skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is almost like giving one company monopoly control of the personal computer industry through a proprietary OS nobody can audit might not be the best plan.
This is an important point. There are times when confidence in your future enables a longer term investment horizon. And from that good things may often follow. But neither that confidence nor the good things may be enough to keep any social/economic position in perpetuity.
> But, as a lingua franca, it sucks even worse. Mind that term, actually: while French itself [...]

Mind that term even more, because despite the similar "fr--" sound, it does not actually denote the French language.

"Lingua franca" is actually an Italian term for "Frankish language", during a time (post-middle-ages) when "Franks" often referred to Western Europe in general.

While French is an example of a language which fit the definition for a period of time, it is not the source of its name.
It wasn't actually due to the actions of their user though, was it? It was because of the actions of NoIP themselves, who did not act to prevent abuse by their users.

From what Cisco and Microsoft are reporting NoIP is (was?) a hotspot of botnet activity. If NoIP was not doing anything against that Microsoft's lawsuit doesn't sound that unreasonable.

How this was actually implemented in the end (MS just taking over the DNS) does seem a bit strange to me though. They should at least have been taking over by a government agent.
An Open Letter to the Start-up CEO Who Believes He Owns a Business
It looks like it to me - I have personal services running through them as well and my stuff stopped working last week. Of course, I also had multiple concurrent hardware failures, so I was assuming it was just that.
This argument boils down to: "People don't know what's best for themselves, so we shouldn't give them what they clearly want." I can sympathize with that somewhat, but I think that's a dangerous direction for a government to go in.
Looks neat. Very I think it was a smart choice to pick an existing HTTP router. Like was mentioned above, the name was unfortunately used beforehand.
https://github.com/codegangsta/gin
The funny thing is that "microsoftinternetsafety.net" sounds just like a domain that a fake antivirus software would use.
Reading Simpsons and their mathematical secrets this week. The book is both entertaining and informative.
Ex parte means "from (by or for) one party", the judge acts upon the moving party's request without hearing from the other party. They are supposed to be rare and meet a high bar -- generally involving emergencies (and occasionally involving actions that need to remain secret).

Given that the allegations span many months, it's hard to see how it was an appropriate form of action here. I'd be very interested to see if there was a written decision granting the TRO.

Edit: This appears to be it http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com/docs/Second%20Amended%20Order...
> - Our governments are so inept at fighting cyber-crime that instead of sending the request to a govt-regulated cyber-security unit they had to trust Microsoft's with the enforcement? That's sad.

If this were true, I could sleep easier at night. I doubt it - the judge in question was probably just paid off or otherwise influenced to give MS just insane power, while probably being ignorant of networking in the first place.

I can't think of a software problem that is best served through the violent arm of the state.
I'm in the middle of Assembling California by John McPhee. It's a richly written exploration of where the land that is now California came from and how it got here. It examines the geologic history of the state as well as the discovery of plate tectonics and more recent California history such as the Gold Rush.

It's the last in a series exploring the geologic history the country along Interstate 80.
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Saving the Season By Kevin West. Yes it is a cookbook, but it has some fabulous essays about everything from fruit, vegetables, history of preserving, all sorts of things.

Plus the recipes look crazy amazing. I rarely say that.
The legal team got a domain just for the notice?
The better angels of our nature - Steven Pinker.
PlayerPiano is a similar existing program:

http://i.wearpants.org/blog/playerpiano-amaze-your-friends/

It's in PyPi and was demo'd at PyCon 2011 in the lightning talk sessions.
Despite the thread title, this is really just a link to the Wikipedia page for Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. From the comment also posted by OP, it looks like this should (aside from the question of whether it belongs on HN at all) have been something like "Ask HN: What novels or other fictional works have Linux in a significant role?"
For those interested in contributing to the F# language itself and the compiler, the F# Open Engineering Group has an article on that topic http://fsharp.github.io/2014/06/18/fsharp-contributions.html
A bit ranty but it makes a couple of decent points.

