skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm... Is it possible to "self-host" a license? That is, is it possible to have a license licensed under itself?
The goal is to innovate, never hurt innovation, let people innovate, fix, hack, break, etc so better things get made. The open source movement is a humanistic movement, that people deserve better and will naturally make better things if we allow them too.

The goal of open source isn't to stop making money. The GPL specifically encourages companies to exist to support and make money off of software. The problem is from a business standpoint its very profitable to make somebody dependent on your product.

This is where we meet the breaking point. Their goals are different, a business wants to exploit while open source wants to grow.

How do we fix this? Adoption. When you try to sell a service to a company, namely a technology company being open source is a positive for one simple reason.

>If you fail they won't lose the service.

Its the ultimate insurance. They don't have to bet the farm on your company. It makes it easier to bid and grow on software as your failure isn't tied to your plateform's failure. Which is often the largest issue with new technology companies.

Nobody would buy an IBM mainframe if IBM started last year. Nobody would have faith, or believe. You can't do the same stunts as companies that are decades old who built the industry as a new kid on the block.
Reply from Wladimir Palant:

"whitelisting websites if they serve only acceptable ads turned out unrealistic – nobody would do that right now. There needs to be more incentive to use acceptable advertising first."

https://adblockplus.org/blog/acceptable-ads-by-the-numbers
> There's not much preventing me from re-assinging copyright to myself (in countries that allow it) and then suing the original creator.

In what jurisdictions would that be interpreted as copyright reassignment? I can see how you might argue that "re-assign copyright to myself" is WTF you want to do, but the onus is on the creator to assign copyright to you.

> There's nothing to stop me from taking your code, re-licensing it under say a proprietary license, then suing the original creator.

Suing them for what? There's nothing to prevent you from suing pretty much anyone, for any reason, including any of the other licenses. Second of all, if you're saying there's nothing preventing your suit from being successful, I still don't understand on what grounds. It doesn't matter what licence you've relicensed under if the original author holds copyright.

> There's nothing that stops me from taking your project's branding/symbol/graphics/name and claiming it as my own and then suing you.

You could do this no matter what the license. What about the WTFPL would make your lawsuit any more successful than any other licence?

> There's nothing that stops me from taking your work and then not providing attribution back to the original creator.

This is fully within the intent of the WTFPL.

> By default there is nothing that absolves the license holder from warranty nor implied fitness for use.

You have a good point that this is something many people would want. Do you know in which jurisdictions this is actually needed? I wasn't able to find any sources for this.

> Has it been challenged before in a legal sense? Has a lawyer reviewed it?

Excellent points.
Comarison with Trove and other primitive collections libs: http://java.dzone.com/articles/time-memory-tradeoff-example

Why faster:

- no supplemental "states" array in open adressing implementation

- keys and values are stored "in parallel" in the single array, whenever possible: https://github.com/OpenHFT/hftc/issues/23

- generally, attention to the finest detail in implementation

There is no "actual storage code" - it is 95% generated.

Thank you.
Oberon has been more consistent (and I guess not as great) since they expanded production a couple of years ago.

It's still really good though.
GAE works really well for massive scaling without needing to worry about infrastructure, though it has some pretty weird limitations at times.

For everything that GAE can't do, we have a GCE instance running to handle it.
As Pagefair pays Eyeo its would be easier to issue a notice of issue, citation, or reprimand, then it would to kill them and their revenue.
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but my point is that hackernews does survive. its not a pipedream
How can we forget Chertoff, and his lobbying/fear mongering on behalf of body scanner manufacturers. He very transparently used his credentials as former Secretary of Homeland Security to get his client's devices installed in every airport in the country.
Ask her why she wears clothing if she has nothing to hide.
Thank you for your good word :)
Oops, you're right. But the way I read the report, even having other systems with local copies would've gotten data loss, because it would have removed those local copies as well (which was not the idea when enabling selective sync only on the laptop).
Key assumption to your argument: Dropbox is a backup service.

I don't think that they are. More like the modern incarnation of a file server. Like a fileserver, they have resiliency against service failure or individual storage system failure (via S3). Cool stuff, but it ain't backup.
If you need $300/mo worth of Heroku hosting, chances are good that you aren't doing something that's going to be terribly hands-off. Systems administration isn't hard, but it is involved - there's a lot of learning ramp-up that has to go into it.
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As to your first question: Advertising.

As to how you can reduce costs: Get VPSs and a free CDN or two, and engineer your website to be heavily cache reliant, resistant to intense backend load, and easily horizontally scalable. If you do it right, $50 a month will get you more than enough performance and most of your bandwidth and load-balancing will be free (the CDN).

As to donationware: Sure, if people are seriously invested in your product or community. But that might take time.

