skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re-licensing remains a horribly confusing term, which is something I complained about. Some people use it to mean substitute the license on your copy with some other license, and then pass copies on under that new license. This appears to be the way the FAQ uses the term. The way you use the term, you seem to think that you can actually do some magic and revoke the author's rights, then impose your conditions on him, and possibly sue him for violating these conditions. That's just bullshit, it doesn't work like that. Unless you know something the rest of the world doesn't.

You keep saying copyright licenses are used to "forfeit" (by which I assume you mean surrender) rights, so as to (exclusively) transfer them from you to someone else. It doesn't work like that. They are used to grant other people rights. They normally do not remove any rights from the author.

And you still maintain your circular definition of copyright, in which authorhood or copyright itself is a right protected by copyright and that through one of the rights protected by copyright (and granted to you by an author's license), you can obtain that right which is copyright (or authorhood). Can you please back any of it up?
Flipkart recently moved away from the Amazon warehousing model to an online marketplace model and I've heard nothing but complaints from customers regarding the switch. Even their own presence in the marketplace is unable to keep up the quality of service as it scales, and all kinds of scammy retailers have set up shop now which has made it relatively more dangerous to purchase on their service now.

Time will tell if they pay that billion back.
if I want a live preview then I use http://stackedit.io. Most of the times I just use ST+Markdown plugins already mentioned here.
We do not front run any order.

We will make this clear on our site. We tried to do so by showing the complete order book and not just a single price.

You also have complete control of when you execute the algos.

Fixing the privacy policy - not sure what happened to the pdf upload. Thanks for catching.
Police begin placing warning adverts on 'pirate' sites
Very cool! I'm thrilled Amazon is granting 50M CPU hours of spot time to science. Amazon: any chance you can increase that amount? 50M isn't very much when it comes to heavy simulation.
Just to add to this, Google recently open sourced the PDF rendering engine in Chrome [1], so I imagine that it'll be included in Chromium soon.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7781878
You said "god think", I think you meant "good thing", unless I missed something.
It's an interesting work and well worth reading, although it's more than a bit broad-brush in its discriminants. Ferligoj, Batagelj and Doreian did an analysis a few years ago using relational-constraint clustering of counties with Census data and found that the "Nine Nations" thesis actually conforms quite well to clustering by race, age, land usage and economic data.
are you seriously claiming that nobody would take the former head of the NSA seriously if it were not for the snowden leaks?

jesus christ, I know HN is a huge circlejerk when it comes to the NSA/surveillance but this is absolutely off the charts.

he's the former chair of the most advanced SIGINT agency in the world, which operates under the jurisdiction of the most powerful and politically aggressive country in the world. we're not talking most advanced by a little margin too, it's more like a gaping chasm. are you seriously so out of whack that you think all that counts for nothing?
I pretty much all agree with all of Wladimir Palant's post.

But I also have one problem regarding Adblock Plus' "acceptable ads" openness.

When I read about their "acceptable ads" approach, I am led to believe the "acceptable ads" list contains all the sites which are whitelisted for purpose of "acceptable ads". I am invited to consult the list to see for myself which sites qualify.[1]

Problem is, many web sites are not whitelisted through that publicly available list, but through the x-adblock-key HTTP header (which is not something disclosed up front to users).

So in fact there is really a public list and a private list it appears (through the x-adblock-key header), while the public list is presented as all there is to "acceptable ads".

[1] https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads#list
Some of that is true; but there are historical antecedents that explain the use of hops and malts...

My company[1] builds quality control tools for artisan beverage producers; we know that craft production is a batch process relying on agricultural grains with inherent variation.

That doesn't mean it shouldn't be produced.

Craft production is undoubtedly higher quality than any continuous production - it just takes more skill (or software tools..) to do correctly and consistently.

Furthermore, the use of certain ingredients to reduce noticeable inconsistencies came at a time before process control was a known science. For example, hops were originally added to beer being shipped from England to India (hence the name India Pale Ale or IPA). Now, that practice didn't survive because of quality control - it has survived because people like the taste of IPAs and there is demand in the market for that flavor profile.

Consumers don't think of skill of production when rating beers or whiskeys; they judge only the resulting flavor profile and are influenced by contextual clues such as age statements or 'hand made batch numbered artisan spirit' promises.
The author teaches git reset --hard without mentioning git reflog. That's evil.
Too bad they don't make the DNS entries they block public.
Lawyer commenting on whether a business should get liability insurance
I don't think it seems silly... VentureBeat [1] seems to think the same thing:

Mitchell Hashimoto, the guy who created the popular
Vagrant tool for setting up development environments, has
gone and built another useful tool for developers working
on public-cloud platforms.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/28/terraform-hashicorp/
Face to face contact can be useful to clarify things.
Go Concurrency Patterns: Context
He said that he de-synced them to free up space. I'm assuming that he would have noticed if the operation didn't free up space.
Can someone explain to me what it means for a kernel to have an end-to-end proof of implementation? Does it just mean that the kernel is implemented bug-free? That it will never panic?
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Looks interesting, but it's difficult to understand why it is faster (i.e. the design decisions you made).

