skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes the Phyles of Diamond age. But this e-residency is still within the confines of a nation-state, whereas Stephenson's Phyles/Tribes replace the nation-state.

I can see Bitcoin - or its decedents - easily being used for Phyle "ID-card" infrastructure; no nation-state required.
This looks cool!

For those interested in tiiiny, efficient shaders, check out shadertoy. It was written by one of the Pixar guys, Inigo Quilez, and has a a lot of awesome user-submitted shaders. https://www.shadertoy.com
The outrage is obviously very real, otherwise we would not have this discussion; perhaps "poorly substantiated outrage" would be more fitting.
If Cuba is a brutal communist slave state, so is China. Do you own any Apple products or anything else manufactured by Foxconn?
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As someone pointed out in the comments, these figures ignore self-published ebooks that don't have ISBNs and thus don't show up in Nielsen, BookScan, etc.

Most U.S. self-published ebook authors don't use ISBNs because they're outrageously priced in small quantities, and none of the major ebook outlets (Amazon, B&N, Apple) require them. The situation is somewhat different in other countries, where ISBNs are issued by government agencies for free.

These books are a substantial portion of Amazon's ebook sales, the majority in some genres.

For a more comprehensive take on sales numbers, see:

http://authorearnings.com/
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Hint: downvoting is not a good way to provide constructive criticism.
Non-disparagement agreements are common elements in the USA for severance/release contracts.

As for the 'unconstitutionality' of Sony trying to make people sign away their right to a class action lawsuit, it doesn't violate the freedom of speech. The freedom of speech, for the most part, only protects against the state infringing on your rights. This is often confused, even by people like Sarah Palin, so I'm not blaming you for not knowing it—but that's something to consider.

What Sony tried to do is egregious, though, and it can be struck down if a court says that the class action waiver is not enforceable.
this is not how I read it at all. This seems very vindictive to me. The employee's comment was not as bad as the response from the CEO. He was just guessing as to why he was laid off. For the CEO to jump in and respond himself shows a very thin skin. Also, the tone of the response is a little too angry. This could've have been handled by the employee's direct manager, not the CEO.
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"Translating" a program from one language to another is not a straightforward mechanical process.

In US copyright law and most of the countries that adhere to the Berne Convention there is a concept of a derived work. What the legal standard is varies, usually a translation of a work of literature would qualify, but whether a "translation" of a work of software would be considered a derived work is an open question that will not be resolved without litigation.

But it certainly seems that this takedown is bogus in terms of the DMCA since it is not a copyrighted work itself, but an ( allegedly ) derived work.

It certainly looks like an attempt to misuse intellectual property law to protect a product from functional equivalents that would not otherwise be excludable from the market.
How does it compare to Apache Kafka? (I haven't used either.)
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> I'm all for lifting of sanctions, but Cuba needs to up its game first. Rewarding the autocratic and oppressive Castro regime makes no sense. Democratic reforms, regime change, freedom of ownership, open elections, multi-parties, the right to sue, the right to travel, a free press, the right to petition, etc must all be respected.

Sure. You must be demonstrating every day for the same sanctions to apply in about all the Middle East countries the US has bases in, right? Moral arguments don't really mesh with real politics. Sanctions against Cuba are a relic of the Cold War, but the US does business every day with countries with a worse humanitarian track record.
Doesn't really have to be expensive; OpenBSD's hostapd can do this easily; take a look at `deauth` and `hopping` keywords at http://mdoc.su/o/hostapd.conf.5.

Likewise, it's probably trivial to ignore these deauth packets if you're running your own boxes (although it'll probably be more problematic if you wanted tablet / phone access, too).
I read over the employee's comments. I agree with your position but also, they seemed calm and composed. Unless he deleted his "bad" ones, I didn't get why the CEO was out there + harsh.
This is an interesting phenomenon. Given that the story is arguably fairly relevant to the recent investment by Sam, what safeguards are in place to ensure that content like this can't be taken out of the public light by a "reporting brigade?"
The company should have had a long discussion with legal and posted a public statement. The CEO shouldn't have gone on his website and posted a comment as a response that sounds like a 5 year old having a temper tantrum.
That video is generally OK, but some of the explanations it offers aren't the only interpretation, or are a stretch that seems a bit too convenient. Occasionally the stretches seemed like just telling a particular segment of the games industry and games press exactly what they wanted to hear.