Excerpt:

But I bet you don’t often think about yourself as a culture maker, which is a shame, because the decisions you make and the business models you endorse are building the world you will grow old in. And the one I’m trying to live in now.
Even saying "right trade-off" goes against what I'm trying to say. It may be the right trade-off for some users and the wrong trade-off for others. Most of the time, when people say, "this programming language is doing this thing wrong," all it really means is "this isn't the right language for me for this problem."
Is God a Vegetarian? Christianity, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights by Richard Young[1].

Behold, it was very good[2].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Is-God-Vegetarian-Christianity-Vegetar...

[2] Gen 1:31
Tigerspike seeks iOS Dev with 2-3 yrs professional exp
U.S. publishers’ revenue from ebooks roughly flat in 2013, but unit sales rose
Chaos: Making a new science, James Gleick
I have worked primarily remotely over the past 15 years as consultant, industry analyst, developer, statistician and writer. The settings have ranged from me being in about a 5% minority of a corporate workforce, to a small start-up that was formed as 100% remote, To solo freelance where physical presence at clients is largely my call.

While it has been a clear benefit on the productivity and family life balance side of the equation, I do feel that I have sometimes lost out to opportunities. Opportunities for career advancement, or interesting projects that would have been nurtured by the more subtle communication patterns and interpersonal bonds formed by extended in-person interaction with co-workers and higher level executives.

Life is full of trade-offs.
I wouldn't describe writing a build script for Gradle as "using" Groovy. Most Gradle build files out there seem to be fairly short, usually 20 to 100 lines long, and consist of nothing more than the standard DSL calls. The template was probably copied from some other project, and the blanks filled in. I've yet to see a Gradle build script that actually drops out of the DSL to use Groovy to do any programming. The build script "authors" would have no idea how to use any of the more advanced Gradle API calls or Groovy language features beyond collection literals and closures. Gradle even still ships with the ancient Groovy version 1.8.
And Yahoo! employees used to be able to work like that.

You are outnumbered by several thousand.
> The plan is clearly to inflate out of it.

[[Citation needed]]
Maybe most people who were vocal about the change were mad, while the rest of us happily used it. I do remember how jarring the change felt, but it quickly become obvious what a new and useful experience it was.
1) The containing folder you're referring to is not part of the compiled artifact.

2) If you're feeling particularly adventurous, you could probably write a ClassLoader which knows how to resolve the full class identifier (including package) to its actual class, which needn't be in that directory structure, but at that point you're fighting 19 years of Java history.

3) Scala mitigates the crazy folder hierarchies by letting you structure the source more naturally (needn't be a 1:1 between package and folder structure, and even have multiple classes per file), and ensures the resulting class files are structured the way the JVM's default ClassLoader wants them. That said, many folks end up adopting the Java source style for consistency, especially in teams where they have to maintain legacy Java code anyhow.
No-ip was complicit in the illegal activity.

If you use a car wash that is also laundering money, your legitimate need for a clean car is not a defense against shutting the business down.
Each driver is causing themselves 10 and everybody else 990. Your analysis acts as if people make decisions as a group.

"Each driver is paying their exact cost." Yes, but on the margin each driver can only choose a small chunk of their cost. Seriously, have you looked at the enormous literature on this? One major annoyance on HN is the way CS people assume that they can independently grok the intricacies of any field.
"Maintaining eye contact" is pretty creepy regardless of whatever else is going on.
GEB is a good book to finish, congrats. Unless you're exceptionally brilliant and got it all on the first read, plan to read it at least once more though. But let it sink first :)
In launching a venture, use a good lawyer to help you define what is the best legal structure for your venture, who owns what piece of that venture and on what earn-out terms, if any, who has rights to any IP developed by participants in that venture, and who has what authority to run things, either as owners controlling the ultimate management of a company or as directors/officers having strategic or operational control over how things are done. And do all this with tax, securities law, and other legal bounds in mind.

