skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to be a party pooper, but I think this site is completely naïve from a legal perspective, and actually harmful. There are many ambiguities not covered by simple bullet point descriptions. Ask yourself, why are licenses long in the first place?

I defer to the IT / Digital Legal Companion, by Gene K. Landy, an actual lawyer:

"The Myth of the Two-Page Contract

... Many times a client has brought us a complex multiyear distribution deal and wanted a 'simple two-page agreement.' Sometimes, they even ask for a one-page deal! The ostensible goal is to cut down negotiation time. But for most negotiated deals, it is a myth that adequate contracts can be short in this way. If the lawyer tries to comply (and we have tried), the result will almost always be to make the deal ambiguous.
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Managing complex deals full of contingencies with as imprecise a tool as the English language is tough enough; it is not prudent to try (or force your lawyer to try) to make agreements more risky than they have to be."

The sentiment could not be more clear: all that legalese is in the agreement for a reason. "Simplifying" licenses into bullet points does not adequately capture their content, and it is a huge UI fail to make people think that it does.

Let's start with the site's treatment of GPLv3. You get a few bullet point labels about e.g. source code disclosure plus a three-sentence summary. "GPL v3 tries to close some loopholes in GPL v2." Oh, really, what are those loopholes? No discussion of code signing, patent rights, affero vs. non-affero, among many other issues.

Even the bullet points themselves do not adequately capture nuance. That the GPLv3 allows commercial use is technically true, hence the label "commercial use". However, what isn't mentioned is the fact that the GPLv3 separately prohibits practically every known business model for profiting from software.

These ambiguities are not minor issues; they are fundamental. Let's not wrongly give people the idea that complex licenses can be summed up with a few bullet points, any more than our technical work can be summed up with a few crappy analogies!
That's pretty neat frontpage. I am a bit confused as to what it's doing, who's doing it and why. But it seems like a neat idea.
Instrumenting collaboration tools used in data projects
As someone that knows Erlang but doesn't Haskell and wants to learn, this might come in handy.
Since you didn't specify the type of business ( http://www.dot-com-it.com) ; I run a consulting business as a programmer that is just me. In the 'early' days (I started in 1999) I sort of fell into it. I was burnt out and walked out of a job.

Networking got me 2 consulting client, and things just ballooned from there. I fell into it accidentally and learned a lot of hard lessons along the way.

In the early days I did a lot of fixed fee projects for small businesses. On some projects I made tons of income; and on other projects I put in a lot of unpaid time [due to me incorrectly bidding the project and/or improperly handling change requests.

I tried my hands at podcasting with a sponsorships model ( http://www.theflexshow.com ). That made ~$30K throughout its' life. Even though I had a huge audience for the size of the market, no one was trying to sell anything to that market. I make ~$30K or so throughout its run and gave away a bunch of sponsorship in exchange for other services. Not bad; but not enough to pay the bills.

I took the profits from the consulting business and pumped them into a product business selling advanced components to Flex developers ( http://www.flextras.com ). I did this full time, stopping all consulting. The business was, in essence, a failure. It generated $10K per year which is a nice side income; but not a "pay your bills income. The business was slowly growing, until some Adobe PR mishaps killed executive confidence in the Flash Player as an application development platform; which killed our sales. It was generating about $10K per year and was growing. But, that is not enough to pay the bills. I shut it down and open sourced all the code.

Now; I'm back to consulting, however the bulk of my clients right now are hourly as opposed to fixed fee. This is very profitable because many clients just keep renewing contracts and giving me work. However, it is the least bit satisfying because there is no defined end point and it feels like I'm just churning my wheels to kill time. Sometimes it feels like clients are creating just enough work to keep me busy so that I'll be there when they really need me.

Despite having multiple ongoing clients; it doesn't feel like I'm a business owner because they are paying for my time, explicitly. That isn't scalable in any way.

I'm prepping to launch a book under the Nathan Barry's "Authority" model which will teach Flex Developers how to program in AngularJS. More info at ( http://www.lifeafterflex.com ). People seem excited about this beyond anything I ever expected. I asked my newsletter if anyone was interested in reviewing a pre-release copy and I got 20+ responses which is a significantly higher response rate than usual. If the early interest is any indication; more people will read my book than ever bought a Flextras component.

I've also dabbled with a in Mobile Game ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.igorKn... ), a recording studio (not online), and a CD duplication business (not online). All had varying levels of success.
ONO really was an startup? I don't think that any startup, in the HN sense(garage startup), has the financial strength to become overnight a cable company.

Anyway, I haven't heard about this "guy", Eugenio Galdon, and it seems that he was the chief advisor of Calvo Sotelo, former president of Spain.