From poking around, I can see that you have specialized each collection for the primitive types, to avoid boxing/unboxing. I'm not sure if there's more to it than this though!

I wasn't able to quickly locate the actual storage code though - do you store values as a primitive array or do you use a ByteBuffer? It would also be useful to understand how this compares to e.g. Trove.

Just some friendly feedback - project looks awesome; thanks for open-sourcing it.
>>and guys cut the "internet needs ads" crap

I imagine you must have never ever used a google product then?
How to make a game bug free
Only if you see inconsistency as bad (if you do, then McDonald's makes the best hamburgers.) Inconsistency is the key selling point of small batches.

Agreed, IPA is a no-brainer beer without subtlety. If you put enough hops in sewer water it'll taste like an IPA but that doesn't mean making a pilsner is rocket surgery.

And as long as I am ranting on IPA, I can't wait for the current craze for them to be over. A few years ago when I would ask the waitress what beers they have on tap she'd rattle off 8 wheat beers. (Seriously, one wheat beer in the summer is plenty and Bell's Oberon is a pleasantly inconsistent choice.) Now it's half a dozen IPAs. I have a suggestion to the bars and brewers for the next beer fad: an old world artisinal classic - lager.
This is true. And it doesn't just apply to governments, but any organisation that is large.

Once a organisation gets to a sufficient size, organising and allocating resources and communication starts to eat up a disproportionate amount of time, if the organisation is left to drift into whatever shape it likes.
it also suggests my own tracks, I guess you should disregard user's own tracks.

also, you may add a 'mute' option for certain musicians/people, (some are not musician but just friends)
Presumably if Pagefair, in their role as curator, allows too many shitty ads under their wing then Adblock Plus will block Pagefair, and pretty much destroy their business. They do have an incentive.
He surely just forgot to mention that Google allegedly payed 25 million € to Eyeo GmbH, the company behind Adblock Plus, in order to participate in the "acceptable ads" program, a "feature" which is turned on by default and allows users to "surf more comfortably".
And that he is (or at least was) one of the directors.

I'm most certain that there are people out there who would call this business model "blackmailing", but I could also be wrong.

Source (in german): http://www.welt.de/wall-street-journal/article124441049/Goog...
This is great, we had to switch to HAProxy 1.5 during the beta for SSL support. Your blog post would have come in handy then!
That looks pretty interesting, but Holy Options Batman! There are almost 50 filter lists plus a bunch of other settings.

Thanks for recommending this - looks a little less shady than some of the AdBlock variants.
:raises hand for invite:

Also your 'HN Profile' lacks contact info...
Ebola treatments caught in limbo
I found quite a bit to do on the web in 1996, I was getting online with a UNIX machine and a modem. No mention of USENET or IRC in this article? You could check webcams like the coffee pot webcam [1], finger the coke machine [2], and telnet into your university's CS lab.

[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html

[2] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/internet-coke-machine
It is you who is incredibly cynical. It is like slowly boiling frog...

Current status quo will continue even if you do "something". Your "something" will just make environment even more toxic for middle class and leave elite untouched.

Top 1M have many ways to get income and avoid taxation from salary: trust funds, stock options, bonuses (car, jet...), outsourcing. Even more taxation from salary is laughable.
Giving ublock a try. Going to turn off Adblock Plus while I run it. Will see how it goes.
It's from the kid that did the learn MIT CS cursus in a year.
How the best remote teams function, build trust, and get things done
Quoting:

Death was all that the hazmat-suited visitors
seemed to bring ... So people scattered, making
a bad situation worse.
Can graph databases enable whole new classes of event analytics?
Debian does apply patches -- just look at their packaging repository:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-chromium/pkg-chromium.git...

Google also documents that Chromium may have distro-specific patches applied and how it differs from the Google Chrome binaries provided by Google:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxChromiumPackage...

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo...
I had an issue similar to this (but fortunately not nearly as bad) about two and a half or three years ago and that was what convinced me to pay of the Packrat service add-on.

I agree with the OP that that should be a built-in option for all paying customers -- or at least make it more visible as an add-on. I've had instances in the past where it was months later that I realized something was either deleted or didn't sync and I had to look through Events and use Packrat to restore. It can be scary - even if you do make backups of your backups.
i just read several paragraphs of absolutely nothing.

really. how this person considers himself a journalist? or even a blogger?

the central argument appears to be patents, yet not even the titles are mentioned.
The moment you only have one copy of your files anywhere you don't have a backup.

