asking for donations'. CentOS was forked from RHEL to be a subscription-free enterprise alternative and IS actually being funded by donations, which they ask for.

MariaDB is a fork created by the same person who created and then sold MySQL to Sun for $1 billion (which he was able to do due to MySQL having copyright attribution from all contributors).

I think these were at best very poor examples to support your statement.

>While it is very convenient for the users, it does not guarantee that you as the author will get paid to work on it.

True, it will be a competitive situation, however it's not very different from proprietary commercial development as you will need to continue to add features and improve performance etc, else users will turn to another application which does.

In open source it's extremely easy to fork (ie base upon existing code) however due to copyleft it won't be a fork with exclusive lock-in features as anything can be ported back, so in essence the payment will go to the person/persons who the end users think is providing the best value for their payment, again not unlike proprietary commercial development.

And in the tradition of open source software, I see no direct reason as for why developers can't consider sharing development and thus also the donations.

>The Android market is a prime example of this, where lots of apps are just plain forks, with the original authors getting nothing in return.

Well I think that is primarily a problem of original developers not creating Android versions of their open source applications to begin with, as such we are seeing opportunistic third-party developers creating quick ports of their software.

But is that really a bad thing? If the original programmers aren't interested in supporting the Android platform and someone else provides the service then I fail to see the harm (assuming of course that the licence is abided).

And I do think that when official projects enter the market place they will quickly gain the upper hand over third-party ports as not only are they again the 'official' version, but also I trust that they as core developers can typically adapt the original code better for Android use.

I also think we are slowly seeing more official Android ports of well known open source desktop software, VLC comes to mind.

Looking past whats already been discussed I'm sure there are viable venues which haven't yet been thought of, or at least given a fair chance.

One thing I forgot to highlight was the Valve Steam Workshop donation program which just recently resulted in enough money for two 6 month development contracts for working on Blender.

Again things like this makes me believe that exposure and ease of payment is the big hurdle, not that there's not enough people willing to donate for open software development.
Quite a hyperbole. I use many free "services" on the web and I provide some myself because they are someone's hobby (sometimes mine).
Dunno if something is wrong with browser or code, but the webgl demo totally wrecked my Firefox.
Also this: http://craig.is/killing/mice
"The truth is that you cannot do reasonable shortcut definition the way that everybody would like to with JS... yet."

couldn't agree more (learned the hard way), doing shortcuts with js is like translating your app into 50 different languages but only for half the keys - it creates a jumbled mess - best practice here is to never even do it.
Usually those companies were shipping modified versions, and/or it wasn't possible to build your own modifications for the device. I don't recall an instance - though it may well just be that I'm ill informed - where "people got angry" just because a company wasn't mirroring something.
I think the terminology you use is not right. Unicode maps integers to graphemes (not glyphs) and vice-versa (i.e. it's a 1-1 mapping). Fonts map graphemes to glyphs.
Ants are not oppressed by their colony. Read the book "Les fourmis" if you want to learn more about how the actually live.
If you want to get started with Coq there are two good resources. One is Software Foundations[sf] by Benjamin Pierce. There's also Certified Programming with Dependent Types[cpdt] by Adam Chlipala. I would say [cpdt] is more advanced than [sf], so I think it's best to start with [sf] and then start on [cpdt] if you feel up for the challenge.

I have mixed feelings about Coq as a tool for software design. On the one hand I think it's feasible to use Coq to prove correctness properties of your programs. On the other hand I feel it can sometimes be extremely tedious and / or difficult to show some properties. I do believe it is the future to prove properties about parts of your program, though.

Lately I have been working on brainfuck in Coq[bf] in my spare time. I have spent almost two weeks on the project now and I have been able to show that 1) the "Hello World!" program on brainfuck's wikipedia page does indeed output "Hello World!"[hello], and 2) the correctness of a simple compiler from arithmetic expressions (with +, -, and *) to brainfuck[compiler]. The project is more than 1000 lines of code. I must admit some of the code / proofs are messy and could probably be shorter, but I think it does indicate how much work it requires (and how messy brainfuck is!)

[sf]: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/

[cpdt]: http://adam.chlipala.net/cpdt/

[bf]: https://github.com/reynir/Brainfuck

[hello]: https://github.com/reynir/Brainfuck/blob/master/bf_theorems....

[compiler]: https://github.com/reynir/Brainfuck/blob/master/ae_compiler....

Edit: I just remembered this talk by Wouter Swierstra where he proves some correctness properties for the core of xmonad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqaOU8kqykg (unfortunately I can't find the slides at the moment).
Heavens, no. That wasn't the idea, and certainly not my intention. It was merely a numerical standard deviance value, nothing more.

Granted, the people at the high end of the scale are probably more productive when facing more difficult problems but that's all. "How much more" is then an altogether different question. I'm not sure if one could even put a figure on it.
No, that's a continuation of the Bold line, with their tiny terrible screens, instead of a continuation of the Torch line.
Div Factory: css div generator
Inner-platform effect: A system so customizable as to become a poor replica of the software development platform

Source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Software_Engine...
We just came across this a few days ago and evaluated its use for a new project. Instead for our needs we're moving forward with http://www.mindmup.com
Certainly they're not directly comparable, as mindmup is a mindmapping tool, but depending what you're attempting to diagram and what your needs are, mindmup so far seems pretty awesome - all the front-end and back-end code is MIT licensed in github which was a huge plus.
Gratis source once you've been (legitimately) given the binaries is a core property of free software. Gratis in general is a common but incidental property of free software.
It used to, back in The Day, when you had hard-copy consoles or even dot matrix printers. I think sending CR (but not LF) and then printing accents over top of the original line was a way of printing some European languages with just ASCII.