So, in my opinion, this is hardly news. This is a typical story of spanish success, where a "well connected" person, with the financial help of big investors, takes advantage of regulatory and (foreign) technological changes.

Panoramio, idealista... even Inditex are real spanish startups, much better examples of entrepeneurship.
Plane hits skydiver: Skydiver, 87-year-old WWII pilot survive airborne collision
I used to read Men's Health for several years when I was a teenager. It's true, after a while it gets rather repetitive. But I thought it was alright. I thought they had some pretty good reminders. I was often pumped to hit the gym after flipping through the pages. I think it was a decent investment back then, and I still remember most of the fundamentals.
I’m surprised by Hacker News’ apparent general distaste of anti-trust authorities in this thread. Starting a company is about changing the status quo established by dominant players; if you can’t do that because they use their market share to price you out of any revenue stream, poach your engineers, threaten anyone carrying ads for your service, or in Google’s case, simply put their service ahead of yours no matter what the CTR and retention of your offers are… Well, there is no investor who’s going to look at you.

From a community that was hailing Duck Duck Go’s success a week ago, you seem barely concerned by allowing an Indian equivalent to emerge. Yes, the FTC is satisfied for the efforts in the US market -- but Google is not just in the US. Even if many of your decisions don’t reflect that, your service impact other cultures. Google realised that early on, and considers how Indians search (in several languages) write (with many alphabets) give directions (using visible facades rather than map-inspired cardinal points); LibertyMail, Duck Duck Go, Open Street Map don’t take that into account nearly enough, and if you want a billion person to have the luxury of not facing a ‘take it or get off the internet’ monopoly… That decision, as imperfect as it is or excessive as it might come of, needs to be defended.

Corruption? Do you really think that’s a point to be made without proof? Just because… you don’t know of India but you have prejudice about that?

Threats of leaving? Really? Because that’s exactly what all Google engineers of Indian descent want to say to their family in India: you know, there are commenters on Hacker News who think that the country where I received the education that lead me to be SVP is such a backward cesspool that they’d rather strike out the entire sub-continent where I grew up and where the people I love and for whom I work all live… Google invests in incredibly creative ways to offer connexion to remote places, ethnographers to understand what services they need and how to design them, because having more people on-line is their only hope of growth, and you’d think they would react out of spite, and throw that away? What you are projecting on them is your own blatant racism, stefan_kendall3, and no one here has failed to notice.
403 Forbidden (Apple Dev Center)
Apple's Dev Center started to return 403. Is it just me or is it broken for everyone?

https://developer.apple.com/
The Languages of Twitter
Nice! While we're in the spirit of sharing aggregated material that we've found helpful, here's mine. Sorry for the messiness: http://visakanv.com/blog/recommendations
The GPLv3 served two main purposes:

1) Prevent Tivoization[0]. As noted below, it could be argued that the GPLv2 already forbade this, but that is left up to legal interpretation (which did not always agree in practice). So they made this explicit in the GPLv3.

2) Allow interoperability between the different "flavors" of the GPL. The GPL comes in three "flavors" - regular, lesser, and Affero. Under v2, projects using the regular GPL could not be combined with projects using the Affero GPL. Under v3, all three of these can be safely mixed.

(Essentially, for v3, each of the "flavors" includes an explicit exception for the other two, if I remember correctly).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
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It definitely does not warrant a statement as broad as India is just not a good place for anyone (other than its citizens perhaps) to do business.

Agreed.

India has implemented both command economy policies[1] and free market policies[2] in recent history. But today they definitely seem to be leaning more towards free market policies, though not to the extent of the Western democracies[3].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-Year_Plans_of_India

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_reforms_in_India

3: http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21576372-how-ge...
This concept makes most email clients look ugly
More like companies still running XP risk security reputation. How long should MS be expected to support that OS? They've already postponed the retirement at least once to give people more time to upgrade.
Relevant: http://blog.izs.me/post/10213512387/javascript-is-not-web-as...
As someone itching to use SNI for SSL certificates, I'm all for discontinuing a thirteen year old consumer operating system.

Anyone who hasn't updated yet isn't going to update until they get cut off from patches. Time to do so.
Microsoft has made a lot of headway in the security realm, and deserves some credit there.
> " ... but the assertion that the pilots always are able to do something if they had just been more aware and given control of the dozens of subsystems that a commercial jet controls behind the scenes is rather ridiculous"

That's not his assertion. His assertion is that the pilots had no idea that anything was wrong (or being compensated for) up until the plane basically said 'fuck it, you deal with it'.

