skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Can't have a conversation about serious things when there's news that no one will give a rat's ass for in a year. I wouldn't think it would be so obvious, but what do I know? I don't watch TV. Or have a TV.
Cool. Looks like every class room needs it.

Do users draw or write using figure or e-pen?
Yes, software working for me is more important than the theoretical ability change or rewrite the software in some vague idea of source code freedom.

You are aware that all your attempted examples could simply be called 'not working' when evaluating the software.
Lengthier discussion about it: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.webapps/...
I'd actually argue that TV is bad when you have low mental energy. It may feel good and that you're relaxing, but have you ever gotten up from watching TV and though "now I'm refreshed!".
> It hinges on whether there was harm done.

Are you a lawyer familiar with fraud related laws in New York?

IANAL. However, in the UK I suspect it would hinge on whether you gained or whether there was harm. Fraud by false representation is - IRC - defined in those sorts of terms in the Fraud Act 2006.

Point being this stuff varies and doesn't necessarily align with what we might intuit it does.
That's a lot of FUD right there.

> in a way that can't be policy-controlled by users

You don't have to trust the IANA root anchor if you don't want to. Just configure trust anchors in your resolver for specific domains. How should a government subvert that?

> You can evict a CA that misbehaves or isn't careful about validation.

Yes, that's why Mozilla et all evicted Comodo from their default trust database. Oh, wait...

> The EFF or ACLU could run a program that would allow people to subscribe to a trusted subset of CAs. None of that is possible in DNSSEC

Yes it is, it's called DLV (DNSSEC Lookaside Validation). That's how people used DNSSEC when the root wasn't signed yet.

> it is a server-to-server system that leaves end-user DNS queries unprotected and spoofable

Just install Unbound on every client. Point is moot.
It's basically using search as an additional name resolution layer on top of DNS. Because search is more human-convenient, with a layer of semantic processing free from the rigid technical constraints of DNS names. Which is all great, a useful abstraction, until the semantic layer guesses wrong on what the user actually wanted and the abstraction leaks.
This concept is called the Distributed Autonomous Corporation, and I think it's a very good way of conceptualizing cryptocurrencies.

http://invictus-innovations.com/i-dac/
In that case, you ought, logically, to be against all forms of copyright and patents.
Would anyone be interested if we did offer an alternative to Gmail? I've been noticing more and more of my friends wanting to move to something new, but not having better alternatives to move to.
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It's evident - but it's a trend which has always been happening, returns are always diminishing. Why are we attributing to this gradual effect the the sudden huge abrupt break in an exponential lasting years which we have observed, rather than say, an abrupt unprecedented flooding crisis affecting experience curves?
A transcript of the brilliant speech by Heinz von Foerster titled "Ethics and Second Order Cybernetics". When I read this I found it truly amazing, because it effortlessly connected the existential questions I was facing with the formalism of mathematics and the insight of the humanities, all tied into a beautiful circle.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/foerster.html
To be fair to whom?

People can and did extend Mozilla, and they can and did keep those changes non-free because the MPL allows for non-free linking and binary-only redistribution.

While the GPL does not.
Also, backing up Emails is super simple, just fire up any mail client ...
This. I have 2 kids, ages 6 and 9, and there's always something to do (help with homework, help with piano, take to soccer, make a cake from scratch together, etc). When everyone's asleep, that's when I work on my side projects. If I'm lucky, I get 2-3 solid hours before my body physically shuts down. I made a decision years ago to do away with tv, video games, etc during "me time," and instead work on projects / catch-up on reading. It's about slow, steady progress. It might take me a month to crank-out what amounts to be 10-hrs worth of work, but, in the end, it gives me more happiness than if I spent that month on tv.
We have large-scale structural underemployment and unemployment;...

And yet you still can't find a maid for $7.25/hour and companies continue outsourcing work because Americans are too expensive. That shouldn't be happening if humans were unnecessary, unless of course some other factor was inducing Americans not to work.

Income has fallen due to a shift in compensation from taxed wages to untaxed benefits and due to composition changes in the workforce.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ECICOM
http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/immigrants_simpsons_p...

Make the transfers universal and unconditional, and those disincentives are gone...

Nope - diminishing marginal utility reduces it.

This has been borne out by experiment - BI reduces working hours by 10% or so. (As is common on this topic, fawning reporters don't cite primary sources. Argh.)

https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money...
Is a Tor developer a "terrorist", or even a "criminal"? If not, then I see this is a serious abuse of power. It's no different than the government spying on anti-war activists and MLK in the past. Yet, every time Obama or any of the NSA apologists come on TV they say "no abuses have happened", and unfortunately many people still believe them. This strikes me as something they do quite regularly, and it's only a small part of a series of other such abuses.
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This is a mechanism for all web apps - even 100% clientside, packaged apps - to do crypto-currency payments using the emerging Web Activity API. The API is supported in Firefox OS, and will soon be available in the Firefox browser on desktop and mobile.

