skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, hold on - that's oversimplifying. Some developers do things like that, and some don't. Valve is an extreme example, but:

- They publish a free (as in beer) SDK and modding tools for Source, and allow people to submit mods to Steam - even if they use Valve IP, and charge users money for it (e.g. Aperture Tag). (However, users have to have purchased the original game to run mods, and removing this limitation or accessing the Source source code requires a commercial license.)

- They have the Steam Workshop, which allows users to, depending on the game, submit assets for potential inclusion in Valve games (with revenue share), and upload custom maps for others to use directly.

- They have released specialized tools such as Source Filmmaker and the Portal 2 map maker to assist with user-generated content.

- And, of course, many of their flagship games were originally community mods: Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, DotA.

...Thus it's hard to say Valve wants to "mistreat the customer" or doesn't want users to create their own content. Nor do they indulge that much in DRM. Yet thus far, they have not released any free software. Why?

I think it's mainly a culture thing. Free software games are essentially nonexistent. In PC gaming there are plenty of small developers, and lately there's a trend toward very early release and community engagement, all things associated with free software - but it's all in a context where developers can and want to make money selling games, and source access is not expected. This is nothing unusual, of course: in all of programming there are many, probably a majority, who are more likely to consider GPL a "cancer" preventing them from doing what they want than something to embrace. (In mobile this is basically everyone.) It's just that the pockets of free software enthusiasm which exist in other subfields aren't nearly as significant in gaming. In such a context, GPL releases would just be a distraction from supporting users/indies in the way they want, and so we don't see them.

I'm still holding out for a GPL release of Source 2, though... And, as a point of hope: while the new Unreal Engine is not free software, its licensing and development model seems very much inspired by it, and to be designed to provide some of its benefits while allowing Epic to make money.
The main issue I had with LP in the past is that sometimes you want to modify the code directly, not the literate document and synchronize them. I made such a tool: https://github.com/aryx/syncweb
Complainers about the Senate are usually sour grapes.

Familiarize yourself with the drivel that passes the House. The Senate has allowed horrible things like lynching to persist for decades, but it stops truly dumb knee jerk measures from being placed into law.
(Lack of) moisture is key to long term storage, even more than temperature, but it largely depends on species. Amaranth (pigweed) seeds have been known to sprout after 40+ years of laying out in nature.

Agree with the poster who states this is a case of bureaucracy gone wild. There are reasons the initial laws exist (insure consumers are buying viable seeds and that are the species represented), but hey... give some people a little power and they start finding ways to use it.

I honestly don't think "big agrobusiness" cares about backyard gardens. But I might be wrong.
So, I know the folks who do DOS protection for Google, and...well, good luck. Scrapers get blocked, and the folks in charge of that are very, very good at what they do. Your best bet is probably to put up with the slow query rate and mimic ordinary user traffic. You really, really do not want to end up on Google's bad side.
Your potential employer may pull your credit report as part of a background check and decide not to hire you because you didn't feel like paying your debt.

In many jurisdictions, they have to disclose that they're doing so. Fake a competing "exploding" offer to put time pressure on them. They'll write you an offer (if they're interested) quickly. Then, if they rescind the offer later because they don't like what they see on a credit check, threaten to sue for promissory estoppel. Whether or not you're likely to win, they'll settle in order not to be known as a company that rescinds offers. Walk away with a severance, without even having set foot on the job site.

I'm not saying that people should let their credit scores go to shit just to avoid paying small debts. It's rarely worth it to welch on a debt. However, in the case of employment, there is a strategy if you think you're at risk of losing job opportunities based on a credit report. (That said, I've never heard of anyone in tech getting dicked on bad credit. But in our scummy/chummy industry, rescinded offers over reputation issues are not uncommon and those can usually be turned into 3-5 months' pay.)
If the entire Web switched to HTTPS, government attackers would just find another way to deliver their exploits besides injection into plain text websites.

Exactly. HTTPS relies on a centralised CA infrastructure, which is probably (indirectly) under the control of government anyway, so I don't see how taking away the ability to MITM plain text connections will help; and governments would prefer that their exploits be done over HTTPS since a properly-forged certificate will look "secure", and that makes the end-users more likely to blindly trust the authenticity of the content they download... it also means that firewalls and other systems designed to detect suspicious content in traffic (as much as they're derided for being used for censorship-related purposes, ones under the control of the user can be beneficial) won't catch the exploit either. I think that would be even worse.

HTTP causes some suspecion of the content, but HTTPS gives the impression of being secure, decreasing the level of suspicion while implicitly forcing the user to trust the CAs.

HTTPS with self-signed certificates that are exchanged in-person would probably provide the most secure authentication, but that doesn't really scale.
Hmm. Apparently some moderators didn't think it was awesome enough to say so in the title.