I've heard it said that if a file doesn't exist in at least three different places it might as well not exist.
They're missing an opportunity...

During the gold rush, sell picks and shovels. Lots of tech companies have the same model. With that model, MGP have production personnel and a few account managers. They don't have to pay for any marketing themselves, while they benefit from the full range of creative output of the American liquor industry. Some people want to buy whiskey that was made in New Mexico by hipsters like "Simeon Turley" and "Thomas Tate Tobin", while others want to buy whiskey made in Iowa by "small townsfolk".
> If I explicitly delete a file I might explicitly want it gone within the stated window and no later and would therefore be unhappy if I found the data still available

Very few (if any) users who explicitly delete a file want that file recoverable within 30 days but not after that. They either want the file recoverable for a much longer period of time or they want the deleted file to be irrecoverable immediately. For the latter option, Dropbox offers the ability to "permanently delete" files. It requires at least four clicks to accomplish, displays a warning, and is driven entirely via the website rather than through the Dropbox client.
How would you know? The US intelligence budget clocks in around $52 billion. You don't think a few million could be allocated if it was the most-expedient way of making something happen?
You just need one reference point to measure your groundspeed, and you don't have to know what it is, you can just pick any arbitrary feature below you. With a known altitude, measuring the angular velocity of a ground feature gives you your groundspeed. There were mechanical systems available by the 1920s or 30s that could do this automatically, perhaps most famously the Norden bombsight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norden_bombsight

Still, if you want to hit a target like this, you have to be able to see it, and see enough context around it to be able to recognize it.
A Decentralized Web Browser
i was harsh.. i do in fact know some people who depend on ad revenue to keep servers running. but ads on the internet are generally out of control and i think its a huge bubble, even the ad revenue that my friends rely on is just garbage that i would never want anybody to click on...

anyway the main point stands - if you publish an ad blocker it should block ads.

suddenly a simple concept gets really complicated when there is an "application process" and set of "criteria" by which ads can be whitelisted -- who defines this criteria? is it always published? am i donating to a project that is actually commercially supported? etc

also was anybody else confused by this (from https://adblockplus.org/blog/acceptable-ads-by-the-numbers):

"Over 50 percent [of applicants] rejected because ads not acceptable.

In all, we accepted only 9.5 percent of applicants."

That math seems weird...
I only know what I experienced and that was having to email Zillow multiple times to point out the fraudulent posting. I even visited the property and spoke with the owner and even SHE contacted Zillow and requested a takedown of the listing. It was only after my repeated emails and posts to social media that the listing was taken down.

Maybe it was a fluke. But I don't trust Zillow.
PaaS Cloud 1on1 Comparison Heroku vs. OpenShift
Does the Trolley problem apply here? (i.e. diverting the enemy from your town, if you know it is likely they will just attack the next town over) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
How exactly would a website like reddit monetize itself without ads? Donations?

Or for that matter, how would HackerNews itself exist (without a YC parent) if getting users to subscribe was not an option?
It might compile for Windows since most of the dependencies it uses does have Windows ports.
Is lager really hard to find?
I think it has something to do with shame vs guilt cultures.
Yes, that definitely captures some of the major culture boundaries more accurately. For example, no one would conflate the culture of California with the culture of Cascadia despite a few superficial similarities (like eco awareness).

My takeaway from the "Nine Nations" map is that it was created by people that have never actually lived or spent significant time all over the regions of the US, never mind North America, to have a frame of reference for the actual cultural differences. Some of the supposed cultural similarities are apparently based on popular caricatures of the rest of the US I see in places like urban New England. You can carve up North America on major cultural boundaries but it looks a lot more like the Facebook map.
I think you nailed it. They've been pushing hard on bringing the Google Cloud Services and App Engine up to speed, and if they can catch more big players early on, it will serve as good demos on how to scale with their systems.
because in the end, it doesnt turn out better.

<citation needed>

So what's an administrator to do in that situation? Take the "best" bid, see the project go over time, see the contract and specification disputes start, see the costs go up, and end up with a 300M failure after 6 years?

What you call "corruption" and "a lack of accountability or transparency" I would call "exercise best judgment and experience" to save the taxpayers their money. Basically, a procurer doing his job.

You would have some point if software were more amendable to requirements specification and bidding, but the entire industry is still terrible at it, so it's a bad process, because it doesn't actually promote "accountability and transparency" at all.
Huh. Never heard of the company, but what surprised me is that the site is actually really fast and snappy, somehow, for me -- especially considering what I saw when I took a look at the source code.
And able to stand up to the occasional typhoon? I have no idea. The point of my exercise was to establish a minimum cost, to show why the idea isn't economically practical.

