skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. There's a reason why more restrictive licenses are more conducive to dual licensing models than less restrictive ones.

A non-copyleft license effectively means that Microsoft, should they try EEE, has to compete not only with free as in beer and free as in freedom, they also have to compete with all the closed source competition they are subsidizing in this effort.

If you believe that more competition is good, the less restrictions on the code from a big vendor, the better.
Write-as-you-go isn't necessarily an optimal strategy for general purpose workloads with intermittent IO - batching writes lets you do more linear writes, do a better job of allocating blocks, hit the journal less often...

There is a need for an alternate API, but it's not like fsync is "broken" for the general case.
On the cost of the audition: the programmer who is not employed at the moment may have two, three options to pursue, your company may be one one them. let's say there are two others: One willing to offer full time employment starting tomorrow morning, the second one willing to do 3-month contract-to-hire. The third, you, offer maybe paid audition. Unless your compensation is spectacular, he'll pick you third.

If he has only your offer to entertain, then he's not the best, is he?

Oh, and on the talent scout model: absolutely.
heresy!! Talk badly about apple on HN! people will donwvote you to oblivion!

But really.. Apple is like that competitor that start miles ahead of any competitor, but because of some draconian moves and misteps, they end loosing all of their advantages.. it happen with Microsoft.. now its happening again with Google
Using religion as an excuse for bigotry still means you're a bigot. Religions are personal things, and should only affect your life, not other people's.
My point is there are degrees of badness. LGBT supporters look like bullies when they don't moderate their response to someone who disagrees with them.
What happened to the Markdown standardization effort?
Almost a year and a half ago Jeff Atwood proposed a Markdown standardization effort: http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-future-of-markdown/). The popular Markdown parser Sundown was subsequently deprecated in antipication of this effort (https://github.com/vmg/sundown/commit/37728fb2d7137ff7c37d0a474cb827a8d6d846d8) and has not been updated since.

What happened to this effort? It seems implausible to me that it could take a year and a half. Did it fall apart?
Could you simply freeze it and allow the users to make their own decisions?
It would be nice if the title had more context. Hell even just "Presenting the LLVM Foundation" would have helped quite a bit.
True they're open source. One of the lead developers on Mach was Avie Tevanian who went to work at NeXT after he left CMU. It was later that components from FreeBSD were included.
Just ordered a 10" king for the house I'll be moving into next week. I'm so excited! Keep fighting the good fight.
We can only hope that basic income allows them to read more books.
Not sure if this happens to many people who are well immersed in the tech industry now, but I have had my future career reduced to just "sitting at a desk all day" by friends going into more "labor" intensive careers. They constantly bring it up as something they would never want to do because it sounds boring. This also leads to some resentment from them when I have had a steady paid internship since my sophomore year of college, while all they have gotten is unpaid internships or nothing at all.

I personally have never let this bother me because I know what goes into my work and I know how difficult it can be. Despite that I do believe those stigmas attached to my job from friends could creep in on me if I were in a bad place in my life, or maybe even in an excellent financial situation like many of the devs in this article.

It's
Add an issue on Github (https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook/issues) ;)
Well, for most people, if they don't work, they won't get much money. If they work hard, they will get more. That's still very true even today. That's why there are people who take 2 jobs to better sustain their families, for example.

Yes, but the range where income is linearly proportional to work is very small, and depends on other factors. The absolute maximum you can hope to achieve in such a system is increasing income by 4.2x, by working 24/7 without sleep or food.
Perhaps the lieutenants and the rank and file are less afraid of having a chair thrown at them nowadays followed by a firing. And given that the new CEO is from the Azure team it seems like he should know the value of this kind of step.

I mostly feel sympathetic to the engineers working there. It's no fun living under an embarassing dictator.
Yes, he should call you. He should charge you enough money that it's worth his time to do that.

(I had a hosting service that my credit card started bouncing on delete some data a few years ago. I was furious. I'd paid them a bunch of money over the years, and they knew my phone number: if they'd called me after I didn't respond to their emails I'd still be their customer, and I'd still have that data).

For a backup service, I'd be perfectly happy for it to hold on to my encrypted data for a year after I stop paying, then charge me a hefty "recovery" fee (at least how much I should have paid for the time that I wasn't, and quite happily more).
If you think QA is ever complete, then it is clear you have never worked on a QA team. You can always come up with new ideas on how to break things.
That article has terrible fact checking.
Braid being the first indie success? How about "Doom"?
Games having questionable moral and artistic value? Would you ask the same thing about a TV show?
The article at the same time got out wrong, and said nothing I thought was worth saying.
> One man can't be CEO because other people complained on the Internet.