A few of us at Mozilla are throwing together a prototype just to prove the system works well, we'll post back here when we have tires to kick.
The site design had not changed over literally 10 years (ouch). Current one is not perfect, we will continue to improve it as time permits, but hopefully it is an improvement
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I struggle with this as well. My coping mechanism has been heavy use of lists. I write down what I'm going to do before I do it, if it is going to take any time at all. Sounds brutally inefficient, and I guess it is, but I've found that the "sync up" penalty was much worse overall when I didn't use the lists. This way I know exactly where I was and can ramp up a bit quicker.

The other satisfying part about lists (esp. hierarchical, I use Todoist fwiw), is that there really is a lot that can be fleshed out about what needs to get done on a project when there is even a little spare time. I'm not going to code during the 5 minutes spent waiting for the dentist, but outlining some fairly low level tasks I need to complete is doable and useful.
That happens to me, I have a 20 minute commute too. I do it by motorcycle and it makes me wake up in the morning and be ready to do whatever I want to do in the afternoons.
jnorthrop, thanks for the other links.

One word comes to mind after reading the Preface... "Pretentious".

Seriously, someone is really full of themselves here.
It's not limited to a small number of Gmail accounts. If you use some additional search parameters you'll see a ton of compose URLs showing up in the SERPs

Searching:

site:mail.google.com gmail inurl:?to=

gave me nearly 25,000 results. Some have subject lines too.

EDIT: Here are the first 100 URLs for the search above: http://pastebin.com/X1yTW7Pr
Humor, on the internet. Never.
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Grants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Honors_and_awa...

It's said he has some serious cash in the bank. Given his eccentric but modest lifestyle, I doubt he'll ever have financial problems.
Besides, this is very likely the result of several things all going wrong at once ("a perfect storm"). It's not like there's some dude that's responsible for the "Email" link, who looked at the link and said "yep, that's about right" and saved it to google.
By default typing "gmail" in Chrome's omnibar it will autocomplete to "gmail.com" If you've ever typed it out before.
It's confusing if you think about it in terms of developer freedom, which the GPL isn't written for. It's about a user's freedom to run, study, modify, and distribute software however they want. It's this seed of freedom that prevents software from controlling the users. That's what the GPL protects.

So your objection to the GPL is essentially that it doesn't grant you the freedom to take away these user rights.
If you are going to say "that's not true at all" you need to present an argument for why I am wrong. You posted something completely irrelevant, and a couple of exploits. There are security vulnerabilities found in all kinds of software, so what?
Most of the time when people achieve world-class ability in something, they end up exclusively competing against others that have a similar talent level. It's worthwhile (and fun) to be occasionally reminded just how much of a talent gap there is between them and the average person.
Either his kids are older or he has someone else doing most of the parent work.

I have a full time job (40 hours per week), 3 kids under 10 and a side consulting job that takes from 15 to 20 hours per week where I make about an extra $80k per year on top of my full time gig.

I also take my 3 kids to their basketball games, karate, cheerleading, baseball, soccer, lego mindstorms club, etc and help them practice each of their sports at home, help them with homework, etc. In fact I recently attended a Parent University for 3 nights of 2 hour sessions to learn modeling with Singapore Math so I could help them with that homework.

What do I avoid? TV, movies, other media consumption. I think of myself as a producer, not a consumer. I also don't have any hobbies beyond the one I've loved since I was 10 years old - computers. It just so happens I can make a lot of money with my hobby.

Contrary to your assertion, it's very possible to have 3 young children and work 55-60 hours per week and do a lot of the parenting work.
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It's not moot at all. Your statement, "I do believe Apple added the restrictions on having only non-GPL code", implied that all licenses on the code must be non-GPL.
Yes, the lawyer mixed in the bonus offer into the complaint, but that would appear to be a good thing for drivers, if not for Gett.

I guess the question is whether sending requests and cancellations to 100 different drivers over 3 days (about 33 different drivers per day, maybe 4-5 per hour in a workday) really constitutes a denial of service. It seems exaggerated, but it is working as Gett is getting attention.

Definitely a bad idea though.
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>Turns out Node is really well factored, so emulating the V8 API on top of SpiderMonkey, especially back in 2011 as the Spider-Node-Monkey project tried, is harder. It's the "long way 'round".

Also: (i know i will get downvoted for saying that) but nodejs code is poorly written[0].. leaking v8 internals all over the place.. so to plug another js engine backend into it would be a very good exercise in tour-de-force

[0] - In a enginnering perspective, not pragmatic : cause nodejs does whats supposed to pretty well :)
the problem of finding proof of work is inherently parallel - embarrassingly parallel, in fact - and cannot possibly be anything else.

so calling dagger flawed for being parallelizable is.. well, ridiculous.
Does IMAP not work for you?
I have read that bridge is his passion. Probably that is what he is better at.