I watched it a few months ago, and may re-watch it tonight when I have more time to make a clear argument about specific ideas presented there. But probably won't for the same reason I never bothered posting a criticism of that video online when it was new. The twitter crowd that likes Fish and games press cliques that are friendly with him wouldn't respond well to the agitation.
not give him the severance package to the tune of 2-month's pay + benefits.
Well, the government owns the radio spectrum that the communication goes over, so it's more direct than that.
Where "significant amount" = a day or so?
Modern art was CIA 'weapon' in the cultural Cold War
>> "They were shiny, but didn't always work as well as competitors."

Actually the iPod had a click wheel interface that left the competition in the dust and catapulted Apple from a niche computer company for designers to a world power. Maybe you liked your Sony mp3-man better, but the rest of the world didn't care for it. That's just history.
Performance is not necessarily a death sentence.

I've had jobs where I've performed poorly and jobs where I've performed excellently. I've also had years I was "on" and years I was a little "off."

Businesses are not charities. They need to get things done. If you can't do the things, then they don't have to continue to pay you. Like it or not, that's how it works.
Agreed, this post only makes reddit look like a very unprofessional workplace.
Replying to public statements about yourself or your company isn't "vindictive".

Things like this have a real business impact. I've cancelled interviewing at companies based on conversations with former employees that the company didn't have a satisfactory answer for.

If I saw this in a public forum and Reddit failed to point out that the former employee was fired (and was aware he was fired) in a public setting (which would make them liable for being sued, if Reddit lied) holds alot more weight than "Oh, ya, that guy. He was full of shit" told to me privately would.
Ehh, you just have to look past the arguments and inane people. I run a small-to-medium open source project (the Min CSS framework, http://mincss.com) and I get plenty of inane comments, criticism, and personal attacks. However, I also get plenty of nice comments that make it all worthwile. For a project as large as systemd, I imagine that this is many orders of magnitude more extreme.

As with any group of people, the assholes are the loudest, and if you're writing software for a huge group of people a bunch of them are going to be really loud assholes.
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After years of [poor diet], I am a firm food supporter of 'small changes, very carefully and very slowly'.

I don't have judgment or opinion of how other people choose to organize or live their lives, but I do wonder whether people are aware of what they are replacing, as they choose to replace it.

But, that's not to say that those who remain conservative aren't missing out on opportunity that otherwise might not be afforded to them, given the choice. Maybe you want to create a soylent/ individual dietary analytics startup with your biology PhD and CS buddies.

My idea behind eating real food is, I like to. A lot. It looks pretty, it smells pretty, and it tastes awesome, and it's about the only time I blab to whoever I am surrounded with in real life. Food can be more than food.
None of them are purely technical or even at all concerning his denouncement of BSD.
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Management being averse to criticism is not unusual, nor is it unusual for someone to believe that is why they were fired, nor is it unusual for someone to say that is why they were fired even if they know otherwise.

Until the CEO responded, this was just an ex-employee with limited credibility saying pretty mild and unremarkable things few people would ever see. Now it's a CEO obviously feeling threatened and bringing wide attention to it.
Not arguing one way or another, but I personally would categorize the implied allegation (Reddit is being unwise in how it manages its finances, on the heels of a large investment round being announced) as a bit more than "mild."

Was this the best way to respond? Probably not. Did it warrant some kind of response? Probably.
>Truth is then the set of beliefs about the world that accurately model reality.

That's just one of the definitions of truth, and a quite naive one at that. Not just philosophy, even epistemology have not been using this for ages.
> what safeguards are in place to ensure that content like this can't be taken out of the public light by a "reporting brigade?"

There are no safeguards against reporting, which is why certain types of threads (gender, diversity) rarely hit the front page, unfortunately.

Many users associate Reddit content with low-quality content, so flagging would not be surprising. Almost every HN submission I've seen linking to reddit.com has been flagged down.
The clean room was argued by Google to aid with the justification, but this isn't a requirement of law. An author can read another authors work, and create a novel with similarities.
I never said I was happy with the quality of yishan's response. I just disagree with:

"Whatever the employee may have done to deserve separation, it is profoundly weird and troubling (and also, implicitly threatening to all employees, whatever their rank or standing) to see a CEO discuss those reasons in public."

Going through legal and posting a public statement is still discussing those reasons in public under the psuedonym of the CEO with the words benig ghostwritten by legal.
Prototypes usually have red colored PCBs.

If I remember correctly, you can see the PCB color of the M68 prototypes through the dock connector.

It is also conceivable that this was a prototype and it had a replacement case retrofitted which would explain why it has an FCCid.

There was also a case of a skankphone being lost and sold after it was loaned to a member of Cingular's senior management, that one wasn't a factory escape.
"public, false statements"

What false statement?
Is there a tax advantage here? Estonia's tax system is supposed to be very simple, and allows for a 0% corporate income tax on all profits that are re-invested into the corporation (source: http://www.incorporate.ee/why-estonia/low-tax-jurisdiction).