Just as importantly--if not more so: board members and employees in the organization were complaining.
Genuinely curious, how is this different from using rsync with a shell to S3?
Granicus launches store for civic app developers.
Err, how is it not a new style of relationship?

For thousands of years, we've had the concept of "marriage" and "families", and (more or less) monogamous relationships.

Central to this has been the idea of a man and a woman procreating, and raising children.

Now, perhaps we'll evolve away from that - maybe we'll simply clone people.

Or perhaps we'll have special breeder castes, and we'll raise the children away from their (biological) parents in learning centres.

Or perhaps the idea of having children will seem antiquated, and we'll just die away as a species.

Who knows.

But this (large scale homosexual relationships in society) is most definitely a new thing - and procreation, and nuclear families have no place in it.

Hence this whole ideological fight over whether to call it "marriage" (with all the associated ideas of families and raising children) or something else entirely.
I agree that it's idiotic. But if someone feels this way, they are just an idiot (in that respect.) Most people are idiots in one way or another. But that doesn't mean they are necessarily a bigot or think gay people are subhuman, as has been accused of Eich. And we all know that having stupid, idiotic opinions never prevented anyone from being a CEO.
Right. The history link I posted shows much of the early HW history.

I posted my note just because your language wasn't quite clear. Though properly parsed, it makes sense ;-)
But... it's not. That's not to say there isn't capable talent in Miami (there is), however it's not traditionally "listed as one of the top startups cities". I can't name a single startup that came from Florida.

Off the top of my head, I'd go with SF/SV, NYC, Boston, Austin, Boulder (TechStars), Portland, Seattle.. and the list trails off after that.

We're getting to the point where a YC CEO can't say anything without it being taken out of context and vilified.
If you are ok with keeping up to date with the some changes to the language and libraries, then it's great for hobby stuff (that's what I'm using it for). I wouldn't be using it in production just yet, however (not that I thought you were suggesting that).
OK, so that's possible (I wasn't sure it is but I'm rather ignorant in accounting/tax law) and Mozilla, despite their CEO supporting Prop 8, does absolute maximum that is possible, going out of their way to be inclusive. So what exactly is the concern with him as the CEO?

>>> If he'd just shown some empathy in that CNet interview, I wonder if things would have gone differently?

I think this is disingenuous. The campaign people were absolutely out for him for donating to prop 8 and won't be satisfied unless he's gone from CEO position. Saying it like "oh, if only he'd say this and that then it all be fine" doesn't make any sense - it wouldn't be fine for people who called to boycott Mozilla over it until he'd be gone. Now he's gone, and probably own't be able to serve in high position in any large company, because if he were, the same people would immediately use it to get more air time attacking him. Does it ruin his life? I don't know, depends on the point of view. But definitely it will have a lasting impact.
I thought so too, and was most amused at everyone taking it seriously. Now I'm not so sure, but equally entertained.
The Gallery/Show business provides two things:
1. Reputation/trust (especially for younger artists)
2. Reach to potential collectors
The validation required to spend $5,000 vs $1,000 on a work is purely intangible, a reputable gallery and it's experts can make that difference.
In terms of an artist selling to the market directly, you have to be a Damien Hirst, or similar, to have the brand in the market to support a direct sales infrastructure.
So I can't speak for twitter, but I work on anti-spam at Facebook, and imagine the problems we face are relatively similar. It's worth noting that there's a constant barrage of people trying to send varying degrees of spam. It's not like there's An Attack all of a Sudden - just occasionally people close to the HN social network happen to be targeted by something and it's magnified by the media / hive mind local to us.

> shouldn't Twitter be able to pick these messages up automatically fairly fast

Theoretically, sure. As a human looking at an attack, it's usually pretty easy to pick out "obvious" attributes that they should have been able to catch. But when you're operating at a scale like us or Twitter, even stuff that looks like it's obviously-indicative-of-badness often has false-positives (posts flagged as spam that are not). The long tail of weird stuff that a billion users do can be pretty crazy.

At the same time, the "obvious" attributes of an attack are often very cheap for an attacker to change. Instead, we try to go after more expensive resources (domains, source IPs, etc).

> after (I assume) hundreds if not thousands of users have flagged them

Sadly, looking at flags of content is not a silver bullet. The signal is very sparse (a given spam post is rarely flagged), and nonspam posts are frequently flagged (religious and political speech are great examples - and they are the worst kind of false positive if you delete them as spam). These problems can be somewhat mitigated if you aggregate flags over a dimension that's expensive for the attacker (domain-posted, IP that posted the content, text shingles), but even then the recall isn't necessarily great and you could still catch e.g. controversial political domains.

