skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite the contrary, let me explain better.

I am all for charging for support or hosted versions. However this usually only suits server side software or developer tools. There are plenty more of other types of software.

What I dislike are the companies that just use FOSS as free beer, specially in closed source products or behind SaaS walls.

So when asked for advice what type of license one should give to their projects, my recommendation is always to go GPL for open source projects. If the developer community gets contacted by commercial vendors, then either create a special license for the respective vendor, or have a general one for those type of cases.

But always use a license that prevents people selling your work as theirs.
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The article made many references to the economic gap between the rich and poor, stating that the "big banks" had all the gold, while everyone else had "worthless IOU's."

The "mess" isn't suggesting that the world is an unlivable dystopia. It refers to the fact that there are a few people with a lot of money, and only they have the ability to handle that much money. Bitcoin flattens the playing field, thus resolving the "mess."
I wonder, how powerful is the 1st amendment in the US exactly? How does it deal with situations like libel, bullying, calls to murder etc... ?
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Interesting. So if you want to get rid of the stories on the front page, and see more stuff, you should comment a lot. Because on HN a lot of comments is a death sentence for an article.

On the other hand, if you are an article writer and add a "discuss this on HN" link in your articles, you should remove the link as soon as you get a good ranking. Or actually don't ask people to discuss at all, because it is harmful, just ask them to vote and have your own comment system for discussion.

HN basically reinvented "sage", the concept from 4chan and its Japanese origins where people sometimes comment on a thread just to get it closer to the comment limit before it would no longer be bumped up to the front page when replied to.
It's an option, not a requirement. Which only adds value, not reduces it. Mom and pa can split the key in 5-of-10 via SSSS (Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme) and send portions to all their trusted friends. It'll be safer than putting savings in the bank. We just need some decent UI and apps for that.
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And then they made a dumber decision by stonewalling the FDA.
Not sure that this is true. The Supreme Court in recent years has smacked down several regulations on free speech grounds in surprising ways. Campaign finance reform (aka "Citizens United") isn't a popular one on the left, but it's an example of deferring to the first amendment even when regulation has good intentions. Another case was the FDA regulation of off label marketing of prescription drugs. The crux was that you can't tell certain people (sales reps) that they aren't allowed to talk to other people (doctors) about objective facts.
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That line stood out to me as well.

I'm wondering whether it was stated as the first priority of the Intelligence Committee rather than the first priority of the Senate. I realize members of the Intelligence Committee are expected to bridge those two roles - but it also wouldn't strike me as unusual for the Intelligence Committee to prioritize things differently than the rest of the Senate.
This may provide some context: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020382/You-entering... (apologies for linking to dailymail, I couldn't find a better article about it).

With events like this you can understand where the ideas of blocking extremism come from.
The amount of learning one can do on KSP alone shouldn't be underestimated.

You know you're onto something when you start doing Delta-V calculations while designing your rocket and talking about bi-elliptic transfers and aerobraking on the forums.

It is not enough to become a rocket scientist, but it is enough to understand the basics.

And, as per another comment, you can even begin to understand some of the telemetry data, even if in an intuitive sense.
That's a bogus argument. A mortgage is a private agreement between you and a bank. A bank foreclosing on a property without a mortgage (as at least Bank of America is alleged to have done on several occasions) is a tort that should be litigated and a crime that should be prosecuted.
Oops, yes I apologize if your post was not face value bad_user.
The post I was replying to was about US citizens, not HN.

BTW, who are you to say what is crap and what is not? I mean, I may consider your reply to be crap.
I briefly knew a few people on the dole after finishing school/university. All of them were constantly broke and quickly got jobs. I don't know anyone who turned down a job so they could keep getting £56 a week jobseekers.

There are areas of the UK which have high proportion of people on the dole, but it's a tiny minority. Please don't tar us all with the same brush.
I'd argue that for blockchain to function as secure ledger, miners must be motivated to do so. So you have to make a currency out of it anyway.
How do I find out whether my flight has WiFi?
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The question is: Deep down, whether we realize it or not, are these unspeakable manipulations the reason we come here?
If they can't show that the associations they're reporting are valid, what purpose does it serve to report them?

Showing correlations and study information related to markers found in your genes doesn't serve a purpose?

Shouldn't that be up to people to decide with their $99?