Are there hazards to founders as they roll along in the earliest stages without the benefit of lawyer review or guidance? Of course. And those hazards lie precisely in failing to understand what needs to be done or in how to do it.

But lawyers cost money and every founder is or should be cognizant of the need to budget wisely for such costs.

So there is room for good DIY guides and services. Indeed, in today's era, DIY guides and services are great and can be valuable: one of the great distinctives of our modern startup era lies precisely in having savvy and informed founders (except for serial entrepreneurs, this was a relative rarity at or before the bubble era). So, yes, by all means, do educate yourself and do use lawyers wisely so as not to overpay or overdo the legal pieces that are secondary (albeit important) to your venture. I encourage what the author is doing here and hope it lives up to its promise.

That said, I don't believe a DIY guide should include arbitrary rules or procedures.

In particular, I disagree that a founders' agreement is an essential first step on the path toward startup launch. In 30 years of specializing in this stuff, I have seen such agreements in very few startups. They can be helpful but there are no arbitrary rules about the need to use them.

A founders' agreement is after all a formal legal document. It locks in relationships and commitments - meaning, if you agree to its terms, your failure to conform to such roles and commitments can have legal consequences. And, while that can be fine, and while it can certainly go a long ways towards limiting the hazards mentioned above that a lawyer would normally deal with, it can also be frustrating for founders to front-load legal things at a time when the venture is in greatest flux. In many cases, you can wind up trying to define in the abstract, and hence lock in, roles and relationships that are by definition still not settled.

As always, the goal is to use good judgment and common sense while educating yourself to the maximum extent possible either through DIY guides/resources or with the help of lawyers. But do not think that there is only one process for getting to the goal of a good launch. If a founders' agreement fits your needs (and if the author offers a good one), by all means use it to your benefit. If not, don't get stymied by the thought that you have failed to meet some pre-condition to launch that really does not exist.
That's why I felt it ought to be reposted; it's a neat intersection of HN interests, and skirting on the borders of the basic income discussion that's been growing here over the past few months/years.

(BTW - you mean "basic tenet" not "tenant"...)
Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull (Pixar-fame) and The Atlantis Gene by A.G. Riddle (sci-fi'ish)
A simple alternative to De Bruijn indexing, from ICFP 2013
Who cares if it's predictably risky? Skydiving accidents are still accidents. It's bad to be complacent, but it's still an accident.
If this action is troubling, then we need to stop putting the blame in the wrong place.

Microsoft does not have the power to seize domains. A federal court order made that happen. This order is (apparently) the responsibility of the U.S. District Court of Nevada. If you want to blame someone, then blame the court.

Obnoxious people ask courts to do obnoxious things every day. Good courts do not comply.
I just devoured Blindsight by Peter Watts[1]. It's a fascinating bit of SF that explores some really fascinating ideas about how consciousness works.

I've also been dipping into Daily Rituals: How Artists Work[2]. Lots of brief summaries of how various famous creators have broken up their workday; it both inspires me to get off my ass, and makes me feel better about the days when absolutely nothing happens.

Oh, and I've been slowly picking at Thee Psychick Bible[3], a collection of the majgickal documents of Genesis P-Orridge. Not sure it's really got any ideas I haven't seen in my other mystical readings. But there sure is a lot of it.

1: http://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
2: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009Y4I4OM/ref=oh_aui_d_det...
3: http://www.amazon.com/THEE-PSYCHICK-BIBLE-Apocryphal-Scriptu...
"it will be a nasty fight"

Yes, possibly literally. Major wars are often the ultimate solution to this kind of problem. When the dust settles a new order exists.

I detest war. I detest human suffering. But it appears sometimes war has amazing cleansing power. Hopefully this isn't always the case.
I just finished "Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment" by George Leonard.