The post title (and page title) was:
"ElasticBox+Jenkins+Raspberry Pi=Awesome"

I will admit the video wasn't that cool. But I watched it a second time anyway, and reading the article got me to look at the ElasticBox landing page, which was I guess cool enough to share.

I am a devops and I am learning chef, and I probably will come back to this service. Looks cool.
Ya, I'm sure you are correct. It was a bit of a flippant idea. But... it would still remove _some of the stain from their credit and at least prevent them being victimized by scummy collectors like those referenced in the article.
I'm not saying paying extra is feasible for someone without much money, but this whole comment thread was a response to one guy who basically said credit doesn't matter much if you aren't poor.

Going with the implicit assumption that we're talking about someone who's making a pretty good bit of money, but who has a bad credit rating, I'm only arguing that it's not impossible to rent an apartment.

I love your blog by the way.
I don't believe there is any job in the united states that should pay less than 8.25 an hour. If it has to do so in order to provide reasonable conditions to employees than that business should not exist.
I have to assume that you ignore the absolute explosion in usefulness achieved in the last two decades for this "wasteful" software.

there are too many misconceptions and strawmen in your post to write a full rebuttal, so instead I'll just thank you for the (unintentional) laughs.
CPAN Day – start your engines
Thousand-Bot Swarm Organizes Into Complex Shapes
Just live with roommates in your twenties. Much cheaper, easier, and you always have someone to hang out with. I rented an apartment once, still got a roommate.
So 2080 is number of hours per working year (assuming zero annual leave and public holidays)

I think you should have just calculated
100000/260 to get miles per day, not 10^6/2080.

Your 480.8 miles per day should be 48.1 miles per hour.

Still doesn't change the huge amount of driving needed to do 100k miles in a year!
There are several polyfills linked from modernizer and I haven't looked at them all but I would imagine so yes. Because it tracks the last-read message ID, a broken connection is not a deal breaker
That my friend is the other side of the coin. American business expect to have their cake it eat it to. When it's slow workers absorb the costs, when its busy the shareholders reap the rewards.
Pretty sure the mods don't use jenkins or have played with raspberry pi, otherwise they would probably appreciate this :)
You won't be laughing in 6 years when you can't afford 512 GB of RAM per chrome tab
"at least" is there for a reason.
Happy to provide feedback on new UX -- my contact details are in my profile.

Hey...left-field idea for the ice-breaking problem: t-shirts with a list of all your likes and dislikes printed on them.

Instead of the clichéd "what do you do" it's "hey, you like NCIS too!". Easier, cheaper to test than an app.
The best Ice Bucket Challenge videos
I worked at applebees for a little over a month. I was out to dinner with my girlfriend at the time and we had just ordered food, I got a phone call demanding that I come in. I refused, the week after they only put me on the schedule for 3 hours. I have no pity for these types of people.
Note that since Oracle basically closed ksplice, RedHat has developed kpatch and SuSE has developed kgraft, which are both similar ways of doing the same kind of thing, and there is some discussion going on about whether they can be merged or a better general purpose kernel patching method developed: http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2014:live_kernel_patching
It does look like a nice app. Any comments on security? Anytime I see a windows web server I worry a bit about about that, only based on what I've seen in the past.

The fact that it has a nice GUI makes adoption much more likely, going to play with this tonight :)

Edit: https://yvrwzxiyog.localtunnel.me Cool!
> To say we shouldn’t use a computer to fix a problem caused by computers is beyond ridiculous.

I think you may have misunderstood the purpose of the video. The video doesn't say, "hey, we need to turn off these computers because they'll make us obsolete."

He's arguing that we'll inevitably use computers to solve a problem created by computers, and that a lot of people will be unemployable as a result, and that's something we need to think about as a society.

The video doesn't suggest any concrete solutions at all. (Basic income/negative taxation seem like obvious candidates; walking back technology itself is probably not a good candidate, though some people will certainly try.)
It's middleware running on top of Namecoin's RPC interface. It does not have it's own blockchain.
Even better is if it ends up transfering Facebook billions of dollars over to your account when your startup gets acquired!
Capital Hill is one of my favorite places in Seattle. Lots of diversity and bars though some are a little shady. It doesn't surprise me that it has a high walk score. Lots of grocery stores, great places to eat all walkable if you live in the neighborhood. Though Id be weary though, its affordable because it does have a higher than normal crime rate, but to be fair Seattle has one of the lowest crime rates in the U.S and by many standards is extremely safe even in the most dangerous parts of the city. I wouldn't raise kids in Capitol Hill, though if I was single, interested in night life and wanted to be able to walk to things I cared about, then capital hill is totally for you.
I just made an app too, but probably not as important...
I proved God, nigger. NIST

I asked God if the world was perfectly just. He asked if I was calling Him lazy.