Coming from a sysadmin: Don't let people intimidate you out of doing it yourself. If you can successfully set up Tor, you can set up the infrastructure for a large website. It's not that much of a learning curve because there's a billion tutorials out there that'll show you how to set up different tools to work together.
"Craft production is undoubtedly higher quality than any continuous production - it just takes more skill (or software tools..) to do correctly and consistently."

Craft production peaks at a higher quality than any continuous production, I think is what you're trying to say? Because obviously, those who fail to do it correctly or consistently are still engaged in "craft production".
The whole point of f.lux is avoiding bright light near bedtime.
I would guess 0. My understanding is that you are rendering at the full higher resolution then simply computing the proper subpixels on the offset displays to align them right. You still need all the data there using the full amount of memory otherwise you can't really perform the calculations necessary for the subpixel/temporal interpolation.
The difference is that they choose to use Facebook.
Has anyone here replaced Adblock+ and Ghostery with only uBlock? I'd prefer least minimum extensions when possible. Does uBlock provides what Ghostery does? Or do I have to get SwitchBoard to have the Ghostery alternative?
Haha. Well if you check out the wiki I think it was not intentional (they name it after a local beer IIRC).
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Of course I can and I am not saying that everyone should use ads. I am saying that the biggest internet company on the planet built its entire empire on ads - I think that in the light of that, saying that the "the internet doesn't need ads" ignores this huge oil-tanker sized elephant in the room.
Well, if you have access to an unlockable phone, this would get you access to the Blockchain app's data despite the app's PIN lock.
They all have Iris graphics now. That seems like a big improvement.
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I'm grateful this post was made as it allowed me to find the NASA flight rules http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/news/columbia/fr_generic.pdf

However the commands are a little haphazard and as Gabe (gkop) mentions, not entirely safe.
Great questions.

We offer both options, VWAP and TWAP.

The price on other exchange is based on Google's price of BTC.

We do not market make ourselves. We make it easy for market makers to market make.

Our price advantage you see on the site is based on routing. Different exchanges have price advantage at different times and so we route to the exchange that has the best rate; including splitting your order if needed.

We currently don't show the price advantage of algorithms (very difficult to show without knowing trade parameters).

We do not take any inventory risk.

noname123, is there a way for us to connect. You clearly have experience in the space. We would like to speak with you in more details.
Most of the back of the car was crushed into the rear seat area. The laptop was in the trunk, inside a briefcase that ruptured in the crash - the small scratch/dent on the corner of the laptop was probably from a shock against a metal object at that moment.

The fact my wife left the vehicle angry but without even a scratch is a testament to the engineers who designed all cabin safety features. As for the poor laptop in the trunk, well... That's entirely thanks to Apple's design and engineering team. That thing is indestructible.
While the relative grade does not matter in some majors, it may matter in others. They can influence internships or scholarship accessible to you.

It matters a lot when student wants to study medicine. Law firms look at grades when selecting graduates. If you want to go to grad school, your grades matter a lot too.

So, in a sense, grades are real competition.
You do realize given what I wrote I would never use that, right? And for others, if we cannot trust their ad-blocking, why we would trust them with our DNS? If I wanted badly implemented filtering I would stick with: my own ISP, OpenDNS, this, in that particular order.
Maybe they have automatic theorem prover running on Jenkins and they just refuse to merge changes which would be proven to be wrong? Anyway, I'm going to read more about what and how they did, it's fascinating to see a non-trivial software system proven correct.
TSA design challenge for next generation security screening
Political move to keep dissent quiet about Airbnb raising rental rates in large cities and to stick it to the hotel lobby.
Covering a beer up with a lot of hops and malts isn't so much to hide the off-flavors. Rather, some producers like to weave together complex malts and hops into a balanced product.

And the off-flavors aren't a by-product of the size of the producer. I work in the industry doing quality control at the same company[1] as another commenter, and we see inconsistencies with producers the size of a local brewpub to large producers that sell to 7+ states.

Using technology can help reduce inconsistencies, but the end goal it to never let the consumer taste a bad batch. It is cheaper to dump a bad batch than to ship it, as this may result in loss of customers.

Bigger producers know this and will more readily dump a bad batch than a smaller producer.

Lastly, I have seen a producer that ships to 3 states have a manual brewing system, while a small neighborhood brewpub that just started distributing uses a fully automated system.

[1] www.gastrograph.com
There's a structure in the US and its states that regulate what (subsidized?) farmers can grow. I don't know if it's solely the USDA. Anyway, if a farmer is supposed to be growing soybeans, they cannot grow (for example) potatoes. There have been cases of farmers having crops meant for family consumption that have been sued (or raided? -- something way over the top for the violation, anyway). IIRC, the big gun that it used is the interstate commerce clause. So if a spud farmer in Idaho wants a few bushels of wheat for his family, his growing it would (supposedly) impact market value on wheat prices.