Japan's Mega-float cost $150 million in 1999 for 1km x 60 meters. It was designed as a floating airport for use in a protected bay. The floating airport proposal ("Floatport") for San Diego was estimated at $10-$30 billion. Both show that my $50 billion estimate is very low.

Then again, you don't actually need floating structures. As an alternative estimate, a cubic meter of soil is about $35. The cost of 1 meter of soil spread across 100 sq. km is $3.5 billion, plus shipping.

I see no way to get lower than that number. I see many way to get a lot higher.
> I'm surprised MGP hasn't created its own brands or bought some existing ones, since their rye is a good product in its own right. They're missing an opportunity, though maybe they feel it's too much trouble to go into the retail side.

(Fortunate?) Mismanagement. They wanted to make their own brand but contracted out all their old stock so the only thing they could sell now is very young ones unless one of the existing customers jumps ship.
Quoting:

... luck matters less in English soccer’s Premier
League than in the NFL and in Major League Baseball,
because the American leagues have evened the level
of skill among teams by sharing revenue, imposing
salary caps and giving better draft choices to the
weaker teams.
perfect case in point. generating all this revenue for google based on basically tricking and redirecting old people into shit they dont need. i think ads are easy and successful and wrong. you cant imagine any other way to pull off popular internet services without ads? shit son
Copyright is not something you can take away. It exists from the moment you create something creatively and originally.

You can however license someone to use something that is protected by copyright. This is what licenses do; they give you a license to use the content.

This is exactly what CC0 tries to do, it works around the fact that you cannot (easily) give away or stop copyright, but can state that you distance yourself from all the rights that come with having the copyright. See also: http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0
Technically (more like legally), a broker cannot front run an order.
Oh, here we go again. This is unnecessary bashing.
Personally, I use the argument that it's not about what's illegal or unacceptable now, it's about the future. In the 1920's, nobody thought hanging out with a couple of communists in college one time would come back to bite them. It's unreasonable to think that it would. But it did.

So it's not that what you're doing is wrong, or that you have something to hide. It's that someday, something you do today could come back on you. Better it be something that you choose to share than something the government discovers and keeps records of.
I posted almost this same exact comment on my friends facebook post for this article, even mentioning Angel's Envy. This happens in Wine and coffee too. The reality is many "distillers" are curators and finishers, and sometimes battlers (sometimes not, whoever bottles or makes the Templeton Rye-like bottle must bottle half of the craft market). In wine, this smaller places will buy grapes or wines from the larger vineyards, and often make blends as well. For coffee, most businesses in the Bay Area hit up Royal Coffee in Oakland for their green coffee. Definitely everybody from Peet's and Starbucks to Blue Bottle and Philz have used them, according to my girlfriends father who has used them for 25 years. or tea leaves. even then, a lot of people hit up roasters to supply them roasts or blends.

So, the modern beverage industry is largely an industry based on curation, blends, and added value. And that's fine. I'm not so sure why people care so much, but it must be because people have this romantic view that their beverages should live up to some farm-to-table ideal.
I run privoxy locally on OSX and I like that it runs in a separate process (AB+ with a few dozen tabs open really sucks up RAM) and blocks ads on other things too (twitter clients come to mind) when set up as a system proxy. It's not the most straightforward thing to configure, but once you figure it out it's pretty great. I've never seen it donk up my pages like some of the old proxies used to; this stuff has come a long way in the past decade.

There are also a few scripts around that will fetch AB+-format lists and convert them into privoxy lists. Here's a decent intro: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/privoxy

Also https://hackage.haskell.org/package/adblock2privoxy

On a router: http://blog.vanutsteen.nl/2014/01/05/installing-privoxy-with...
Deconstructing Naftali Bennett: The startup years
Dropbox deleting the local copies are effectively what the author wanted to happen. The author wanted Dropbox to:

1) Remove the local copies.

2) Keep the remote copies.

3) Stop syncing those folders.

The author explicitly states that the goal was to use the Dropbox copy as the only copy (i.e. the backup).
New Emergency Preparedness Partnership
It won't. See here: http://sel4.systems/FAQ/#verif

It's actually a very impressive piece of work, I can't wait to read about the details of how it was done.
Hello, World Meet Autowiring for C++
I don't think this is the "first" unless there is something I'm missing here that makes this different than the 4+ exchanges that already exist in the US.

Coinsetter,
CampBX,
Coinbase,
Coinmkt,
Kraken,
SecondMarket / Bitcoin Trust

fyi discussion on reddit...

http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/2c1oo5/first...
'Bernasconi says that purchasing whiskey from MGP and bottling it is “a means to develop a brand and help fund the next step” of actually distilling a unique product.'

This sounds similar to how Reddit grew. It created a bunch of fake accounts until it didn't need to no more. Though there has been little outcry about that practice around here.

motherboard.vice.com/read/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts--2