skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the ad hominem attacks, I didn't actually advocate a contributor agreement -- to the contrary, I cautioned against them. And indeed, the reason that this two-year-old presentation is on HN today is because today we did away with the node.js CLA[1]; we're walking the talk here.

As for your misunderstanding of history with respect to OpenSolaris licensing: the decision to use a modified MPL (i.e., the CDDL) and not the GPLv2 had nothing to do with Linux (indeed, none of us predicted that the GPL would be so ardently perceived to be incompatible with the CDDL) and everything to do with the fact that (due to various covenants and agreements), we couldn't actually open source everything. That is, we needed to allow for proprietary in-kernel code from both ourselves and from third parties -- and we didn't want to end up in the legal no-mans land of "tainted" kernels. Simon Phipps has been very clear about this[2]:

The difficulty with using the GPL was that it became clear as we did the licensing archaeology that there were going to be places in the software where we couldn't negotiate a free license for the source code. And, there were going to be some quite important places in the code, and there were going to be quite a lot of them for a long time. And, that was probably the deciding factor not to use GPL but to use the Mozilla license.

Finally, I stand by my assertion that the GPL is in decline relative to MIT/BSD/Apache -- a trend that I elaborated on after my FISL talk[3] and has only accelerated in the two years since, declining from 36% to now 27% of projects.[4]

[1] http://www.joyent.com/blog/broadening-node-js-contributions

[2] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9624

[3] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2012/08/01/post-revolutionary-op...

[4] http://www.blackducksoftware.com/resources/data/top-20-open-...
This is overdone. It's like when something looks great with orange stripes, it's not okay to dress up like a streetsign.

I've been really intriqued with this parallax stuff, and am including it in my wedding site I'm currently building, but this seems klunky and too much.

Oh, and LOADING SCREEN. sigh
Found it: http://www.irs.gov/uac/Car-and-Truck-Expense-Deduction-Remin...

"The standard mileage rate cannot be used if the taxpayer:
Uses the car for hire (such as a taxi)."

So you can deduct your actual (itemized) expenses, pro-rated for business use, but you can't take the "standard deduction" of $0.55.

I am not an accountant or anyone qualified to give any advice, but this seems pretty clear!
Hear, hear.

I wonder what would happen if we all collectively decided to act like the revolution of diversity in tech has already happened?
I am also running a solo startup. Don't run your own database. It is an unwanted distraction and data loss due to poor backup procedures (i.e. do you actually test backup/restore) can often kill your startup before it has a chance to take off.

Plenty of great hosted database solutions e.g. AWS RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle), MongoLab, MongoHQ, Cloudant, Firebase, Azure etc.
Interesting, I actually work on a large scale private cloud storage product which sells primarily to enterprise and government. Customers cannot get enough of it, and there is definite move away from traditional enterprise data storage using SAN/fibre channel and block storage over NFS, towards object storage on commodity hardware and HTTP/REST. AWS protocols are becoming the standard everyone uses for HTTP data, as it means applications built for S3 can usually just be pointed to a new endpoint. I do wish there was a real effort to standardize this however, because most vendors only really support a subset of the options and headers, especially stuff like versioning, multi-part-write, and Amazon has changed their spec numerous times already.
> > an smtp server is actually listening at the domain

> How would you test that?

telnet domain.com 25

And see if you get an SMTP response from a server. It would look something like this:

220 domain.com ESMTP Postfix

After you connect, if you want to see if your email address is active, you can try this (lines beginning with numbers are the server responses, you type the non-numbered lines):

helo yahoo.com
250 domain.com
mail from: afakename@yahoo.com
250 2.1.0 Ok
rcpt to: yourfakeemailname@thefakeyahooname.com

And you'll either get back:

550 5.1.1 <yourfakeemailname@thefakeyahooname.com>: Recipient address rejected:

or

250 2.1.5 Ok

A 550 response means that your fake email address is not setup to receive email. A 250 means that it is accepting email at the rcpt to: address.
I guess my perception is somewhat malformed due to memories, but your experiences line up with mine. I guess the f(x)(explanation) for the x I gave was incorrect.