> "Or the idea that human beings can react faster than a computer can in the one or two seconds of a car accident"

Where is this claim being made? Certainly not in the article. As for the rest of your paragraph, those seem like individual, single-purpose systems (for the most part). When you're talking about larger systems where things within the car must communicate with each-other a lot more (probably written by different groups), I expect the scope for bugs is greater.

> "People will die driving in self-driving cars ... it's an inevitability"

I completely agree. The really interesting thing will be who is considered (legally) liable at that point. The manufacturer? The software authors? The driver? It's not really that clear cut and I bet the insurance companies are already thinking about this.

> "Yes, progress in technology is a horrible, horrible thing. Let's just put our heads back into the dirt and pretend it isn't happening."

Where did this negativity/sarcasm come from? The author of the piece isn't claiming progress is horrible so why put these words in his mouth? I read his basic point to be "design better stuff, there's plenty of research you can already draw on". That sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Negativity that suppresses distractions is good.
> "I think that is about the only feasible way to do it."

It may be the only way to do it very quickly. Most companies don't just go viral on day 1, they work very hard to get customers. Some times advertising makes sense, other times it doesn't, but it's certainly not the only option.
I guess this is the only COTS product on board.
Local transit is probably a bigger factor. Almost all urban areas in China can be accessed without a car. So Boston, New York, DC, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Francisco, San Jose, etc. make sense, but other cities might not.

If you have to rent a car on arrival, might as well fly.

The density of customers also has to be adjusted for affordability. Lots of Chinese will continue to use conventional trains, which have enormous capacity and cheap prices. Train station crowds in China can be epic.
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Also instrumental bluegrass.
Correct, also saying "antibiotics fatten animals" is kind of a stretch, since Antibiotics mean a very large number of substances, divided by families.

So, yeah, in the article they mention which ones are used but to stretch that to "antibiotics" is a little too much.
Right? I don't get the mindset of Microsoft having to support an antiquated product line over a decade past its expiration date because a few business IT customers are incompetent at writing client software and keeping their systems up to date. It's not like all of this is coming out from nowhere.
It really depends on the traffic source/quality honestly. For some it can be exceptionally helpful (ie you have no idea what you need). For the HN crowd I linked directly to the data because I figured people would be far more comfortable with that.
Thanks for this honest comment.
I agree, I should definitely be more clear about that in the landing page.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7368669
Is it worth trying to advance as a late hire in a faltering startup?
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You run botnets?
Maybe they should open source XP? Of course that would probably never happen, but would be quite 'philantropic' of Sire Gates ....
First of all, I've talked about healthier lifestyle; exercise is only half of it.

Second, and most important, I think you never lived in countries having different lifestyles, so that your idea on the subject is purely theoretical.

Nutrition research itself is not "wrong", but it's much more important to have a broader view and experience.

Nutritional "discoveries" have been coming and going for decades, and yet the situation didn't improve at all.

If you'll have a very simple walk around a city, and possibly in a supermarket, in a country where obesity is not epidemic, you will see immediately why the situation is such.
Maybe they should focus on fixing their website so people can look up train tickets:

http://www.amtrak.com/home

It's the middle of the day on Sunday. WTF.
It reminds me of something that I read once: That all self-help methods work, mainly because they encourage us to monitor our own behavior.
Brilliant! So, you put in ingredients instead of pixie dust.
Julian Assange: ‘NSA has grown to be a rogue agency’
Comments blend in with the code too much for me.
Thank you! The competition is incredibly black hat. Try running the sites listed for 'web hosting reviews' under some SEO tools and it's often very clear which black hat strategies they are using (blog spamming, edu/gov spam, etc). I haven't been able to crack the top search terms yet because it's incredibly competitive and it's not a level/fair playing field. But working on creating some interesting content and building high quality links will hopefully pay off in the long run.

I am always open to ideas and suggestions for how to market this better. And I appreciate you sharing it!
Childhood obesity rates in the U.S. have been falling recently. So there is a correlation between society trying things and obesity going down. Who knows if there is a causal link.
The "JavaScript as the assembly language of the web" mentality seems to be taken most seriously by those JavaScript programmers who have absolutely no experience whatsoever with any sort of real assembly language. Many of them don't even have experience with something like C.

It's one of those things that sounds good on the surface, but upon further inspection by those who know assembly language it's quite clear that it just isn't true. Yet this doesn't matter when in a crowd that consists of people who, as a whole, don't know assembly language. The claim can be parroted repeatedly, without anyone really questioning it properly.

(I'm not directing this at resu_nimda, by the way. I see his comment more as a reference to the idea, rather than necessarily in support of it.)
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Yeah, I've been working on it for 3 years, in the past year it's been able to support me. It's not a lot of money, but it's enough that I can subsist on it. It also doesn't eat my time 100% anymore, I can do some consulting on the side when I feel like it. I'm actually just traveling in south asia now, trying to live cheap and seeing if I can work from anywhere.