Tell me that this information and their method of finding correlations isn't doesn't have huge potential benefits:
https://www.23andme.com/about/factoids/
I will buy your argument when 1 billion people across south asia start hoarding bitcoins instead of gold jewelry with the hope that their daughter can be covered with it when she gets married.
You're forgetting that at any point, any government can prohibit using bitcoin, as they did previously with gold, and may prohibit using these scripts. What's left?
It's both: property prices have bubbled up to the point where many real buyers are investors looking to rent the houses out rather than residential owners.
Gold has a strong market as a store of value that doesn't depend on government. The characteristics that make it good for this: it is naturally scarce, doesn't degrade, it's easily divided, you can hold a lot of value in a small amount of physical weight (compare to silver), it's fairly easy to exchange for local currency at a time of your choosing. Hence, it has historically functioned as a store of value.

Bitcoin has been designed to have the same advantages. It's weaker because it's more complex to deal with (at the moment). But it's stronger than gold in that - so long as the algorithm holds - its scarcity is guaranteed, and it's easy to use for electronic transactions.

Bitcoins compete with gold for mindshare with people who want to be able to store value in a way that isn't subject to the whims of government - who can start printing lots of money at any time of their choosing and thereby wipe out people with savings.
I've got a plan
I'm a rich bitch motherfucker from the US, and I have a plan.

Tech seems to be getting away from us.

Let's make tech seem separate from the regular people. Let's make them think that they're better, and once they do, let's let all of the regular people know that they think that. Then let's build them up really big. Maybe even create a bubble?

That'll make sure that the real, regular, people never have any power!

Don't worry, we psychologists know for a fact that people love being told that they're the best! Techies will eat this up, cause they got shit on in high school. We need to make sure that they still feel shit on even once they're successful.

We can build them up and then use the people (we enslave) to destroy them! This will protect us and the people won't even know that we're manipulating them. Techies will be so happy to have the love and affection and power that they never had in hs that the majority of them will eat it all up with out even thinking about the consequences. The perfect plan!

Look the least bit familiar?

FUCKING GET IT??

You have the power to change the world and you're letting your whole (nerd/geek/hacker/whatever) population be manipulated into helping them. You're smarter than that. Don't let them manipulate you. You don't need to figure out a crazy puzzle to be cool. You already are- by the fact that they're trying to appeal to you.

“But I could be the best!!” If you could, you already are. Don't be fucking stupid. You're smarter than that.

This refers to 4/1 + rest of next year
You are quoting what I wrote out of context. The quoted statement specifically is addressing the claimed filtering of extremist views.

> but repurposing the technology would be trivial, and could quite easily fly under the radar since its all centralised.

Could, yes. If someone wants to document that and/or make a claim about that, then let them write an article about it. There are plenty of potential problems with the IWF.

But lets try not to blatantly make up stuff and present it pretty much as if it is a quote, and link it to a page that does not support the claim made in the title at all. It does not benefit us in any way to be flat out dishonest when there is so much that can be legitimately criticised based on real, actual quotes.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but worth noting that the Government of Scotland is formed by the SNP, not the Labour Party.
I see a lot of Europeans ghost banned, for probably exactly that reason.
Yes, this annoys me to no end, and I can't for the life of me figure out how one of the KEY selling points for Apps and Drive can stay broken and neglected for so long.

My workaround is to create a folder that is shared with everyone (individually list out each user in your domain) and make sure that all documents are created in that folder or one of its subfolders.

And since there is no technical method by which you can ensure that everyone creates their documents in that folder (and ONLY that folder)... you pretty much have to resort to constant annoying emails "are you sure you created it in $SHARED_FOLDER this time?" when you can't find stuff. Because the search tool is also broken.
I think the simpler answer is that most people who complain about documentation cannot improve the docs because they don't know how. If they did understand what was being explained in the documentation, they wouldn't be complaining in the first place.
> Would you believe a woman wearing dildo shoes who's accusing a world famous journalist for rape? Yes, dildo shoes. I'd say it affects my view on what has been said. http://lolpics.se/pics/76665.jpg

Those are going to make for an interesting anthropology thesis a couple thousand years from now.
Bittorrent is working well even though every user is not a stakeholder.
I would say the US already has the same sorts of provisions in place. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States .
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Maybe you are fighting the wrong battle. Instead of trying to "unlearn" Aspergers, perhaps you should accept it and fight for understanding by others.
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Ending the NSA Dragnet is not the solution. The solution is to assume that there will always be a rogue agency wanting to spy and to come up with solutions that make it hard or impossible.
I stopped reading a few pages in when kept talking about meta/social/gossip stuff rather that what the case was actually about, what the patents were about. Low S/N.
Agreed. I'm glad I caught this on the repost.
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Twitter > Settings > Apps > Revoke Access

You can just do that right after you vote.
You won't be able to afford to buy his arguement if you wait that long.
Not the OP but that is not really how you start running 10K/day. You gradually build up endurance starting from a mile a day or so, till your lungs can deal with that. I run 5 miles on the days I don't weight lift. It is not exhausting or something. I do this in the morning and then go do my work stuff.
> People who write FOSS software aren't required to be a charity...