I agree that it is cool that he did this.
apt-get install postfix openldap dovecot

I really don't know what the deal is with email, but since the mid 90s there's been this weird thing where everyone wants to follow some kind of step by step guide. But it is just simple software like anything else. If you can setup a webserver or a database server or anything else you can setup a mail server.
Fantastic effort, I'll play around with it as much as I can. I am not exactly a coffee script expert, but I might poke around internals.
I wager 25 cents that no explanation is forthcoming fro Google.
TechCrunch blogger?
No problem. I feel this film did a very good job of showing how normal and integrated an AI could be in our day-to-day lives, even if we all don't end up falling in love with each other.
Amusing considering such a distinction is polemic.
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> In my mind, it’s a little preposterous that if I want to do so, however, I have to be ok with being felt up and indirectly insulted.

To the author: You're right, it's unacceptable but you know how to fix it? You say something at the point in which it occurs. Nip it in the bud. Running off to write yet another gender-division-in-the-tech-world blog which will be read, primarily, by the sort of folk who already agree with you isn't going to make nearly as much of a difference as taking care of issues promptly. After doing so, blog about what happened and the resulting reaction. That's the sort of story that'll spread like wildfire.
It's unfortunate how little this great movie is making next to typical Hollywood fare. I discuss it a bit more here, vs Lone Survivor (war porn): http://chawkins.org/post/73638345376/her-vs-lone-survivor-sh...
For future reference (it's not ready yet):

https://www.mailpile.is/

(Features--privacy, encryption--are supposed to satisfy the most discerning HN reader.)
I've had some problems with Julia performance for a finite element method implementation (https://github.com/scharris/WGFEA), mostly I believe because of (1) garbage generated in loops causing big slowdowns and (2) slow calls of function closures. Functions defined at the top-level which don't close over environment values are fast, closures however are quite slow, which is really painful for situations where closures are so useful, e.g. to pass as integrands to integration functions.

There is an github-issue about the closure slowdown, but I don't have it handy. Both can be worked around, by writing in a lower level style, e.g. by using explicit loops acting on pre-allocated buffers, avoiding higher-order functions, etc. The pre-allocated buffers can be a lurking hazard though (Rust avoids the danger in the same strategy with its safe immutable "borrow" idea). I felt like these workarounds were giving up too much of the advantages of a high level approach for my own tastes.

I have converted to Rust to avoid the garbage collection for sure, and I'm extremely pleased with the performance. It would be nice having a REPL though, I do miss that. And I do intend to stay involved with Julia. I'm sure the situation will improve.

Good high performance garbage collectors aren't easy (and they are easy to take for granted after being on the JVM for a while) - that's probably the biggest challenge for Julia as a high performance language, IMO.
> He doesn't want companies to benefit in any way from open source.

He never said that, and you're really failing to see his point. He doesn't want GCC to be broken up into tiny bits and have each of those pieces replaced by non-copyleft equivalents. Because he doesn't want the hard work of the GCC community to be used as a scaffold for creating a non-free replacement.

He is totally happy for companies to use and benefit from GPL'ed software in all the ways the license permits. He is totally happy for companies to use and benefit from non-free open source software (like Klang) however they like.

He also has no problem with people forking GCC and splitting it up however they want to. He doesn't think that's a good use of resources, and he thinks it's harmful, but he has no interest in stopping them.

What is is not happy for, and what he is standing up against, is companies making changes to his branch of GCC. The GNU project is a group of people maintaining their versions of various Free Software. You can fork any of those projects and make different choices. But within the context of that project, amongst his collaborators he has opinions about what changes to make, and how best to further the goals of the project. And he thinks this change will be bad for the project.
Because IE7 8 9.
Your ignorance is baffling. I won't continue to humor it.
It's well established that shorter block times result in less security per block, but it's also possible shorter block times result in less security per unit of time (given equal total network hashing power)

This is due to the time it takes for newly mined blocks to propagate through the network. Miners work on old blocks a larger portion of time, leading to more forks and waste of mining resources.

Of course Bitcoin has far more hashing power than Litecoin or Dogecoin anyway, since the hashing power will correlate with the value of the mining rewards.

IMHO the real solution for both transaction speed and scalability is networks of "off-chain" transactions processors that occasionally "settle" on the blockchain. Of course such networks should retain the open and trustless properties of Bitcoin.
I just find the amount of time he lasted respectable. He could have lost based on the time running out. 9 moves is still better than losing out on 4-7 moves.

I don't play chess competitively or under a time clock so seeing that was impressive (I would have likely just frozen). Your point taken though.
"he exploited that to keep his top talent where they were" ... rather than pay them market rate wages.