Does this mean I can form a corporate entity in Estonia and gain all the tax benefits without any physical presence?
> "Licences do not apply to copyright,"

I'm going to stop you there and suggest that you go do some reading. Your understanding of the legal terminology is too woefully wrong for you to participate in a productive discussion of the issue. You are making sensationalist statements ("sued for simply looking at open source code") that are either extremely misguided or disingenuous. If you want to participate sincerely, you need to put forth more effort to understand what's at issue and to communicate using the correct meaning of technical terms.
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Seems pretty practical and doable for me. Probably more than half of these will be available to you via the Estonian e-residency.

The government and ministry under which this is is pretty open to ideas that need a change of legislation to make the e-services available and happen. So keep those ideas coming.

The thing about Estonian e-services has always been that while many other countries say it's not doable, Estonia just does it. Possible in a lean country of smart people.
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ChillingEffects.org revamped their website a few days ago.

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He could have also been professional and only stated that the employees statements are generally false, and left it at that.
Todd has already mentioned his Best Practices guide, which is awesome and inspired me to write my own. Mine is heavily based on his, but adds a few more (maybe controversial) things. And I have a sample seed project that implements many of the best practices. See https://github.com/jmcunningham/angularjs-styleguide
what does privatization have to do with this? One of the worst abuses of the system (in my opinion) is the IRTA program. This is uncynically called the "post-bac" program among the IRTAs of the NIH, to the cynic it's exactly what it sounds like - it's a postdoc, except even less paid - its unintended consequence is as a dumping ground for undergrads unsure of what they want to do and spending a few years in lab purgatory before committing to grad school, because they have sunk the sunk cost of a couple of years in 'academic' research. The lucky ones go to med school instead.

This program is run by the NIH (not privatized in any way), almost assuredly created with the best of intentions (let's give students a chance to try out science so they can learn to love it, choose it, and increase our national stature!).
Very nice! Consider adding an option to save a result as a multiline JS string (for inlining in JS code).
Must startup ideas be revolutionary or just solving a simple problem?
sure, but did the CEO have to do it? And if the CEO was to respond, shouldn't "not true, you were fired" be enough? No need to call him incompetent and lazy (even if he is). That's the part that rubbed me the wrong way, especially since the guy didn't actually trash reddit as bad as they did to him.
What's a "reporting brigade"? I've never met Sam and am not a Reddit fan, and I flagged this story, because it's just drama.
uh huh.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I8s8KmZ...
Skill-wise I'm similar to you and feel the same way. I too would be interested to hear from full-time sysadmins.
Why is Estonia the smartest country? Because in Estonia, EVERYONE needs to learn how to code, from primary school to graduating high school. http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/04/estonia-code-academy/
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obligatory self-promotion, for those interested in an easy to use PhantomJs: https://PhantomJsCloud.com
What are your favorite continuous delivery tools?
Say I wrote a story about a young orphan boy who meets a mysterious stranger that reveals to him that he has magical powers and must now go defeat a villain with shocking connections to his parents, what would you say?

And if I called that story Star Wars?
Which Jack? Jack1 or Jack2? [1]

My experience with JACK seems very similar to everyone else's early experience with PulseAudio, really buggy, lots of audio pops (small buffers) or latency (big buffers).

One of my most technically adept friends has spent a long time trying to setup a basic debian install with JACK working reliably (done) only it's very fragile, upgrades to random packages broke it so often we now do our audio work without a general purpose computer in the hotpath.

[1] http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/Q_differenc_jack1_jack2
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What are the differences between residency and e-residency? E.g. they won't allow me to vote, will they? What else?
So, a paid app? Thats a pretty lackluster plan. If you could save a newspaper by creating a paid app with the exact same content then the newspaper industry wouldn't be in the same hole it is already in.
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Thank you for being very explicit about that.
If nothing else the Streisand effect insures Reddit is going to get about a million times more bad exposure, now that its going viral, than they would have when it was just a thread from a disgruntled ex employee.