I do remember a lot of my teachers being pink slipped, but I also do remember all the strikes, all the specific agenda pushing. It was covert in the sense that young kids do not have such sharp anti-manipulation senses formed.
Why Do You Need Encryption?
the average speeds they are posting are only calculated during the day. uber does WAY more trips at night, when there is less traffic, so the cars can go much faster.

source: used to work at uber.
The bigger problem isn't the claim getting denied. You can file for bankruptcy and discharge the judgment against you. Its the accident victim that's SOL.
Uber Sees App Store Success as Taxi Drivers Begin to Protest in Europe
HP need to show up at my door with a check for $599.00 plus
tax for a laptop that I used 5 times and died on the day of
366! Nerds remember. I don't think this Podunk company realizes once you lose a customer, you lose them for a
long time. The reverse is true; once a male buys a product he likes--you have a customer for life. It's taught in every business school? Men just want the dam thing to work? Oh, and hire a CEO who knows a little bit about engineering?
That last sentence goes to all hardware companies.
It's great material for a T-shirt.
If you do get back in (yahoo customer service) then I suggest you archive all that nostalgic email out to your own system, so should this happen again, you won't lose all the old email.

Yahoo allows either pop3 or imap (you may have to pay for yahoo premium to get either) at which point you can extract out and archive all the old emails.
Indeed, electromagnetic waves were theorized by James Clark Maxwell and later shown to exist five years later by Heinrich Hertz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz#Electromagnetic_...
Ah, this is the infographic I was looking for:

https://i.imgur.com/vuegm5x.png

My point is not that people were doing better then. My point is we could do better given what we know and what we have.

The simple fact that we are debating nutrition on such a basic level ("is something loosely defined as fast food bad?"), shows how fucked we are in that regard.

(Similarly, nutritional concepts, whatever their merits and benefits, that come with a name, be it "atkins" or "paleo", also resemble a pre-scientific worldview based on superstition and vague knowledge. Think "We're building this bridge according to the teachings of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Whatshisname.")
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Good choice, I would never go to a talk about women in tech.
From the whitepaper: [BitCumulus the web interface to the Storj network] "relies on clientside javascript encryption to secure the file in the client’s browser before uploading"

Also it seems to be decentralizing the file storage metadata but not the actual data?
I only skimmed the description of it, presumably the cost is more about being pre-loaded with a good software package for pen testing as opposed to having to set it all up yourself. Could be a pretty decent expense, even for a bigger pentest shop that has the resources to make a standard process for building and setting up stuff like that.
The theory was revolutionary of course but the properties had already been observed in "unusable" semiconductor materials. They had the pinched hysteresis loops in the 70's.
"in contrast to the unfortunate situation where he was only donating his OSS efforts for free"

It was stated in the Hacker News discussion that at the time he was working for a competitor, and quit as a result of this harassment.

Which then prompted speculation about sinister motives. Me, I prefer avoiding communities with "corncobs", to use a term from the Antipatterns book.
The illusion of explanatory depth
Peter Thiel at The Veritas Forum [video]
Abstract: People feel they understand complex phenomena with far greater precision, coherence, and depth than they really do; they are subject to an illusion—an illusion of explanatory depth. The illusion is far stronger for explanatory knowledge than many other kinds of knowledge, such as that for facts, procedures or narratives. The illusion for explanatory knowledge is most robust where the environment supports real-time explanations with visible mechanisms. We demonstrate the illusion of depth with explanatory knowledge in Studies 1–6. Then we show differences in overconfidence about knowledge across different knowledge domains in Studies 7–10. Finally, we explore the mechanisms behind the initial confidence and behind overconfidence in Studies 11 and 12. Implications for the roles of intuitive theories in models of concepts and cognition are discussed.
Last time I used KUbuntu it was pretty much horrible. (E.g. only 6 month maintained and after that the repo did go offline so my installed system was broken (couldn't even install old pkgs from the DVD because of dependencies)). But the config tools from SuSE where also horrible (convoluted and so slow!), so I use the Fedora KDE spin now.
When a person consistently trolls on the basis of gender and race, like Shanley does, I'm uncertain why you think that is not "as bad" except because a woman is doing it?
You're arguing strawman points the article doesn't make. The primary claims I see are