> the spammers can't have unlimited IPs

True, though you can rent space on a botnet that has many, geographically-diverse, real-user IPs. Also, I imagine a significant chunk of posts to Twitter come from apps, many of which each use a single IP to post tons of content.

> Is there a reason the same techniques used in E-Mail aren't applicable to Twitter?

There's definitely some overlap. I'm not an expert at email anti-spam, but in general it's a relatively different problem. "Traditional" email spam is sent from some random email address on / via a compromised machine or open relay, and seems to be a relatively-well-solved. But it sounds like this twitter attack was caused by compromised accounts. At least anecdotally, it seems that email vendors are also not great at detecting this kind of attack. For example, my gmail account (with arguably the best spam protection in the industry?) gets a message every few weeks from some compromised friend's account. (i.e. someone had their email password stolen and the attacker is using it to "legitimately" send mail after authenticating to that email service with the correct password).
Every time you place a market order, that is the service you are buying.
It's quite possible.

It's too bad as the original icon was my favorite thing about the shirt. Since a Macintosh was basically my first computer it meant a lot to me.

I still bought the shirt with the updated icon as I wanted to support John and it was still pretty nice.

But I would've loved to have the original icon on it.
Except the startup worker has a 1:20 chance of any pay-off, and much less chance of a meaningful event that compares to "the rest of your life."
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Tradable instruments aren't gasoline. They don't have fixed prices. There is no universe where trading exchanges have ever worked that way.
I agree with what you said. I hate it when "Free Speech" is viewed as a one way street. For example:

> Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech. And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.

Ok, Mozilla believes in free speech? Not according to how they have behaved. So why was their last CEO canned (oh... he "stepped down"... whatever)? If they really believed in free speech they would've left his opinion his opinion, and judged his capacity as CEO based on his work.

None of what I have read or heard about all this actually offensive until I read that sentence in the report.
Kept looking for the hate with no luck.
@SolarNet You seem pretty absolute in determining who is a bigot, and do not recognize that there is a spectrum. Obviously one's religion does not justify bigotry. But it does distort one's world view and can explain why someone might support Prop 8 without being a person who hates and is disgusted by homosexuals. Education is the best response to this, not economic sanctions.
While I really like using MS Office 2013, I just can't use MS Office for Mac. It doesn't seem to integrate with the OS very well. I hope that the next version is better - hopefully retina screen support
That's the exact reason I can't name them; they got killed by the church before they could get famous.
I read a lot of whining on this thread (and many other, recently as well). 'Fair' pops up a lot.

The world is not fair. You can either spend your time griping, or you can spend your time living.

I sense a lot of 'daddy' models of wealth swimming in peoples heads.

http://paulgraham.com/gap.html

If you didn't win the birth lottery it's not a death sentence. You can still win. Measure your progress against your own expectations, not against the lottery winners.
That would be much better, although it does raise the question of who would arbitrate on such milestones being reached.
I don't think Sam meant anything derogatory by it, he's just stating his opinion. Frankly I agree Miami Beach isn't a startup capital, but that doesn't mean great companies can't come from it. It's just not popularly recognized as a startup capital.
Article cites http://wlrn.org/post/miami-s-not-top-start-city-says-silicon... as the source of the comment.

Found no sign of hate (except towards YC).

Audio clip doesn't explain the context of the comment. Very conveniently edited.
Isn't this just a question of whether they believe in quantum mechanics?
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. Looks like they've since updated their bountysource page with more information, including this link.
"We're in the top 15"?
And Chicago! :)

Groupon, Grubhub, Braintree, Orbitz etc.
Maybe. Or it could just anger the other side to push back harder. Education and time are the forces that will cause an LGBT victory, not these boycott games.
Joel and Jeff are not partners in this venture; Discourse is Jeff alone.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”[1] I wonder if an influx of get-rich-quick devs will occur if enough of this posts gain traction.

[1] John Steinbeck
> There's no way out of this.

Sure there is. Many people who oppose gay marriage not because of their feelings towards gay people but because they believe or were taught that the Bible says that God says that marriage is between a man and a woman, and regardless of their personal views they defer to the Bible as the word of god.

Is this a fucking stupid belief? I think so, yes. Is it the same belief as thinking that gay people are subhuman? No.

Seeing the difference is what makes it possible to get through to people who feel this way in order to persuade them their beliefs should be reconsidered. Calling them bigots and shutting them out as being intolerant and evil (and getting them fired from their jobs) is a sure fire way to ensure they become entrenched and feel it's an "us vs. them" environment.
what happened to what effort?

the one that failed to produce anything?

well, that's easy: it failed to produce anything.

