skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that means what? Public money has saved a lot of companies. The next time you fly somewhere, thank defense contracts and US postal service contracts for subsidizing the development of commercial air travel.

Aerospace, especially space, is tightly linked with government spending, period.

Also, does the fact that Musk bet his entire fortune means he's a freeloader on corporate welfare?
Cloth Seats? Are you certain?

From what I remember, the entry-level seating is synthetic leather. This is exactly the same as you get standard on an E-Class.
So not true.

FreeBSD is a great server OS. With VM's hardware support gets less important for some use cases. IE LAMP.

The ports selection in FreeBSD is second to none. Linux has nothing close.

JuniperOS is retooled freebsd.

Lots of imbedded projects are based on BSD and always will be. The insanity of GPL licensing.

GPL3 is for activists and manifesto's. LGPL, GPL2 more then covered it for non activists.
In the 80's when source code for programming books was distributed on floppies I had irate people track me down and spew vitriol at me because they thought my examples didn't compile. Of course it was because they were too cheap to buy the diskette and they had typos. So, yeah, I expect somebody made threats. Whenever you do something in public some people are going to say intemperate things. As others here have pointed out, making yourself out to be a martyr because of that is a ploy to get sympathy.
I find it interesting that we commonly regard "Intellectual Property" as non oxymoronic. I find the concept of Intellectual Property an impossible situation as:

It's not possible to *own* a concept.
You own a *monopoly* on the sale of the *application* of a concept.

A better name might be Intellectual Monopoly Rights.

I realize that I'm arguing semantics, but I think a further look at the semantics help reveal the true nature of the system and enlighten the discussion. Intellectual Monopoly Rights are only granted by societies for the benefit of their citizens. Does our current set of Intellectual Monopoly Rights benefit us? Can we make them better?
do you mean the:

foo x | trace (show x) False = undefined
| otherwise = ... x ...

? That's not comparing anything to undefined, now is it a pattern guard, it's executing the trace function which then returns False leading to the next guard being evaluated and the actual computation being performed. The undefined is just there because it always type checks, and will never execute.
You're right: FedEx and UPS are spending billions on route optimization. Must mean they see an ROI. What about the rest who cannot afford that?

Routific makes route optimization accessible for SMEs, as well as large enterprises who are risk-averse towards committing lots of capital to consultants.

And you're right again. We'll have to prove it :)
Once upon a time, around 8 years ago, I gave J a serious go as a hobby language. At the time I was subscribed to their mailing lists, they were very active and a quick perusal suggests they're still active. If you want to know more about what people are using it for I'd highly recommend checking out the archives or asking them directly. Data manipulation and visualization seemed to be big topics at the time. Many of the posts in the mailing list seemed to come from individuals who programmed only as a hobby or where it wasn't their actual job. They programmed to do work, but were not programmers for work (think accountants, teachers and the like, solving some receptive task with a program they put together rather than doing the mundane over and over and over again).

[1] http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm - the one called "programming" is what you'll be interested in.
> they say "you should learn not to make resource-leaking code". Which is the same thing the Lisp hackers say - "just learn not to make type errors".

<sarcasm> We should just stop writing the bugs. If, instead, we focused in writing code that runs correctly, everything would be much better. </sarcasm>
No we do not account for traffic. We're not in the business of getting from A to B. We're about optimizing entire fleets (think 1000 orders, 100 vehicles).

Traffic delays are but a small factor, when we can cut 20 obsolete vehicles. We do take average road speed into account though.
That's the best summary of MongoDB I've ever seen. Thanks!

(It's not full of vitriol and strawmen like most of the Mongo posts that seem to end up here.)
The author of scala at one point made some very good responses to questions about compile times on a stackoverflow question here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3606591/why-does-intellij...
Seems a bit expensive assuming each shard gets you three more servers. Based on RS pricing you could build your own instances with 1TB SSDs for like $500 each, so for the same price that you'd get 100GB x 3 shards you could do 1TB x 3 shards on your own. I guess with the RS pricing you also get managed backups but IMO that's not worth the price difference. If you figure you build your own, 3 shards x 3 RS members x 1TB is 9 servers at $500 each or $4500. With this service... if 100GB is $1599 you have to imagine 1TB has to be at least on the order of $10k, so you're looking at $30k total. $25k a month for managed backups and infrastructure just doesn't seem worth it to me. Maybe what they're using is more powerful than the instances we're on but I still have trouble reconciling the pricing. And if that 1TB is 1TB total and not 1TB per shard/replica set member then the pricing looks way, way worse.
This reminds me of something related. I don't force my children to wear helmets when they ride their bikes. When we are out, people yell at me "Where's their helmet dad?". These are the same type of people who force the removal of swing sets at the parks in my area.
Great feedback - will do!
You're right that that's what traitors say about sharing but that's not a real world solution for serious people. Perhaps you aren't aware of this but copyright holding monopolies have purchased laws in the US that criminalize perfectly normal behavior, like sharing copyrighted material over a computer network. My friend, remember that we can't allow these traitors to wreck our brains with propaganda and make us think that publishers deserve a payment every time someone even thinks about a song or movie.
As I understand it, the drivers are a point of contention, and the parent's parent explains it well.