It approaches the topic of attaining mastery from the angle of Aikido, but I found it strongly resembling my feelings in the programming domain. I'm still pondering it, and will likely re-read it soon (it's a very short book).
I know more than I can say here.
No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
That is easily solved the good old fashioned way - through prices. Charge more during the most popular times. Also note that the vehicles can spontaneously carpool - and could incentivize an existing rider. (Do you want a $5 discount on this journey if it goes 5 mins out of the way and you share the vehicle?)

And of course they can be different sizes (eg 13 people, or 23 people). Or a local small car can take you to a feeder location where you get on a big bus and the process reverses at the other end.

Sure you can still pay for your own reserved car, but it is likely to be even more expensive than pay as you ride.

The big problem with existing solutions like public transport and car pools is they are cumbersome at either end and require precise in advance organisation for timing and capacity, plus being inconvenient if you don't fit their deployment patterns. The major benefit of self driving cars will be algorithms can maximize utilisation and reduce individual costs. Owning your own car will look like a really bad decision by then.
REMOTE. A very intriguing book I have ever read. By Jason Fried and David HH.
i just finished listening to brandon sanderson's "words of radiance" as read to me by my digital personal assistant during my work commutes. in the ivona amy voice, of course as she's pretty good with crazy names like "urithiru".

moving on to his "warbreaker" now. apparently, they're all tied together in an uber-epic.
"but ebooks without ISBN numbers — which includes many self-published Kindle books — can’t be tracked."

Many? More like "the overwhelming majority". None of the major ebook retailers require ISBNs, and given the bizarre pricing structure ($125 for 1, $295 for 10, $1,000 for 1,000) virtually nobody other than the big traditional publishers bothers with them.

Can you think of any other product whatsoever that retails for $125 in quantity one and $1 in quantity 1,000?

Any survey that excludes indy ebooks is essentially worthless. You can demonstrate this for yourself by going to one of the genre categories on Amazon (e.g., science fiction) and taking note of how many of the Top 10, Top 50, Top 100 are indy. Hint: lots of them.
I think some related arguments to your point are that you could say ISPs don't do enough to prevent pirated content from being transmitted on their networks or that Muslims don't do enough to prevent Islamist extremists in their communities. These claims might be true, but should companies or governments be stepping in to solve these situations? Who is mandating that they need to be "solved"? What are the consequences of solving things these ways? Could there be more nuanced implications than the solving of the thing they're trying to fix on the face of it?
Montesquieu: Considerations on the Causes of The Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline
The Art of Thinking Clearly, Write Portable Code by Brian Hook, Thomas Mann's The magic mountain, The mythical man month, Intellectuals by Paul Johnson and Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, by Ernesto Laclau are on my table right now.

But I don't think reading many books in parallel is a good strategy...
I agree. I wouldn't however mind a successor series in spirit. Something with an entirely new cast in the same universe as Firefly/Serenity. It would be especially cool if done with tie-ins to the events we're familiar with.
You have enough money to own a car, which implies you're old.

Very few of my age cohort have a driver's license. Even if we had the time and money to get licensed, due to student loan debt we can't afford a car, or insurance, which is much more expensive for the young.
> the judge in question was probably just paid off or otherwise influenced

That's a hell of an accusation.
It is the government. Specifically, the order was issued (it appears) by the U.S. District Court of Nevada.

See also my root-level comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7968365
En Argentina ordenan el bloqueo a The Pirate Bay
I've barely touched The Hype Machine before, but this UI is so nice that I think I'm going to become a great fan! Well done!
I wholeheartedly agree that we need to help those less fortunate, but not in a way that promotes aheavy reliance on the government.

All my Liberal friends conveniently forget that Bill Clinton took millions off of welfare and brought them out of poverty. Not from relying on government, but through incentives and job training.