Computer bots.... God can make an artifical intelligent bot for every single person on earth smarter than human that manipulates events so everybody get served perfect justice.

QED
I use to have a active facebook account with hundreds of friends but when I discovered there was a way to permanently delete it, I took the option.

I haven't looked back since.
What I said was to augment what he said.

But here's a true, I swear, you can probably check that it is, story just for you:

I didn't know how the whole army thing works when my time came. Just wasn't ever interested. Didn't know my sergeant from my brigadier.

The army took me seeing that I'm fit, for certain values of fit. Put me through boot-camp. That's when I landed in military jail for the first time. I could take everything that was going on in there only with a dose of humour, but grinning 24/7 was apparently not acceptable behaviour. But that wasn't what got me in jail.

There was one thing I could not take, absolutely. Still can't. There wasn't a moment to myself, I couldn't ever get alone in there. I had to always be accounted for, from their point of view; but from mine I couldn't find a place or the time to take a short meditation. I don't know what I have, but I've been getting through it all my life with meditation, and once that wasn't available I was heavily depressed. I thought of suicide, I talked of suicide, and that's basically all I ever talked or thought about. While grinning at anything they had to say to me in return.

So I went home. Took my stuff and went out the gate.

Later came back and went to military jail for a sentence. Then for boot-camp number two, as I didn't finish one.

But later when I did finish it on my second attempt, they didn't want me anywhere near a base anymore. They wanted me out of base for most of the time. They way to achieve this in the army is to make you a driver. This way you're driving around, not being in the base, problem solved.

If you read my previous comment, you know what the problem with that approach is. They didn't. So I explained, repeatedly. Any time they'd let me see an officer that was in charge of that kind of thing, I'd explain that I can't drive, won't ever be able to, and not even torture can "change my mind".

Either they have decided to test that last bit empirically, or just couldn't wrap their heads around the idea of someone not being able to do something that "any idiot could"; but long story short I've done 7 months of prison time in three separate terms over the span of 1.5 years before they saw me as unfit for service and let me go, and be as I am.

That is to say, you're not always in a position to find a workaround, if I may refer to your closing sentence.
How do you feel about Oracles handling of the code?
If you want to stay in the DC area and want to live somewhere that isn't insanely expensive but also walkable, perhaps look into renting an apartment in Del Ray, Alexandria. Granted, I'm a bit biased, but it's a cool part of town and there are some affordable places to live, if you look hard.
I love how the engineers in "Halt and Catch Fire" are always talking about "the laws of physics".
Scheduling is so amazing when you are first exposed to it, I never used to work shift work until a few years ago but it was well-organized; minimum two weeks posting of your schedule, very few late/early shifts.

Then as the years went on and new people took over it changed abruptly to pretty much daily. Lots of terrible shifts like 2pm to 10pm.

One time my schedule changed five times in one hour. I've talked to staff who were on vacation and had their schedule changed to require them to work or change so much they return not having a clue what happened.

Names of staff in an Excel spreadsheet seems to be the most common way for supervisors unfamiliar with anything other than typing words and numbers into a cell, and even then some can't even highlight or add colour.

I can certainly see the value in a good schedule and a good application to create it but the complexity of it, business needs, lack of skill of management all seem to converge into one big clusterfuck.
Wish Python Developers got the same love
> The solution is to just not explain how it works, the public doesn't need to understand how it works to use it and to trust it.

Who is "public"? People with technical background or without technical background?

Let's first restrict our scope to people with technical background and assume people already have a degree of understanding on how blockchain is used. Then if a developer tells you the README doesn't convey the message clearly, take note of that and appreciate the feedback. Don't say "just trust me it works."

If this is to the general public, you better hire someone who can actually explain to user how it works from a high level giving analogy is always good.

In fact, you should never assume there are two groups of audience. This is not writing API documentation. A README should be really clear to user how to get started (understand what it does and how to start using it). Think about working with a manual. You can't assume everyone know what certain nail is called by nickname. You need to write the actual name with an actual picture. Don't assume. Be general.

"Trust me it works and it's secure" is the worst thing you can sell to anyone today. Of course I will never know how Dropbox handles my files on their server securely, but at least I can understand when my file is transferred over HTTPS it's encrypted in the communication and when they say they are over the cloud I know I can access it anywhere at anytime as long as I have an Internet access and the data center still exist.

And if I don't understand what the software does how can I trust you to deploy this on my own term? How do I even begin debugging problem during installation or configuring my service?