Technically, according the AGPL, MongoDB's database drivers licenses (apache) are incompatible with AGPL, and technically should be licensed under AGPL. Now the parent says that should be fine for official drivers because MongoDB isn't going to sue themselves, but the issue is for community drivers, like the Node Driver or the Golang driver. Since the AGPL states that any software built for the exclusive use for the accompanying software must be AGPL - then it follows that community drivers should be AGPL as well.

To me that means not only can you not modify the database, but you cannot modify the drivers. And I'm also unsure if that also means that any applications that link those drivers means that they must be AGPL as well. And if your web application must be AGPL, it also means that the source of whatever service you are providing must be available as well. So in a way it doesn't just affect corporations that want to modify Mongo, it affects everyone who wants to use Mongo (with a community driver atleast).

IANAL
> JuniperOS is retooled freebsd.

Same with Orbis OS, the OS powering PS4.
> Right, because the Indian independence movement is exactly like crowdfunding.

Grandiose, self-important valley startup wank talk. Like "disrupting the market" by making another bullshit website or app.
which is the happy end, and which is the unhappy end?

didn't say, did you? so how do you interpret the data?

you don't. because you don't know how each person might
have interpreted the scale. research demands precision.

-bowerbird
This happened: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
How do you know why Haskell is superior to whatever you're using? Haskellers will tell you.

It should be permitted not to think Haskell is the best thing ever, but in practice downvoting is heavily used for certain disagreements of opinion and this is one of them.
Thanks for the heads up, apparently I have a mobile template I didn't know about/check before publishing the blog. I'll fix this shortly.
This comment has gathered more interest than the Show HN post I did about it months ago. I'm thinking of running the top 100 projects on GitHub through it this week and seeing if it has "legs".
I, for one, welcome Elon Musk's empire! He couldn't possibly be paying for all the hype, all the influence, backing a worldwide PR campaign about himself and his stunts. He's on the media simply because he's freaking awesome compared to other millionaires industrialists. Come on, look at what the guy has done so far... we need more Elons Musks. There, end of fanboyism :-)
>I think that central banks manipulation of the interest rates are creating the boom and bust cycles.

Boom and bust cycles have happened throughout human economic history, well before central banks. Take a look at the FRED data on recessions and tell me if the economy avoided such fluctuations pre-Fed.
I think that's a great idea :) thanks!
There is a classification system, but it's a neat 'cubby-hole' approach to systems biology. The reality is that not everything has a clean parent-child relationship. For example, humans have the ABO blood group system. If you have A type blood you are not a 'subclass' of a human with no blood type.

All ridiculous discussions of biology aside, having a class based hierarchy is a maintenance issue in comparison to designing classes through compositing. There are 2 ways to design a 'cheeseburger':
a) meat sandwich is a super class of burger which is a super class cheeseburger
b) meat sandwich which contains, bun, cheese, patty lettuce

B is a more maintainable system and allows for better class flexibility in the design. It avoids having complex bugs where 'meat sandwich' changes some internals and breaks something down the hierarchy chain in some subtle way (for example in releasing a access to a critical resource).
Can you elaborate on this: "and to handle all cases..".
Following the rulings in Tate and Bearden, the state cannot imprison a defendant who has been convicted of a crime that has a sentence of a fine and is legitimately unable to pay. To do otherwise would allow the conversion of a sentence from fine to imprisonment based entirely on the financial status of the offender. However, if the court determines an offender can pay and is refusing to, then all bets are off.
There are two sides to that coin.

Without an opportunity and potential like SpaceX, all the public money would have are cases like Solyndra.

The reality was, NASA needed SpaceX as much as SpaceX needed NASA.
Would it not be more sensible for the authors to have a reasonably complete implementation for testing, and then request funding to polish it off with a nice UI and a security audit?

As it is at the moment, it seems quite risky to fund this.
Even if this isn't as nefarious as the title suggests, it's still an excellent reason to drop dropbox. Have you tried owncloud? That's what I use and it's perfect for escaping stuff like this as well as dropbox's new criminal terms of service. Just in case there's anyone who doesn't know, dropbox recently changed its terms of service to circumvent consumer protection laws by requiring its users to forego common rights under the law, a common tactic traitors are using these days (Microsoft also did that on Xbox live for example). So please take the opportunity to learn about owncloud and ditch dropbox as soon as possible.
This is great and can/should be applied to other schools within New Zealand. Extreme restrictions do effect the kids and I believe that having the freedom to learn some valuable life lessons (while they are already absorbing so much) is a massive positive that outweighs the risk of injury.