1. Uber drivers don't make as much as Uber PR claims (based on data Uber provided).

2. Uber the business doesn't seem to be wildly profitable, or at least not in a defendable way (based partly on data Uber provided).

3. The large amount of capital being injected into Uber are not indicators of growing real value, but instead indicators of a weaker-than-acknowledged business.

It's possible for all of the above to be true but for drivers and riders to both be very happy with the service. Especially since UberX seems to be offering rides for below market prices but the drivers are getting switching bonuses and per-hour guarantees (see elsewhere in this thread).
Yes. Rats are cheaper to train, and light enough that they don't set off the mines.
A blur filter is not particularly expensive nowadays.
I sort of gave up on Reason.com after their article on the LA Expo Line:
http://reason.com/archives/2012/05/05/new-light-rail-ridersh...

The short version is that they surveyed ridership on the new line a couple months after it opened, and claimed that actual ridership fell short of the transit agency's estimates. The article also complains about long delays. This is, of course, very silly because two months is not very long to work out all the bugs in a large system, nor is it enough time for people to adjust their commute patterns to the new option. I used to commute on this train a few times per week, and service delays were more or less eliminated by September 2012.

Now, two years after the line opened, actual ridership in 2014 (30k people per weekday)[1] is well on track to hit the projected ridership estimates for 2030 (36k people per weekday)[2].

This sort of shoddy (and, dare I say ideologically-motivated?) reporting makes me tend to doubt the veracity of everything else they publish, especially after Reason doubled-down in a rebuttal[3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_Line_%28Los_Angeles_Metro%...

[2] http://backup.buildexpo.org/phase2/Phase%202%20FEIR%20Docume...

[3] http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/08/trainspotters-deriving-num...
This was surprisingly brilliant and interesting (and I'm not a Christian). His point about Nietzsche piqued my interest, given that he is often cited as inspiration for people like Rand who were very anti-environmentalist. But I see what he means.
There is setting for the names (but I think there have been people on the OSMand mailing list having issues with it). The English names would also have to be present in the OSM data (not for any particular technical reason, just as far as I'm aware that is the only source of names the devs use for the maps).

Also, the free version allows for 10 downloads, where updating a previously downloaded map (which might only be a region of a country) counts as one of them. But the paid version is only $8.
I used to use freshbooks, it's great. But Freeagent does so much more: http://fre.ag/43i723zz
That's a good comparison, as far as I understand this thing. With the exception that the "real memristor" is only a theoretical device.
CEO of Ringly on how she’s making tech that connects your life and your style.
> If you hit a non-HTTP site, you're leaking all the information you would send to Google Analytics to anyone that's listening

This is why I'm a fan of RequestPolicy.
> Market equilibrium in a wholly deregulated taxi industry comes only when the desperate have driven out the good.

And that's kind of my whole "can't quite express what is wrong here" issue in a nutshell.
I had a hell of a time getting PgPool II w/ PG Streaming Replication set up right. The trivial cases seemed to be fine, but when I started triggering failovers back and forth, I ran into a lot of cases where PgPool II would go stale due to a data file left around in /tmp.

I eventually got it working, but there were way too many informally created scripts that PgPool and PG had to know to trigger failovers, initiate resyncs from WALs, etc. I didn't like it at all, and around about then AWS started offering PG on RDS, so I just moved to that.