Interesting to note that this was a bipartisan bill, introduced by a Republican, and heavily endorsed by Clinton himself. And yes, it went through two veto's before getting signed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Responsibility_and_Wor...
I'm assuming this was in response to the "and serve data that I decided to pull down." part.
Run WebRTC without a signaling server
Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People
Show HN: Launched my new app – Dropzone 3
Cada dia mas vigilancia y menos derechos
Vigilante. N.

A member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community WITHOUT LEGAL AUTHROITY, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.
"Zero to One" by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
So when will Canonical file an ex-parte TRO against Microsoft for failing to secure Windows XP against malware? It would be nice to see a windows update which upgrades to linux :P

Later edit: Isn't this ironic, how most botnet members are running Microsoft's software, yet they get to do this?
Honestly it's a very exact reflection of todays modern smartphone world.

It takes a lot of time to develop an app correctly for each platform.

Most Android developers I speak to agree that Android is just not as easy and nice to develop for as iOS.

And also most developers see the best return on investment on iOS. You can certainly get the 'downloads' on Android, but it just doesn't translate into the same amount of revenue as users tend to expect more for free over there.

Makes sense to go to the other platforms once you feel you've exhausted the iOS market (though you'd have to be doing pretty well to claim that), or your produce relies on massive download growth (but not necessarily revenue)

It's not the developer being stupid, or trying to play fanboi etc when taking this path, it's just the reality of the app game.
Oh, you weren't talking about Nathan Mhyrvold and the oven? OK then.

FYI, patent trolls usually haven't invented the thing they hold a patent for.
I started The Martian by Andy Weir about 3 days ago and I'm really enjoying it. It's a really entertaining book that I highly recommend!

Last week I finished The Paradox of Choice and Zero Day. I enjoyed both of them, although I don't think I'll be reading any of the sequels to Zero Day.

Before that I went through The Maze Runner trilogy, those were entertaining reads.

Some other books I've read recently that I can remember off the top of my head are the Divergent series of books (eh), How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen (great read), Ready Player One (loved, loved, loved this book), Starters (didn't bother reading any more in the series) and Moon walking With Einstein (I enjoyed it).
Coincidently, I just finished reading The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver too. I found it interesting and not too technical. It covered lot of ground.

Now, I am reading Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos. It is more in depth and technical than Nate's.
5 Bizarre Sources of Energy
1. The Power of Family
Nothing takes the pain out of burying a loved one like knowing you’re standing in a building being heated by gasses released during their embalming. Or at least that’s the way one British crematorium hopes you’ll feel…
2. The Power of Poo, the Power of You
You probably know that cows emit methane through their daily biological processes (specifically pooping and passing gas). Cow manure has long been used to fuel vehicles and a new project from Argentina's National Institute of Agricultural Technology is creating cow backpacks to keep their gas power from escaping…
3. How About a Natural Disaster?
For anyone who has witnessed the destructive force of a tornado firsthand, the idea of creating fake twisters in a lab might sound like a bad idea. But tornadoes are the massive powerhouses we know them to be precisely because they hold massive amounts of energy. It’s that energy that Louis Michaud wants to harness…
4. Japanese Diaper Duty
An average newborn baby uses 10 to 14 diapers every day. In Japan, however, it’s the adult diaper market that’s increasing as the baby diaper market shrinks. But whether the source is a one year old or a 90 year old, disposable diapers are a guaranteed way to fatten a landfill. However, that may soon change – a Japanese company, Super Faiths Inc., has devised a way to turn yesterday’s pants protector into tomorrow’s energy supply…
More at site……….
I also started Gödel, Escher, Bach. Have yet to finish the preface.

Discover Meteor: a book for the Meteorjs framework. Good book if you want to learn the framework.

I read a lot of fiction I guess.
Now I am reading American Gods, and before that, Dune. Before Dune I read the 2 released books of The Kingkiller Chronicle.
It was supposedly a self-contained lead-in series into a movie, i doubt there's a second "season" coming
I'm confused - Sam who held a fundraiser for Obama is now saying the economy is screwed?