My younger brother came home from primary school (elementary school) last year with a playground "Rule Sheet" -- You should have seen the response to ridiculous rules such as "Children can climb trees as long as they have one foot on the ground at all times." -- Even though the trees mentioned are less than 3-4 metres high.

It is a hard thing to manage just due to so many parents and their different styles of parenting but I do think a medium can be reached.
Help I have a toy drum stuck on my face
I give my son his freedom to play but I also make sure that he is away from serious injuries..
I live at The Grand, which is close to Broadway and Grand. In the last 6 months, I have heard one purse snatched and one assault and carjacking. Both happened in broad daylight, in heavily trafficked areas with people around. I was unable to assist OPD with the former case, but for the latter I ran down to give a statement. OPD never caught them last I heard, the car hasn't been recovered, and an elderly couple was very shaken.

However, I personally have never been the victim of a crime.
OK, so what was the reasonable cause to feel threatened?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:f5hUrv2...

Cached because wired seems to have disappeared the original:

http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/08/musk_qa

Interesting to note that when he said that, in the third quarter of 2008, he was in the middle of a complete implosion across everything in his life. Adds a very dramatic quality to it.
My point being, the OP lists four methods by which he thinks crowdfunding can work (pre-order plus reward, equity, debt, and donation).

Each method has its own set of concerns for regulatory issues, requirements for qualified investors, upside potential, tax implications, etc.

My point is that there may be other possible options, and I point to Safe as a good example of how VC can innovate and remove friction from raising startup capital.
While I like the efforts you've gone to in order to hide what is inside the service, I hope that you also appreciate the level of force arrayed against you.

It seems that one of the challenges of these services is that in order to avoid the copyright goons everyone you know, even those folks you only know by some IRC handle, have to be willing to go to jail for you. Because otherwise one of them will get turned, they will then be pressured to get you to indict yourself. This is how it worked against Anonymous, and how it works on most disobedience rings (civil or otherwise). One of your friends will share with you a folder that has copyrighted material in it, once they are sure you have accessed it they will re-iterate that some (or all) of the material there is copyrighted. At this point the most common thing that happens is that thinking they are 'safe', someone will say something stupid like 'don't worry, its our secret' or something like that.

And almost simultaneously the door will explode open as the SWAT guys come in and put them in cuffs and read you your rights. All because someone you thought you knew, was unwilling to spend time in jail rather than help the FBI with their investigation.

Law enforcement has a number of tools (many dubious like the CFAA) which they can employ against you, and they will.

The best you can hope to achieve is to keep a solid (and I mean solid, no slip ups anywhere) public front of respecting the copyright holders rights and your willingness to protect them. Otherwise you will be served papers to decrypt other buckets and you will be sent to jail for contempt if you do not facilitate rooting out copyright infringement on your service. Not even keeping your servers and company in a foreign country will help unless it is a country which doesn't care about its relationship with the US.
Now you bringing up a keyword: expectation.

I am starting to get sick of every argument that tries to defend these rediculous investment decisions these days. Currently everyone doing that is citing network effects, potential growth, the next big thing.. And for sure, if someone wants to invest his or her money, I will not judge that decision or the person itself.

But looking at the situation as a whole, so many decisions are made based on highly flawed expectations. A nice designed marketing page and multiple years without revenue? Here take some $m because <insert overestimation in here>.

Consider Airbnb.. I use it myself, but I am by no means locked in as a customer. Maybe it will crumble due to new/old regulation. Maybe too many weird people will start offering their spare-rooms, and it won't feel cool and hip anymore. Maybe hotel-chains react by offering better prices... There are so many maybes in that company alone.. simply believing in the network effect should not be the basis of a meaningful valuation.

I am highly sceptical about the current behavior of this part of the investment market. My concern lies not in the companies or the investors themself. They probably did hedge their risks. I just feel that the next bursting bubble will stretch far beyond the whatsapps and airbnbs out there.
> It seems weird to think that there exists any language currently which will wind up being the one-true-language.

Odd, but not uncommon. Programmers are prone to falling in love with their tools. I've seen a lot of one-language-programmers proclaiming the advantages of their language choice over every other programming language. Luckily, this is not the case with this article. Still, I don't think there is One Language to Rule Them All.
Ok, well, for what it's worth I think that Haskell typing is equivalent in strength to ML. It's absolutely stronger than pre-generics Java; possibly isomorphic now. Roughly isomorphic to C++ with templates. In Haskell and ML, inference and clean syntax for type constructors makes it substantially easier to apply that power legibly (and structural pattern matching is a nice bonus). Monads let you extend that power to statements instead of just expressions.
Hmm, I think you could do something similar to QuickCheck using C# generics. The biggest problem you'd run into is probably the same as Haskell does (the expression problem). You can get some ideas from http://www.daimi.au.dk/~madst/ecoop04/index.html.