"Trust me" is not an option, especially when someone is trying to get people to use a software. The one thing we need to change is to teach people enough computer so they can make a judgement whether they should trust something or not ("trust me this photo tool is awesome and is free ... minus the free ad program install alongside with it) or trust me this version of browser is nice come to https://evil.com instead of https://mozilla or chrome
There are a lot of very stealthy, non-obvious methods that are easy enough to do once you realize they're possible. Some people don't like always going full disclosure. I have some things I've thought up that I won't share even though I don't use them.

C&C over Tor has gotten some coverage in the last year, as an example.
What I'm saying is that the amounts of cash held by - and available to - these companies is so eye-poppingly astronomic that even an twelve digit settlement - which the law may allow - is nowhere near enough to bankrupt them.
This might seem trivial, but having so many editor tabs open that you can't see the name of the tabs anymore. Clicking one by one through the tabs to get to the one I want can break my concentration and throw me off.
Having read the book the specific fault with it is that the results it comes up with from its simple back of the envelope calculations, bear no resemblance to actual reality and are therefore wrong.

Including imports is wrong. In your hypothetical country, fixing those unsustainable actions is up to the country they're importing goods from. Show that they can't use wind/solar on their landmass if you want. The idea that every area of a country (or indeed the world) are equally good at generating power is obviously incorrect. Claiming that this makes wind and solar power unusable is equally incorrect.

The book reads like it was paid for by the nuclear industry (I don't think it was; it just reads that way).
HttpRequest wrapper written in Swift
This a layer on top of Namecoin which actually was released over three years ago, inspired by Aaron Swartz's musings[1].

1. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko
Hope you saw the discussion of 'UPSERTisms in Postgres' a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7620050
Oh, and I'm going to be mentioning the Corporation a lot over the next month, in letters to the local press and messages online. The downvotes have motivated me :)
Olympia is a sleepy town without much tech. In general, big cities have big jobs.
By definition there are that many rich people. If poor people were willing to pay 10% in taxes they would get back far, far more than they put in. But they aren't so they won't.
Here is the real story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzBdY6WXeRE

While the radio station did its best to confirm the ID of the caller, we don't know for sure she's real. However, her recounting of the events is similar to what was reported on TV and radio within hours of the original shooting. I own some restaurants and frequently get police visitors. I've been told that the real story will come out later and little of what's been told by those so-called "eyewitnesses" is true. Specifically, "witnesses" claim Brown was shot in the back as he was running away. We will soon learn that isn't true at all.

While I thought it sounded like a cop gone berserk at first, more and more bits and pieces are leaking out along with the link above and, if confirmed, will tell you something I won't go into here and now.
Phoenix or tuscon have lots of sunshine.
Of course, Denmark has a whopping 60.2% income tax rate for those making over 55k / year, so their "dimes" are far fewer than my own, but your point is taken.
It's not a footnote, it's a citation for his claim.[0]

0: Footnotes are typically used to express parenthetical thoughts that are too unwieldy for inline inclusion, like this one.
Hi Jim, What do you think of the role of adaptive learning technology, like that developed by Knewton ?
Awesome! Thanks for the info. Good luck with the product, hope to find some time soon to try it out.
JBoss Name Origin
> When is it related in a sense that it's effective to learn interleaved?

A concept, person or place that is emotionally important to you.
People have done this. If you search around Google you can find details. Your credit is ruined for 7+ years but in default the loan stops accruing interest. The government will pay the loan off but then the government will garnish wages and tax refunds at a specific percentage until the principal is repaid.
Patent – Method and system for managing credits via a mobile device (2013)
Keeping Open Source Safe
For Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian, nothing. For Oracle Linux, you need an Oracle support contract. Those don't come with a standard price tag.

Unfortunately, the website hasn't been fully updated since the acquisition, so there is some confusing verbiage. It's on my list (near the top, no less; sorry about the confusion).
SmartAsset (YC S12) Is Looking for a Front End Developer in NYC
Yeah, I don't get that either. Something seems broken.
Human competitive advantage (creative latency at human timescale) vs. computer/robot algorithm operating at HFT timescale.

As for the benefits of human-robot brain-algorithm cooperation (e.g. human+Google), that depends on the level of coherence between the goals of the human and the goals of the creators/financiers of the algorithm.
But summer is so nice :)
> They polled hospitals in Michigan, New York and other border states? The Canadians that I know who have got to the US for care go to places like the Mayo Clinic or Sloan-Kettering.

They also polled Canadians directly to approach the question from both sides.

> Several sources of evidence from Canada reinforce the notion that Canadians seeking care in the United States were relatively rare during the study period. Only 90 of 18,000 respondents to the 1996 Canadian NPHS indicated that they had received health care in the United States during the previous twelve months, and only twenty indicated that they had gone to the United States expressly for the purpose of getting that care.
Just wanted to say thanks for helping get the word out since this is the first time I had heard of evidence for the effectiveness of this method.
Except when it comes to closing brackets... sigh