As far as SEO, I get some SEO traffic although most of it is to blog posts that aren't that related to web hosting. The most popular ones are about creating a reverse proxy/caching server with nginx and long running processes in php. web hosting review seo is super competitive and I'm nowhere near the front page for most terms unfortunately.
Planets3 game is on kickstarter
We're hoping to have our beta launched by April or May. Here's a direct link to the beta signup page: http://8xjrmf2g.launchrock.co/
prior Art I think you mean
Actually that's way off, sorry :)

PIXDO is not selling/renting any private information - just to put this off the table.

It's about content discovery and fixing the broken bounce rate of the internet.

You might just as swell say that reddit/hackernews/stumbleupon/pocket are tracking you by voting up certain posts and all their features are mere "marketing". On PIXDO you 'vote up' by visiting for 24 seconds that is all.

The main difference is that PIXDO give a full experience. It's not a utility, it's a seamless part of your browsing.

You can contact me directly at info@pix.do for more information, ask anything you'd like.
> "... wireless charging to a point that I could just put my phone down anywhere on my desk and it could get charged."

The actual technology for this has been around for long time. I'm aware of at least two startups that tried to commercialise it but they faced the chicken and egg problem of (1) getting manufacturers to make changes to their devices/batteries and (2) getting enough the charging pads in enough places to for it to be worth the everyone's time.

Neither company survived but I suspect this was a market-timing problem. Given the wide proliferation of devices (phones, tablets, etc) some solution will eventually get adopted. If those companies were starting now I think they'd have a better shot.
Perhaps they can follow up with a "Code for Amtrak" on-train hackathon. Amtrak is part of our civic infrastructure, perhaps Code for America could run it.
> Nearly a quarter of the top 20 projects

So, a fifth?
It has been "around the corner" for far too long now, especially when it comes to real-world usage. It's perfectly understandable that people would try to find alternatives in such a situation.
I have been living in China for 6 years and last time I counted, I had already 1250 hours of travel time in Chinese trains. You can go to Lhasa, on the Himalaya, from Beijing by train. A friend of mine is going to Moscow from Beijing next week. My hours are increasing slower, now that high-speed trains are popping everywhere. Most high-speed are new paths, so little villages in middle of nowhere that had nothing, now suddenly have stunning modern mini Train Stations with High-speed trains (300 km/h cruising speed) stopping there. It's amazing. Many people say , in my home country Brazil, where trains are virtually non-existent, that a main reason our
previous governments didn't build tracks was the lobby of Big Truck makers and Big Oil, that profit from all the transport being made by roads.
One of the nice things about the "do not change the title"-policy is that submitters do not need to be concerned with spelling. Unfortunately, pg can not save you from yourself if you do choose to violate the policy and change the title.
For background, this is in response to someone on Twitter asking suggesting it: https://twitter.com/Amtrak/status/416312147551870976
It's interesting to note that the image at the top of the article is a wikipedia hotlink:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ea/Msx.png

Ah well ...
I seek out productivity because my livelihood depends on it. I live in an environment where very little mistakes can be made and time needs to have an extra sense of urgency. The difference is that I focus on monitoring my behaviors and on other habits for the sole purpose of making actionable decisions on it. As long as there is actionable advice it can be useful.

I wrote about my productivity lifestyle system here: http://juvoni.com/you-are-a-rocketship/
Glad you like it. It really is hard. You can read a lot of reviews and people will say contradictory stuff. One of the biggest takeaways from looking at all the data I've collected is that no company is even close to perfect. These services are pretty hard to compare apples to apples because there are a lot of touch points dealing with customers. The human interactions are hard to quantify. Sometimes a hard drive dies and you catch a support rep on a shitty day. You may have a really bad experience. Is that normal or just an outlier? It's really hard to tell without enough data. So I try and grab as much of it as possible and publish it transparently. My hope is that it is useful and people end up at companies they are more satisfied with, let the good guys benefit from treating people properly rather than paying the highest commission and locking people in.
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Well for renal patients defiantly I was warned off it last week by the specialist in the NHS.
It depends on how much you must work with other people on the code.

Sometimes it's helpful to think about your code as if you are writing it for other people -- which you are, even if that person is you in the future. The choices you make can result in the difference between a love letter and hate mail, even if it does the same thing in the end.

I kind of like the idea of emphasizing the comments in this way, turning the source file into a document, but I have never personally used anything like it. So it feels both kind of interesting/attractive, but also weird.
Derrrr. The headline would be "Microsoft risks security reputation ruin by failing to retire XP" if they didn't.