People were starting to question whether Reddit had a good CEO and corprate culture already, now its certain to gain momentum.
At risk of downvotes, Java.
That is interesting... so basically the systemd developers wanted to turn the generic parameter kernel command line parameter "debug" into something that could be easily used by admins to find out why their system won't boot (whether the problem is in the kernel or in userspace), and got flamed to a crisp by kernel developers who want to keep using "debug" to debug their kernel code because they've always done it that way, and couldn't care less about helping actual end users.
Indeed, why would you go interviewing at companies that don't have satisfactory answers for he-said-she-said, when you can go interviewing at companies whose CEO's "call out" former employees.
oh, and I'd love to let my users use nightmare in their scrips, but I don't know an easy way to sandbox the requested phantomjs instance :(
Reddit deliberately portrays itself as unwise in how it manages its finances. It's a key part of their corporate image. If any of the investors didn't know this, they didn't do any due diligence.

Companies wasting money isn't an unusual theme, either. Even on the days I've been happiest in my employment, I could probably name you a half dozen ways in which I believed the my employer(s) were spending unwise amounts of money on things they shouldn't be.
You only have to lose once.
Tbh, I view it the opposite way.

If an ex-employee publicly posts/publishes in a visible way that would be obvious to the previous employer...and the previous employer says nothing, that speaks volumes more. Generally corporate silence is a sign they can't refute the statement without opening themselves up to libel/being sued.

The fact yishan is willing to say this (no matter how poor the delivery) basically means he is comfortable that he won't be sued successfully over it. That means the former employee (at best) failed to understand why he was let go.
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- 12 minutes and over SIXTY tanks to get to the bottom of his planned 350m depth (92 tanks total)

- the initial 100m had support divers, but below that he was totally alone

- 14 hours ascending, with two hours spent at a mere three meters [0]

[0] http://thecairopost.com/news/125544/news/egypts-ahmed-gabr-b...
Maybe it's not "professional", where that word has the common meaning of avoiding saying hard truths on the grounds that someone's feelings and/or political position might be hurt.

This significantly elevates Reddit, IMO. Their CEO acts like a fucking human being instead of a politicized, sanitized, pretentious, weasel-wording sock puppet like so many other CEOs.

You have no idea how much respect I have for this.
IMHO you and the parent post are both right: this is all around bad behavior by all parties involved.

I was let go once. I've told the story, but I have never mentioned the name of the company and I won't tell you if asked. I also had a horrible experience with a co-founder in my first startup to the point that I consider the guy a con man, but likewise I will only tell the story with all names and identifying details omitted. Calling people out in a public forum -- even if you are in the right -- just makes you look like an asshole.

But this response is also a terrible response from a CEO. He descends rapidly into the same muck as the original "AMA" poster. I agree that he was presented with two sucky options, but he should have taken the high road with his response and simply said something like "all I can say is that this individual was terminated for different reasons than the ones he states." In public at least, leave it at that.

Reddit in general is an increasingly toxic community. There was a great writeup a while back theorizing about various reasons that social networks select for snark, cynicism, and obnoxiousness over deeper and more thought-out content. If someone recalled it I'd love a link.
A public documented configuration language is a far cry from the source code for the implementation.
I eat a couple a week. The taste is hard to characterize -- it's sort of like some pretty rich slightly fruity bread -- but they have dark chocolate which dominates the flavor when you bite into a chocolatey bit (I suggest microwaving a little before eating to melt it.)
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He said he had a theory. You need to look up the word "Theory" in a dictionary. He did not say he had proof.
If you read the rest of the thread, he was doing a fair bit of trashing the company, management, etc
It is fairly easy to make if you can get the right part of the pig. Takes about a week.
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> The concept of Soylent is wonderful. No one is saying it should completely replace all meals,

That's exactly the claim they made when they were raising funds. Along with the dubious health claims.

> "What if you never had to worry about food again?"

> "For anyone that struggles with allergies, heartburn, acid reflux or digestion, has trouble controlling weight or cholesterol, or simply doesn't have the means to eat well, soylent is for you."

> "Soylent frees you from the time and money spent shopping, cooking and cleaning, puts you in excellent health,"

> "By taking years to spoil"

>"there is much evidence that it is considerably healthier than a typical diet."

This is fraudulent horseshit and it's kind of surprising they got away with it.

The new website avoids making medical claims, but still says that you can live off it entirely.
Yes, you can keep the corporate profits in the corporate entity until their distribution. There is a 21% tax though on distributed profits like dividends. Until you keep the money in the company or re-invest to subsidiaries, it's ot taxed. http://www.investinestonia.com/en/investment-guide/tax-syste...

The rest depends on various double-taxation treaties which affect more individuals.
From a quick glance at the title I initially thought it was shadertoy too... and here's a quick reference of how to build scenes with certain 3D objects with this or any other shader tool:

http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfun...
Kafka is a high performance, persistent message queue.

Storm is distributed stream processing.

The two work together very well. Often, a server will publish messages to Kafka (or another queue), which are then read and processed by Storm.