There's some scary stuff in the farming regulation. There was a law in the works called NAIS (national animal ID system)that severely intrudes on people's right to raise their own livestock. It was stirring up a storm of controversy in homesteaders' circles a decade ago, though I don't know the current state of that is.
I don't think so exactly, if you prevent the bombing on your city you're increasing the chance they get shot down, they get lost, they return to base, they run out of fuel etc etc.
MUDs. We played MUDs.
brainfuck.
It's worse than that. It's not just GS-15s. It starts with Congress.

Congress writes the bills that somebody (higher than GS15s?) turn into implementing regulations that GS-15s turn into program requirements. If Congress writes bills that are simple, clear, and short, then you have a chance at simple implementing regulations and therefore simple program requirements (not certainty, but a chance). But if Congress writes convoluted, lengthy crap, it's almost impossible to write a program that will correctly implement it.
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Additionally, that's actually not equivalent to Jquery .on(), which is the recommended way to add event nowadays.
Show HN: Markov chains explained visually
I'm disappointed by your misuse of "obsolete".
This is an interesting idea. I think it would be great for brokerages to publish that information as well.
Amazon introduces 3-D printing
This is _very_ clever! For anyone who doesn't know, it's basically impossible for non-argentinian companies and individuals to buy property in Argentina (thanks to the founder of Benetton). However, right now it's the perfect climate to invest in the country bc prices are down. So ye guy buys a huge taxi fleet. Very clever.
Since a lot of people are running out to download Adblock Plus, you guys might want to contact Google to try and get the spam app "Adblock Plus" from exgam.com removed from the store. Apps typically show up above extensions, so I've already seen several people download the wrong one :/ .
Adblock Edge is the better version, since it genuinely blocks ads, whereas Adblock Plus still lets some through by default.
> My laptop right now has an SSD for fast system things and an HDD for bulk data
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People still dream big, but the ideas that destroy millions of lives and ruin habitats are falling out of favour.
Thanks for making f.lux! <3

Could you tell us about how the software works?
Good question. All very different.

You can't see order book on coinbase and quickly trade in and out.

None of the other sites allow you to buy / sell with ACH.

Second Market is open to members only; not everyone. You have to be a member that is well funded to trade with them.

CampBX and Coinmkt are exchanges. We are not. Think NYSE and E-Trade. We are the E-Trade.
A couple of weeks ago, all the subways were plastered with ads from AirBNB for their "New Yorkers Support AirBNB" campaign.

Not even two weeks later, literally every such ad that I have seen is covered in angry graffiti about AirBNB (multiple handwriting, so it doesn't seem like just the work of a single dedicated disgruntled person).

Ex:

http://imgur.com/8bSdTcN

http://imgur.com/QW0RBFB
The 'different region' requirement might just depend on different things:

- How far away are your office and home?

- What is your locality?

As an example, I don't live in a place prone to earthquakes or hurricanes, and my office is a 20 ~ 30 min drive from my home. What is the risk that both my office and home are destroyed?
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The article uses few facts, or the facts aren't detailed. I admit doing that when I comment sometimes, but it's wrong and I expect a journalist to prove his point (and help us convince other people in turn). Example:

> The deterioration of internet security as a result of the NSA stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

Not quantified. It would be an awesome figure to reuse.

> Brazil reportedly scuttled a $4.5 billion fighter jet contract with Boeing

It's been criticized on HN: Most people believed blaming it on the NSA was a PR move [4], whereas the real underlying reasons where certainly more complex and not related.

> The CEO of the European firm reported that within a month after the first revelations of NSA spying went public, his company’s business jumped 45 percent

Totally irrelevant if the company is small.

> The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has estimated that repercussions from the spying could cost the U.S. cloud computing industry some $22 to $35 billion over the next few years in lost business.

That's the best fact of the article. However I'm not sure Americans are impressed with it. In fact the country [1] doesn't mind spending $6 trillion for a war in Afghanistan [2], so they count those $35b as just another defense cost. Besides, the NSA itself was reported by Snowden with a budget of $14b in 2013 [3].

[1] I'm aware that's not what most US citizen like, but as a country, US did spend this money.

[2] http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-wars-in-afghanistan-iraq-to-...

[3] http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4672414/leaked-snowden-doc...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931035
TJ Holowaychuk Passes Sponsorship of Express to StrongLoop
That wasn't the Internet I had in 1996. I'd had unlimited free dialup to a UNIX system since 1992 or so, and by 1996 was at MIT with 10 or 100Mbps connections to ~3x45Mbps backbone.

Big UNIX systems with either black and white huge monitors (the ones which were already outdated, and thus free), or in some cases (on the oldest systems), or huge color trinitrons (Indy, Crimson, Suns, and my P90-based Linux workstation in my dorm).