I think this is a point so many users of FOSS miss. I'm an ardent supporter of FOSS, but I don't get to act entitled unless I'm paying someone (and probably not even then).
So it's a private agreement? I don't understand your point. You agree to pay a certain amount and if you don't a bad thing happens. When it's a bank and a mortgage, you lose your house and your family is harmed. When it's the government and taxes, your wages are garnished and your family is harmed.

Having a banking system helps people buy houses and having a government helps literally everything a society does.
Basics of Compiler Design is quite theoretical, but it's available online for free: http://www.diku.dk/~torbenm/Basics/
If said corporation wields enough power to be able to take your property at will, "legality" isn't going to stop it.
Actually, i work on curve-based rasterization, to build a game later on it.
Also, there is some (not much) calorie burning in running 10K vs walking.
But if a person does not know that the NSA is doing this (and possibly would tell you that they aren't doing it, were you to ask), then is that person being intellectually dishonest in acting like this knowledge is new to everyone?

I think that leveling a claim of intellectual dishonesty at someone who thinks that everyone else was as ignorant as they were is a bit harsh, and sort of inflammatory.

I think that most people would reasonably believe that if there were such strong signals that the NSA was doing this it would be closer to public knowledge than it was.
For the more technical customer of 23andMe, there probably isn't a need to do all of the interpretation themselves. There are tools which will take the raw data and query public databases to build together a similar (and sometimes more up-to-date picture). I don't think the FDA would want to shut down something like SNPedia.

But, there is a lack of quality tools available to query public genomic databases based upon raw data received from services like 23andMe. If anyone is a 23andMe customer, try out Promethease[1]. There is probably room for selling software to DNA service customers, but it probably isn't that big of a market (yet?).

An example, well-designed tool for viewing raw data files is 4Peaks[2].

[1]: http://snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease

[2]: http://nucleobytes.com/index.php/4peaks
I think it's more there are SO many NSA articles it tries to make sure only the actually important and good ones get to the front.
An open teaching and learning resource for Python: http://introtopython.org

(source: https://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming)
How can a hermaphrodite be a transvestite?
Except that danenania's comment which started this entire chain of discussion was portraying switching to software with an upstream whose goals were compatible - namely Apache - as an overreaction and somehow a betrayal of open source.
Thank you for your feedback but it is my understanding that the nearest nodes will generally be the ones with the least latency Hence the clients node choice is not "semi-random" - and thus quite a good indicator of the area in which the transaction took place. However , as the nearest node is used, the zoom level is capped, as is the resolution of the map. The visual is meant to be a relatively "general indicator".

You are right about online wallets. If you use your blockchain wallet, I do believe the IP of the relay will register as 127.0.0.1, and for this reason I have them omitted from the presentation.

EDIT - everything is going down. I also just uploaded an incorrect older version which is sending GETs with 127.... sigh give it a few days. Ignore my last paragraph
Thanks again for your feedback and explanation regarding nodes.
I agree with you. If you don't like it don't use it.

I don't have any problems with the author's discussion on the issue's with NGINX, but the solution to the problem is not to say its time for a fork and for a better product to come along. That's pretty much an ultimatum type argument and no one likes that.

Especially if the author has no stake in the actual development. It's one thing for Linus Torvalds to be abrasive (he's earned the right) versus being abrasive without any real foundation (I didn't get the impression that the author is a strong contributor to the project).
You mean, like it waited to kill a minor citizen that was in Yemen to visit his father accused ( but never judged ) for terrorism?
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Pretty much the same as in the UK. There are plenty of exceptions to first amendment protections in the US too.

UK libel law is ridiculous, though it has been reigned in somewhat, but other than that the protections are pretty similar.
I know for slander, in the USA you're allowed to say pretty much anything as long as it's true. The UK has much stricter laws against defamation. (In the US, the victim might sue for damages, but that's not the same as criminal charges.)
What does your ISP say about you?
Yeah. I really would like to see a version of HN where there are no arbitrary penalties applied.
if you were Assange, would you believe this? I wouldn't.
One more instance where I just assumed that what GCC does was in the standard. Very interesting.