Savvy business and being a "douche" seem to overlap here.
Next time they should try doing a quick sort in Basic ;)
Super yuck.
Make me appreciate Go that much more - to me, Go seems a much more enjoyable game when the opponents are mismatched.

Even though I'm pretty good at Go, it's enjoyable to play with a beginner. You don't have to trounce them to find satisfaction.
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They should play monopoly. The game would be over even faster.
You are wrong, and a part of the problem.
Where do people get off thinking they have the right to touch others, especially repeatedly, unreciprocated? So many of these tech, gender, sex issues would be pre-empted so many times if people simply respected some basic boundaries, were less presumptive and thought about their actions.

I'd love to know what that groper would've done if I'd walked in, as a guy, and immediately started hitting on him and touching him. Even more bonus points if he knew I was gay when I walked in. Except that I'm disgusted with myself even imagining doing that to make a point. Just think people. Have a tiny ounce of empathy.
If Uber wasn't a douche, they would have just booked rides in the cars and personally talked to the drivers. Absolutely no harm in that. What they did shows an utter lack of tact.
The big thing I want to be able to do is be able to pay my bills in Bitcoin (rent, credit cards, student and car loans). If I can do that without (personally) having to convert to fiat and pay them in fiat, I'll be quite happy, and would probably try to find a job that would pay in bitcoin at that point. So, someone figure out a service to facilitate that, please :)
Great examples of what not to do. I would guess that many of these are fairly easy mistakes to make if you haven't been inoculated.

For most people, I think a single article like this is enough to "inoculate" -- to make the reader substantially more aware of potential mistakes / hidden assumptions in their social interactions, and likely change their behavior. Yet we still read lots of stories like these. I guess distributing these stories widely should help the situation.
Someone with such a messed up perception of personal boundaries and acceptable behavior that they would FEEL UP SOMEONE IN PUBLIC is not necessarily going to stop just because you tell them. They might get more aggressive.
Yeah, this looks like it was filmed live during a talk show. I highly doubt there was any interest from anyone involved, especially the audience, for a lengthy game.
Anderson Cooper once raced Michael Phelps and that was every gay man's dream.

Sometimes it's not about being competitive. It's just TV.
I think half the reason people upvote stories about big important sites like gmail being down is because it makes them feel better about any downtime their own sites have had.
>Was either of us mistreated? Technically, no.

This doesn't really line up with the entire second paragraph, in which she was basically groped. Groped. And then treated like a piece of meat instead of as a human being.

If that's not mistreatment, I really don't know what would be.
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Assuming ygra is German he/she probably just hit the [separate] ü key. That being said, until their follow up above I thought the comment was intended to be a parody of HN negativity.
I agree wholeheartedly with this article, however I don't think it's fair to use such a wide brush. "This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at _This_ Bitcoin Meetup" would have been more appropriate. There are bad apples in every community, and it certainly sounds like the author met some, but it's important to realize that a few bad apples don't ruin the whole bushel.
I'm pretty socially-retarded, but a lot of this sounded pretty not-cool.
> What was explained?

As Fomite pointed out, partial immunity. If the vaccines aren't 100% effective, then yeah, we definitely want more people to get them.
Easier said than done. I've been "out" for years and despite being opinionated and a "proud" person, I still find it extremely hard to put my neck out there and call others out (and interesting, it's much easier for me to stand up for female friends than it is to stand up for myself or other LGBT-specifically related issues).

It's hard enough to do, at all, to confront someone. But it's another thing when you've just been thrown completely off-kilter by having a stranger inappropriately groping you in public (Plus, you think he's going to have a positive reaction to her chiding him? Somehow I doubt it.). I'll give her a pass on not reprimanding him. (Plus, your post has the distinct scent of victim blaming)
Compared to what other members of the professions make, yes, it is reasonable to complain.
How come when a lawyer charges $400/hr or a surgeon makes $800K/year nobody bats an eyelid, but when an engineer gets $240K he should be deliriously happy, because it is more than the median salary in the USA. Most of us are very smart men/women, who typically have college degrees in hard sciences - why do we compare our salaries to median wages?
BTW, in the Boston area, senior people make $160-$170K, not even close to $240K.
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Not to worry though. By the time Google's driving our cars for us, glitches like this will have been sorted out.
The last point, which also struck me while watching the movie, is how ubiquitous (or I guess completely absent) serendipity will become.

The idea of machine domination being through a gun wielding robot is absurd when so much of an individual's thoughts and experiences can just easily be optimized towards a specific goal.

I noticed that what comes off as a simple joke in the movie, Theodore being cut off when explaining how unhappy he is when his mother selfishly reacts to his feelings, is something that Samantha uses throughout the movie to help Theodore cope with his feelings of abandonment. It really doesn't take much information to manipulate someone so innately.