Pervasive IM from 1992 onward (IRC + screen), and then Zephyr at MIT. Great filesharing via AFS (huge overhead to run, but once set up, better than even Dropbox is today). USENET.
This is not the first time that someone has stacked up two displays to get better output. About five years ago there was a paper about using a DLP projector to backlight an LCD display, yielding high dynamic range. Can't find the paper right now, can only find this poster http://www.cis.rit.edu/jaf/publications/2009/ferwerda09_vss_...

Like the LCoS hack at the end of this video, the DLP backlight suffered from registration artifacts and other crazy limitations. It's still a nifty idea, though.
Reading on the topic:

The Geography of Nowhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geography_of_Nowhere

The City in History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_in_History
And Netrek, Bolo, and other networked realtime games. Plus of course nethack/angband/etc.
Well, the biggest terrorist attack on American soil did happen about a mile away from there. Maybe that has something to do with it.
As far as I'm concerned, this is like a malware author asking an antivirus company to not detect some things. And the company acquiescing, because there's no real harm.

But in the end, it's all still malware.

In other words, it's a pretty massive conflict of interest.

If I wanted to look at ads, I wouldn't have installed an ad blocking plugin. Combined with the "private" list that nobody can see, there is plenty of reason to use a fork that has no such conflicts.
Iceweasel is based on the officially supported Firefox versions, so upstream by definition has all the security patches.
I assume tertia is referring to something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
I was a little disappointed to not see anything I don't use regularly. Some explanation of reflog might be helpful, in addition to a bit of detail on git internals that explains why things in Git are never really deleted until you run `git gc`. For instance, just yesterday I realized that a branch I had deleted erroneously (bad branch name) contained a few days of work. I looked in git reflog to find the SHA for the last time I checked it out, checked out that SHA, then made a new branch. No work lost. If I didn't know that, I'd be out a few days of effort.
You've listed 18 countries in your two halves of Europe. The EU has 28 countries [1], and including sovereign states that are not part of the EU, there are 41 [2]. How did you decide what small subset of these to include in your comparison?

Here are a couple of lists that may be useful if you wanted to to a more complete comparison.

Unemployment in sovereign states of Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eur...

Minimum wages in sovereign states of Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eur...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Un...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eur...
Here's an hour of an economics professor talking to Charles Marohn about Strong Towns: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/05/charles_marohn.html
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I guess Facebook comments are a popular alternative. I used to run my own Django based comment system, which used Mollom for spam control. There's probably quite a few similar spam APIs available (Mollom is free for low-traffic use). Personally I recently decided to migrate to Disqus.
Can Winograd Schemas Replace Turing Test for Defining Human-Level AI?
Adblock Edge is 2.1.3 (June 12, 2014)

Adblock Plus is 2.6.4 (July 22, 2014)

I really want to use Adblock Edge instead of just unchecking the "Allow non-instrusive advertising" option, but I somehow doubt they have still the same features.
It allows the government to prove that they invented it before someone else. It protects them from patent trolls.
Putin Sets $110,000 Bounty for Cracking Tor
You're in for a fun surprise if you ever do embedded linux software where a full python or ruby interpreter will either blow your flash space requirements, be too slow or simply unavailable. Perl is a way better option but even then might be too heavy. Busybox however will have a sed or awk.

These are tools that are not going away tomorrow just because something better exists.
No. This guy was saving his own life and there was no certainty the bomb would be dropped on someone else - or whom or how many.
A mischaracterization of Wickard v. Filburn, which is nonetheless one of the worst decisions ever handed down by the Supreme Court - taking an unusual circumstance that obtained during WW@ and generalizing it to a fundamental aspect of the Commerce power. However, it's sort of off-topic here. Wikipedia has an extensive discussion of the case.
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Not at all. Any backup system defines an RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective).

Usually, backups are scoped to protect against system failure, so fast time to recover and limited historical durations are usually design goals. Being able to restore a server to it's state 20 weeks ago isn't very useful.

Dropbox is like shadow copies in Windows. You can go back in time, for the purposes of journaling changes to an existing object. It's a productivity enhancer for users, not really a backup feature.

Keeping things forever is usually referred to as backup. For example, my employer keeps certain records for 100 years due to statutory requirements. When you archive, you want to tightly scope what you archive and limit it as much as possible. Things like short time to restore are usually not primary design goals.
Yes, as distressing as it may be to me personally to live in "Greater Texas" (I thought we left the Big 12?), the "Nine" definitely screws up by splitting Texas into three pieces, the largest of which has a "capital" in Los Angeles. Had Garreau ever been to Texas when he wrote the book? I've lived there, and the conformity of certain assumptions and habits across the state and across cultural and income groups is sometimes actually a bit unsettling.
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