For the curious who don't want to duplicate my look-up - right shift is by definition division by two except negative signed numbers, for which it's implementation defined. GCC on every architecture I've checked uses arithmetic shift for signed, probably because that extends the base definition to negatives.
Flying cars are a social problem more so than technical. Not even a super-fiat currency like Bitcoin would solve that.
Poll: Hacker News Person of the Year in Tech
As per the names suggested in this Ask HN post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6800515 - here is a poll listing all the names.
Michael O. Church
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Learning the speed of algorithms might well be part of the course - and in julia there is no sudden speed ramp between "done in fortran" and "done in matlab scripts". So you can write the naive, and then the progressively smarter implementation, and see how they speed up.
As requested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6801294
Okay, so tell me how call records generates by ATT that are never even in my possession are nonetheless "my" papers or effects?

The text of the amendment does not clearly support your position. Indeed, the focus is clearly on personal things (house, person), not things possessed by third parties.
The suggestions made here in an HN Poll:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6801294
Doom sells and fuels consumerism. The plane crash gets reported while thousands land safely unmentioned. Allow me to take a contrary tack. Humans are now in a position to find and divert a world ending impact event. The slope of progress has never been steeper and we survived the biggest threat, global nuclear war. We will prevail with quiet aplomb and all that will be deemed too uninteresting to be reported.
I wish politicians would one day face the same amount of word-scrutiny a concerned HN poster/commenter does.
> A friend of mine, Steve, noted that gold-backed economy logically evolved into the mess we are now

While the statement is not explicitly clear, I wouldn't call the above assessment a fair characterization of its intent.

It is widely acknowledged that paper currencies evolved as a proxy for gold in day-to-day life, which gave rise to the fractional reserve system, which gave rise to paper currency as a measure of debt rather than a measure of value, which gave rise to the ever-widening wealth gap, and so on and so forth.
I can only hope their constituents will remind them of this!
I think that the idea of surveillance is to increase safety with only a marginal decrease in freedom.

Additionally, one could argue that as our freedom grows the opportunities for surveillance increase. That is, if you use the same means of communication as available in 1776 you'll have just as much freedom as they did. But in 2013 you have much more freedom to communicate over various mediums. Your freedom has increased by a factor of x, but surveillance has decreased that freedom by a factor of y (where y is much less than x). The net gain is still positive, but less than unsurveilled access.

An interesting thought experiment is how well would an airline that does no security checks do versus one that does. Lets ignore the efficacy of security checks, and say that you're 10x more likely to die in the flight w/o security checks -- would most people be willing to endure the security checks (as they are today) for a 10x reduction in deaths (imagine the baseline is the number of deaths we see today). I think the answer is yes.

Likewise, I may well feel less free if there were no jails (maximizing actual physical freedom for prisoners) than if there is some.

Bravery doesn't equal stupidity. I'm not condoning the actions of the US government, but I think its unfair to assume increases in safety with an actual proportional decrease in freedom.
Thanks!
Can you send me a pull request with the fixes? I'm not a PHP OOP guru.
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It would be interesting to know if there are 'flagging rings' in the same way there are 'voting rings' and whether HN actively detects the former as it does the latter.
> "Severing ties with the NSA" started off with a NSA penalty but was so hugely popular it still got the #1 spot. However, it was quickly given an even bigger penalty, forcing it down the page. [1]

Supposedly, "N.S.A." will not trigger HN's keyword penalty :)

[1] http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
So, I found myself in a similar position recently with a technically FOSS project. The patches I was submitting were being re-licensed under a commercial license and sold to enterprise customers. I had to sign contributors agreement before sending patches and after the fact I found myself having a philosophical issue with them selling my work. As a consequence, I stopped submitting patches to the main project and instead maintain my own patch repo now.

While I find the wholesale re-licensing of the codebase under a commercial license reprehensible, I agreed to that before committing code. That leaves me with one remedy, not committing additional code.

As a side note, this project had a basic FOSS version and an enterprise version with additional functionality. The only part of what they did that I took issue with is re-licensing the FOSS portion under a commercial license. Had they left the FOSS portion under the OSS license and simply added commercial code on top I would have 100% continued to commit patches.
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The conspiracy theorist in me says the powers that be will not abide a non fungible currency. Fractional reserve banking, the fed's actions to stimulate the economy through printing, these things dont't work with bitcoin.
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But how do you handle inflation in a base income economy? It seems that any extra freely allocated capital would immediately be nullified by the increase to inflation it would cause?
Nice execution of a simple idea.
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> It now seems that the first job of a citizen is protect him/herself from the government.

This has been true as long as there has been government, as far as I can tell.
But we all already have that. Browse here : https://news.ycombinator.com/newest with show dead and viola! You have a raw feed with no penalties.