-bowerbird
Honestly, I've grown to hate the start menu. I just want the launcher to be accessible with one gesture instead of two.
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think the sheer number of comments indicates that the community certainly finds this "interesting." It's just a matter of keeping the comments civil and high-quality.
Instead of banning the discussion, consider banning the people making it bad. Or, if they are otherwise worthwhile contributors, warn them first.

I'm not sure what options the moderators have right now, but perhaps you should consider adding a three-strikes policy for users making clearly awful comments, with a simple "warn"-UI button for mods.
I suppose it's because some of the people whom I'm closest to are the same ones who had the unlucky breaks.

I honestly wonder how much I can attribute to myself. I've always been interested in learning, math, logic, understanding... but why was I interested in the first place? I was born with the gift of natural curiosity... and that was one of my earliest and most profound strokes of good fortune.

When I question whether I can even take credit for my drive to succeed, it really calls into question what I can take credit for at all.
I think the very fact Miami is entering the discussion shows it has come a long way. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, but this is a good thing.
Philosophical question (don't take offense, please):

Why should we be rewarding "unlucky" gametes?

Please note that I don't consider the likely answer "because they have something useful to contribute to society" as a good one because it assumes that one individual mind (with all its hopes and biases) can comprehend what is really good for society in the long run (think thousands or tens of thousands of years).
Same love.
I am doing a startup in Miami Beach and I think its great. Moved here from San Francisco 6 months ago and have no regrets.

We have better weather, no income tax and lots of people genuinely willing to help out. Its actually the smaller size of this startup community which makes it great. You can get to know most everyone here within a month and there is a ton of local events.

In contrast, Its much harder to feel any sort of community like that when you are in a larger city (Boston/NYC/SF). You really have to work for it. The discouraging part is when there is a infinite supply of college grads named 'Zac' who are working on a new mobile app moving to the city every day. It just starts to feel a bit... odd.
1. Internet Explorer standard compliance : Internet Explorer has introduced an array of proprietary extensions to many of the standards, including HTML, CSS, and the DOM. This has resulted in a number of web pages that appear broken in standards-compliant web browsers and has introduced the need for a "quirks mode" to allow for rendering improper elements meant for Internet Explorer in these other browsers. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer]

2. SCO versus Novell : On March 4, 2004, a leaked SCO internal e-mail detailed how Microsoft had raised up to $106 million via the BayStar referral and other means.[60] Blake Stowell of SCO confirmed the memo was real.[61] BayStar claimed the deal was suggested by Microsoft, but that no money for it came directly from them.[62] In addition to the Baystar involvement, Microsoft paid SCO $6M (USD) in May 2003 for a license to "Unix and Unix-related patents", despite the lack of Unix-related patents owned by SCO.[63] This deal was widely seen in the press as a boost to SCO's finances which would help SCO with its lawsuit against IBM.[64][65] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_controversies]

3. Patent troll : [http://gigaom.com/2014/01/21/cable-industry-sues-apple-backe...]
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Oh so the degree of badness of supporting institutional oppression (you know, systematically removing (violating) the rights of people based on their identity through laws, etc.) is less than that of telling a company to fire someone (which the company isn't even legally bound to do), got it. /s

This right here is why tech is so white/male/straight/etc. "Oh the other people should stop being bullies and just let themselves be oppressed, the people doing the oppression aren’t the bullies, those are just their opinions, we should just let them continue to oppress people."

Let's put it this way. The LGBT community has been oppressed for basically their whole life. So yea, when given the chance, they are going to try to oppress the people who are continuing to systematically oppress them, where do you think they learned that from. If he was willing to apologize, it probably would have been fine (since when has a gay guy apologizing for being gay gotten him his right to marry someone?), the bully here is Eich, he just got called on it this time.
Believing in quantum mechanics is much like believing in gravity or relativity—it is definitely a part of the universe we live in, and no mainstream physicists disagree on its correctness.
What about people who think marriage is silly anyway?
I just noticed tmux is in cygwin
As a first class installable package via setup.exe.

That made me happy.
Nest Labs Stops Selling Its Smoke Detector
It happens, just make sure you backup frequently. I am always nervous when directly modifying production databases. So, I take every precaution I can think of, even if it sounds like it will "obviously" work. Hopefully you will get to the point of not having to update the database manually very often, instead writing scripts that you know work.
It doesn't matter if it's a choice or not.
Can Eich claim that he didn't have a choice about his political activity?