So, my advice would be, unless you've got someone on team for who that isn't that much work, you get a lot of benefit from going w/ hosted. RDS Postgres has been pretty great - not exceptional, but for my use cases, okay. Hoping they add cross region read replicas for PG sometime soon, as that would make a lot of expansion opportunities really easy.
Seriously, it was a rhetorical statement that didn't mean "no-one can literally find the settings", but "you're not allowed to change much these days". Gnome 3.x in particular is horribly bad. KDE allows a lot of tweaking.
Advancing Our North Texas Startup Community
the Turing test is to fool into "believing it is a person". In this case the judges were fooled into "believing it is an Ukranian 13 years boy" (with development disability probably). I think "a person" in the test means at least average IQ and average education/knowledge volume.
are you sure you're looking on both sides of the equations?
The article seems to indicate that the gyms are actually used. Even better, they seem to reclaim previously neglected and unsafe public space. That seems like a good use of public space to me, like a soccer field or a well-maintained park, even irrespective of any health benefits.

Of course, lots can go wrong in the actual implementation (clever uses for public spaces are notoriously tricky and hard to get right), but this doesn’t seem like a bad idea to me.
Why Counting CS as Science or Math is Not Considered Harmful
The Era of Fake Knowledge: Why It’s Never Been Easier To Fake What You Know
> basically only log on to the Internet via a VPN

Even if you did this it doesn't guarantee that your data doesn't travel through data centers you would rather it not travel through, right?
I use Freshbooks.
In other words... a meatspace debugger? Cool idea, but I don't quite buy the comparison to "spaces laden with sensors and visualizations" like the NASA control center, Large Hadron Collider, etc.. All of those spaces revolve around monitoring, not the design/making process. In a similar vein, in my field of computational science, heaps of money has been invested in
spaces for data exploration/visualization [1], unfortunately, they are essentially useless for the scientific process.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environm...
You could also just strap a portable terabyte hard drive to your phone. Not as cool as this, but it does fit in your hand.
In the Facebook aquarium – The resistible rise of anarcho-capitalism
> I've personally found the recent discovery of the giant octopus interesting.

By "giant octopus" (creatures that have been known for a very long time) do you mean "colossal squid" (which has been known, and of interest to science, from body parts since the early 20th Century, but of which a live specimen was never discovered until the 2000s)?

Because your statement doesn't make much sense for the former, and is still wrong for the latter (science showed plenty of interest before the recent live-specimen discovery, though the popular media, at least briefly, became more interested when a live specimen was found.)

> In the same vein the fact that wolves have attacked humans in the last 5 years is very interesting. When I grew up we were taught that wolves were afraid of humans and none of the old stories were true.

When and where were you taught that? While I certainly remember being taught as a child that -- like many animals -- wolves were shy of humans, I certainly was also taught that they were dangerous, extremely territorial, aggressive pack animals and that they might attack humans in any of wide range of circumstances.
British news headlines seem to use these far more than I would expect. However, in this case it's perhaps not unreasonable: These are not yet on sale at that price; while the Mozilla COO "suggested" that they would retail at that, it's not clear that he's the one setting the final price - and the linked announcement actually does not include the $25 pricing.
I did get that, but you did say that people might should be "wary", and I found it a little confusing as I don't really understand the concept of this "me tooism" as a problem. (I also was addressing both your comment about it being difficult to keep track of people who are "legit" by pointing out my direct connection in the article, but that response was more to the thread as a whole.)
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>>What about all the serious recent research showing little correlation between fat in diet and all the diseases?

Do you mean the few studies coming from the Weston A Price Foundation reverberated by thousands of paleo-fad blogs/books? The ones that have been refuted over and over by the real experts?

Despite all the headlines telling you that bacon is healthy, the lipid hypothesis is still the scientific consensus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid_hypothesis#Widespread_acc...

>> I would add that meat is often eaten in upper classes meals. Meat is a luxury for the better part of our population.