Oh and you could probably always fall back to reflection and attributes, but that's just kind of cheating isn't it? ;)
I would, because I've seen what happens when kids fall off their bikes and hit their heads on the pavement. :(
> Generally it's considered idiomatic to just avoid named functions altogether.

This is not idiomatic. Many developers only use named functions.

The obvious reason is they make stack traces far more readable, though you can get around this by naming functions anyway:

var myFunction = function myFunction() {}

The hoisting 'nuances' you decry are a boon. Hoisting means you never have to worry about the order functions are declared – especially useful in cases where your functions call each other. You also get another avenue to declutter your code by pushing any crufty utility functions to the bottom of the page.
What is the cognitive overhead Haskell is introducing? Types? Because as far as I can tell we use types in all OOP, they're just implicit and not checked.
Sexy developers
The brogrammer ad to top all brogrammer ads? Seriously, who thinks this is okay?
I wager it's reasonable to consider it anything not consistent with _your_ _current_ architectural culture/guidelines.

Some examples using this definition:

* CICS on an IBM System Z might be considered legacy to one group and platform to another.

* Ruby might be legacy at Twitter but isn't elsewhere.
Legacy is anything that's not perfect, but working and still being used just because it's working.
I recommend the xv6 source and commentary. Here's the link: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html (has a pdf you can print out along with C code listing, and with nice references). It's very similar in idea to Lyon's commentary but with a more modern C code base.
He saved the public money.
>It's amazing that someone could read this horrible tale and can only see how it affects themselves.

We with wealth don't like it when radical wealth imbalance affects our lifestyles. We like to pretend that we earned our wealth purely through honest, good, hard work, and that everyone can be where we are if they just try. We also like to pretend that everyone gets equal treatment under the law, so why not subject that person to the same treatment I would be subject to?

We live in a truly wonderful country.
> Intellectual property is an Americanism that metastasized.

Patents were invented in Venice and Copyrights in England before the Colonies even existed. Trademarks date from the 13th century.

> One irony in that is the fact that the Framers were skeptical of intellectual property. In fact, they didn't call it intellectual property.

One should hope so, given that the term was invented in Europe the 19th century, and was (and still is largely) a European concept.

> How is that? All your actual rights are assumed to exist.

These aren't inalienable rights in the sense you're using (and abusing). They're rights in the sense of "copyRIGHT". It's an old alternative use of the term.
I'm obliged to agree. Even the "contrived" example is easier for me to parse given that I have years of seeing "{}[]()" as delimiters.

Not to mention that filter/each functions will get even easier to parse once es6 standards reach the browser (stabby procs, woo).
Google's Platform Wins and Losses: Why Chromecast Matters and Why Glass Doesn't
What, precisely, is it that you think they don't understand (and a bunch of random gamers do)?
I wasn't aware that all the companies in the Russell 2000 were high growth. I was under the impression they're small caps, which has nothing to do with growth rate.

A doubling of the PE over the course of one year is not a useless metric in fact. It means you're paying twice an already extreme price for the growth you get, compared to last year.
You mean like ITA, which Google bought for $700M?
No. There government mandated monopolies just like your local electric company. At it's core IP is a set of short term privileges gained in exchange for making your ideas public. Most obviously you don't gain IP for ideas that stay in your head.

Medieval guilds are in many ways the precursor to IP except the ability to manufacture something was what's being protected not the knowledge of how to manufacture it. The interesting part of this is that privilege could easily be revoked. However, this promoted a lot of secrecy and good ideas where often lost, so patents protect only those shared secrets.
Mr. Tanenbaum seems like a nice guy. I gave away a copy of Operating Systems Design and Implementation for my osdev website a couple years ago and asked him if he'd sign a copy if I sent it to him. He apologized for not having spare copies to give away and he paid to ship the book even though I told him I would.
Good, I am glad that some of my taxpayer dollars went to something that is changing the world.
Directly made me think of this scene in season 1 of House of Cards. Brilliant.
8 is the high end. Sorry, I assumed that the convention would be clear.
This is very common in the game industry, unfortunately, and Oculus so far has only sold and marketed their product to early adopters, many of which are hardcore gamers. It happens to both AAA and indie game developers(http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/15/4622252/plague-of-game-dev-...) regularly. Attacks like this are inexcusible, but in no way surprise me. In fact I'd be surprised if Palmer didn't get any death threats, considering the internet reaction to the FB acquisition.
>the state cannot imprison a defendant who has been convicted of a crime that has a sentence of a fine and is legitimately unable to pay.

That's assuming the court is obligated to evaluate the person's ability to pay. A person could be in the system for months or years before the court conducts an evaluation.