That's simply not true. I'm originally from Brazil and eating meat is not an upper class thing. Animal products are consumed in luxurious gated communities and in favelas alike. It's part of the culture. Unless you're below the poverty line you eat meat daily in Brazil. And those below the poverty line are not the ones dying from heart disease.
Composing frontend Web applications with MontageJS [JSConf2014]
Introducing the Debian Continuous Integration project
In any case, neither of you have fooled me yet.
"The companies that adopt your technology are nearly tautologically not your competitors..."

I don't follow. If they're using your tech (which you developed to do business) to do business, why are they clearly not competing with you?
> could replace a data center’s worth of equipment with a single refrigerator-size machine

Ten years later it will fit in your pocket.
This may seem off-point but what the fuck is the opportunity cost of a post doc dropping research and doing a job a high school diploma can cover?

We don't need an uber to help us allocate car spaces efficiently - we need an app to help us allocate societies resources in sane ways.
> it must somehow follow that parasitic mem-resistance must have been with us all along

I'm not so sure about that. It's impossible to make things without unwanted series/parallel resistances because conductors/insulators aren't perfect. It's impossible to make things without parasitic capacitance because without a perfect insulator, any two points have some capacitance between them - just like how there's also a parasitic gas discharge tube if the electric field between terminals reaches the dielectric breakdown voltage of air (this is another two terminal device, it's just not linear). These are all well-known physical phenomena that we deliberately assume away when we draw simple schematic symbols on paper, and then have to add back in when they end up applying.

Constraining the domain to two-terminal AND passive AND linear devices, one will have a very small number of possibilities for equations that describe them. Good old R/C/L that we know and love, and purportedly "M". But what is THE physical process that M describes and therefore gets made interesting by?

One could create a battery-powered opamp circuit that had two external terminals and fulfilled whatever equation you dreamed up (once again up to the limit of your abstraction, in this case constrained to lower frequencies). But the existence of that equation/device doesn't imply that there has to be a low-level physical phenomenon that will let you directly implement it.

Every time I try to read about memristors, I grok the bits in isolation, but mostly come away confused. C and L have state as well, and would also make great computer memory but for those nasty parasitic effects. From the wikipedia page: researchers everywhere are working on memristors, yet memristance was documented 200 years ago, yet the creator is arguing that the definition applies to phase change ram? I almost feel it's the "Cloud" of device physics research.
The idea of "illegal" content will fade, replaced by methods that introduce scarcity to digital assets.
I used to use freshbooks, but the last couple years I've used harvest.
Hm. Good to know. In any case, I've been keeping good records of both.
My relationship with Swift
We'd keep sweeping everything under the carpet?
> What determines whether something is conscious?

I don't really have an empirical "test" for subjective consciousness beyond my own immediate, first-person experience of it. This may sound like a concession or even a defeat, but I think I'm allowed to posit that phenomena exist which we currently lack the empirical tools to investigate. "Currently" is the key word; as I said before, it is arrogant to assume consciousness will forever remain a mystery to scientific inquiry, just as it is arrogant to assume it must be a simple extension of existing theories.

I admit I have nothing beyond my own experience to validate the idea of subjective perception, and I have no evidence beyond intuition as to whether or not a machine can "experience" input the same way a brain can. However, I think I'm still entitled to believe that subjective experience is a real phenomena whose nature can and should be explained, and that our scientific understanding is presently inadequate for this task.

EDIT: I can understand the fear of relying on intuition. After all, it's the same thing that led us to believe that lightning came from the gods. But that doesn't mean that we should throw out the entire experience of perceiving lightning. Clearly lightning is a phenomena we experience, but we still don't understand how photons entering our eyes produce the subjective experience of blinding whiteness, or how vibrations from thunder translated into electrical signals by the ear result in the subjective experience of the sound itself. The information is in the brain, but we still don't know how information becomes experience. This doesn't mean we have to explain it via gods, but it does mean we still have something left to explain.